Show of f New N York Y k By WALTER Lights Le h ts o 0 ew or A TR TRUMBULL U M BULL The more we learn of ot the beer I racket here In New York the more remarkable we find Ond It lt It really Isn't a racket For some time it has bas been in the main a highly organized organized organized or or- and orderly business Those engaged In It want no trouble Gun Gunplay Gunplay Gunplay play with Its attendant publicity Is the last tiling they desire The beer supply of New York Is controlled by possibly six men They rhey are the manufacturers and wholesalers The beer they furnish Is of or fine tine quality made by experts from the best materials Distribution Distribution tion is scientific Greater New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Is divided into districts with clearly defined boundaries In each of ot these districts there Is a distributor distrIbutor distributor dis dis- Jobber or middle mancall mancall mancall man- man call him what you please If It he attempts to do business outside his allotted district discipline is swift Oh no he Is not put on the spot or beaten up or anything of ot that sort That is not the manner In which big business works HIs supply Is cut off oIT That leaves him himan himan himan an outcast Should he try to get rou rough h something might happen to him of course Many engaged In Inthe Inthe Inthe the trade were pretty tough citizens citi citi- citizens zens before brains high up showed them there was more profit profil In being business men They are not going to let a fe few v outlaws Jeopardize their highly comfortable living And an outsider who becomes obnoxious also may be dealt with firmly t I What was the Ule real low down on Legs Diamond 1 I once asked a u aman aman uman man In Ln a position to give me a correct correct cor cor- answer Diamond 1 was Just a fresh mu mug n nhe he said who got the l Idea he could muscle In where he dl didn't nt belong How about Capone I asked Capone he answered was the front guy for tor smarter men This same man told 1 me that counting all aU types from the room back of a store to the elaborate establishments establishments es es- es- es there were OOOO speakeasies In Greater New York I Add the proprietors and employees of ot these places to drivers workmen workmen work work- men and all the tile rest and you rou will see that the result Is quite an In Of Ot course a great part of the money obtained goes goC for protection protection tion Uon and graft The beer men have nothing to do with the Importation of hard liquor That Is a separate racket In the hands of half a dozen different gangs Considerably fewer fe models are coming to the doors of New York artists Many of these girls had bad Jobs and mo modeled In their spare time The extra money they made In this manner went for for- luxuries luxuries- theaters movies nn and additional artitles articles articles ar ar- titles of dress they could not otherwise oth oth- otherwise afford Now many of them have lost their Jobs and are not good enough at modeling to make their entire living In that fashion The result Is that dozens of them have ha gone back to the old home homo town The suitors they regarded as ns too steady and prosaic have begun begun begun be be- gun to look pretty good to them The Tho stock of play boys has gone down They tell me that the manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers and Inventors of hair dyes have agents who demonstrate their pro product before the proprietors of beauty shops For this purpose they use living models These models have ha thus been getting the very finest Onest and most careful sort of a dyeing and waving Job for nothing One of them was highly Indignant the other day because the demonstrator demonstrator demon demon- had not been around for some time and her hair had grown grown grown- to the extent that it was a mixture mixture mix mix- ture of its natural and ornamental colors A smart personable girl lost her position as a private secretary an and couldn't get another She figured her her assets as an education a knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of stenography and a portable portable port port- able typewriter She also figured that there thero must be bo a number of persons persons persons per sons sons' In a n big city who had no use for a n permanent secretary but who hated to write or answer r letters The only way she knew to find and them was to look up names In the telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone book and then try to sell her Idea by a to house-to-house canvass Her proposition was that She would come once a week take dictation and t type pe letters for a dollar an nn hour with a minimum of one hours hour's work Getting th the first customer was the hardest Now her business has work worked cd up to 35 a a week That ThatIs Is to say she has an equivalent of five customers a day One recommends recommends mends her ber to another and sh she Is hoping to Increase her business so as to gross 50 GU weekly The thing Is of course to try to get as many of her clients as possible In ono part of ot the city 1333 1132 Bell Syndicate Service |