Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-25 | Page 16 | Maine Prospers as Thirsty "Tourists" Flock to Wet Line

II Maine Prospers As Thirsty "Tourists" j Flock to Wet Line l DRY 1 WET MAINE. CANADA I i ??-'S;l 1... : ""' ' zzicj"' -'- Tliis is the "T-lnr House" wbcrc thirsty ' Tourists" gather illfrlit l . They enter "Dry"i cross v r t the "Wet" i-id and conic out the "ir" Mdo tanked. IB LORRY A JACOBS N E . sinff Correspondent JACKMAN', Me., July -4. Booze IS flowing through Maine like water through a fire-hose. And. of course. It's Canada's faun because Canada grew so near u Maine. Maine is eclebratinf Its one hundredth hun-dredth birthday this year and the celebration cele-bration seems likely tj continue for u long time unless the hootch m i -1 I in Canada gives out Maine prospers. Tourists are thick .as ants. They're eating the f oou grown on the farms and washing it down with Canadian hootch supplied by the natives What could he more: nearlv perfect? JACKMAN'S FIRST STOP ON DIM SIDE I sat on the veranda of Jackmans1 good hotel, "The Mens.- RIv r House.' 1 Jackman Is on the main automobile road to Canada and the main line of the Canadian Pacific being Ui- firsi station this side of Hootchland. it was Saturday night, and the hotel wma Jammed to the guards. Down tbe street Jackman was enjoying itself at the weekly dance. All was quiet ana lovely as the pun slowly sank behind' the majestic pine trees of the Maine woods, j "This Is n quiet place ' said I. "Hm," said the hole clerk. "It ain't begun yet." He will never say anything truen For, the sun down, a steady stream-of stream-of automobiles began to appear. nc after another the headlights Clashed ' and on and on they came one whirl-j Ing after another From them camel no noise but the whirring of the motors. "Must be a meeting some place," I observ ! "Yeh. ' said Hie clerk. "Meeting at the Line House. The Modern and Fraternal Order of Hootchseckcrs meets there every night." mm I what's the Line House?" 1 qucrled- "The first watering place on the border. sold he. Half of it is hullt on the United States side. That sides as dry as a d-sert. The other half is on the Canadian side and that sides as wet as the ocean Ml Alls PASS ON YVY TO I INE HOUSE." The procession kept up. One would have thought thai someone hao conceived the Idea of having ull the ars in the world meet at the Line House There was every Imaginable make, size and variety. Counting r.s best I could I totalled 541 cara In three hours. In the meantime, the dance over, all the male residents or Jackman apparently disappeared, following fol-lowing much whispering, much talking talk-ing of Canadian-French and mucn cranking of autos. And then about midnight the cars hegan to whizz past, going the other direction. Only now came from them the sounds of much merriment, mucn laughter and most of them were driven driv-en recklessly and with cutouts snorting. snort-ing. Well," said I. "I guess I'll go to bed." What for"" asked the clerk. "You can't sleep. No one can here Satur-dn Satur-dn nights. The cars make too much noise." Thit was the most truthful clera I have ever met