OIL BURNER.
FOUND FULL OF ALCOHOL. New York, Dec. 21. Oil-burning ships that make this port, tie up to the piers and then absorb vast quantities of fuel through long ■hose pipes attached to a suction pump, are so common that nobody pays much attention to them. With the Javary, a tramp steamer, it was different. She was one of the richest tramps that ever came past Sandy Hook. Her hundreds of oil drums, equipped to hold 27,590 gallons of fuel—or anything else—were supposed to be empty when the crew docked her. So they ran out the hose pipe and set the primps to going, but with a reverse suction. And when the pumps had stopped, 27,500 gallons of pure alcohol, all ready to be made up into whiskeys, Tom and Jerrys, and other Christmas cheer, had been sucked from the supposedly empty drums and all was well. All was well with one exception. A curious Customs inspector approached too close to the hose. He had a nose for booze. He investigated, and when the investigation was over, the Javary was seized, her captain and crew locked up, and a round million dollars’ worth of alcohol was under lock and key.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 8
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201OIL BURNER. Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 8
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