The "Ladies? Home Journai* also recently sent a reliable osrrespondent to Washington to find out how hard or otherwise it is to get "booze" under prohibition, and the result of his investigation; is published at great length in this month's number of the Journa!. Briefly it is that in one of the biggest and best' hotels in Washing. ton he bought from the valet a quart of whisky; at an old-time saloon near the Government Printing Office he was sold a pint across the bar; at a private residence in a good street he bought gin from a man who used to be a Government clerk; at a club an "exclusive society bootlegger" sold him Scotch whisky without question; that in an office building a brisk young man delivered whisky to him from a brief case and gave him a customer's identification number, and lastly that a senator and a lobbyist offered him. drinks from their -bootleg stock and he was
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