Show lights of new york as by WALTER the more we learn of the beer racket here in new york the more we find it it really a racket for some time it has been in the main a highly organized and orderly business those engaged in it want no trouble gun play with its attendant publicity Is the last thing they desire the beer supply of new york is controlled by possibly six men they are the manufacturers and wholesalers the beer they furnish Is of fine quality made by experts from the best materials te rials distribution Is scientific greater new york Is divided into districts with clearly defined boundaries in each of these districts there Is a distributor jobber or middle man call him what you please it if he attempts to do business outside his al doted district discipline Is swift oh no he Is not put on the spot or beaten up or anything of that sort that Is not the manner in which big bustness business works nis ills supply Is cut ot off that leaves him an outcast should he try to get rough something might happen to him of course many engaged gag ged in the trade were pretty tough citizens before brains high up showed them there was more profit in being business men they are not going to let a few outlaws jeopardize their highly comfortable living and an outsider who ho becomes obnoxious also may be dealt with firmly what was the real low down on legs diamond I 1 once asked a man in a position to give me a correct answer diamond was just a fresh mug he said who got the idea he could muscle in where he belong now about capone I 1 asked capone he answered was the front guy for smarter men this same man told me that counting all types from a room back of a store to the elaborate establishments there were speakeasies speake asies in greater new york add the proprietors and employees of these places to drivers handlers workmen and the rest and you will see that the result Is quite an industry of course a great part of the money obtained goes for protection and graft the me beer men have nothing to do with the importation of hard liquor that Is a separate rackets racket in the ahti hands bands of half a dozen different gangs A 1 smart personable girl lost her position as a private secretary and get another she figured her assets as an education a knowledge of stenography and a portable typewriter she also figured that there must be a number of persons in a big city who had bad no use for a permanent secretary but who hated to write or answer letters the only way she knew to find them was to look up names in the telephone book and then try to sell her idea by a house to house canvass her proposition was that she would come once a week take dictation and type letters for a dollar an hour with a minimum of one hours work getting the first customer was the hardest now her business has worked up to M 35 a week that Is to say she has an equivalent of five customers a day one recommends her to another and she Is hoping to increase her business so as to gross 5 50 0 weekly the thing Is of course to try to get as many of her clients as possible in in one part of the city 0 boll bell service lct |