Word: pellegrini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time after May 5, the S.S. Pellegrini, big French tramp steamer, left her native waters. She slipped clumsily across the ocean, arrived, last week, at Rum Row. She was heavily laden. It may have been as much as 50,000 cases of liquor that she carried...
During the past four years, the value of a case at Rum Row has averaged between $20 and $25. Assuming the Pellegrini carried only 10,000 cases a mere 75-ft. schooner will carry 5,000-the value of her cargo would approximate a quarter of a million dollars...
...busily to work, preparing the cases for delivery over the ship's sides. Occasionally, a mate would gaze expectantly over the waters, looking for the swift little rum runner which would surely come. Hours passed. Then, suddenly, four small motor craft raced into sight, came up to the Pellegrini, but not alongside. They circled around and around-picket boats of the U. S. Coast Guard...
...Pellegrini, well provisioned, prepared to stay a month, until this new official nonsense might cease. But, a few days later, she was visited by a Coast Guard vessel on inspection, was notified that war had begun. Her crew offered a case of champagne for a package of cigarets, but the contract was not concluded...