Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1893, Page 10

Io . THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1893—SIXTEEN’ PAGES. NOW FOR A NEW GAME Practicing Basket Ball inCarroll In- stitute Gymnasium. A GAME ALL CAN PLAY. ea Either Indoors or Outdoors—A Combination of Lacrosse and Foot Bsll—No Need for Roughness—A Sport Requiring Quiekness— ‘The Ruies of the Game. N INDOOR sPoRT which is new to this city has been intro- duced by Mr. Maurice A. Joyce, the athletic instructor at the Car- roll Institute. ‘The game has met with great popularity in other places where it has been played, and from the interest which it has excited among the members of the Carroll Institute it bids fair to meet with the success here that it has in other cities. Almost every night basket ball is played in the gym- Rasium{of the institute, and the sport is not only healthy and invigorating, bat exciting and fall of interest. Basket ball was first started about a year ago | gnd since that time it has spread throughout | ‘the country. especially in the gymnasiums of the Young Men's Christian associations. It is Particularly adaptable to business men, as little | SSS MAURICE 4. JO¥CR. or no practice is required to learn it and there is no ineident rouchness if the rules are strictly adhered to. It is the intention of Mr. Joyce to try to have other teams formed in the gymnasioms m the city and to have regular contests between them. It commends itself in that it cap be plaved in almost any sized room oronany kind of lot, whevher it be large or qmall,and that the number of plasers need it only be limi:.1 by the size of the ground. Drings into pluv all muscles of the 1 being « healthy exercise, and at the the dangers incident to most sports are want- ing. The only apparatus necestary for the game to be played ts a regular Rugby foot ball nd two half-bushel baskets. HOW IT 18 PLAT=D. ‘Through the courtesy of Mr. Joyce a Star eporter witnessed a gimo of basket ball played et the Carroll Institute on one of the evenings of this week. The two baskets are attached to the running srack at the opposite ends of the Gymvasium and tis object of the game is to | adapted to securing good health without having | the nervons strain caused by some of the | sports now indulged ir catches the ball while running and tries to stop. The ball must be held in the hand. The arms, lege oF body must not be used for holding it, | It the bail is held for any length of time the referee tosses it into the air, as in the beginning eo 0 ing, holding, pushing, tripping or striking is allowed. The first infringement of this rule counts a foul and a second dis- qualifies « player, but, as in foot ball, a substi- tute may tuke his place. IN THE BASKET. ¢ When a ball goes out of bounds it is put in play in the same way as in a foot bail game. The game consists of two balfs of twenty minutes exch or such time as the captains may decide on, and time is taken out for delays. Agoal counts three points and a foul one point for the opponen points decides the game. ‘There are a referee and umpire, whose duties are the same respectively as the same officials Any player bas a right to get the ball at time while it is in the field of play, provided that he handles only the bail and not the op- ponent. ADVANTAGES OF THE GAME. To an observer the game <cemed to be one that will solve the problem, which bas been a knotty one for some time, of introducing a game which will meet the excitement incident | to most outdoor sports and at the same time be suitable for indoor play. At present when | the outdoor season closes most of the athle drop the sporis in which they have been terested and the benefits they derived from them are iost. This game is one tuat requires | skill and agility, but strength is not one of the | necessary factors, and, consequently, men of | all physical conditions can take part in it. It | has also been found to have been @ useful | sport for girls and women, as it is especially AYTER THE BALL. In its prinerples it is a combination of foot Dall and lacrosse. It resembles foot bail in | ulings, but in the method to be pursued to obtain a goal the game more closely Tesembles lacrosse. Although at first glance it would hardly seem possible to have any amount . i by the concerted action that a team can play to the best advantage. A novice in the game inva- Tiably feels disposed when he obiains the ball made from any distance one time in a hundred, { | | READT! ' oss the bell in the opponent's basket. The feams consist of nine men each. made up of a jeeper, two backs to assist him. a center, a Fight and left center, two forward and a home man. They sre arranged in this order from ‘the goal whic they are defending. It is not necessary that the players should remain in their places, but they should move im such a way as to give the forward player an opp funity to get « good toss at the goal or the Backs to keep their opponents from obtai the same by taking it from them when bout to throw. it is the duty of the to keep the ball from the vicini of and itis more often necessary for him to bat the ball with bis hands thaa for Other members of the team to do so. BASKET. ° Forwards, B. Forward $ Center. 2 £ (L Center. R omnd & Back. g a Goal Keeper. | ° BASKET. Sengre of Banker Bai —possen of ptayere “10 ‘The game is *tarted by the teams lining up fm their respective positions and then the | Referee tosses the ballin the air. It must not be touched until it strikes the ground. Then the | Players can catch it, and the object of the one ‘who obtains if is to pass :t to one of the players on his own side, who either passesit to snotherwho May be in a favorable position to toss for goal | or else attempts to make a goal himself. To toss @ fvot ball into a basket suspended ten feet 4 G00p Fiat. air.and scarcely large enough to hold it.is matter by any means, and thus, shots at the goal are made,but Sf them are successful. and consequentiy continaally, making ball can be thrown i es follows. pep eran with the ball, but must run ‘throw it from the at which be obtains it, due allowance made for a man who | not thrown. leould almost entirel | game a popular one in this city will meet with | | Keane, rector of the Catholic University, today | to make a suot for the goal, which could not be | | as in order that the ball should remain in the basket it has to be skillfully and easily tossed. A. good player will. when he bi the ball. quickly look for one of his owr: team who is in an uncovered position to whom he ean tose if In this war a well-drilled team the ball from the | hands of a team made up of ‘new men. Quick- ness of eye, hand and foot is one of the first requisites for # good player, and he also must keep his head about him. A’ moment's hesita- tion or a wrong pass may give considerable | advantage to the other side. | If an umpire ix chosen who strictly follows the rules of the game there is little chance for any rough ‘The attention of the ball and personal feeling in the matter is lost sight of. ‘The object of each player when one of his side obtains the ball is to place himself in an uncovered position so that one of his own team ean pass it to him, while the opponents should in this case stick closely to the men with whom they are paired so that a pass to them would give an equal opportunity for each tocatch the ball. It is in this respect that cool-headedues« and quickness count. Indi- vidual play on the part of one man will destroy all the good work that the restof the team may do. If the game is played indoors in a gym- nasium the passes should be more of a toss rather than hard straight throw. As the guine has apparently obtained a good foothold in this city and as it is a healthful and at the same time exciting sport it is to be hoped that the efforts of Mr. Joyce to make the ecess. Some of the men under him are be- pming quite proficient and before long he will have a first-class team, eee EA Planked Shad Tomorrow at Marshall Hall. Capt. Blake announces the opening of Mar- shall Hall's planked shad dinner season tomor- row, Easter Sunday. ‘fhe steamer will leave the Wharf at 11 a.m. and 2:45 p.m., returning to the eity by m. and 7 p.m. e fare for the round trip as nts, Planked shad dinners at this Potomac resort are famous for the gath- erings of ladies and gentlemen around the hos- pitable tables of Col. Ordination Services of ordination were held by Bishop | at the university, at w the Chicago diocese was promoted to the priesthood, Edward J. Fox and L. E. Huot to | the deaconship, Mr. O, Donavan and a number } of Paulist students to the xubdeaconship. Paul Barke of Chicago diocese received tonsure and minor orders. Father Wilis goes to Seranton, Ps. to say his first mass tomorrow at the cathedral there. Henry J. Wills of | uadruple Pledge. Undine Juvenile Temple, Mrs. Emma F. Bishop, superintendent. and Miss May Aaron, assistant. in charge, initiated ten new members atitslast regular session, and the following good of the order exercises were presented: Piano solos by Rose Offenstein and Emma Bishop: recitations by Harry Ray, Gertie Eg- leston, Clara Wise. Anna Pene and Edna ‘ker: banjo solo by Charlie Kicketts; vocal solos by Lottie Kay and Nellie Bishop, and piano and banjo duet by Emma Bishop and Charlie Ricketts. Independent Temple. in charge of Mary Riley, initiated fourteen new members, making sixty brought in during the quarter. ' Visitors from Independent Lodge were as follow: Chief Templar Walmer, Edward and William Wilson, Claude Clements, Minnie Moore, Ethel Barton, Maud Hughes, Annie Duerr and Mra, Clark, “instrumental solos were rendered by Morris Waimer, Edward Wilson, Maud Stew- | art, Clara Harner, Loto Shelton und Ivy Moore; vocal solos by Jokn Lawton, Carrie Lowe, Lolo Shelton, Minnie Moore and Elva Kelly; recita- tions by Willie Knight, Herbert Haller, Anna Spillman, Susie Kettner, Vennie Bruner, Mary Barnard, Wilfred Kaxele, Sarah Barnett and | Ivy Moore, and a dialogue by Misses Moore and Shelton. a | ‘The Typewriter Trust. ‘The typewriter trust, with a capital of $20,-/ | 000,000, has been formed. Articles of incorpo- ration have been filed in the office of the secretary of state at Trenton, N.J. The incorporators are J. F. Kehoe of Newark, Charles A. Winter and J. Warren Botts of New York, and Edward H. Coffin of Brooklyn. The principal places of Nion, 5 8 N.Y; in a foot ball game. | Sunday was an exception to the rule, for more ‘| than one fisherman was told that the wait for and a majority of the | EARLY SPRING RUNS. The Conduit Road Most Frequented by Wheelmen. LAKE CLIFTON ROAD RACE. Local Clabs Preparing Their Schedules for the Coming Season—Current Notes of Hap- penings in Cycling Circles During the ‘Week. —_——__—_ HE WEATHER WAS almost perfect for cyo- ling last Sunday and most of the roads were in first-class condition. ‘The only exception, so far as the roads were concerned, was the Con- duit road, wherea quan- tity of new metal had been recently puton the road, and the workmen had failed to leave even anarrow path on either side of the road. The pneumatic tires went over the new metal without the slightest difficulty, but those who were unfortunate enough to have a solid or cushion-tired wheel, to use the cur- | rent ianguage of the street, “were not in it.” Probably the iargest number of wheelmen OUTDOOR WORKBEGUN|FALSE PAPER MONEY. | Sporting Season of 1893 Opens With Favorable Conditions, WHAT IS TO BE EXPECTED. —— Yale Defeats the ¥. M.C. A.—Frank Butter- worth in the City—What He Thinks of Yale Prospects in Athletice—The Potomac’s An- nual Election, es ee HE OUTDOOR ‘sporting season of 1898 has been well inaugu- rated during the past week, not only in this city, but throughout the east. With the opening have come the ustal surprises and dirappointments inci- dent to the trials of the new teams. The defeat of Yale on Thuraday at the hands of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in the first intercolle- giate base ball game will bring sorrow to the hearts of tho followers of the blue and a like Jollification to the admirers of the boys from the Quaker city. ‘The clinging to the under- graduate rule on the part of Yale and_ the dis- who went ont Susday selected the Conncn | regard of it by the Pennsylvanians no doubt road, fearing that they would encounter too | much mud on the clay roads, and there being | y so many of them some difficulty wasexperienced | by non-wheelmen ii getting dinner in the vi- | cinity of the Great Falls. Road houses in this | no time in reaching Sandy Landing. | good start abead of the road club. | April 2 | April9 -. Sligo + Rockville z Dickey's Brightwood (night ran) seeee River View June 7 ~Chain Bridge (night run) June 11. es Marlboro’ | June 14, Bethesda Park June 18, x Court House June 2) Tenleytown June 25, itimore(century run) | June 28. ... Watermellon Run vicinity are not very numerous, and although at Dickey’s travelers are seldom turned away, had its effect on the personnel of the two teams. The splendid showing made by Georgetown niversity against the Washingtons on Wed- nesday fully sustained the expectations that the boys from across Rock creek would place a nine in the fivld this year which would com- pare most favorably with tho other college | teams of the country, and give this city a col- | lege amateur nine which could be looked upon with pride. dinner would be indefinite cn account of the | “n,? admirers of amateur pore easterly number of eyclists whose appetites for chicken | lind been sharpened by the ride, and after din- ner the wheelmen thought that sharp teeth were more necessary than sharp appetites. THE WASHINGTON ROAD CLUB. ‘The Washington Road Club took its initial run Sunday morning and turned out more than | fifteen members, Capt, Jose had his members together early in the morning and they started from Graves’ wheel establisument on 14th street. The run had been called for Cabin | ‘ohn bridge, but the weather proved so fine that the wiwelmen did not stop at the bridge, but followed Capt, Jose over the picturesqi road just north of the Chesapeake and Ohio canalabove the Anglers’ Club house until the tirst of the seven locks was reached, and then tho | wheelmen went through the wdods from the | canal to Sandy landing and were ferried across the river in one of Dickey’s small boats. A good dinner had been anticipated and the road riders thought they would have things | their own way, but they were mistaken, for the Georgetown evclers were ahead of them and were sented at the dinner table when they ar- | Tived, but the children were sent out to catch an additional supply of chickens and the wo- | men folks went to work to get ready an in- creased supply of hot biscnits. Dinner was enjoved, and after spending some time about the falls Capt. Jose started home on a lively “scorch” down the road and the fast riders. being recognized, gave the appearance of a genuine road race. Among those who turned out on the initial ran of the club were Messra. Anderson, Brower, | J. M. 8. Bowie, E. C. Bowie, French, Demone:, Fisher, Ganse, Gensler, Hinkle, Landis, How- enstein, MeMahon, Simpson, Newman, Sims and Woolridge. Last night's run was called for Highview, Va. Tomorrow being Faster Sunday the club’ will take only a short run and will probably go as far as Tukoma in order to return home early in the day, as the members desire to be in the city during the afternoon. THE GEORGETOWN CLUB. The Georgetown Club turned out a dozen members last Sanday and went to Dickey’s, where they had made arrangements for dinner in advance, and Capt. Cook bad everything in readiness for the club members. When the club house was reached and Mesers. ndoe and Larcombe of the Arlington wheel- men were met the word was passed along the line for a “scorch.” ‘Then, for the first time, the Georgetown wheelmen were made aware of the approack of the road club “scorchers,” and from that point the Georgetown riders lost The usual enjoyable day was spent at Dickey’s and the wheelmen left there in time to get a Tomorrow a run to Cabin John bridge will be made in order to make the return trip early in the d Capt. Cook has prepared a schedule of runs from now until June 1 as follows: Cabin John bridge . Ashton iarlboro’ Brookville Dickey’s | ..---+- Fails Chureh | ‘Takoma (night run) - Occoquan Falls Cabin Jobn bridg: lerick City (century) On the day of the century runs short runs will be made by the stay at homes under the di- rection of the first lieutenant. ‘The all-day runs Will start at 9am. and_ the evening trips at 7:30, The century runs will start from 14th street and Florida avenue at 5 o'clock in tae morning. Capt. Cook has issued this schedule to the ciub members and he expects a good attendance on the runs, TRE CAPITAL BI. CLUB. Capt. Macdaniel of the Capital Bi. Clab called run for last Sunday, the first run of the sea- son, and a pleasant trip was made to Ashton and retarn. On the outward trip the wheelmen went out the 7th street road and turned into the Nor- wood pike, going to Sandy Springs and then to Ashton. leturning the wheelmen came over the Burnt Mills road and reached home in good season. Capt. Macdaniel said he had never seen the roads in better condition. Now that the club has made a start a sched- ule of runs will soon be prepared to fill up the rest of Capt. Macdaniel’s present term of office. ‘Owing to the lateness of the hour when the Saturday night whist contest closed there was not a large attendance on the Sunday run, but the run was a pleasant one. i ‘Tomorrow « run will be made over the pike as far.as Marlboro’. ‘The defeat of the whist team Saturday night caused no surprise whatever, as the members of the home team had anticipated the result because of the large field from which the Phila- delphia club had to select its team. oTmen cLuns. Capt. Moran of the Rover Cycle Club has issued # schedule of runs for the month of April and later on he will issue a schedule for the entire season. ‘This month the runs will be on the roads about the city and next month the destinations of the club runs will be some miles away. ‘The Crescent Century Wheelmen tarned out good party Sunday scorched over oth roads in the eastern pert of the Dise trict. ‘The Arlington Wheelmen also had an enjoy- able run. ENTERED IX THE FIVE-MILE ROAD RACE. Fully one dozen wheelmen have entered the five-mile road race to be held at Clifton Park, Baltimore, Monday, under the auspicies of the Clifton Wheelmen, Of the dozen who have | their athletes can be r entered it is thought at least eight of them will participate in the event. Clifton lake ia» pic- turesque water spot on the Johns Hopkins es- Srcmne amen ee ee ace. | ‘The Washington riders and friends will go over on # morning train and will enter the race against some of the fastest riders of Maryland and Peunsylvania, Three gold medals, besides number of miscellaneous articlee, are among | $4,000,0000f first preferred stock, 6,000,000 of | second preferred stock and $10,000,000 of com- mon stock. complain of the quality of the games that the: have had thus far and will have an opportunit, of seeing next week. With the Yale game ¥ terday and Harvard next week, besides Colam bia College and Swathmore, surely there should be no fanit finding. THE COLUMBIA'S NEW GROUNDS. Tn this connection the statement made in last Saturday's Stan that the Columbia Athletic Club will secure a lease on the Van Ness prop- erty in order that grounds may be provided for terated with the former matter has been _prac- and only a few details will have to be arranged before the contract is signed. Those who have been opposing the leasing of these grounds or in fact any other athletic’ grounds at this time ing a rather pessimistic view of the wit- uation. No institution ever_made any money without the outlay of some finance. It is not the intention of the elub to make an extravagant expenditure in order to put the field in’ good condition to be utilized, but a small outiay, such as isintended, will repay itself doubly ina short time. Washington is a sport- loving city, and with good games furnished and at a place that at the same time is accessible and pleasant there can be no doubt that games assurance. ‘The tically closed, liberal support. Besides this there is another question to be considered. In conversation with eome of thoze who have beeu promiuent in the athletic circles of the C. A. C. @ Stan reporter was informed that many of the athletes feel on account of the delay that has occurred that nothing will be provided for them and the time which they might be devoting to improving themselves in the various branchos of athletics in which they are interested they are iosing. If this fecling is geueral there wi come before long a disposition on the part ol some of the men to go where they can have facilities offered, and their services to the club would be lost. ‘This matter will, however.probably be settled before another week byand as Tae Sta 1s informed that the athletic committee is thor- oughly in sympathy with the desires of the ath- letes everything will be satisfactorily arranged and the men can go to work at once. Instructor Crossley will only be too glad to take the men under his charge at onco, as he is very enthusiastic about the material ho has, especially the juniors, some of whom he be: lieves can be developed into prize winners, It is to be hoped, in the interests of athletics in this city, that ‘the stata quo will soon bo turned into ono of active work and that the track and river will be filled with men ready to bring back prizes to the capital. ‘The success with which the recent sparriny conteste at the Columbia Club met has induce them to attempt to arrange another sorics of “goes” that will be equally as good. Capt. Mooney has the matter in charge and it is thought that by the latter part of this month the admirers of the fistic art will have another opportunity to see some lively contests in the ring. Ithas been decided that Bateman and Mur- phy of the C. A. C. will go to Baltimore to par- ticipate in the sparring contests of the Neptuno Club, which will occur on the 12th. Bateman Will ‘meet Chase in the 115-pound class and Murphy will try conclusions with Boucher in the 158 pounds. Both of these contests should be lively aud interesting bouts, FRANK BUTTERWORTH IN THE cITY. Among the interested spectators at the Yale game yesterday was Frank Butterworth of this city,who made such an enviable record for him- self as the full back of the Yale eleven last fall. He is here for the Easter vacation, and the in- numerable friends which he has here will be glad to know that he has safely recovered from the operation which he had performed on bis arm occasioned by an injury which he received early in the foot ball season. ‘The operation was a very successful one, ani he has no fears that his arm will trouble him in the least next year. Butterworth is one of the most popular men in college, and his kindly nature always won for him u host of friends wherever he went. In conversation with a Sra reporter he said that the outlook for Yale on the foot ball field next year Was not as brilliant as ite followers would like to have it. Five of last year's team have left college or are barred from further play on the team by the enactment of the un- dergraduate rule. Of these they lose both of the half backs that did such brilliant work. After Easter the candidates for the team next {all will go through some preliminary practice in order that some idea may be obtained of the new material which will bave to be developed. He thinks that the adoption of the under- graduate rule was more harmful to the inte ests of Yale than any of the other teams in the intercollegiate league, but all of the Yale men are now prepared to uphold the rule and believe that in the interests of amateur athletics it should be enforced. YALE DEFEATS THE ¥. M. C. A. An excellent attendance marked the open- ing of the Y. M.C. A. Park for this season yes- terday when the blue of Yale waved over the blue and white of the local team. Many ladies were among the spectators, and from the colors which adorned their wraps their sympathies were evenly divided. The game was a good ‘one to watch, as the lead twice changed, thus giving the rooters for each team a splendid opportunity to give vent to their enthusiasm. it looked at one time as though the blue would have to go down, but they changed their pitcher, and with the Yale vim started in in the next inning and knocked out six runs, thus Placing them well in the lead. ‘The Christians showed up remarkably well for their opening game, and had they been a little less nervous when they found themselves in the van the result would at least have been closer. As it was the score of 13 to 8 was not a batd one for the initiative game. The grounds at the corner of 17th and U streets have been put in first-class condition and present as good a diamond as there is in city. x Yale work was not marked by any decisive playing and the men acted as they felt they could win whenever they desired, confidence which is a bad trait. The playin of Rustin at third, Jackson bebind "the mask a % E Ht ma | Ea An Exhibit of Counterfeits to Be Made at the Fair. RELICS OF A LOST ART. Proofs From All the Counterfeit Piates Ever Captured—Why Forgers Are No Longer | Feared by Uncle Sam—Experts Who For- ‘merly Terrorized the Government. HE UNITED STATES treasury will exhibit a collection of false paper money at the world’s fair, including proofs made directly from all the counterfeit plates ever captured by the government. These will be shown as relics ilius- trating the history of a lost art—for such the business of imitating the printed currenc: has practically become in this country. Ni new counterfeits worthy of serious considera- tion are produced here any longer. Those which excite attention from time to time are nearly all old ones. Some of them are turne d | off from plates made many years ago, new | editions being issued from them occasionally. | | “General appearance” isa prime quality in | n successful counterfeit, There are very few | people who scrutinize ‘a note when offered. | | They accept it if it has the right look. ‘That is | the reason why the treasury fears the imitative | powers of such processes ax photo-lithographr | and photo-engraving. Such mechanical meth- ods do not produce creditable forgeries con- | sidered from the expert's point of view, but the bilis bear a fair superficial resemblance to The criminal makes in a camera an ordinary glass | the originals from which they are copied. | negative of the design on a note. | he takes a positive and prints it on a steel plate | covered witha gelatine film. etching it with | acid. Thus he obtains what is called a gravure. which is completed with eng tools. ‘That is only one of many ways. photographs of note designs ony wretched counterieits. TRE LAST GANG CAPTURED. The last gang of connierfeiter« arrested was | captnred just a year ago. ‘Tuer did their work by the process above « Tt was car- ried on at the house of William Hera, engraver by trade, in Newport, Ky. | Were associated Ralph Wixhorn, who supplied | the capital, and William Brown, a wood en- | graver. Hera made plates for $5 and $10 sil- | ver certificates, Brown cutting the seal. Secret service detectives found them busy at it. ‘The; | captured twenty glass negatives and zinc etch- | ings, together with other materials and proofs | printed from the plates. Not a dollar of the | false money has been issued, the scheme being | nipped in the bud. Brown escaped punish- ment by turning state's evidence, the other | two went to prison, These were but clumsy fellows at the busi- ness. Their notes would not have been ac- cepted at the counter of any intelligent trades- man, Yet of such small caliber are the modern paper mak | | in terror for } 'y tional currency. i ‘There were giants who made their mark in the criminal annals of those days, What bas be- {come of them? Some of them are dead and j others are in prison, while those who remain at | liberty are kept continually under surveiilance. While it ie true that nearly all counterfeiters have spent most of their timo in jail, the Sreatest of thom all has never known a» day's confinement in a reformatory institution, ‘That man is the famous Charles Smith, who employed his leisure for twenty years in the perpetration of an unparalleled sories of imita- tive crimos, Himsoif of unaseailed reputation and tho husband of a banker's daughter, nobody fora moment suspected him to bo the author of the wonderful counterfeits which from 1862 to 1888 kept the United States anthorities in @ continual state of alarm. When discovery camo ho turned atate's ovi- dence, and, to secure their freedom, he and the notorious Brockway, who did the printing, rendored an enormous quantity of plates a1 dies. Smith is now employed by one of the bank note companios in New York. Brockway roxides in the same city as a man of leisure, having accumulated a bandsome competence by bis efforta in the profession of which he Proved such an ornament. Peto McCartney, who invented the plan of washing the ink from teal $1 bills in order to get fiber paper to print $500 bills upon, is doad, THE FAMOUS TOM BALLARD. Dead likewise {# One-eyod Thompson, who is credited with having been tho first person to send an explosive box for the purpose of blow- ing upanenemy. One of his fade was tho al- tering of 62 notes to €50 each, The famous Tom Ballard emerged from prison not long ago, after ecrving a sentence of nearly thirty years, It wus his gang who ran an opposition tothe treasury during the war, turning out notes of all ‘denominations to ‘the extent of many millions of dolla: When the fiber paper was adupted be imitated that by means of plates engraved with irregular curliqueues, rubbed over with blue ink and printed from. Too close a watch cannot be kept upon an ex. counterfeiter, because experience shown that this form of crime bas an almost irresisti- ble attraction for those who have once been en- gaged init. There have been very few in- nees where successful forgers have been content to retire on their gains after securing a fortune. COUNTERFEITS ON THE BANK OF EXGLAND. During the last 185 years counterfeits have been offered at the counters of the Bank of England averaging from €15,000 to $20,000 au- nually. In August, 1886, several notes on the institution for £50 each were taken in Boston, They were of extraordinary excellence and de- ceived many experts. About the same time notes of the same denomination were offered in Chicage to « broker on Washingion street. who subjected them to critical examination. While he was gazing at the water marks by holding the bills between his eye and the light the per- son who offered them said that he would leat them for closer inspection and skipped out. Similar £50 notes have recently been found circulating in Antwerp and many of them have fallen into the hands of emigrants on their way to America, A large number of notes on the same concern for £100 and £500 dated August 16, 1883, have been offered from time to time and declared bogus, In the office of the treasurer of the United States at Washington two Bank of England notes are exhibited, framed on the wall, alon, side of some artistic specimens of Uncle Sam's currency. ‘The contrast is very striking. Whereas the bureau of engraving and print- ing here depends for protection against coun- terfeiting upon the elaborateness of ite designs, the paper money which is as good as gold in England is so simple as to appsrently invite imitation by the forger. There is a small amount of lettering and nothing else. How- ever, the great financial establishment which sustains the credit of Great Britain depends mainly upon the water marks in the paper it uses, to reproduce which would require a factory and the highest degree of ical skill. “Furthermore, the imitation of its securi- ties is so relentlessly punished as to seriously discourage the crime. Nevertheless counterfeits on the Bank of England have been cashed more than once at the very counters of that concern. Such # thing happened not very long ago during a hurry of business, 1t being a day for the pay- ment of dividends on the national debt. —Ad- vantage was taken of these circumstances to present twelve forgeries tor £50 each, which were cashed without suspicion. Many imitations of the provineial notes of Ireland have been circulated. Likewise numerous counterfeits of rown it on the market, Looking at counterfeiting as well nigha lost art in this country, it is fs interesting to somsider how it originally came ‘and grew to pro} as to seriously imperil the finances of the nation. Before the rebellien ‘and almost up to the close of the war ail of the currency was supplied by state banks, of which owned as its i | This was immediately a: From that | “shover. Yphoto- | tect with compar ‘ith him | tons should have taken up the occupation of counterfeiting. People of this class bonght up the engraved pistes, which were of | commonly as the sole asscts of the burst | banks. Pretending to carry on a small business fm the cutting of dog collars and door they would chop the bank plates into thus providing themselves with an assortment of vignettes and lathe-work denomination counters. In those days the bank note compa- | nies, having few vignettes and but little lathe | work, were obliged to repeat the same pictures and ornamental numbers to some extent on every new set of plates ordered by « bank. Several of the bank note companies having failed, their stock of dies, plates, &c., were Dought in at sheriff's aale by the counterfeiters. Thus the latter obtained possession of original plates and dies engraved by the first masters of the art, being thus enabled to furnish the pub- lie-with notes in absolute fac simile of many issues. About 1853 the bank note companies united inwn organization and made it a part of thelr contract with banks that ther ehould retain possession of all piates engraved for each | dank. Itwas at this Ls iod that the redoubt- able Pote McCartney did his first work in the Profession, which his dexterity subsequently iid so much to adorn. He was employed by a bank note concern and when engaged in print- ing notes he would slip through the press un- | observed a sheet of lead foil. This took a per- | fect impression of the plate and from it ase matrix an excellent reproduction of the design | | on the plate could afterward be made by elec- | trotrping. | But the action taken by the union of bank | note companies was too Inte. The counter- | | feiters wore already provided with all the ma- terials they needed for turning ont indefinite | quantities of notes at an expense only of printer's ink and labor. ‘The criminal industry continued to grow, so that many banks were | compelled to repudiate their own paper money. At the outbreak of the rebellion, the coin hay- ing given out, Uncle Sam was obliged to j issue great quantities of printed currency. ked by the forgers, Fractional eurreney was run off by sheets at No. 256 Rivington street. New York, by Tom Baltard and his gang, thus producing millions of dollars in false cash, “They by no means | contined their operations to stich issues, but | turned out notes of all denominations up to $500, each production being in such a style of artasalmost to defy detection. It was not | until 1871 that this remarkable conspiracy was | (exposed by a subordinate engaged as a Bat of all the counterfeits of that day the one which made the greatest sensation | was the work of Charles Smith. It puzzled hoto- | even the banks, being hardly distinguishable & from the genuine. Direct | tative engraving whol ‘This note was a joo of imi- | In place of notes issued by thousands of banks inas many different designs there are now in existence only afew kinds of paper money, all printed by the government. By | euston | the recognition of Uncle Sam's bills ns to de- ‘ive ease @ imitation of them. Atthe same time the imitations at- | tempted are uo longer of good quslity or well calculated to deceive, because the men who j he ability and’ information todo such | work are either out of harm s way or under the never-sleeping eve of the secret service. Fur- | thermore, there has been an important change in the law respecting counterfeiting. Formerly person could not be convicted and punished unless he was actually caught in the act of pass ing counterfeits. Trus many criminals got way without penalty, though their pockets were found stuffed with false money. At pres- ent it is only necessary for establishing a case that counte=feits shall be discovered in the pos- | seasion of an individual. In short, the net bas | been so closely drawn upon such offenders that their occupation is gone, and never again will they be ina position to’ menace the business prosperity and financial stability of the coun- try. Rene Bacue, ——s00. NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE PEOPLE'S MONEY. By W. L. Trexnous. 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