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Hatch Rum Plots In Seaman?s Institute
Seven Seized on Liquor Boats Said to Have Made Plans There.
Bootleggers are taking advantage of the hospitality the Seamen?s Institute affords to seafaring men, and are using the building at 25 South st., Manhattan, as a headquarters where rum-running plots are hatched, according to charges contained in a letter from Assistant Customs Collector H. C. Stuart to United States Attorney Ralph C. Greene today.
The letter demanded the swift prosecution of seven men seized on board two rum-runners off Orient Point on Saturday. The prisoners were examined in the Customs House today and are said to have made statements in which they admitted having hatched their conspiracy to smuggle liquor in the Seamen?s Institute.
The two boats seized were the Sadie E. Nickerson, a motorboat with 500 cases of whisky on board, and the Theodore, another power boat, which also carried 500 cases.
Bootleggers are taking advantage of the hospitality the Seamen?s Institute affords to seafaring men, and are using the building at 25 South st., Manhattan, as a headquarters where rum-running plots are hatched, according to charges contained in a letter from Assistant Customs Collector H. C. Stuart to United States Attorney Ralph C. Greene today.
The letter demanded the swift prosecution of seven men seized on board two rum-runners off Orient Point on Saturday. The prisoners were examined in the Customs House today and are said to have made statements in which they admitted having hatched their conspiracy to smuggle liquor in the Seamen?s Institute.
The two boats seized were the Sadie E. Nickerson, a motorboat with 500 cases of whisky on board, and the Theodore, another power boat, which also carried 500 cases.
America 'Dry' Tonight
One minute after midnight tonight America will become an entirely arid desert as far as alcoholics are concerned, any drinkable containing more than half of 1% alcohol being forbidden.
Excessive fines and dungeon keeps yawn for transgressors of this drastic Federal law. Even persons returning home with small flasks of stimulants in their pockets would be amenable to the law. The provisions of the 18th amendment to the Constitution of the country really became effective at midnight yesterday. But in order that there should be no dispute, the Federal authorities delayed their operation until to-night at midnight, as a result of which the "demon rum", as it is facetiously termed, held full sway yesterday evening.
Many of the most popular restaurants here and throughout the country last evening ceremoniously "waked" the demise of alcohol, some giving the diners free portions of whisky, brandy, and wine, but charging goodly proportions over the usual tariffs for food and "good service."
Excessive fines and dungeon keeps yawn for transgressors of this drastic Federal law. Even persons returning home with small flasks of stimulants in their pockets would be amenable to the law. The provisions of the 18th amendment to the Constitution of the country really became effective at midnight yesterday. But in order that there should be no dispute, the Federal authorities delayed their operation until to-night at midnight, as a result of which the "demon rum", as it is facetiously termed, held full sway yesterday evening.
Many of the most popular restaurants here and throughout the country last evening ceremoniously "waked" the demise of alcohol, some giving the diners free portions of whisky, brandy, and wine, but charging goodly proportions over the usual tariffs for food and "good service."