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Golden Streets

Well lets just say it didn't take to long before I got the gist of the business. Basically papa was a bootlegger he brought in molasses from Italy and ran it to the Irish. The bakery was just a cover up, I thought my father was a respectable man, hardworking you know. Well he is definitely respected and I guess that's all that really matters right. Finally I confronted pops about it I had to know for sure what was really going on I mean come on, I was nearly sixteen. He fought it for about an hour but he broke down and told how it all works. He would send his runner to Italy on a shrimp boat called Little Italy. He would hide all the molasses under the shrimp just in case a hero ever wanted to search the boat even though almost the whole city was paid for. He had everyone involved in the molasses run no one would search Little Italy but papa still didn't trust anyone. So when he got the molasses back to the bakery a bread truck would come and take the molasses to the Irish mafia who ran the speakeasies at the time. Everything was going pretty good it seemed, but greed is a fatal sin. .
             The Irish mafias Don was about the same age as my father but he was not as honorable as papa. He wanted what my father built he couldn't stand an Italian doing hardly no work and making just as much as his family. It was true running the molasses was easy, but it was a big part of making the alcohol. The Don started thinking of a way to run the molasses with out my father but it would be hard to do since he paid everyone so well. But there's always a Judas among saints if you know what I mean. The Don started getting into the ear of one of the younger runners. He was a very persuasive he wouldn't bully anyone but he did get that young punk to start plotting my fathers death. After a few months they decided to off him in an alleyway after beating him to a pulp. Sometimes I guess people need to fear you as well, and papa was far from feared.


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