412. Lucky Clover Cartage Co.
200 W Main Street
Lucky Clover is pleased to truck your freight wherever you need it or lease you a truck for $5 a day so you can do it yourself. The company owns another warehouse nearby (a larger and older warehouse in the block between Parsonage and Peabody, 436). Lucky Clover can additionally handle specific transportation requirements, such as organizing and managing the importation of items from Europe, be they full consignments or individual works of art for collectors. The company boasts strong links with merchant ships and the US railroads.
The front of the building (W Main Street) contains offices, with the rear being the warehousing space; the warehouse doors open onto W River Street, providing easy access to the riverside docks and road. A small maintenance workshop sits next door, with room to park various trucks.
Danny O'Bannion, 33, is (publicly) the owner-manager of Lucky Clover Cartage, but he is also the overall boss of Arkham’s organized crime. He originates from Boston, where he maintains good relations with those who fronted him the money to set up in Arkham.
Bobby Sills, 29, is O’Bannion’s second-in-command and looks after the liquor trade.
Eddie Leery, 44, is a Lucky Clover Cartage officer and Sills’ enforcer.
Walter Klein, 46, is O’Bannion’s accountant.
A Smart Operation
While Lucky Clover provides legitimate business services, it is also a front for the bootlegging operations in Arkham, and run by Danny O’Bannion, who grabbed the business from Joe Potrello (The Italian Club {912}). Bootlegged liquor is loaded from boats at the river Docks {410} and stored here before being transported to quench Arkham’s thirst. Since his takeover, O’Bannion’s sales have boomed. Originally, Giuseppe “Joe” Potrello had trucked in booze from Boston, but this has proved to be insufficient and so a new approach was called for, with whiskey, gin, and other liquor loaded onto small motor launches from a ship anchored off Kingsport, beyond the 12-mile (19 km) limit. In the dead of night, the motorboats return to the Miskatonic estuary north of Kingsport and, in the dark, running lights off, make their way upriver to Arkham. Once outside town, the boats kill their motors and wait at anchor for the next scheduled freight train to pass through Arkham. When a train approaches Arkham, the boats head upriver, the passing freight muffling their noise. If timed right, the boats reach the wharves while the noisy freight rumbles through. The craft tie up, and a waiting crew quickly unloads it, stashing the booze into the Lucky Clover Cartage Co. warehouses. From here, the operation disperses the booze to volume retailers, such as The Speakeasy {113}, Sycamores {920}, and the Arkham General Store {504}, which, in turn, may supply smaller dealers. Helped by payoffs to police officers, the routine works admirably, such that Arkham has become a key distribution point for nearby communities, including Aylesbury, Rowley, Ipswich, Newburyport, and Innsmouth.Rumor:
Nothing happens in this town without O’Bannion’s say so.Notable Folk
Lease a truck: $5 a day.
Type
Room, Storage, Warehouse
Owning Organization
