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Show ROM RUNNING PILES RICHES ALONG COAST atated. A bootlegger at Key Wert, quoted by tha writer, aald tha cutter cut-ter at that point had mada na real eapturea (or thrsa years. Once tha revenue cutter and a rum runner were tied up nosa to noee at Miami, aald tha article, the runner laden with 4,M caaaa from Naeaau for MlamL Keen competition ezlata between porta of fit. Pierre, a French poe-sesslon, poe-sesslon, and Naeaau, the article itatwd, charging a working agreement agree-ment between the polnta whereby-rum whereby-rum runnera clear from ona port to tha other. . St. Pierre charged an axparl-duty -at 1U0 ncaa oec.. pared to Xaesau'a ISM. although an effort la belnf mada by Naeaan to reduce He charge to II. Trom Halifax to Havana tha boose la flowing Into Atlantic porta," tha article declared, "and from srurcea you never heard of there cornea a eteady atraam of whlaky flowing Into New Orleans and Mobile, and from Mexico and Paclflo porta wa are getting It too. It la not a gift; wa are paying a tremendous price for what wa get: tha money that la going aut of tha eountry la good American dollare and tha whlekr that la oomlng In la of a quality that before prohibition prohibi-tion Americana would not have purehaaad at any price," j Correspondent for Chicago Chica-go Newspaper Tells of Many Ways Prohibition Law Makes .Fortunes CHICAGO, July IS (By A. P. Rum running- aloag the eoulh Atlantic At-lantic seaboard haa assumed such tremendous proportion that tha Inhabitants of poverty stricken lit-lis lit-lis falaiids tikvaDgcotnarlcli almost' overnight and tha section haa ba-eoma ba-eoma known as "bootleggers' para-dies." para-dies." tha Chicago Daily Newa aald today In a copyrighted article describing de-scribing eondltlona along the Florida Flori-da coast. In the city of Nassau alone, the article aald. official rlearlnse of liquor bound for the United Statee increaaed from 17.171 gallons In 117 to 1.M0.4U gal lone In 1UL Tha writer, accompanied by a bootlegger bootleg-ger named "Terry," aa guide, told of vleltlng tha rum fleets, talking with the rum runnera, - helping transport ths liquor snd of distributing distrib-uting It In tha United Btatea. Miami, first stop of the investigators, investi-gators, waa described aa "a city where, if you feel the need of a drink and don't happen to have your own flask with you. all you need to do la wait in tha ahada of a palm tree until a realdent cornea alone aak him where you can find a bootlegger, and if he Isn't one hlmaelf, ha will tell you where to go. Tou can buy all the whlaky you want In Miami at ti a quart. Havana and Nassau were de. eoibed aa but two of Ihe ports that were flooding the United Statee with liquor, come of It from American Ameri-can dletlllertea. "Upon the payment of the proper amount ec graft," tbs writer eaid. "you ess clesr est of a port with thousands of cases of whlaky. hilled to a legitimate point, unload It on the American eoeat, salt Inta the aforesaid lean tl mate pert with an empty ahlp and receive a landing certificate ahowlng that yoa arrived ar-rived there with the very whlaky yo emuggled . Into . the U ailed Btatea" .....,. -. . SENT THROUGH MAIL. , "In tha course of our participation participa-tion In thia business on tha Atlantic Atlan-tic oeeet," the writer continued, "Terry and I bought booae In Havana, Ha-vana, brought It through the eua-toma eua-toma at Key West and aent It to frlenda In Chicago through tbe United Statee malls Wa bought other boose In Naaaau and landed It In Miami at tha municipal pier, getting It pact tha United Statee Inspector at tha eoet of $e paid to ths member of the boat's crew. We lugged liquor back and forth from city to city, bought It and aald It, drank It and gave It away until we grew tired of the entire performance perform-ance and nobody seemed to think we were doing anything out of the ordlnsry." "And when ws were ready to return re-turn to Chicago.' the article declared, de-clared, "wa left the Florida pott In a bootlegger e motorboat. met and boarded a rum achooner loaded with toes raeea of Scotch whlaky. rode thia ahlp to lha New Jersey coast, bought ten eaeeo from the captain, landed ! alone wlMt 200 ether eases on ths Jersey coast, trucked It lo Newark, packed It Into trunks and chipped It to Chicago Chi-cago and sold It to Terry'e custom-era. custom-era. Nobody Interfered with its er qusstlonsd us; It wss all In the day'e work." OFFICIAL FIGURES. Tha Bahamas, poverty etrlekea before prohibition snd with revenues reve-nues from sll sources of less than hslf a million dollars realised !.-7l.0 !.-7l.0 In 12 In duties from liquor liq-uor ehlpped Into the United Btatea, tha article aaid. quoting a Naaaau official, who added that estimating that tha 1.140,44 gallons of liquor cleared from the Bahamae for tha United Btatea waa diluted is per rent thia would mean that over i (eO.oot gaiiona ' ' Houor ware placed on the market In thia country coun-try from the Bahamae alone Official documents In Washington Washing-ton state that theae flgurea are eoa-aei eoa-aei retire because there are not in rluded the liquor cargoee carried by forty lo eighty boata a month from Waet End, Grand Bahama, to florlda. the article aald. Tha rum runnera who do thia business.. ths writer ssld. "srs sors tMcaues London and Glaagow are arndlng boose to America M,0Oe to 40.00 caaaa at a time, in bigger rum ahlpa than the Bahamae ever dreamed af before: and they hfcve made some strange dreams some true In the Bahamas." Whtls prohibition officials ara seising aealed liquor brought Into their banda by legitimate oceangoing oceango-ing veeaela, the article aald, there are but two email cuttera to guard tbe l!1nlles of Florida coast, "all made -so order tor rum running. Regarding other measures to enforce en-force prohibition lews' In Florida, tha article, quoting a Miami real-dent, real-dent, aald: "We had .Colonel Nutt down here j from Washington once. I think It waa in February. MM. that the colonel and an army of about forty aselslanta eweped down, -on us , WELL ADVERTISED. . They warned ua In advance. Tbe Associated Press carried an announcement an-nouncement from Washington that tha director had decided ta eleaa ua up. The booties! ere eeem to believe be-lieve what they read in Aeeociated Preaa dispatches; at any rate they beat Nutt lo It and cleaned up tha Iowa IhcBaaelvaa before ,he arrived. ar-rived. , Ona of the two revenu cuttera works out of Key West i and the other aut ef Muunl. th article i v. ."(' |