San Francisco, Oct. 1.
A few days ago, Federal proibltion agents in San Francisco were give a veritable eye-opener, and a5 a result they are instituting 4 diligent search for whiskey stills that are. self-operating.—Passing down Coleridge Street, a "prohi" happened to catch the sound of a peculiar piece of machinery at work, fund guceceded in locating it. Judge fof his surprise when he discovered the very latest in moonshine circles, the fool-proof still!" Finding no one about the premises, the prohibition Agent sat down to' wait, and very soon there appeared a. well-dressed person who was at once recognized as a successful bootlegger. Ife wa: promptly "nabbed," of course, but was courteous enough to explain the several clover automatic devices about his still that do. away entirely with supervision. He explained that, while he" is out on delivery "rounds, the "stil goes merrily along, making excellent wootlog liquor, and to be "pinched" that, morning' was a piece of the Daardeat luck, for, since its installation, he had been able to make three times as much money as when hho was called upon to stay indoors and. first make the liquor and rnubsequently make deliveries to his eis said this still entirely supers les the old methods, both in the quality it produces and the! speed! at which it works. A man working an old still, the bootleggers explain, really eaénod all the money raked in, for there was so much pettifogging detail and cleaning up attached to the profession, but this new automatic still eliminates much of the dirty: work, makes whiskey while the "bootlegger. sleeps, delivers and collect, and thus transforms moonshine making from sheer Grudgery into a pleasurable and Profitable pastime, The Coleridge Street bootlegger did not derive a great deal of advantage from his still, for it only Thad been at work a few days—long enough, he said, to confines him that, with one or more such stills on the premises, bootlegging as a Duviness was very hard to beat,
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