Chapter 2907 Water and Dreams (10)

There is a long and narrow island in the east of New York City, which is called Long Island. There is a place called Laurel Manor on Long Island. Every summer, a large party is held there. When the weather is good, you can see it through the large terrace. Great views to Pekeny Bay. Four neat gardens and eight outbuildings all follow the style of English country manors. In order to make the house look historical, the designer also specially designed the roof to be potholed.

  The mistress of the house, Mrs. Binns, is smart and beautiful, elegant and energetic, and she is always radiant in social situations. She is a member of the National Women's Club. Her husband, Charles, is a partner of JPMorgan Chase Bank and serves on the board of directors of 16 companies. Black tie is also required for light meals.

   They were opponents of Prohibition, and Mrs. Binns could not understand why some women supported "dry" Senate candidates in order to support Prohibition, regardless of other matters closely related to the national interest. She felt that Hoover was the greatest humanitarian of our time, and in order to support his campaign, she once gathered a group of "bank tycoon wives" to raise campaign funds.

Although Prohibition was abolished in New York in 1923, it was largely because of a new prohibition law, the Marengage Act, signed by the new governor that year, who believed that Prohibition needed families and churches, not laws, So the original prohibition law was repealed.

  The original Prohibition Law was abolished, and the new Prohibition Law has never been effectively enforced, because if the police really arrest prisoners according to that standard, New York will convene 18,000 juries every day.

  The original Prohibition Law required the New York police to shoulder the responsibility of enforcing federal laws. Now there is no need for it. The "ball" has been kicked to Washington, so as long as the bar continues to be kept underground and does not disrupt the peace of the community, the New York police will not violate the water.

   Even so, Mrs. Binns' life was inconvenient, and they had to hide the wine behind a removable decorative fake book wall. Sometimes the wine is not enough, they just need to nod to the butler or send instructions to the driver, and all kinds of fine wine are on call.

  The wealthy are almost exempt from mandatory Prohibition, and Prohibitionists, especially those in Washington, D.C., have long been the **** of ridicule by these well-off families, well-connected, and socially resourceful. As they exchanged, there was even a college professor who described Prohibition as tyranny, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act that former Northerners resisted.

At the same time, in Chicago, 215 gang members were killed in three years. The "violinists" appeared on the street at the same time as the Thompson nuns carrying tools to make a living. "Hail Maria".

  When Prohibition began, the U.S. Coast Guard had only 55 law enforcement ships, and the bootleg fleet could already be compared to the size of the Navy.

  Transporting bootleg alcohol is very risky, and they face the risk of being robbed at any time, and the huge profits brought by the bootleg alcohol trade allow them to upgrade their equipment just like gangsters on land. The Coast Guard’s salary is only $36 a month. It is very difficult to keep them “clean and clean”, so it is not difficult to understand that the newspapers at that time were full of reports of the Coast Guard’s improper law enforcement, military courts, and torture.

   Waiting for funds to be abundant, the project to develop speedboats for the Coast Guard failed, and bootleggers soon paid higher prices to shipbuilders to design ships that were faster than the tendered speedboats.

  Although the United States also has its own grape-growing regions, the "recognized" best red wine comes from France, and the Mex region of Bordeaux developed during Prohibition.

  Most self-motivated bootleggers would be reluctant to sell home-grown wines, considering that a quart of industrially produced gin has the alcohol content of 6 bottles of average house wine.

   But for the vintners of Boston, Baltimore, Helena and Hibbing, these homegrown wines were money-laden.

  The Volstead Act enumerates three exceptions, medical sale of alcohol, cider or home-made wine drunk by farmers, and communion wine used in religious ceremonies.

  If bootleg alcohol wants to sell well, it must first ban legal merchants from engaging in the alcohol business, and also prevent police and other law enforcement officers from interfering in their business, so a perfect combination was created.

   There was a "French aristocrat" named de Latour, a Catholic winemaking family in California who consumed much of the grapes harvested in the United States during Prohibition.

  He did not start out as a brewer, but as a chemist, specializing in the brewing of tartar, which is very useful in cooking. When his daughter first entered the social circle, according to the French tradition, he ordered an exclusive box for her in the opera house, and his wife was always noble and elegant. The family was a beautiful landscape in the local social circle.

  His way of making money is not like other bootleggers, who need to get together to sign a contract to divide their respective territories and interests. He'll serve some of the best wines to a few celebrities, but they're just a blip on his client list, and his real "big orders" are priests from various parishes.

  Even if the Holy Communion stipulates that each person has a sip of wine, the order that Latour took over alone would cost 900,000 gallons. He even built a railway to transport the wine.

Winston Churchill also met him, when he was a child traveling with his father, Latour's way of hospitality is to make guests feel that they have everything, even if they leave his house, as long as they don't leave the United States, He can get whatever he wants.

He later served wine to rabbis. There was a rabbi in a small church who consumed 5,000 gallons of wine in nine months. With this idea, abandoned census ledgers are being searched all over California.

Later, there was communion champagne, communion mint liqueur, and communion brandy, but even so, a federal judge found these drinks to be legal "The nature of communion wine is determined by its use, not its composition .”

   "How was it?" Pomona asked Minerva.

   "It looks like it was stung by something, why don't you apply some ointment?" Minerva said.

   "I don't know what it is." Pomona put on the clothes.

   "Let Poppy show you, she's the nurse," Minerva said.

  Pomona thought so too, so he opened the curtain and walked out of the dressing area.

  Although there were quite a few people in the lounge, she saw Snape at a glance. He was talking to Kettleburn.

  As soon as she saw him, she remembered that dream that she didn't know if it was true or not. In the dream, she was lying on a reclining chair surrounded by white gauze curtains.

  The floor-to-ceiling windows were open, and the wind blew in, causing the gauze curtain and his cloak to dance with the wind.

   "What are you looking at?" Minerva asked.

   "I'm thinking about water." Pomona said angrily, ignoring Minerva's questioning face, and walked towards him.

  (end of this chapter)