The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-11

THE Social Register, the accepted
blue book of the names and resi-
81 dences Of New York's rich and
fashionable, gives:
La Montague, Mr.. and Mrs. Montaigu
(Hyldagarde Jurgensen), r. IF. Pr.
Ri. Hppy. Grandbourg Evry-Petit-
Bourg. France.
La Montague, Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan E..
tEleanor G. D. carter), K. Ri. r. IF.
Ny. Rep. Phone No. 949S Plaza.
I16 ID. S.
IA Montague, Mr.. and Mrs. Rene M.
Garrett Grace Argol, r. Ri K. If
In. p. Ok. Rep. Phone No. 6O95 Plaza
40 e. 54.
La Montague, Mr.. VIM. a., Ri. r. X, II.
Phone No. 6O95 Plaza. 40 E. 81.
But the Social Register is in error.
None Of those fashionable East Side ad-
dresses Or telephones are correct just at
present
On account of a rather unexpected die
tum of Judge Winslow in the United
States Court recently, the four fashion
able La Montague brothers have changed
their residences to the Newark Jail for
the next few months. The La Montague
brothers were "bootleggers;' the Federal
officers caught them and they confessed.
The United States Government does not
own and manage many prisons. 1t is the
habit to board short-term convicts at near
by jails, and that is why the four fashion
able rum sellers are behind the bars in
local New Jersey prison.
It is not often that millionaire club
man goes to jail. The La Montagnes
knew that the Government had over
whelming evidence to convict them, and
their lawyers wisely advised them to con-
fess and throw themselves on the mercy
of the court" as they call it when a pris-
oner is sure to be convicted and may get
off with lighter punishment by not lying
about it and fighting the case.
What they all hoped for was fine with
no prison sentence. AS the rich bootleg
gers are said to have been doing rum
: business of $2,000,000 a year or more,
= fine, even a stiff fine, would not bother
them. What they did not expect was
that they would have to go to Jail.
The La Montagnes are fine looking
bunch of brothers, well dressed, well fed,
wen SEOOIleu anu very pOpuIdI III Tie
New York City and neighboring country
clubs. One of the brothers, Rene, has
been an international figure in gentleman
sports. He is famous polo player and
quite a pet of the fashionable Meadow
brook, Piping Rock and Rockaway Hunt
Clubs.
If the reader will glance back to the
list of clubs to which the La Montague
boys belong, as given in the Social Regis
ter under their key letters, it will be noted
that they are in most of the important
fashionable sporty New York clubs. They
are members of the Racquet and Tennis
Club, Turf and Field Club, Piping Rock
Club, Rockaway Hunting Club, Harvard
University Club, New York Yacht Club,
Knickerbocker Club, Republican Club,
Link Club, the Brook Club, Oakland Golf
Club and Yale Graduate Club.
Here the La Montagnes were conspicu-
Gus and popular figures in the lounging
room and smoking room and dining rooms
of the various clubs, every evening, in
dinner coat, always ready for a cocktail
or glass of champagne, and enjoying
especially the long black special Havana
club cigars, and on "ladies day" and at
the club meets and club sports the La
Montague boys were conspicuous and
popular with the ladies.