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m/Htmter, late of t Jotters, deceased. uses in Northern lowers of every ULBS, ETC. BURGH, N. Y. i Barracks on as pocket n-wejf. %^ actually te«H.g[' ; em berths* W .*••• > •• X -i:\ \g? «s is Mown, it* first ifcya smugglers of alcolitfttc tr&v^ted baelward ws across. tfee .toot for .t£e purpose of one bottle of liquor. <ae r tht^. into the tlatteii tes .to contravention of the a&»- iWtti laws. The term .never tuty Canadian beveragesfor their iflttuse as the-word \bootlegger\ 'uniies only, on the Jjprtheaatem frwitier at ieast, to violators of the Volstead Act who carry on theif locations for profit to tfiem- has been used >i|uite generally to »#ty to any smggl f | gene #y to any smuggler of contra- band hooch lor profit -who operates on la, email scale, five or six years* ago a chap from Troy, N. y., nradfe frequent trips from his home city to the Canadian Metropolis by tweitt m& always earrM bads with him two suitcases ailed with Seoteh whislsy, to which a large manner of people to the Collar City are said to be particaflarly partial, to-personff-^who: on each trip. IChe loaded cases made the return journey securely tied to the long iron rods which stretch lengthwise under Pullman cars while the pocket bootlegger, who was a short, thin chap and scarcely weighed a hundred pounds, *e4e curled up on the car man in whose connection [me tern who first used was a res , of Eouses Point of good re- Ipute who was. out of work and Iwto devised the method'of regu- [l«ly transporting small quantities [of whisky and wine from a farm I house on the* Canadian side of the [Boundary line two miles north of [Rouses Point to the village where •be sold it to friends and acquaint- |tsce» at a profit of* a couple of •a a quart It in said that he tarried more than two bot- Ito at a time as he was in mortal [few of being detected by customs [officers and the consequent tfetrt- p his reputation which- a [public'court appearance on liquor jg charges would entail. [Xa mole than two trips were made |»y him in aay one day and these. me always taken during the noon [Hour anfl just before dusk at night J ofQterg were jipt to bo at ' meals and when, he believed, [teas of being detected were , During tlie Fall and [Winter months the contraband [liquor was carried in inside coat 5 with a heavy ulster con- tho bottles from the view persons whom he met on the [streets of the village\ and* on the [il'Invay, tyJMle in the summer • on days on which a raincoat i not ia worn with propriety [4 pint bottle was concealed in the p p underneath the little plat- form which is raised up when pas- sengers are taken'on or let off. So far m is taowa he only rode the Pullmans on Delaware & Hud- son Train No. 10, the crack Mon- tr«al-New York flyer which is wade up entirely of sleeping cars and which makes no scheduled stops for passenger- aecoiamada- tlon between the metropolis of the Dominion and that of the United States. As the entire trip between Montreal and. Troy, where \the J>. & R. Pullinans ars transferred to cars which teraattonal Betwriasy Mm United States *r<88 Canada, Pullman <3ampa»y isaves very flefl* nite mstruo£ioM» to its employees has co^opewtted itt'eiMBty pm* aible way to bteafc np the pisuatiee* dischargiog those promptty '&h® ate detected in the act ®$ violat- ing the law m this yeigpect »»d sending topectwt i& clothesf to rfde thjb teatos tod tip -m Hm aetivittes of its personnel. In aevetai caaes porters have gone into liquor smuggling on rather tm estenstvc\ aeale but these hav£ been appreheaded quickly and some of them have been given prlsoa sentawss wlw« tried in the Federal co«srt9. Ott the other hand there are many of toe explored boys who Iwtxe been \iiif ftaekward mi forward over the International Boundary line on the cars of tne Company for years and who have never brought m much as $ gai of pro- hibited beverages teto this coun- try. a, New Ceatral train, is Air Greatest Qt^Hpe Economical to Buy E^oriomical to Install - 'anct Uses-less are co«Ma% tevltedl to vblt our utoresi and ittstpect: a Jiktiatdson GUY E »t .¥.OUP Setvlce • ROSSES POINT MOOERS FOEKS at night the man is said to have operated for several- months before he was captured. Rouses- Point customs' officers were told of the smuggler by a member of the train crew wiio happened to see him sneaking under one of the cars while it was standing; in the Wind- sor station in Montreal and for- Bevcral nights ofllcera searched un- dmieata the cars carefully on their arrival at that port, toe man ; was capture^ however, by a Delaware & Hudson railroad de- tective in the yards at WSitehall where the trato then made regu* lar stops to ehango engines and crews. of Ms hat and two^ more the waist-band of his trou- ws. He carried on bis operations, * is said, over a period of twd [years without ever being suspected |!>y t6o authorities. He finally ob- [Wned a pogition^te now, legitimately [employed. , •-.''.. - V • - •': tecenryeara the idea \has a enlarged «pon and It is wOd. ' ta the aggregate, quWits- ag amounts of cohtriibaitd; liquors, wines and ales been smuggled into tbia atiy from the hospitable Do* * by tbi« method. Within !». Unit, few y«ani smock coats,. •\\Tally madft fro«* ovwrall m*- ^ la which % dawn.or more s have been sewn around the on the iniida u« frwjuent- Efttofor overcoats or ; .often, vnnexi 'mtt their w*e*ers 'nearly al- 'their trip* aero** the fl i® &r iaiteatd ot ^i 3%hway«. In nevera! i these vlottitor* have-town by the cuatom* authori- i tad punished taut M tlieir op- \OM «re ordinarfly atrried on t ana over no definite st of them «*ecpe det«o Much of the »qu«» tarmight 'weUnited St»t*« In tttto man- J» consumed locally or within ^sounds of the North Country cases hav« been ksown qite good Bia*3 amounfca • «ea loaded into freight cars P - n J°«al^<« distribution amniglt thei d e«ort« of several of the-] PHllmoa portera h'q,v© always caused tce'eustom? authorities a great deal of trouble feccausQ of their llquofe smuggling propenaifciea and, for the reason that their op- and Confidence? yo«may llnae m t6^ lac t!o» to alwsofh tne . count» edging a may* at some yati t know the dffiev- iaea between the>blue«white^ the faacy blues and-those of lesser qiWit*? t>o you know about cuttings attd ^hy 456me uut^ings add to Utiftifney and attfaottveness? \ tio you Imow what consti- tutes an \imperfection\ and why it depreciates value? 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