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Show , Whiskey Easy to Get Now in Practically Every State I Trip Through Thirt -eight Commonwealths by Obsen in Reporter Shows Volstead Law Is Widelj Violated or Ignored and Money Assures Drink In Plenty By DONALD MACCREGOR W i.Im--,, ii I) ( . lllrll.l SOMB reporters nirr inlrrvlewing the Crown Prince of Rumania when 'n rvjjjjj reached New York city recently after BLh s month'? tour of th- United States What do you think of prohibition In JjS America" came one of the qucsMons. jH When. Inquired th? Crown Prince, "'!" - jflB It go effect?" LBsH The publication of the incident fetised II many smiles. Among some it caused a fu H rore, Those who excited, apparently sH had been under the Impression that the flBj United Sihi had been dry for a year or BEH more that drinking whs Indulged in only flM by those whose foresight and pockelbooks RPB had nabled ihem to stock their cellar or flcSH whose elder In refusing to bceonic vinegar Rg$H li n" goiter, hard. .1 T.. Ihnia nh i kr.ow the lone.- iiovvi ' I Effl the question of ihe Crown Prince i nol Lgflfl ibiurd. The royal v.-ltor. escorted around H tl.e country to a considerable extent. . $ doubl found Intoxicant aplenty a Ipasi i IH did, pri a trip much longer than the Crown IH I'rinre took a i rip Into thirty-seven States I and th. .'district of Columbia over a route S of almost 80.000 miles, rind roqiilflng - lght 1 m nlghii ' i " 1 Only Recital oi Fa : . mLm Hot a Sneer a: Prohibition l Right ii,,.. thorltles charged with the enfortc-EH enfortc-EH men! or the prohibition laws; It Is mil an HayV J attempt to discredit the eighteenth Amend- HtJ ment or th-- Volstead gpl II merely is 9 :j ol the) v. i round to D exist. Incidentally and without any great HK amount or iffoit. in ivory section of IhS country. 4 The inform HH to every state west the M i i t , i River J with the m it joifnf Arkupaaa and luqj- H lann. n every Stale north of Hie idn.von H Dion line with the exception of Vermont 4 ;jl and Mall fl the Southern States Roughly, ihf ttrrlf.ni covered constitutes sevoncighlhs P' I"" pJ L nite) stales. The Information Is thai a,'1 a e is true In seven-eighths of the COlUitrj i- true in the remaining one-eighth, so t'.at '.his article may he xei down as reflecting Je( Jtccurgtelv- the condition u it exists In ev.r -' section. Certainly the survej - I mi comprehensive undertaken i one person since t lie advent of national prohibition Any Man Not Under Suspicion W And Wm. the Price Cin Get Drink S f ned up lids lit the outstanding Itn J i , i HQ of tl)a loin H That it Is possible In et vvhlifUcy and DH other Intoxicants in any town in the coun- U try. a ithpul mui llfl i . .1 H eour?e. that you ate aide to convince tht bootlegger that ou are not a revenue ofll BH cer. and If you are willing to pay the price demanded H That in many sections of the ecuntrv IBm nlekey and in one places beer of high KHfl alcoholic content, is heing sold over the HBI That there Is i.iuch corn whiskey. Illicitly bonded wwlikcy, sfjiich Is wpre dlftieyli HDb That tlie Joke about home brew beer and BK1 other homemade intoxicants Is not so much . Lj Jke after all fpi c ere i almost concelvabd homo manufacture Of Ituoxlcat-iKB Ituoxlcat-iKB Ing beverages, some or w hich has iic . " I - 'clteei Cji ore made over Hie bar, to persops, vi, i ere BitB known, hy the drink, and where there i pan- -;Jerable traffic in case good the put Itjjl 1 " b ile en to t pei if the i tnd II 9HB 'i-slte The wetteat Stale? perhaps are Xew ork end New .Jertev Vith vxhat eeeiRa I f The Pacific coast Is a cloe second to the MB Atlantic, with Intoxicants freely obtainable ttl in such cities as Sat) Francisco. Scuttle Portland, Los Angelea and Pan Diego, Gtl, mW This Is Iruo e.spe-)ally in California, the last of he Pacific coast Stales to go wet. ih- Males of Wa.-hlngton and Oregon having tqfgj Rono dry by their own vote before the ret f the country. There la a frins of territory extending .vl from the Canadian and Mexican borders S from one to t v ri hundred mllep where llfiir)i j headpy obtftinable bro gbj Into the .-oun- ii try by blockade runners whose stors ol encounters with the revenue agents will hi RIB the Tutute be t.ie source of much adventure Louisville and St Louis Are Dryer Than New York and Chicago I The largei cities such as New Tork. Chl- Sv, - '.go bran Francisco, Loe Angeles. Cleveland. irJ Detroit and Buffalo present only flight dlfTl- cully for the stranger who arrives with a HI t'.lret and plenty of money It Is more dlffi- IS fult to get Intoxicants In certa.n cities which VIU might, on the face of past performances. ,j , ..n io be the easiest c Itlee, for intanc. such as Louisville K.v.: St. Louis. Mo., and ! Kansas City. Mo, long looked upon n rlMfl centres of the production of intoxicating flffW '-serages. In the intermountaln territory. trilfie.l by Loise City. Idaho; Salt Lake City Iftfl and the like, the most difficulty Is encoun- QBI leredi the liquor la there but the price 'a Mlnot, N. p., as a small city, easily takes PgfJ i ink as the wettest spot In the United States. 1 - li K within sixty miles, as the crow flies, i ' B from tbe Canadian border, and large tuan- l ies of whiskey and gin are brought in n continually over the line. hwifl 'There are so many bootleggers In FdBI Mlnpl." the town Joke runs, "that they have k to wear badges to keep from trying to sell - !ijj0 liquor to each other " -ilH The buccaneers of old had few more ex citing time Mian the blochaite runners in the whiskey ring, They bring the bottles, most of them containing Scotch Whiskey, over Ihe line In automobiles. They travc; heavily armed wlih Winchesters and have frequen: clashes with the revenue agents Some of the men have been shot during the enCOUnlere:, Not .a few have been compelled to abandon their automobiles and flee. T'.ils. i hey say then can afford to do If It Is not ior often. Four successful Mips, they fiK-ure, fiK-ure, will Ivrlni; ufflclent revenue to offset a loss of an automobile. Mnt of the bottles hear Canadian revepue stampt-. The bootleggers sell by the hoitle when the can. :is It initios them greater revenue, but some of them prefer, to dis-pose dis-pose nf he smu'-isied iroods by the case, dis-peslng dis-peslng of ihem moic rapidly. The prices ar? hich. due to the hazards and to the fact tr.ut prices of almost every thing are hlfrh for Ihe wealthy (armers who harvest the boupdlesa wheat fields of North Dakota. A CM8C -if Scotch whiskey of average grade I. . t I An n n1 msi.l.A H'lin ' makes ;i dicker car. en It for Wp f; the l-nttie whiskey can be bought for from J to to $15, Discreet inquiry and proper Identification in Mlnot will brine no epd ol directions at to how the liquor mav be ,,titauird om ot the bootleggers have prlvajte rooms, up , . . - JOHN F. KRAM1 Ma'i on whom rests ihe enforcement of national prohibition. mysterto: stalrwaye nd through III liahte l halls: tii'fe are drus n lores where the pjs-pecllve pjs-pecllve purchaser Is Invited tiack of the prescription pre-scription counter to Inspect ihe label and Ihe Ciovernment seal, tliem are some wiu may be interviewed on a deal which nt.i. s the dejiyery at your hotel room "f any glvrfn quantity and brand itioot, N D . and San Dico. Cal . Are Meccas ot the Thirsty Next to iliin'l one pj the nio.-t sati-tat t,rv places Par the thinker to live in is San Dieo. Cal. Not only Is whiskey easy enough to get In San picgp, but only soventeen mile? away is Tijuana. Mexico. aiKiut a mile on the other side of the line, with Its race track! lis gambling ai.d wide open American barg. The United States Government Issues pnsroiis to Tijuana without much red tape They are of two kinds, for those who make frequent irip-. tho bgasporte sond lor a year, and temporary passports, for (he casual vit-itor. vit-itor. good only for ten days. They are lo b? had ii the Federal Building. In San Diego where special cleiks are kept busy with l.e applfcatiapa. Those accustomed to dplnc tjiclr flrinkipl up an alley out .-f a bottle appreciate ho dignified way in which it may be had In Tijuana. The bar Is there, the brass fo.it rail, the sawdust, everything. In fact, to recall re-call ihe days before the reat t-o-eaILd drought', everything, in fact, except two swinging doors at ihe entrance. These "re missing. Tijuana Is brazen about i la diin'.-Ing, diin'.-Ing, Whiskey costs a quarter a drink In Tijuana, Tiju-ana, and It is terrible At thirty-five cents, three drinks for a dollar. It Is possible to make a selection from Standard, American bianda. Those who know the bartenders fare belter than those who do not The twenty-five cent whiskey unquestionably Is one of the reasons for so much Mexican unrest. Back over the Jolty road, to the American side. In San Diego, however, the question of keeping up the supply of intoxIcunLs is not acute. Americans, as a rule, do not attempt to bring it back wiih them, although it may be had In Mexico for from t- to JG a quart. The authorities at ihe border are active In searching those who cross the line, and heavy penalties have been imposed on those who attempt iolatlon of the laws. In om instances automobiles in which even e small bottlo of whiskey was concealed have been confiscated. But the liquor (rets ove the line in somn fashion or another, presumably brought In by Mexicans who are willing to take the chance for the profit involved The result It that standard grade whiskey may be purchased pur-chased In San Diego for from $S to $10 a quart, the price a little less to those who buy by the case. Thus Is the California stock of whiskey coming hack When the country went dry saloonkeepers who had large quantities of whiskey and f.in shipped It over the line to lwer California, there to be hidden away, under guard, to be disposed of cither in Mexico Mex-ico or In the United Slates as the opportunity opportuni-ty warranted. Warehouses holding these drinkables arc located all along the border, BSSSBBSSSSBaSSBBaSBsnSSSHSSSSasaMHMCw p anvs :n some Instances only a few milts from the line. Generally speaking, and with a few iiota-bls iiota-bls exceptions, the standard bootleggii.g prtCi lor a quart ot whiskey Is $15. At wmo plnces it can be had lor $10. but In octl0.n where transportation la difficult and money I-; plentiful i tie quotations may go even to (40 .Just '.he same. $15 Is the averose. I dtllar more or a dollar oss being the exception. excep-tion. Much of the traffic Is conducted bv hotel bellboys, serving either on their own oc- mil. which is not generally the case, or on ihe account of some bpotJegser who is known to tl'rm a no whose place of business Is no' far from the hotel In question. In -ion ln-st,r.ce ln-st,r.ce If the bellboy Is convinced that vru are all right, thai Is. that you are not o revenue officer or In league with the police be will produce what you ask of him. But bellboys do not hold the monopoly when it remes in soTYlng as a source of supply Their rivals are tavlcah drivers, who mav have a bottle with ihem In the taxlcab or who for a fare and n tip will drive you to a place where the whlskev may be had So far as the over-1 he-bar business a n-Cf n-Cf rr.ed. it IS rjfp m a sreat mahv towns. fttlmes in Hie !rnt suspected places while V Is true that this Is conducted tor the mn-t pari In rest a uants (hat formerlv were bars and now- operate apparently for the .e of light lunches and nesr bner. there v e clier places where n drink or a quart m;iy be purchaser), pnr Instance, fhere is In one .ol the largest cities In the country on o.ir f its nio: famous streets, n candy and I e i nam soda store which serves as well gn ri:kles and hljchhalls. It la not unusual i see people stagger slightly as they leave the rofln grill. Real Old Fashioned Beer Mcv Still Be Had n Milwaukee S"ine of theso places, particularly . those In Milwaukee and In other towns where there la a large German population, like Cincinnati and St. Louis, sell beer that Is beer. Under the law near beer Is that which contains less than one-half or I per cent, of alcohol, hut the beer that Is sold In some of the towns, with very Utile discrimination, contains much more. There arc many clubs, loo. which receive regular supplies of real beer which compares In all raepecta to the beer that was on salo before the prohibition law went Into effect. That strip of country which Includes Kevida, New Mexico Colorado and Arizona Is drier than any other section of the coun-:i coun-:i Dependable whiskey Is difficult to gel. nnd when It Is obtained it cost? heavily In ,i ake City the quotations range from s;;i"i to ?ioo a case for standard brands; n Denver a quart, unless It is "moonshine." , ..st up to $40 The moonshine, or corn w hl key is $"0 a quart Kansas, the Ileitis State of Carrie Nation and one of the first In the country to go In or prohibition s surprisincly wet There is much to be had In such cities as Wichita Sfhd Topeka at about $L'0 a quart, but the most dependence is placed on corn whiskey which is cheaper In '.iklahomo. loo, it Is mostly moonshine, and the farmers now i flKiire on ihelr corn crop, not In bushels, but in gallons. , This land;" is the way they put It, "will , yield -40 gallqiS to the aire." i Texas Is below 'the average in whiskey Supply, except lor the cliles near the Mexi-(iiii Mexi-(iiii border, where there are large slocks of native Mexican Intoxicants. Texas prices nre high. Uj addition. They tell the story of a promlm nl Texan who went to Dallas not long ago from an oil Cgnp near Wichita Falls When he not off the tram he located a booilcgtrer. 'i want some hooch over at the hoiet." he commanded ilow many bottles can you get"? "I've sot six.' said the bootlegger, "and I'm sorry that's all.'' "How much"? inquired Ihe Texan when tho booth geer finally arrived anI deposited the grip that con'ained the six precious bottles. bot-tles. "Well." the bootlegger drawled "there's six In there, nt $40 each that's $L'0" The oil man went on putting on his fresh nlhir "Young feller." he said, casually: "I've been buying dqunr down in iliis houihwt t country t . r a good many years, but not at thai price Ydu'r the hrt bootlegger I ever '.ivv who knew what whiskey Was worth." Another State where purchasable quarts are few and far between Is Kentucky. For many years the centre of the whiskey distilling dis-tilling business i would seem as though It would be possible buy bourbon readily IH and at low The truth Is, however, that H the stocks outside of the bonded warehouses H arc dwindling rapidly, and there is a gen- H eral policy of conservation of whai there Is H on hand Another reason, tod. W when '' whiskey Is taken cir of the bonded ware-houses ware-houses In tlc State It Is shipped to other sections of ine country. Is withdrawn H ostensibly for medicinal purposes, and the H eertlficales arc sold and resold to cover up the IH In the aieut Soqthweal lie moonshine In- .M dustrv is ouTv m its Ipfancy whan compared ,f the mountain regions of Ken-lucky. Ken-lucky. Tennessee and West Virginia. Up In H thc!e mountains ihe people would as leave H be without a gun as they would without a H still The high price of hooch has even hit alH the mountains. If you leave a $5 bill on a H nowadays under a gallon Jug you will f.ud. wrier you come back In an hour that Ii is only half full. A gallon of moonshine H now. The host grade are "triple distilled and H twisted." WhlCfa, Interpreted means thn' the spirits pave been put through the still three- H times and then allowed to age Ip a barrel. the ha i re; being shaken at Intervals to fa- It's against religion In some sections of H these mountain? in Ohlfle bv the prohibition law. In one community not so very long H ago a thirsty flpok punished one of the membership for giving information to a rev . H enue ofTiier. They expelled him from the H |