Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-18 | Page 1 | Gothamites Making Ready for Aridity

GOTHAMITES MAKING READY FOR ARIDITY (By Universal Service.) NEW YORK, June 17. Now Yorkers York-ers who like their drinks to have a ; kick and their name is legion are ; making a concerted rush on the retail ; liquor shops these days in order to I stock up for the lour dry spoil which I is predicted July 1. One house report- ed a sale of 20,000 worth of champagnes cham-pagnes and other stimulants to one f customer todav. while orders of from ! .i000 to 10,000 arc quite common. I Total sales for three days wore put at ! 'Jo0,000. I Many of the bi clubs are offering 'their liquor stocks lor sale to mombr-rs. : with the privilege of private lockers in which to store supplier at owners' ! risk. The Crescent chih. Brooklyn, of-1 of-1 fers to rent lockers of four-quart ea-! ea-! parity at ?o a year " uuiess forbidden earlier by law."