San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-24
NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR
BLAMES NEIGHBORING
STATES FOR "WETNESS'
AL Smith, Tired of Having Finger of Scorn Pointed
at State, Prepares Counter-attack to Place
Blame-Holds Pennsylvania and
New Jersey Responsible.

4 monwealth Many private and retail
bootleggers ply their trade here. many
| saloons continue TO sell beer and wills
key to their regular customers" and
the customers friends, but the liquor
is supplied to them largely from
7 New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
In substantiation of his statement
| that New FORKS enforcement is made
so difficult because of the badness of
her neighbors, Governor Smith points
out that the biggest haul of booze
conspirators made in New York City
in many a long day was brought
about by the rivalry of big brewers in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania as TO
which should have the exclusive"
right of supplying New York with real
beer. The rivalry reached the point
of a feud and ii seems that when
New Jersey and Pennsylvania brew
ers fall out the hard working prohibit
ton agent has his chance.
So long as New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania continue TO profit at the ex-
pense of New York's perpetual thirst.
Governor Smith insists that no CORY
locks shall be shaken at him. In
addition to the beer that flows in
here from her neighbors, New York
gets most of its Scotch whiskey from
Jersey and most of its rye from
Pennsylvania.
OF course there is also a very dis
tinct bootleg trail leading down from
the Canadian border, but so much i'm
ported liquor has been landed along
the. Jersey coast this past summer
that the longer haul from Canada is
not as profitable as once it was for
the bootleggers operating in the
Metropolitan area.
New York state has as many brew
cries in operation perhaps as
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. but
it is claimed by the state officials
that the breweries here are under
better control. They divert TO near
beer it being tacitly understood that
the stronger stuff will continue TO
come from Jersey and Pennsylvania
once the proper and exclusive rights
are established between the rival
groups from those states.
Attack Supply and Source.
While apparently not paying much
at this time to the minor
violators of the law in the city it.
self, the police and the revenue agents
seem TO be making pretty fair head
way here against the sources Of sup
ply.
Within the last three weeks at
least half u dozen luxurious yachts
have been captured in the waters
surrounding Manhattan Isle. all en-
gagged in the liquor trade. The police
claim that their harbor boats are not
speedy enough to cope with the speedy
liquor craft, but in some manner or
another they manage to head off a
smuggler now and then.
The police also report that new
and speedier liquor boats now are
under construction in various ship
yards. The police know all about the
craft. Know just who are having
them built and what their trade will
be, but are powerless to act until the
actual smuggling begins. The boot
Logging syndicates also make no secret
of their plans.
The most modern style of rum
runner is a low, rakishl battleship
gray launch, about 80 feet in length
and nine feet wide. Some are equip
ped with motors developing 200 horse
power and have twin screws. They
will make anywhere from 80 to 30
knots an hour. The best a police
boat can do ordinarily is fifteen
knots.