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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1924
PERILS AND JOYS OF RUNNING
RIM DESCRIBED BY BRITISHER,
WHO JEERS AT U. S. DRY LAWS
Canny Scotchman Tells How Whiskey Is Sent To Germany. Where
Vessels Clear For America, And How It Is Gotten Ashore.
London, Nov. .‘50.—Secrets of New
York's “Rum Row”'and thrilling ex
periences of the happy-go-lucky
adventurers who nightly unload hun
dreds of cases of genuine Scotch
whiskey from liquor-laden vessels oiT
New York Harhor and deliver it to
New York’s bootleggers, have been
revealed for the first time by J.
Roger Barry, a canny Scotchman and
one of the hundreds of Britishers
engaged in the “game.
Barry has been engaged in the
business for the past three years,
but not until last June did he get
any real Uum-Row experiences.
Previous to that he acted simply as
an agent for a big American operator,
buying up English liquor to stock the
vessel which the operator provided.
The “operator” with whom Bar-
Their life is hard profitable, lawless
and dangerous, for the revenue cut
ters have orders to fire at sight of
them.
“Many of the rum-runners are
charming men. Some I met were
university graduates, who find the
life healthier, more entertaining and
more profitable than selling soap or
shares.”
Hijackers Appear
Three rum-running pirates tried to
loot the stores from Barry’s boat,
with a plausible story and plausible
1 credentials entitling them to take off
180 ca^es of liquor. But they didn’t
have the code. The operator had ar
ranged that, on his first visit to the
boat, by tearing a bunch of dollar
bills in half, giving one-half to the
captain and keeping the other half
numbers of which corresponded
ty 'fast AdidMraaiwwwr* — ..— ...
came over in de luxe style, on a big reared who had
transatlantic liner, stopped at a fhe numbers of
fashionable West End hotel an d ^ith one of the halves in the captain s
passed as an ordinary rich business keeping, his requisition
man on a holiday.
An agent bought up 37,000 cases
of whiskey for the operator, and
the operator bought a single screw
steamer of 3,000 tons to transport
the supply of “wet goods” across
the Atlantic. Barry signed on as
second steward, being put down on
the ship’s papers under that de
scription, at wages of twenty-five
cents a month.
Clears For America
The boat loaded at Leith, and
sailing papers were made out for
Hamburg. From Hamburg, by some
juggling of maritime procedure, the
boat was able to clear for America
with her full cargo of whiskey, to
which was added, from the German
port, extensive supplies of cham
pagne, cognac, gin and raw alcohol.
The operator followed proceedings
until the boat left Antwerp, when he ,
skipped back to America on board I
the Berengaria, arriving in New
York ten days ahead of the leaving-;
was filled.
But the pirates wore unceremoniously
pushed off the boat.
“On August 11,” continued Barry,
“a fireman quarreled with our first
mate and went for him. The cap
tain walked in and knocked out the
fireman, who was put in irons. But
the crew' were turbulent enough to
him free during the night, and i
Dorchester .. .
. 6,279
4,733
Edgefield .. ..
.. .. 12,340
11,228
Faitfield .. „..
9,567
Florence .. ..
.. .. 12,473
12,688
Greenville .. ..
.. .. 34,721
31,844
Greenwood .. .
. .. 13,056
10,150
Hampton .. ..
.. .. 7,987
5,295
Horry
.. .. 1,720
1,448
Jasper .. .. . t
.. .. 2,016
1,246
Kershaw .. . .
.. .. 15,397
18,746
Lancaster .. ..
12,153
Laurens
. .. 22,534
21,486
Lee
.. .. 17,371
24,044
Lexington .. ..
.. .. 14,039
14,624
McCormick ....
.. .. 4,970
3,226
Marion
. .. 6,734
6,934
Marlboro' .. ..
39,459
Newberry *.. ..
.. .. 12,388
15,129
Oconee
.. .. 14,109
8,982
Orangeburg ..
. .. 36,048
35,506
Pickens
. .. 16,906
11,946
Richland .. ..
. .. 7,592
12,732
Saluda
. .. 8,950
10,673
Spartanburg ..
.. .. 53,001
51,149
Sumter
. .. 14,966
22,887
Union
.. .. 10,368
11,320
Williamsburg ..
.. .. 7,892
9,811
York
. 22,850
, 25,076
All Other .. ..
.. ..‘ 2,928
2,408
THE STATE .
. .. 655,001
695,929
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Cramping Spells
OR MORE THAN A YEAR I had been in a
very bad condition,” says Mrs. R. E. Kimbrell,
of Route 1, Dorchester, Texas. M 1 suffered
with cramping spells which gave me bad pains in
my back and sides. Sometimes I would have to
catch at something, I would get so suddenly dizzy.
... I had to quit doing my work. I tried many reme
dies, but none of them seemed to do me any good.
"In April I went up to Arkansas to visit my sister. . . .
She said to me, 'Willie, if you are going to take anything,
take CarduL It will really help you.' I came home and told
my doctor what she had said and he said I could not take any
bettor tonic, so my husband immediately got me u bottle and
I began it . . My case was a pretty tough one, I know, so
I kept on faithfully. After the fourth bottle, I began to feel
very much better, so much so that I was surprised at myself.
I have taken six bottles now and I can truly say I feel like a
different woman. ... I feel fine and I owe it all to Caxdni,
which I took faithfully. 1 *
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to of his rumship, thus having time . , . th j
to make final arrangements with the „ u
rum-runners apd customers for the
smuggled boose.
After a slow trip across the Atlan- ., . i . ..... . . w
tic the booze boat hove to thirty S et J her wl ‘ h . V \ ,reless »ro lr f- tus .' apars
the next morning he was swaggering
about again.
“Fun and trouble came our way
throughout the month. We caught
two sharks one day. A fireman one
of a few who had got hold of a case
or two of whiskey, fell over the side
one night. He was a fine swimmer;
but as he was drunk, the cry of
‘man overboard!’ was raised at once.
“Then came his great voice • out
of the darkness: ‘Hi! Man over-!
board? Where is he? I’ll save him!’
A tough lot.”
Bad Weather
Bad weather wreaked more havoc
with Barry’s boat than the revenue
cutters. In fact, they were never
But on August
26 a hurricane swept them fourteen
miles away from their station, carry
ing away deck cargoes of liquor, to-
miles southeast of Montank Point,
Long Island.
On the third day, in answer to
a Wireless from the boat to the opera
tor ashore, a motor boat approached
and iron hatchpins. Twenty-six ves
sels were thrown up high and dry on
the shores of Montauk Harbor. The
next day Barry’s boat was beak at
the old rendezvous.
I went ashore with two lots of
carryingtheoperator, in jovial spirits. ! carg0> » Barry con tinued. “The mo-
The motor boat took off two hundred | men a j wa y g run j n a t night,
cases, and the operator promised that rea dy > with loaded boats, by
nightfall to make the twenty-five or
a schooner would arrive shortly to
transfer more of the cargo.
Schooner Shows Up
“Sure enough,” according to Bar-
thirty miles’ run into harbor
“They run into various ports and
inlets along the Long Island and
ry's story, “a schooner turned up, out J Monmouth Coast, or inside the Lower
of a C anadian port, and, understand-j g a y i ea dj n g to New York. As far
ing the whole game thoroughly, she! ag j cquU discover, they ran no risk
took off 5,(KX) cases of liquor; and, j j n j an ding their cargoes,
while the mollified crew were toiling J “Now and then a motor boat is
at their task, who should come up j ca ptured. The runners are charged
but the American revenue cutter Sen-1 by police; the cargo is also con
fiscated and the boat, too—unless the
eca
“All she could do that day was to
stand by and watch the transhipment
of case after case of liquor from our
ship into the schooner. She was so
near that I could almost have tossed
a biscuit ipfo her deck. She could
do nothing*. We were outside the
twenty-five-mile limit.
“All I heard was one laugh—a
laugh that seemed to scoff at the
uselessness of laws. You can buy
up the revenue men on land. They
make, in fact, nice little fortunes for
themselves. But the cutters are
Navy ships and are not to be bribed.
They do their best, but even they
have been ‘got at;’ for one night,
when I was in Rum-Row, Seneca,
chasing a motor boat, had her search
lights suddenly put out of action by
someone on board.”
On July 33 Barry’s boat received
orders to proceed to Ambrose Chan
nel, still outside the twenty-five-mile
limit, where the real Rum-Row is
located and where Barry came into
contact with the real rum-runners,
who take the risks, coming out to
the cargo-ships in speedy motor boats
and carrying forbidden stores back
to land, running the gauntle of re
venue cutters—and of customs of
ficials on shore.
In Rum Row
“The fleet of booze ships that lies
just out of sight, of American land,”
continued Barry, “numbered that day
about twenty-five vessels, most of
them steel cargo boats, tended
schooners.
owner undertakes not to use it again
for bootlegging. Of course, he pro
mises and sells the boat, maybe, to
a bootlegging friend of his, who
merely re-registers it under his name
and carries on.”
Barry is making his revelations in
a series of articles in The People.
INCREAS SHOWN
IN COTTON HERE
Latest Report Gives Laurens County
Increase in Production.
While Laurens county produced
about 21,486 bales of cotton last
year, the latest government report
made public last week shows that'the
county has 22,534 bales for the period
covered in the report, or an increase
of 1,048 bales over the number for
the same period last year. * The re
port gives the state only 655,001 bales
of cotton as against 695,929 bales
for the same period last year, but
it is expected that the final report
will make a considerable change in
the state’s total.
In the last report, Spartanburg
county, with 53,001 bales, an increase
of 1,852 bales over the report cover
ing the same period last year, leads
the state in quantity production.
Pivkens and Oconee counties show
the greatest increase in number of
by bales over 1923 reports for the same
[period. The county standing for the
“The liquor operators find it more entire state as of the last report, foi-
profitable to unload a cross-Atlantic lows:
cargo boat onto a schooner or store County 1924
boat and send her back again for more Abbeville 13,629
bbooze, rather than keep her hanging Aiken 25,495
about outside the limit for several Allendale 10,962
weeks, while motor boats take off ; Anderson 47,638
their 200 cases at a time. j Bamberg 11,071
As w a steamed through the fleet Barnwell 19,801
there floated across the water to us Beaufort 1,120
cheerful hails from the other buc-1 Berkeley 4,167
caneers. The fleet appeared to be in ! Calhoun 8,978
high fettle. Laws, cutters and reve-
E ue men; bullets and unsteady mar-
eta never seemed to worry them.
The rum-runnars are the most re
markable men I have ever met. They
are a mixture of American busineea
Cherokee
i .. 10,696
Cheater 16,433
Chesterfield 18,008
Clarendon 8,753
Colleton 6,770
Darlington 14334
pirate and athlete.! Dillon 45,641
1923.
10375
24,911
10,465
35,757
12349
18,451
1,131
2,586
12,185
11,703
20,030
26,175
12,16k
4333
20376
24,765 ,
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