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Show BOOZE PRICES MOVING LOWER Larger Supply on Eastern Market Breaks Down Quotations. (By NEA Servlco) NEW YORK, Dec 31. Pop Soda with the kick of a mule! That Is what they nro Belling, now. Soma soft drink manufacturers began making tliobr own fruit 6ynips.. Tho government allows tliem to get bonded alcohol out of tho warehouse for thls.- As n side line, sonio of them, make moonshine. They paste a ginger alo label on tho soda bottlo, forget tlio rovonuo Btomps and sell It to their retail trado with a wink. It costs 35 cents a gloss! Hut ouch! By ALEXANDER HERMAN NEW YORK. Dec. 28. The price of booze is dropping. Its supply Is increasing. This is duo to lax prohibition enforcement. en-forcement. Certain bootleggers who charged 510 a bottlo two years ao and 57 last year, aro now Bcmng lor as low as ?B. Moonshiners AVho operate in tho East and Uttlo Italy, aro flooding tho I1 market. "Wo were slowed up for two months" . explained ono of the heaviest traffickers. traffick-ers. But wait until after the first." He had 250 cases of Halg and Haig, : Five Star for sale at $05 a caso. "It's gonuino siuff. I know. The police onco confiscated it." MORE BARGAINS Another dealer in tho same little coffee shop, less than half a mlio from police headquarters, offered another bargain. "Old Taylor pint bottles, "Last year I was gottlng $70 a case. Today I'll sell for 137." Dealers throughout the city are cutting cut-ting their prices. A tilp through tho moonshine district dis-trict of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Brook-lyn revealed the following prices: Price per caso in 1919 1920 1921 Green River whisky ...$80-$100 $40-575 $45-?90 Old Taylor .. 80-120 45- 75 45- So Grand Dad.. 75-100 40- C5 40- 75 Port Wine.. S4- 90 55- GO 43- 55 Cremo do Haig and Haig ... .110-125 70- SO SO- 95 "Little ot tliis stuff," oxplained one Coco . .120 95 GO j moonshiner, "13 real. We mix most of t it taking a small part of the bonded goods and mixing it with our own. ' BUYER IS BUNCOED Bottles, labels, corks and counterfeit J stamps are supplied and the buyer is j buncoed. 1 "We don't deliver In cases any more, I tho risk Is too great. We wrap the 1 bottles In newspapers and deliver in taxica"bs." . There is comparatively little of tho ' real bonded goods for sale. Most of j , this, bootleggers say, 13 being held by! I the big interests for consumption later! on. Members of a large liquor concern In a New York suburb recently formed a drug company. Thoy now have several sev-eral hundred barrels of alcohol stored in a shop on ono of the main streets, to bo disposed of later. |