The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-04-15
SARATOGA GAMBLING GAMES
HAVE MOVED TO CITY CAFE
"Cwly Runs Brisk Blackjack" Game-Gust Jackson Has
Syndicate Of Dumps Donahue Den Makes Garfield
Ave- Lawless- mikes Place" Caught With Goods.

at watching the suckers in the Olund &
Engberg net.
In the kitchen of the City restaurant
"Shorty,' the Chinese proprietor
keeps a bottle of booze under the ice
box. The delivery boys from the gro
Gerry and provision houses know the
hiding place of the bottle and they
freely take a swig at it when theil
coppers are hot and need cooling
"Shorty". has a chronic habit of play
ing Chinese lottery, where the chances
are few but the winnings heavy, if
they ever are made.
Gust Jackson is swatting real Ameri
canism by running blindpig in his soft
drink parlor at 635 w. Superior St.
Moonshine whisky-is retailed at IS cts
a snort. "Slim," Col. Jaekson's part.
ner, has another unlawful boozery at
633 w. Superior st. .
There is a popular drinking club con,
Quoted out in the vicinity of the pump.
ing plant. Former policeman Jimmy
Woods runs the club and he is credited
with being in partnership with Col.
Gust Jackson. When a booze-bibber
gets over-stimulated at the Jacksonian
dives on the Bowery, he is loaded into
Col. Jackson 8 car and wheeled out to
the bibulous old club, where he is free
to finish his moist celebration. Safety
First" is the motto of Col. Jackson s
Bowery blindpigs.
Although Col. Jackson has lawful
family, he also is credited with being
greatly enamoured- Of an aboriginal
American lady on West First St., known
as "Lou." If MadamfJ Jackson knew
all the facts or had plenty Of spunk
she would 90 down to $50 w. First St..
do the war dance and then try to scalp
this modern Pocohontas.
The Donahue Den at 600 Garfield
avenue makes that historic section of
the city unsafe for law, order and de-
cency. Dad Donahue, known as Ed
sells the booze. Mother Donahue keeps
the house. Johnny Donahue, a dutiful
son, totes the booze from the vicinity
of Signor Micheizzi 8 store to the Don
ahue home. Sister Molly Donahue
makes the thirsty and sporty trails
feel at home when they call to fill up
their tanks and to otherwise enjoy what
all "rails" so often seek:
Little Joseph had eoat-sf many col
ors, but Johnny Donahue has gone Jo-
seph one better by getting coat of
many pockets. In those many pockets,
Johnny puts many bottles of booze for
transportation to Castle Donahue or
other places.
The Donahue clan struck a streak of
hard luck some time ago, and as a re-
suit, Dad, mother and Johnny only re-
Gently got back to their family castle
from a sojourn at the county work
farm. Johnny is so useless that he has
been ordered off the ,Bowery many
times. Any policeman who does not tip
off his coming, can find booze in the
Donahue dump at almost any time.
Taking one of Herb Waren's flat
wheeled trolley cars up town, you can
get reasonably close to Is West First st.
where Radcliffe and Rupert have an
unlawful booze depot in the back
flat over Browns harness shop. Rad
cliffe has a prison record and formerly
was business agent for the teamsters
union. Many teamsters drink and
squander their payehecks in this Rad
ciffe & Rupert resort. If the police
wish to catch these birds, they must
not let one of the raiding squad slip
into a store to tip off the coming over
the telephone. This Radcliffe & Rupert
brand of poison costs IS cents dose
II is fatal stuff.
At 112 First Ave. E., "Big Mable .
sells her particular brand Of moonsA
at IS cents a snort in the basement. Sit