If dreams come true, there will be established, fifty-six minutes by boat from the Battery, as indicated on the map, a Mecca for the thirsty where the laws of the United States, including the Eighteenth Amendment, can not reach. Above is the building which was planned when the project was first advanced in 1891. A convenient shoal, just beyond the three-mile limit, furnishes a foundation for the new Atlantis.
New-York Tribune, December 28, 1919