The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-04-07
LEGAL BREW FLOWS
AGAIN AFTER LAPSE
OF over IS YEARS
Bungstarters Drum Countless
Kegs to Signal Return Of
Brown Beverage
New YORK STAGES PARADE
Follow Hearse Labelled Near
Beer; German Bands
loot in Milwaukee
by The Associated Prees)

(By The Associated Press)
The thump Of bung starters on
countless kegs drummed . long lost
beverage back tc the American scene
Friday.
Lawful 81 per cent beer gushed In
territory populated by about 10000
600 Americans as 10 states and the
District Of Columbia lifted ban more
than Is years old.
Jubilee and jollity were widespread
among friends Of the beverage: its
foes voiced criticism and warning.
Five minutes after beer became
legal at midnight, q big truck, gay
with festoons, rumbled to the service
entrance Of the white house bearing
two cases-a brewers gift to the pres
dent. Roosevelt, who had retired, has
indicated he win give the beer to
friends.
On Broadway, New Workers paraded
behind . hearse lettered near beer
is dead" while . band in bright
bavarian uniforms played dirges and
drinking songs. The brewers Of the
metropolis had refused to deliver be-
fore 8 .. m. but by .. m. some ho-
tells, cafes and restaurants had man
aged to get beer from New Jersey and
elsewhere. Throngs celebrated.
Copnoi1seuEs Pleased =
Surprisingly good" said Chicago
beer connoisseurs as they celebrated
new beers day" While 100000 cases
and 100000 barrels sped to points Of
delivery there. cheering thronss
crowded downtown streets, hotels. and
eating places.
German societies in st. Paul, where
beer flowed freely at midnight, toast
ed President Roosevelt and happy
days." A funeral march ushered
spiked beer to oblivion.
While H. L. Mencken, author, ICON
oclast and beer expert Of Baltimore
was tasting the new brew and pro-
nouncing it pretty good: not bad 1T
ALL" Mrs. Ella A. Boole, national head
Of the w. G. T. o., declared the beer
violated the 18th amendment.
Alfred E. Smith, old foe Of prohi-
bition, found himself the centre Of
fluctuations. Brewers hastened to
send him their first cases Of beer. One
dispatched six Clydesdale horses to
draw q four-ton brewery wagon up to
Smiths Fifth Avenue home with .
case Of the new beverage.
In the confusion and frantic efforts
by brewers to keep abreast with or
ders, no estimate could be obtained
Immediately 6 to how much Of q I'll.
lip the legalisation Of beer had given
to business, how much money was
being spent on beer, or how many
men had been put to work. Brewers
in Chicago estimated 100000 had
gone into circulation there immedi-
ately. while . newspaper said about
10000 persons had got jobs In Illinois
as the result Of beer. From the first
few hours sale in Minnesota, the gov
eminent garnered 100000 In revenue.
Prices Are Varied
The price varied. In New York, .
uch-quoted figure was = case
Of - bottles. The price for . glass
was often 10 cents: sometimes .
nickel for . small glass. but In ho-
tels and some restaurants, It was in
many cases IS cents glass and some-
times Is high Is IS cents . bottle.
Four hundred thousand barrels Of
beer began rolling away from brew
cry loading platforms In New York.
but from there and from other SEC
lions came word that the demand
leaped ahead Of the supply.
Milwaukee, home Of famous brews.
Continued on Pare TWo)