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SOMETHING ABOUT NEW YORK'S WATER CURE Search for Unconstitutional Liquor a Disappointing Errand (By a Meti'opolitan Observer) One o fthe stock phrases about pro hibition and New York is that the average New Yorker refused to take the then impending law seriously be cause "it could not be done." That is not true. New York City is about as dry as any other community of the United States. But this must be understood to mea nthe New York o fthe real New Yorkers, those who have their homes in .this huge city and are not sojourning for indefinite periods for the sake of merely being identified with its life. The New Yorkers' New York is a magic city. It exists even though it is difficult to describe. There has gone forth to a credulous world that New York means the Great White Way, now a misnomer, or some of those numbered streets evasively classified as Thirties. Forties and Fifties, or both. The New Yorkers' New York is alike unto the Parisians' Paris. In either case these real cities are discoverable only by the serious traveler and the thoughtful passer by. There are many unrelated hodge podge districts within the city proper that are commonly considered New York when they are not New York at all. For what happens in these re s peetive districts New York takes the blame or praise, but as there is more of the forrer than of the latter, the layhan draws conclusions that are off-color. One hears of "wet- Broad way." and of "humid Sixth avenue" and of "dewy Forty-second street." One hears about the barrels of "reli gious wine" flowing around Hester street, or the beer that can be found in Teutonic neighborhoods on Second and Third avenues, or the alleged Chianti of Mulberry street or the imi tation St. Julien to be had at French restaurants just as one hears about the "perfect coffee" that one may ob tain at Brazilian coffee houses run by Greeks, perhaps, who know noth ing about South Auerican geography. The FvPwink Fiction There is a tction aboard in the land that the mere eyewink, if accom panied by the savoir faire that char acterizes the man about town and which stewards and waiters regard as the sine qua non of safety, Vol steadily speaking, will be the magic wand that produces any and every drink, but the fact is that in real New York one can wink until dooms day and fail to get anything more than Croton water. Water is the regulation metropolitan drink; it is the Ameriran drink of the average Ameridan. In this respect New York is United States. The wink, of course, is metaphorical No such thing is needed. No honest to-goodness waiter would know what to do with it. He might think that the patrons eye suffered from a turn ed eyelash. At such places where drinks are purveyed one must ask what is wanted even if it is not seen anywhere around. Whether it will forthcome depends upon the impress ion that the patron created upon tak ing his place. And after that he will be sold, if the sale follows, what is called a drink, under many guises and disguises. These transactions which take place daily by the hund red thousand-are like art purchases; the price (lay be too high or fraud may he practiced. Sr ch transactions, however, are really not int'n-led to transfer good and rare intoxicating beverages to the first caller therefor, no matter the consideration involved, but rather to produce "local color.' The gay (log and the chap wvho l.ikes to appear as the experienced and( blase man about town would be dlisapp~ointedl if lie did not get this mental prismatie effect, especially if lie wishes to show off, as usually happens to he the case. It is either the friendl fromi the "old home town" or it is the girl of the hour. In any event he likes to ex ra~nd with the consciousness of being a superior pe'rson, wvho knowvs the ropes, wtho snaps his finers at the idea that there is such a thing as for bidden fruit.* Advertisiig the T1rade New York being a co~mmercial town, New York sells this local color to all comerIs, indiscri minat ely. I'. may he color with a kick huit is not the sort of drink that a sensible man woul care to have a fter havintg tast - ed it. once. The method may vary and1( the methods are innmerable. It miay' be a "coniflidlential"' addrtess; it may be a passwordl; it may be the in troduellton to a "'waiter' with a mole undi~er his le ft eye'' who anisweris to thle name of Anatonine anad ''controls his owna spe(elal supply"; it may lhe a a signed card.( by a known patrion. In genqra I, however, it 's a m'stii rii lous sort of inaterchiange, in wh ich thle bibhulous oneI cuts the most rid iculous. "Hoo'ze muts~t be so'ld or' there wouldna't he so manay a rrest~s every was observimg recently. (lay," a citizen of a near-by state Hooze is~ sold, no oe can deny that. L OS 25( nro askec men t ho bloo knoi face 1. //7&rhei veg< tivo glorimen Tooet ht pforueeln that$ corn! )ne cannot sell booze these hectic lays and then palm oc colored water.I Man's- nefarious ingenuity has deyis ,d various ways of extracting ethyl alcohol from all kinds of substances, even alcohol, and it is this raw and sometimes. dangerous stuff that is supposed to he the cornerstone of New York's current metropolitan life. As a matter of afet, every arrest of the kind for violation of the pro hibition laws ,being duly recorded in the newspapers is merely a free ad vertisement, anA a valuable advertise ment, because usually it is accom panied by such valuable analytical in formation that the fluid--whatever it might be-was "real stuff." It has to be or the charge would not hold. So that is exploding theory No. 1, that to get a drink in New York one must be an elect of the elect. The chief morning newspaper gives this information to 500,000 persons daily. Every such address and name is a source of future supply for those who desire to be supplic' The real New Yorker, however tails to get in on the ground floor ot; these ventures, and, to be just, it is doubted if any New Yorker worthy of the name is even identified with the sale of this booze. He may be ir ritated because of the bad name that is given to his home town, but in the end if he has a sense of humor he must laugh. It's what makes his city what it is. The real New Yorker, moreover, has no need to go to the teaters and other places of entertainment-not often. So the constant plaint about the high cost of first nights and the like is of no consequence to hihm. By walking from Fiftieth street at Broadway, then turning westward at Forty second street as far as Eighth avenue, or even a wee bit farther, he can get all the free entertainment he -an stand. If he feels like more, how ever, he can extend his pilgrimage as far as Thirty-seventh street around Broadway, and he has covered about All of "wild" New York there is. Of course, there is the quarter the "naughty" quarter, blandly known as the Village, prefixed by Greenwich, but this is another bit of local color that is an imitation of the neighbor hood of Biulevard Sebastopol and Boulevard St. Michel, the main arter ies of the once flourishing but now de cadent Latin Quarter of the French capital. The Village is a fraud throug and through in the sense of naughti ness, but the fraud is aided by the pre mediated "artistic effects" of candle light or shaded incandescents of low wattage, for the Village thrives up on such pallid effects as the White Way thrives upon the galring, chro matogenous and often inharmonious illumination. So the diner after sen sations gets something served on a coffee-and-ash-stained cover that is dubbed a tablecloth, marks left there on by the geniuses that are supposed to frequent those eating places. But be it the Great White Way or the Village, one cannot be insensible to the almost painful exertions of otherwise sane human beings-sane human beings-sane when they left their home town-to appear as mys terious revelers in the forbidden pas times. One may go into an ornate but harmless soda emporium on the east side of Broadway between Thirty ninth and Forty-second street to see what? An able-bodied man acting as host to a pair of noisy flappers, he drinking or eating, or drink-eating, rather, a concoction before which he would have pased, with all of youth's carelessness and courage, some 40 years before, and actually apepar to be enjoying it. It isn't the drink it's the vicinage that counts. It's Broadway. Telling the Folks at Home To the folls back home he will after ward speak about "drinks" and "the life," and thus aid his listeners to formulate wvrong deductions. It's the sort of tale that foolish tourists take back. As a rule, however, the places that are truly the ones where high-life abounds are very fewv indeed; they are fewer by manr than the number that existed 10 years ago, before the Becker-Rosenthal affair snuffed out the spots, and even then these places were anything but numerous. With an average of 300o,000 visitors ever'f day, and if only one in a hundred had a l)enchant for wild oats, it wvould mean 3,000-and Newv York today has no organized facilities t~o cater to that many p)eccable'-minded. Tihe latter must do theiri share in attaining their olb ic, and~ ifI this is dlone New York will furnish little niore in the way of' diversion than any other towvn.0 furnish little more in the way of di WVha t the mietr'opol is will furnish thaL no otherm city in the country c'an lurmish is a greateor variety of anmy thing. And because it. furnishes var i'tyv it also furnishes good quality as wvll as had. T[he tiraveier who cheer f'uli~v peromi tted himself to be robbed by Pairisians on the supposition that hewas having a good time is the pro-. otype. of the A meric(an wvho cheerfully pays all that New York asks of the visitor', for afteir all New York can sell no local co01or to the New Yorker. Thle New Yorker' will in tuirn nermit himselfaI I to be0 robbed in P'aris, but by a New Ynorkeir in his native habitat. TIhe New Yorkeir at home is like any Pimples, 736 Blackheads and '3 Boils! reward is offtered, becauno they lost foroveri No qluestion will be l, except one riuestion, "Ho6w rou lose them?" There is but one ner,--"I cut out now fad treat to andi guesswork; I usedi ono of most powerful blood-cleanser's, 1-purif iers a a d f 1 e s h-builders vn,. andl that Is 8. 8. 8.1 Now my)f is pinkish, my skin clear as my cheekij are filled out and m~ matism, too, is gonol" This Wil our experience, too if you try '?. .It is guaranteed to be purely table in all its remarkably 6ffne mnedcinaml ingrediente. 8. 0. 8, no a noew history for eou from nlow 8. 0. 8. is sold ~t aldrug stores we ie, 'The rger aiso Ia ilto other townsmani at home. He #s' wise; he is careful; he is good. With an unusually large proportion of very rich or,very well to do inhabi tants the metropolis is, inevitably, do Ing what all other towns ire trying to do about the booze traffic. )?or every conviction there are two home brewers. In the main the munici pality does not regard the prohibition law seriously. It goes through all the motions but the results are infi nitesral. With Canada to the north 12 hours, with Cuba or the Bahamas away a hundred hours, and with England five days away, And' trains and ships ar riving every day frip,. hos@ pdi) , it goes withotu saying that contra band booze should form a principal item of illegitimate business. 'One can get it anywhere. But to repeat, it is not the New Yorker who predom inates in demanding such booze, but the visitor or the alleged New York er. A visiting newspaperman from Ohio wrote a story some time ago in which he alleged that Fifth Avenue was the principal consumer of high-priced liquor. By Fifth Avenue he meant, naturally, the residents of the million dollar mansions that line that famous thorough-fare north of Fifty-seventh street. But those homes in truth do not figure in the defeat of the Vol stead law. In the most cases, to be gin with, they are monuments to the success of past generations of hard working Americans, and in most cas es, too, they are literally mausoleums, since they are boarded up. The ontly vestige of life is the caretaker's' dog. The owners, q uietlikely, are aging or aged survivors of the New York of a generation ago, and one cannot blame them if they cannot bring them suives to live in the city that, out wardly, bears little resemblance to the town of the late nineties. Those homes, therefore, have be come hiuses. They disappear one by one. They have no relation to the life of today, and therefore are not involved in bootlegging transactions. In every probability every suc home has a cel lr-the kind of cellar the t cultured families knew how to main tain-retaining their liquid stocks as they were left in years gone by. Where these families of yesteryear are represented by the so-called gene ration the picture is different. New York is no longer the social center that it was once, since most of the so cial duties are discharged in hotels and restaurants, and if they are in habited at all, they are "estate" homes that have little in comnton with the predilections of their present owners. The wealthy booze-buying element of New York does not linger in the city. It retains a residence here, whether it be a small apartment or a 50-room house, but the real habitat is somewhere out in the country, us ually up the Hudson somewhere. But as gregariousness in the country is nrevented by the distance between homes club life settles all problems and eliminates all difficulties. Thus the cubs of this kind are those that may provide responsibe bootleggers a stupendous profit in return for ser vices, but the most liberal estimate would hardly justify the assertion that New York's rich people are the chief consumers. . Among the Needleworkers In fact, more booze is being dealt with in the so-called neighborhoods where a certain type of sleek needle trade manufacturers abide than is purveyed elsewhere. The men whc are identified with banking in Wall Street, in the same measure, are much more dry than are the stockbrokers, It is a problem in relativity, not in comparisons. In May, Scotch whiskey, which somehow seems to be the whiskey most in demand, was quoted in New York City at much lower priles than in Washington and in Albany. Sup ply exceeded the dlemand. A number of reasons contributed to this slug gishness, the chief of which was that quality had dwvindledl, and any priecc was too high for colored water. Thius the Newv Yorker of means, beisg on the defensive, refused to buy booze that wvas sol dant local-color prices And when the gratuitous critic from out of town says of the New Yorkers that they are the most credulous andl gullible people on earth he has in mind the resident who passes as a New Yorker hut is not one. The Newv is about as foolish as the Chicagoa'i and the San Franciscan andl that saidl all is saidl. Sherry at $10 a galoin in tins, 12 per cent claret at $6 a gallon, import ed italian vermouth at $3 a bottk (not the dealcoholizedl kind) andl i gcood cognae at $9 a "fifth" *-thost are saome. of the items that the expe rienced purchaser will pay for genu. ilie products. But it goes withoul saying that a 300 to 400 per~ cent in crease involved in those prices sinc< 1918 is something that causes any sane man to pause. Trhe stuff al those p~rices is not worth it. It is nol worth it even as medicine. Oiling Wheels of Commerce Sociability, therefore, is not a'lco holic--not in New York. If it is, it is so en about the ration of D~enver oi Cleveland. In only one sense Nov~ Yor-k draws upon01 the booze supp~lly t< a gr-eater- extent, andl that happens ir the commercial world, where pur chases or sales dlepend upon the fina touch, as it wvere, at the endl of a per feet business (lay. Yet it is not because the New Yorker is anxious te bestow booze that this happens, but the ou t-of- town visitor rather- expects it. It's secondl naturie to arr-ive from anything and expect the first New~ Yor-ker you meet to set them up. In fact, a buyer- from one of the big G. C. COOPER, Licensed Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, Glasses Pitted, Broketi Lenses Duplicated. Satis faction Guaranteed. SUMTER, . C. BRIDETO GOULD Dakcato 01*1 Now MIiress of Famous Fortune sMrs. Alice Sinclaire, former mu. sical comed, actress, who was born - and raised in the Dakotas, is now Mrs. George J. Gould, Nbw York - banker and riLroad man. eThey were married secretly in May and 'art now toaring )parope. fhe firs Mrs.foQ _died -l November. southern department stores said that the New Yorker wvho hasn't got a bot tle is shy on som4thing, and accord ingly his goods must suffer equally. It's an extreme opinion-but it has been voiced. And this being so the the New Yorker must protect him self. It's the same thing when the New Yorker goes a-visiting. Unless he is sure of calling upon persons who don't give a picayune if booze keeps or not, he must fortify himself with a supply-no matter how infinitesi mal-just for moral effect. What? Just arrived from the "big burg" and nothing on the hip? It would be tantamount to having left his samples behind. "The wettest town" in the States and not a drop? It would be unthinkable. That's what outside public opinion thinks of New York. But to repeat-that outside opinion holding pub-. 1..ys for it in ratio to its New Yorx purchases. If New York is not dry it is wet for these reasoss. The marvel is that it is not wetter. Let's tour the town to see what it yields. One stops at a prominent hotel. The CYPRESS ~ SASH DOORS BLINDS MOULDINGS AND MILL WORK The Be Capital Sur plus a T. M. MOUZON. Casl Iib as 11 9U, about ;th rhange for the bell bat ens, too Thete ft he for mer's part a there dr. 4ynical apathy on the lAtter's : that' t not effaced by the cour out Smile; The guest is disapopinted .e ause the 'departed one suggested no .dnhk. The scene 'is repeated later in: the" dining room, Of course, if one bellboy or one waiter or one taxi driver has favored guest, patron and fare 3t is taken for granted that etvery bellboy and every waiter and every taxi driver is a boot legger. Bootlegging is- one of the hotel .business- today; butvitissot-W serious evil. So er or later it comes to rocst, and- h \managers ferret out the contrabt ists. But the Missoula man is not satin ied. He goes into one of the former lyfamous restaurants near Tirnes Square. It's a 50 to one Chance that he. finds a vaiter who can "produce" or who will. As happened to the writ er in most cases while investigating this, what the unsuspecting patron us ually gets is what he doesn't want that is, ,an unending tirade against the prohibition laws, until in self defense he must pay the check and leave. The next day the visitor dryer than ever, an dby now utterly con vinced that New York is the most overadvertised place .in all the world, sees a foreign restaurant. The Mis soula man gets down to the business of dining. Coffee? He shakes his head at every suggestion of the waiter, who hovers over him. Tea? Milk? Near bear? Ginger ale? The Montana visitor feels hopeless and looks it. But in due time a telepha thic sense acquaints him of the fact that the glazed brown teapot at the adjoining table exhales a peculiar odor-an un-tea-like odor, and avid nostrils proceed to analyze it. He looks up and the. waiter beams elo quently. "What is that?" asks the diner. "Er-a specialty of, the house, sir, yer, sir. Er-" "Bring me some." What does it mean ? It means that he is served with a short pint of homemade wine, called claret by some and white by others, of a hybrid color and an even more hybrid taste, both of which lose, from a paltable stand point, by having to be the itaken from a thick coffee cup-and if there's anything more unpalatable than wine, even bad wine, from a vessel that bear a close resemblance to a shaving mug, it has not been found. For this he is charged $1.25 or even $1.50. Two or three experiences of this sort will cure any man of the drink ing habit. He legins tb realize that it's one thing to want a drink but it's wholly another to be made a fool of. So he passes by, as he is about to de part, the opportunity of buying. some "real old Sherwood" for the insigni ficant price of $11. He goes back to Missoula feeling that the drink game at )resent is like loaded dice. Somewhere in New York City there are undoubtedly caches where once legitiiiate booze- is safely concealed, but in the same measure there are, at various places on the continentr gold and petroleum deposits. It is, there rore, safer to stick to the home town. New York is impossible.-The Dear born Independent. THE STATE FAIR Columbia, 22.-The. State Fair management announced today that a special effort would be made this As You Sow, S the Harvest Be Teman whli regularly is on th It is not so what we save thi This Bank w FIRST NA TIC W. C. DAVIS,]I A. C. BRADHIA J. T. STUKES, ' mnk of M nd Profits. 1 )SEPH SPRQTT, Presider aler. JAMES M. SP D ' PLOWDEN .sr MOTQltCO. <4 year to interest the school children. irk the big exposition. Tuesday, Octos ber 24, the second day of the State Fair has been,officially designated as . Children's Day. The gate admission for that date will be reduced to ten cents for children and it is hoped that: this. will attract not less than thi'rty thousand school children. The rail roads are co-operating with the Far officials and epecially low rated s prevail on all lines entering the e ital city. Many special e hents ar being lisogrammed for Children's Day, full announcement of which will be made in the near future. The State Fair amusement pro gram this year will be the most ela borate ever presented. Harness and running races will be featired five days, while on the closing date, Oc tober 28, the speen course will be de voted to professional auto rdces.< Some of the more noted dirt track drivers will be seen in action over the new track, 'including Sig Haugh dal, world's champion. In addition to the racing features, a score of high class circus acts will be presented each day and night. Stupendous dis plays of fireworks will be program med nightly. The famous Johnny J. Jones Shows will occupy the Joy Plaza with myriads of sterling tented attractions and riding devices. The combined amusements will be of such magnitude that they cannot fail to please all classes of visitors. The 1922 premium list has just been received from the printer. It contains many no welassifications and increased premiums that should serve. to bring out a more extensive and diversified exhibit, particularly in the agricultural and women's de partments. Persons contemplating exhibiting may secure a copy of the new premium list by addressing the State Fair at Columbia. WANTED-Young men to learn the barbher trade. Good positions. await you. Write Charleston Bar- . ber College, No. 134 Columbus St., Charleston, S. C. m puts aside part of his carnings c high road to Sicecss. much what hec make, but rathee counts. ill help you save. WNAL BANK >reSident. M, Vice-President. Jashier. anning Lt. ROTT. Asat. Cnahie