The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-28

quite q lot Of young uns is drink
Ing now, they tell me. Then a lot
OF it's poured down the sewer, too.
There's just about enough left to
make two cocktails apiece. Tain't
nothing. But that's the lower
grade stuff. Losing a load now
and then don't make no difference.
But this of ours is the best grade
they is--it stands US close to ten
thousand dollars a load. We, cant
afford to lose none OF thai. So we
got to get rid of Barker.
s.HOw?''
wen. listen isow-listen good,
because you're the one that's
going to do It"
You mean
Jaw. don't look so scairt. kid.
We don't have to croak 'em.
what. then %
Its up to you. Have that road
clear by Friday night and keep II
clear till Sunday morning-that's
your job
.'Hew can l do that2'
What am paying you 1926 q
week for? You going to lay off
and do nothing while the rest OF Us
are working the skin Off our hands?
I'm ing to be tied up scouting
around for them 800 cases of high
/ grade stuff. Browns coming along
/ with me soon's this Harris business
is over. Cunningham and Joe
Lynch will have all they can do
Supplying the regular customers.
/ And there's a new whiskey
broker opened up place on
Thirteenth Street, and S1r. Bow
doin Is going after his business.
He'll be good for 100 cases
week, they Eay-lIe's going 70
supply the swell apartment house
speak-eas es and that kind Of
trade. Then he's got TO locate
100 cases week. Everybody else
and you lay off and do nothing,
huh?"
~ didn's say that. Tom. OF
course, I'll do my share. HoW's
Cunningham figure on getting byY'
THAT won't help none. He's go
/ ing to use a touring car with
small lot each time-fifteen cases
or SO. Barker won't stop no tour
| ing car-hell be looking for !
truck. It would take a month to
move 800 cases thataway, and we've
only got till Sunday morning.
Barker'lI be wise to the game be.
fore then, anyhow. We can't do
nothing It'll we're rid of Barker.
He's the best man they got in this
part OF the country-and he's get
ting onto US"
| Tom, you remember what Burk-
hardt said about hysteria-how a
thing would get in the public eye
| like a cinder, and people couldn' t
see for looking?"
| Yeah. What about it?'
well, Shop uses that hysteria
for sort of smoke-screen to get
| by with stuff like he pulled on
Danny Harris. That's worse than
rum peddling-then why can't we
1 use that hysteria to get by with
a few loads OF boOze?"
Could Commit Murder
Put smoke-screen like that De-
hind us. kid, and we could get by
with murder. But we're on the
wrong side of the smoke-screen"
! why cent we make one OF our
| own"
/ Smells good. Pour it ali out
| and let's see what it's like. Come
clean, kid. Shoot the works"
well, drift over to Baltimore
| tomorrow and accidentally run
! across Barker"
| 81 can fix that up. know
where he eats. All right"
al am grateful to him for the
way he helped us out last nighI
and want to give him a little
well, token of my gratitude. I'm
well heeled and a hundred dollars
or so doesn't mean anything to
me. But I've got only a little casn
on me, and l need that. so have to
give him check-signed with that
name saw when / was straignten-
ing out your account last night -
"Ah"
~ can't stop but a couple Of
minutes because I've got q lot of
things to tend to before catching
the 6 O'clock train fOr--weII,
Frisco. IL can ring in that I'D
like to have the clletk caSlled ~
soon IS possible, because I'm GO
ing to be In Frisco for quite q
while, and want to clean up uae
Better get the other two men