New York, July 20.
'A spectacular "rum battle" curred on the New York waterfront to-day as result of a humble municipal garbage barge's trip to 3 Although the practice has been scorchingly criticized by ocean bathers and others, it is New York's Practice to send garbage out to deep water in barges and dump it points where it is presumably enough at sea to do no harm to shore dwell One of the barges made its usual trip to-day with a non-routine diversion. After dumping the gar-page, this barge visited "Rum Row," where ships laden with illicit Nquor cruise about waiting for smaller boats to take off their cargoes and smuggle it ashore.
The barge took aboard 1,000 cases of liquor.
jut in some manner, federal authorities on shore had been forewarned of the plan and they surrounded the pier just as the bare: tied up. In an instant, a free fight had flared up with clubs and fists being freely utilized.
At the conclusion of the fracas, 100 federal operatives had capture the Hquor and 22 prisoners as well as two trucks which were apparent?: ly waiting to convey the liquor away from the pier.
Because of the fact that the barge is municipal property and the prisoners are municipal employees, who were working on the New Yoris City pay roll at the time of their offence, the affair is expected cause a thorough-going_ investiga tion of New York's admittedly "wet" municipal strueture—United Press.
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