The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-24
SEDATE OF r IG [ $. HIDE I'M ? | { | N |
 H00TCH J0BBERS
Pride In Business And Con- SCientiouS Service Are
 BoOtleggerS' Boasts
By HARLAN S. MILLER Geased Wire to The Age-Herald)

NEW, YORK, August 28.-A con- sclentlous bootlegging corporation, with 15,000 agents and an honest pro- fessional pride in it's good hootch, was dragged from it's shrinking privacy Wednesday by secret service agents.
 Organized like a modern mail or der house and housed in sedate off ees behind the dignified firm name of Consolidated Importing and Elk
 porting company, the company as tonished federal officers with its calm and complete preparedness to do business.
 It's circulars, hundreds of copies of which, marked confidential" were found in readiness for mailing, were a masterly bit of business stim- ulation
 The approach of the holidays was emphasized in the first paragraph, which warned dealers of a threaten ing holiday shortage.
 'Take our advice and buy now while prices are lower" reads the mimeo graphed circular. Now the whisky is of the best quality and can be shipped safely"
 Pride was manifested in the un- breakable boxes, which were guar anteed against breakage.
 PrecautiOn In Shipping.
 Al goods are shipped under an assumed name,' the circular reas- sured "If anything goes wrong at your end, just state you have never
 SRemember you are dealing with us. however, and our AS years in busl- ness has equipped us so we can uar- antee good delivery. We Will at no time ship more than SIX cases UT "V gallons of alcohol at one time, put we are willing to ship at least once or twice a week to the same ad- dress" i ity of bootlegged drinks was eVl- usise Bear in mind that real goods are scarce. We offer you old uncut goods which you can blend with your own noonshine. It is necessary that you blend some original goods with your own for a perfect product. oo proof alcohol, also blending oil and color. after reducing to 100 proof, ana +o every gallon of this home-m made product add 8 quart Of real uncut whisky, which will give you the pest hootch on the market. The same ap- plies to Scotches, bourbons ana so on.' Great Business In Labels.
 Rut the real land office business of these honest merchants was done In labels Prices ranged from ID cents a dozen for pretentious home brewers who wanted to put little "daWg on their product, to 40 cents dozen Tn .0OO lots for the big scale dealers
 Gordon gin labels, gaudily turned out with tinfoil and printed SIX la mode. were listed at 75 cents dozen in ,0OO dozen lots. For internal do- mestic exporters labels were avail able for Johnny Walker Black and White, Haig & Haig, King George Green Stripe, Old Curio, John Dewar, | Seagram, Three Star, Hennessy and | Bacardi at $2 .25 per dozen or $1. I5 for assorted 100 dozen lots of labels warranted works of art" Realistic prescription books were also on tap.
 Druggists will be glad to get these books" hinted the circular.
 Every offer on this sheet is made to you as our agent, and as such full protection will be given you,' the cir cular winds up. That means no one else can get our merchandise in your district except you. We will refer | only reliable customers to you if you | wish. It is now up to you to build | a good, reliable and growing business with big profits to you. Do your | share, we'll do the rest"