SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1924
A Bootlegger's Batlie
On Detroit's
Waterfront!
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Gun fights between police and boot- we could think to seek cover a piece
leggers, bootleggers and hijackers, < f lead whistled near the curious re-
and among bootleggers themselves porters car. Another piece of lead
are such a common topic for news- stiuck a pile near us and we flattened
paper stories at the present time that our elves against the planks of the
people take such incidents for grant- W,ar. By the time we recovered
ed. Some people even have come to from the confusion of the moment a
think that perhaps these gun fights new sound had added itself to the
are mere myths, conjured up by multitude of ether noises that rang1
hungry reporters. It was incredu'lity acress the river. Someene had been
on the' part of a Daily reporter which hit in the foremost bootleggers boat!
took him on an expedition to Detroit's wnd as it came racing in toward the
waterfront shortly before school slip at fifty miles an hour he raised
opened. The Daily reporter now be- the most pitiful cry in the world, the
lieves in gun fights, dying men, and cry of a man when he feels that he
everything else which is commonly has reached the limit.
associated with the booze running "i'm done, I'm done----"
game. The shots continued as the speedy
We chose a brilliant moonlight "Bearcats" of the runners raced into
night for our expedition because we the slip the pilots exhibiting a giftI
were told that the police were less for steersmanship that would have
vigilant on such nights and the rum made an old rover envious. Thej
runners as a result more daring. *We latest arrival on the scene, the cruis-
drove out along Jefferson avenue al- or which we took to be a federal boat1
most to Waterworks park. Then w lay to a hundred feet from shore and!
cut over towards the river, left our tongues of flame continued to spout
car a short distance froft the water from her failsm. There was a mighty
edge, and took un our station near the din as the engines of the speedboats
mouth of a little slip 'which we had roared between the walls of the slip
been told would probably be the and shot their masters into the maize
destination of some smuggler during of little channels back from the river.
the course of the night. In another moment everything was as
We had been sitting on_ the warts silent as it had been when we firsti
in dead silence for nearly an hour arrived on the scene. The govern-
without seeing anything but the i ment boat moved out into the darkness
Peach island light when we heard a again to wait for other law break-
dull sound like that of a muffled en- I ers. There was not a sound from the
gine out on the river. Looking care- direction into which the runners had
fully over the water we gradually disappeared.
made out a mass of shadow moving g As everything regained an atmos- f
dowvn toward us about a quarter of a {phere of complacency once more a
mile from shore. Finally we saw policeman on "special duty" to guartl
that the shadow was in reality a pair h(ies of residents in the vicinity
of fast motor launches, one towing stole4 up tous. He had hearq the
a rowboat and the other two small shots, h said, but hadn't thought
barges. Not a sound but the muffled anything of them. We .told him about,
roar of the motors could be heard ,leo man who had been shot but it 1
md unless someone had been listen- 5, .4 . . .
with great success this summer with
Mine. Melba's company in Australia.
As to the operas that will be pro-
duced this season, the repertoire in-
cludes the best of former seasons,
several new productions and notable
revivals. The Puccini operas are to
be presented and "La Gioconda" is
back in the repertoire with a new
mounting. "Fra Diavolo" has a new
production, and both "L'Amore del
Tre Re" and "The Masked Pall" are
again on the list. "Le Prophete" will
be praduoed and "The Pearl Fishers,"
the last named for the first time in
Chicago. Massenet's "Werther" will
be a new Mary Garden opera. "Peleas
and Melisande" and "The Tales of
lwellas "Tannhauser," which did not
appear last season.
The repertoire, of course, will also
include all or most of the standard
French and Italian section. There
will be a new one-act opera, "Bianca,"
in addition, by an American composer.
The season is to last eleven and one
half weeks, twith performances on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs-
(lay and Friday nights, Saturday and,
occasionally, Wednesday matinees,
and popular-priced performances Sat
urday night. The first performance
will be on Wednesday night, Novem-
ber 5.
Gradually, as such statistics indi-
cate, the Chicago Civic Opera is tak-
ing the ascendency, scenically sure-
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ing for it, it would not have been
heard on shore. We watched two1
boats as they approached the slip
near which we were sitting, and won-
dered if they were going to make
shore unmolested. We felt as though
we were in the ganie ourselves and
when suddenly as the boats were
within a hundred yards of shore and
a number of loud hoarse shouts
came across the river we felt as
though we ourselves were caught red I
handed at something. Then we heard
someone in the nearest boat cursing
the occupant of the other.
"You've cut mue loose."
"You're pulling away from me--"
Then something else happened
about which we could only guess.
We noticed the barges gradually
drifting away from the boat which
had been towing them. Then sudden-
ly it was as though everyone in De-
troit and Windsor was out on the
water shouting at the top of his
voice. Following the first few shouts
the cutouts were opened and the
whole shore echoed the roar of the
powerful engines. The boats started
to make the slip. Another engine
added its roa-r to the medley of sounds
and we saw a long cabin cruiser
come slipping out 'of the darkness.
Then the shooting started and before
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failed to have an impression upon
him,
"Why, that happens every night"
he said. "You ought' to be here on a
busy night."
Chicago Opera Program
(Continued from Page Thirteen)
Bassos: Feodor Chaliapin and Vir- I
gilio Lazzari.
As conductors with Musical Direc-
tor Polacco, there will be Roberto
ihloranzoni, for seven years with the l
Metropolitan Opera, and Pietro
Ciniini. To the staff of assistant con-
ductors, there has been added a Chi-
cagoan, Henry G. Weber, 23 years
old, who received high commendation
last season in I remen.
Of the newcomers to the company,
Te ti Dal Monte, coloratura soprano,
is particularly famous having sung
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