HOLIDAY RUM RUNNING CUT Matawan Journal 9 January 1925 Less Than 5,000 Cases Got by as Compared With 50,000 in 1923. Less than 5,000 cases of holiday liquor were smuggled through the Coast Guard cordon along the Jersey coast as against approximately 50,000 cases smuggled during the holiday season of 1923, M.W. Rasmussen, superintendent of the Fifth Coast Guard District, declared at his office in Asbury Park this week. The fifth district embraces the entire Jersey coast from Sandy Hook to Cape May, but does not include the Atlantic City sectional base. "Efforts to plug holiday leaks were excellent," declared Superintendent Rasmussen. "The ultimate doom of the shore rum-runner is coming very soon," he added. According to the superintendent two large rum cargo boats succeeded in escaping the cordon near Asbury Park and two in New York Bay. A survey of rum row showed an average of seven ships anchored off shore each day during the holiday season as against forty during the holiday season of 1923, he added. Open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays - 10 am to 2 pm
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