Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1922, Page 66

'.l'HE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON‘ D HISTORIC CENTER MARKET HAS IMPORTANT] “QUEENS” RULE APACHE PART IN AFFAIRS OF CITY FOR OVER CENTURY| Washington Topham,! Member of Columbia Historical Socigty. Pre- pares Interesting Story on Famous Mart—The First Buildinds. Fights for Sanitary Condi- tions, and the Fire—! The New Structure. ROM earliest times the market place has been the thermome- ter of a city’s growth, pros- perity and opulence. It was the original community center in the days of ancient Rome. and the trad- ing places where members of -II classes betook themselves to barter and exchange, to obtain necessities of life, have always held a most im- portant niche in the historical struc- ture of a city. To the market go' rich and poor. buyer and vendor.! There the lady of furs rubs elbows| With the lady of the threadbare shawl. All of which has probably caused | Washington Topham, a member of the Columbia Historical Society and an authority on loca’ history, to say that “the history of Washington city would be incomplete without refer- ence to Center Market. which holds the unique record of 120 years of con- tinuous service to the people of the nation’s capital.” g Sturdily, since the dawn of the nineteenth century. old Center Market | has remained In the same stand it occupies today. The market hRS watched generations come and go. 1t has watched business houses spring | up on all sides of Contentedly, it | saw a green-scummed canal skirt its | borders, bringing on it barges with products from neighboring farms. It| frowned on the slave traflic. Tt sigh- | ed with relief as the old canal was filled in. It gasped one day when it happened to glance at the growth of the city away from it to the norih- west, but it settled back comfortabiy when it found that at its back door the front doer of the new National Museum Was NOw opening. B * % N[ TOPHAM has collected much “*% valuable ation zbout the Center Market, he proposes to, incorporate in the twenty-fourth an- nual volume of the history of Wi ington, issued by the Columbja His- torical Society. He provided the | sallent points of the data which fol- lows. It was George Washington, revolu: general and first President, iated the parcel of ground | now occupied by the market from seventcen pieces or portions of| ground to be reserved to and for the use of the United States. He took this action on the 2d of March, 1797, just two days before he left the White| House, and thus became the real founder of Washington’s Center| Market. The square was designated “The Center Market” and contained | a little more than two acres. The' ground at that time cost approxi mately $66.50 per acre, and the origi- nal cost for the site of the market house, therefore, was just a little! more than $133. Here's the way Gen. Washington | described the site: “The public ap-| propriation beginning at the north| side of Canal street and the east side | of Sth strest west, thence north to| the south side of an avenue. (Louisi-. ana) * ¢ * inence northeasterly with the south eide of said avenue until it intersects Pennsylvania avenue. thence with the south side of said avenue (Pennsylvania) until it inter-{ sects the west side of Tth street west, thence with the west side of said Street until it intersects Canal street. thence with the north side of Canal| street to the beginning.™ The project rested more or less un- tN 1801, when the citizens became active, and Washington in those days numbered quite a few prominent citi- zens as its own. In July, 1301, a tionary who approp: | movement was siarted fo erect a)way to the market housé. From this market house on Market square, on |observation alone, acqording to -his- the south side of Pennsylvanla nve- | torians, the onlooker might pick up nue between 7th and 9th stieets. The ! an entirely foreign jargon, used only chairman was nome other than the!by the.slaves driving the oxen. | architect of the United States Capitol,| In 1832 Asiatic cholera descended Dr. William Thornton. © A mecting | upon Washingtn. Center market bes was held under his chalrmanship.|cume _the center of . precautionary ! Willlam Brent. afterward clerk of | measures. The board of health, the circuit ‘court, and James Hoban,, which had been instituted in 1822, im- architect of the White House, with{ medlately took special steps for the Clotworthy Stephenson, at that time | inspection of foods.therv.and placed @ captain of. the Grenadiers, “were | In effect a warning for “the avoidance named a building committee. .nt fruits of all kinds and watery The reservation held for the market | site was-a hyge swamp and a favo _ite gunning place for boys. The work | | of filling up this tract preparatory, L | to the erection of the market build- {ings was done by Willlam Stewart. | was subjected to the first visitation | | The Commissioners of the city of ' ,¢ (ne plague of which there s the | Washington at this polnt subscribed | $500 toward the building fund, and I¥St recordéd mention on March' 30, nltwrv\drd gave the old market house | 1830, when “a grand circus of, ani- on the President's square—now 1 | fayette Park—to the builders on r'nn_- !dition that tha expenses . connected ! with the removal of the old market! - At the beginning oft President T: | house would be paid by .the sub-!jlers wdministration, in 1841, Wash- | scribers to the fund. James Hoban!ington had a population of.&pproxi- was authorized to remove the market | mately 21,000, but there was an entire and thereby supplied a large amount of materfal for the construction of might hours. Disordefly gatherings | Center Market. A nd incendiary fires had become so} The opening of “the market. took | .ommon that a voluntary night patrol { place on Tuesday, December 15, 1801 { was formed There is no definite record of any pury | ceremonties. The market days Were ywiq added to the scale-house build- | set for Thursdays and Saturdays and | jng on Center Market.Square, and It continued 8o for many years. | at the present time there are. families | «tead of the one formerly utilized in in Washington following out the cus-| judictary Square. In Decomber, 1841 tom of going to market.on Thurs-| president . Tyler called attention . to | duys and Saturdays of each week. fhe needl of ‘an eficient: police force. A S From this recommendation resulted; | 1802 it seems that citizeng started | ieglslation establishing the auxillary using the market for public meet- | guard, a police force paid from the * Kk ¥ K VO years previous to “the visita- tion of chol however, the city { mals visited the town and set up their tents on the open space In front of the Center market.” fi#i\‘fl,' [ itk mnmn I and used ex- | ‘nited States treasury clusively at night. ings. On Patrick's day of that| year there is a report of a meeting | condition of the Potomac flats als ided in the creation of an insanitary ituation. which resulted in the breed- work in those days. A men- named Thomas Thorpe, by tradé an auctign- eer. was penalized for remeving earii occupied by the auxiliary guard, es- ers and others, and then with a third for fish dealers; and for years, unpre- blished by act of Congress in 184 The Perseverance engine houge also . nipre was nearby. The erection of the en- | tentious as were the sheds. it wa«’ ! gine house was noted by the Na- | the heart of ‘Washington. tional Intelligencer on April 15, 1849,/ When the civil war started, the.! It was located at Pennsylvania ave- | market and its vicinity furnished the nue and 8th street, and its curfew | scene of the liveliest activities. bell was rung.at 9 o'clock each evening. | Quoting John 1:‘ y?:r'u;v Mr. Top- er creek, Which flowed pas: ‘the | ham recalled that Louisiana avenue m:,’:,: ::d_, - e oy, s",m:uwm,.hrbelween 9th and 10th streets was stood only ten- feet deep ‘at high tide | then the site for tho hay market, 1 T cupled the center of - the at its mouth. Thera were, four|Which occup! < ey ia th ridg ; avenue. It was only twenty years harves and three bridges on iL-or| . Tijat it was moved about one over it.. A campaign was -inaugu- rated about that time to remove. some of the muddy bottom, so as fo afford at least eight feet of water up to Center Market. but it.seems.not to | | have had a desired effect. - John Sess: i ford, a contributor to -local Iflszory | ot those days, in his “annals,”. re-’ 3 y 1s. ks that “whén finished the. mafjet | I Army hospita ; :;‘; ;or':n three sides of ,!.,; ob,::r The Canterbury Theuter. a variety . Nint square, . the south front being- open | house, occupled the corner OfENinthy to the water of the Tiber.” This was in 1822. For a pertod of. forty years, from 1522 to 1362 John Sessford ‘was a volunteer recorder of the progress, of the city. It appears from aval able data that the first addition tor the market was about 1821, when the 7th street wing was started, forming an Le-shaped building- 3 In those days Maryland. counties, furnished a large portion of the <ity's supplies 6f farm products. - The Wag- | sanitary surroundings for _thé. ons were.drawn by.oxen. From day-| market, and when the fire occurred, light until late mornings residents| therefore, it was hailed by the- pub. of Pennsylvania avenue could watchijjc as a beneficial disaster, except for the oxcarts =sloughing. through the | 1ty accompanying. property- lo mud on wet days and kiéking up|«Gone at Last!™ read the headlines of cluuds of dusl on dry. ones on u:elr a local newxpapgr, So the *market, block west, at the time xha'u-hoxe.l sale market was established. During 1the war days embalmers occupied the | upper floors of structures _along | Louisiana ayenug from Sth, street. to the old central guardhouse and cared for the bodies of soldiers who dled | street and Louisiana avenue, where all sorts of iiquid refreshments. were served during performances. In 1870, >n a cold winter Sunday morning. the old market burned to the the * ground. Firemen fought® [ flames to the best of their ‘abilit but their efforts were fruitless; ex .cept in stopping the spread of the blaze to néarby structurer. But {or several years previous attention had been called to' the need for more lack of protection in the city during! As a necessary- prefimi- | to such sepvice a second story | Even! wag then used as a guardhouse, in- | The old canal about this time ‘was] enlarged by a second one for butch-j " lavenue - i scribed every ‘I'_Ilicb the city.had outstepped, pnsued away without mourning. Old Perse- | verance erigine and the other engine companies, . including .the old South, | Washington No. 4, worked hard and truitlessiy during the fire, . Withjn ‘a; year- plans had’ been fdrawn’ ard ‘work hud satisfactorily |promn d with the construction of the present market, and-in’ a bit-less {than’two years after the fire ‘Wash- | ington was golng to market-ln a com- |pr-.t.e|y new structure. From then i until the present time the market is lulmo_xl as. the present . generation knows it.- It hay grown each year In | volume of. ‘businiess, and dt present valuation Hearings are beirig held’ by | the . Washington ~market .commisgion ito determine the Ialr value of the | 4 property.” The report will be made to Congress. In’ the near future, it I8 understood, and the :government is Lexpeéted to" také steps to take over | the property as part of the Fine Arts | Commissian “plan for the develop- Vment and beautification of the cll} HE ‘had lost her goyernment po- " citiori &nd, as KeepIng company with' a ‘wolf has absolutely no .All‘(flct\on for an aspiring oung Woman, she siatched at the-op- llnr!ul’l!l) to teach a country school in the greeii hills of Virginla, not 5o yery far away. g She-distovered, that het auties in- {-cludedl ‘sweeping the school, keeping up the fire and so on, but, us every good lEdChl"’ ‘is a, Tom Sawyer’ at heart, the boys 4nd girls were soon outraelng each other for fhe grasp: ing of such: ‘honors—and she i turn, became 8o Interested in her work and in the Tittle people that she xnou‘gh‘; up many -plensures for them an tadght them many simple Songs. n no_.time they \Nme on ‘piping ‘terms with patrigtic anthéms and old-fash- toned hymus, which they dearly Joved. | espectally . “Onward, Christian Sol- | dlers,” " becuuse of I8 swing and infec- Hloul thythm. ,As qne-tiny girl con= 1 fided to her with shy ardor: wTeachet, L'love- all the Songs. what 1. love best! Kl!sn‘g *Ol‘““r E most popular simgers | v has ever kuown and Joted owns a pretts home here. every inchi of treminiscent of a career that { | ! | but of .any * {and other countries and of travels| that have énabled her to enrich walls and cabinets with treasures of liter- ature And art. Recently a mothér called on her for advice: She svag possessed of a voice come 4 prima donna. And her objec cateer were given of residents of the city here “to con- '~ tions to. sueh & sider of and adopt @ suitable ticket | heginning. to reach the declining | witha tragic completensss: " i-of persons to represent them in com- ' years of usefulness. The = fish-| usingers are $o° fearfully immoral! mon council” James Hoban was mongers along wharves near’ thel sotresses are bad gnnugh hut singers chairman of that committee. = The | river threw the cleanings of fish Into.grs worse,” .- Sunday observance reformers were at ' the already stagnant waters. Thel i the taptful-visitar caused the uni- verse.to of the housé, €he made no other sign| than to éxpress an impersonal opinio from Center Market Sqnare on thé ' g of countless hordes of mosquites | “ Lo LTy Ky timioratity of the Sabath. But on Septembert 26, 1803, and in the production of malarial and o LD of it inthe world by an act of the.councils of the city typhoid fevers. ot tde.” 1< anink you will find’ that. of Washington; theré was a remission - Regarding the market of the early’| D800 (00 o0 Pnnals inélude of fine for Mr. Thorpe. days. The B in 1 s & «r, arson nor burglar The first headquarters of the-met- used as an authorit quotation by | Heither "'“’:‘o:"r‘i"n:"':‘”,m m_,f\,c., ropotitan police department. was. in) Mr. Topham in,compiling his history [BUL 1Lt i Your.conv era- you know ! the scale house of Center market, ou of the market, he quotes the | mpant’ antong f‘ ooy % south Side of Pennsylvanfa, built | following from the issue of June. 19 | vou hayd: the alte "1"“ Nl in 1825. .In 1841 an additioual story ' of that year: { your daughter.off the stag; - was erected, and it was-afterward| “Originally of but one shed, it was| And the lady. went her. Vietly ok ware of the.fact tiut had seseed common sense and some prac- fical knowledge of wh . she was tal ing about. her daug .er ‘could have fouird no better friend and adviser to help, hér work ‘out her ambition than the singer who bad listened xo equabiy rantings. w\:‘fi?l‘h filr’: nnmlwr reason for the miflenniun’s, dela Ti«n baridbos " 6T everybodies L. lopial gran n\mln—r has varnd along ‘with her-hoops. but there are ‘always times when the past pops into the mind of the present—ever notice? At the point wiiere the North Capi- track curves. into Michigan .there is wooden some- cour -gree brown nammsy would have :‘”!‘ll a treméndemus pambox.. with @ that opens over a round frorit that looks'like a car { foon of the.shrine in which flats *{ and pokesand ig-bonnets were kept when ‘grandma .was a girl. To6 one young woman who has more T'than het- fair .share of imagination { the kaship "was so_ insistent that | she had to ask a. ca’ man about M. 'And_that . ended the lure. for -the :| thing was-filled with fools for car doctoring: monkey wrenches ard the i like, and a-whole lot- of—she de- st thing - in. the box | to a woman who wanted. to remem- -ber; but, you know what happens when you have forty-eleven other ! things to_think af.at the same time. but, anyhow, ‘it. was mote like a top drawer than a bonnet box. Still if 'you pwn an’unharnessed imagina tion, . you need. only. a, reminder to send ‘it trundling back to the couritry garret of your childhood, where therc Beed to be -flowered . bapar . boxes packed ,with age-yellowed leghorns; {flats with a. guileful pink ribbon co- tol cir thing that’ | rigged ot the erown for the shifting of a firtatipus. brim: poRes, with in- sidé ruches spuck all over with: pink. buds—and lovely Jdong hairpins, with dangling wax balls that.your colonial dame, of a grandmother used to wear —prowvided.you own a_badke to prove ou ever had -one. Most everybody| remeémbers -a garret like. that, cept,’ of course, thoge who don't., LR E ok YOUNG girl stopped an acqueint- “ance fn Imm of the Library of Congregs: * . “How, lutky 1am to m(-el you, dear Mrs. Blank!, I am-solieiting for .the Near East- Relief. Donl you: want to help out “Dear Mrs. ‘Blank atd not. “Tve ‘got a hear east of my own, right here -in the southeast: -where ex- fI've Just been.to see my brother, who was fited from the navy vard yester- ay without a’ word of warning. Four hifdren, mind- you, ard ‘without a "gent 16- start a new .month with, apd his wife been ill for two weeks. His home ish’t paid for, and—yod Ku down to the navy yard and hear of the suffering ‘going-on-and you won't come around asking for help -for for- eigners at'the other end of'thé wnr’d. Resides, - I've- been "giwing to rellef funds and welfares ‘and drives ever pince the .war started, and. I'm through.. You couldn’t.. find more generous folks than.those navy -yard workers—and see what they're get- ting. Yon can send .food over the ocean and have all the world saying how rich and generous-we ‘are, but 1 kriow some familles in my-neighbor- lood who will he -mfv!ns this time next week. All of which a. movie alrector might call a. clgse up of thln;s as theyare. 2 “NANNLE-LANCASTER ‘Onward, ; brought her the admiretion of. this ‘Fock on its axis for the lady ' ., FEBRUARY 2, iséz:‘l‘»}xmi 4, BANDS OF PARIS AND DIVIDE CITY INTO T HREE DOMAINS BY STERLING HEILIG, PARIS, February 16, 1922. >UEENS of the Apaches realiy exist. Three gir' chiefs of. crim- " inal bands have recently come to notice in Paris. One— the come to notice in Paris. ‘Qne—the hard labor for burglary and gun work. The police know all about the.other | two, yét cannot nail them. ‘It {8 ex- ‘tremely difficult to make a holding, case agdinst a queen of Apaches. Yeyette threw herself away for crazy love of Degory. “All for Degory!" she cried at the trial: “For Degory, I would go aroind the world! I would shoot (en polite- men for Degory!” . ' “That's no way for a queen to talk!" says “Slim” Jones (not his real name), A. W. O. L. since December, 1918, and regrettably mixed up with this world, soctally, in France, - A But, the queen Is also a woman. It is her one drawback amid overwhelm- 4rg virtues. ubout fit. “Yeyette shot down the first police- man who touched Degory, as will be seen, but not fatally. But it prevent- ed, absolutely, her acquittal. She goes 10 the penal colony with Le Mee, Tim- permann, Arnould, Telller and her be- loved Dego 3 * % % ¥ HE has strange confidence that she: > and Degory will be ajded to es- cipe. Back In the shadow is the “fourgue’—vague, looming figure who makes the Apache band a business proposition. And explains the queen herself. : “I do not want our ‘fourgue’ to fall,” she had written in a captured letter. “If we are broke we can always have du peze (money), the best tools, plans. warnings, every aid. He buys all w take—no-trouble with the goods; and we caib count on him to the Jast. is & good ‘fourgue.’ * She refers to the unknéwn man- ager, the rich backer, who must néver be betrayed. And the “fourgu counts on the stubborn falthful streak 1h women. He deals onlywith the aueen. The men of the Apache,band do not know him. Without this, the adventure (which has Leen fully cabled) looks.meérely like -the outcome of a reckless joy- ride in a stolen automolile. A3 = fac it was quite otherwise. The five young fellows and Yeyette (Henriette Miffonne. a barber's daughter. educated to be a stenog- rapher) ran off with u car standing in the, Boulevard Maillot. -All this happened around Neuilly, where 1 live. ' I was golng for a taxi when the {final fight occurred. | They went joy-riding. bevond. fo- ward Versailles, but on strict busi- nees. Yevette had brought.them the fentire scenario. Going round the! | block twice at Suresnes, Le Mee sud- denly stopped the car in front of Du- | val's jewelry store. L {- Arnould smaxhed the plate glass window with the car's * Tellier ful young daughter who aspiréd to be-land Timpermann lifted three. trays of | valuabie diamonds, etc. and passed | them to Degory in the car. While i Degory. dumped them into their small | | valise, Yevet®, the Apache queen, her | ieyes on the watch everywhere, cried: | “The top tray—grab—bring it swift- ]h Alerze! Jump in!” She todk the x from Telller, just as Mrie.: Du- ul the jewel's wife, grabbed -his coat, while erying “Thief!” to hold him. | Let her have it!” cried Yeyette, and | Teller did not hesitate. With his au- tomatic pistol he shot down the jewel- ter's lady. badly wounded in two| Dlaces They dashed off in the car and aban- {doned it at Colombes. Tranquilly tak- ling the train back. they divided up . * % k X HE stolen jewelry was worth 500 francs by the Duvals' esti- | mate, but only 44.000 franes, accord- 1ing to Yevette. The boys made her a {present of numerous handsome pins. { ringe, . ete. 19500 franc: received only 8,500 on account. These _are the little queen’s book- keeping. The remainder was never i paid; but it is good she says.'as good. jas money in the bank—but she does not say for whom. 5 1t happened th Some five days | later word came to her from the man )hlghfl up that they must all take cover, . The police were after Degory. who had foolishly sneaker certain on the sly to a “fence worked. with the police. ‘ ' This treason of the man she loved so_frightened Yeye‘te fest the com- who actually days in desperate'y keeping them apart. The getaway meeting (staged to be short and hurried) was in a cafe of Neuilly. She had locked De- gory in his room and explained his absence to the others by the natural tale. that she and he would meet at the railroad station, to go oft in safe- Ly mzelho-r All were precautions wasted—the comrades .suspected nothing and .she was just handing them over some ex- ra money, when Degory, like a fool, turned up, suspicious and accusing. |, He had followed her .to Neuilly. " And the ‘police were following De- gory! None knew why the little queen Was s6 excited. She dared nat tell| that.they were all in danger by De- gory—they would 23k why? Yet these peor boys trusted her. Quick, sepa- rate! Bah, there's no hurry! They were joking her, outside, as they ‘sought separate taxis at the station. Goodbye, goodbye! You have full in- structions! You take that car, we this one! "Haut les mainsl Hands up! Po-| lic They heard these words as looming figures surged around them in- the dusk: ‘One grabbed Degory. And the | queén saw red. Five times her auto- jmatic pistol spit red. The policeman, I(‘naruen fell. But all was useless. The entire band ~was surrounded. | They - were caught because Degory robbed his: pals of a few. dlamond rings. The queen knew. loved Degory. At the Grand Cafe—the most com- fortable ‘and, on the whole, the Best frequented—the “Black Band"” took its ease for thirty years. I always saw them. It can be told now, because the. Grand Cafe has crased to be—a de- partment store will remodel the building. Also, in such a big place, Mme. Taclet, the proprietor, could not be everywhere. The Black Band has no resemblance to Apa_che_a You see two peffect gen- But thé queen famed Yeyette—is doing fifteen years' | There 1s more to say |- He | -\ their hem‘ll are -close together, bend ing over little’ tissue. paper packets!Jor i The rest was sold for\ but of which the band | TERLING HEILIG.: The Sumlay' Starsi Specxal Correspondent in France. Writes | of Bammg Fenumne Pe Conslderab]c Trouble ‘One * I Queen“ Who' Now Lives-in.-a Penal Colony—The Myptenous Shadow e | was tn full business management for - ok k% THE lads do not “obey” her, bu they trust the business woman a- they would not trust each other, re- spect her connection “higher up"” ani laccept the scenario she brings. The see, the value of her ready cash for goods; they hope for an occult pro tection’ (which is problematical, ex- cept for the lady), and her very myn tery is reassuring. 1 rsonalities Who Cause | for the par!s pollce |“DOES NoT SHOW HER . NTRLLIGE | BACK; INSIDE THE HEAD» - tiemen wait for two ‘others. which’ disappear the moment any one approaches. . They are jéwelry liqui- datora “of the outside.” Do not ask | me where they get' it EYETT! £ x Kok % .\ E in her'good days. inighe ¢ { T have sat beside them. In her furs 1and smiling love-sick oh Degory, and | Inever know them—or those .rings, {wrist watches; edr-drops, whicli she might have handled a week previous !1y! Both she and ‘they, perhaps, kne the man higher up: % A big business. ilished in South Jewelers -estab-’ America, especially thé Argentine, recefve regular con- | signiments. © On the Italian frontier. established agents are known to have {recentis paysed 600,000 francs worth {across. A capturé in Marseilles gath lered in five. business inen. An_ opera {tion.in Brussels closéd a solcalled commissibn house, But the nien higi ‘er up rest tranquil-1h the shadow. No Apache. for ong thing, can give his “fourgue away: - because: no A|uche man knows him. a triumph of. feminism’ that - nIl recént developments in Paris dis- | close: the Apaghe queen in cliirge of; i { ) higher :management. s | She hae, in *truth, “no band- 1t i | {merely-a Way of talking. The “Ban {of- Lil 80 much Written about aniis not yet broken up. cannot ‘be broken. {success.and division of profits, fach | goex his way.. Lilf asnemmu them. | | | * PARIS. February 16 RY- orle kriows, the immense] stocks that werp. accumulated for provisioning the American Army in France, no maiter how long, the war might last.. Like mos things American, iliey were the 'bi pieces of jewelry and disposed of them | gest the world ever saw. When the ! grnnient likely Germans threw up lhslr ‘hands: and war was telescoped to a ‘sudden N\ul the, quantity, of.stocks unused wa profigious. .-It has been’ gengral made the very best kind of bargain | when it bouglft up the whole lot*from - the American, government fof 4 lump sum of $400, 000,000, “THE QI'EE\‘ OF THE PARIS APACHES.” SAYS STERLING HEILIG, i _a rich man ‘What Has Become of U.S. Army Stocks m France Do not look fe= intelligence on het Crime puts u smudge on won fures. Tae intelligence i nside her head. He heart.is her one weakness. There fore the man higher up secks a plain faced girl as much as possible for the | queen business. | The strongest queen of all, they say {is Annie Maitrejean—yes, still. today . i Does the name say nothing to you- RIri, Rirette, Little Laughter? | In 1913, just before the war, th |cable was fall of her—she of the Ban | of Bonnet (blown up by the police a* {Choigy), of -Careny (who committed {suicide in prison). of Dieudonne, Cal * llemin and Monnier (who were guilio i tined), and of Mile. Smoofs, the “vers .y WEtlé queen,” who wctually was | quitted along with E Can you jail a girl for {ence? | .She laughed at the judges ugh- {ing is :her pecialty. Her name |layghter. She had always the art t |appear frivolous and lightwelght. Th _;Muse of the Tragic Band—this deli | cate, educated young woman invente: | xcientific desperado raiding just fo .jthe fun of it, they &y, and which i tas out of date today in France | sticking upa bank runner. | But Riri survives, a queen. | She has been had ten times by th ‘mwlicc, yet never nailed with a con- {viction. She is so frail and little ! who would think her capable of writ- {Ing the poisonous letters which judges on two occasions, have read aloud i: court? Originaliy she was nursery go\- {erness in a judge's family. and actu- !ally served as a kind of private sec ary to the magistrate. 0 later she developed her aston- hing ingenuity in “adapting” nes |1egal papers of civil status for t comrades out of genuine docume which they picked up in their burg ac H evil influ L E BY HER FACE. LOOK DEEPER |’ “Here is a ‘proposition. All is worked out. My backer will stand = 5 5 laries. This gift, they say, she hus She pic up rew material, to keep | developed greatly. Th s 1o sucl a certain amastery and for precaution fauthehtic and official identificatic oling “fellows -who_ have polic records, who cati stand investigation. ! Tellier, temr days before he shot Mme. {Duval, lived Wwith -his- parents and worked steadily as adjuster at twen- ty-seven francs per_day papers,” the men of Riri's band hau. great Juck in masking their pe: | sonality. | It was this woman who fnvented | the scheme of Stealing a chance moto ywhere in the street to bring oif Yeyette laughed at such mioney. and then at once auhar he madde the others show their rolls. to Tellier. Degory Fad 1,100 francs; o et Le Mee, 600 francs; Afmold,” 1,800} . fran Timpérmann, 1,500 francs. So' days to drive a car wa Tellfer. fell—for Big money ind ex-} still a speciali nd 1t broug) | citémgnt. | Bonnot, the tragic ch un»ur, into ti- These young men.are not ‘o To | combination; but since the war a: climb g wall, burst open door, jimmy | young man in France, you may a strong box. gut 2 villa or a jewelry | cannot only steal a car, but repair stére, carry heavy bags of linen,. sil- | in"case of sudden. breakdown." erware. etc, to'‘the waiting motor| ‘It will still be remembered car -requires gnergy. But the “work" | they stuck up Caby, the bank runner. oucé done, then comes the “bombe,”{with $%,700 cash and $64,000 securi- hig meals at first-class restaurants,|ties in bis satchel. The band had best seats at shows, joy rides in hon- |-“fourgue” to take care of the busin, etly hired cars and gay parties at{end, so that their fallure to liquid: Foad houses, wherd folks take you for { the securities in Switzerland and thei: som. impatience in offering a part of then 1n all thé pecent captures there MJ in Paris brought about the arrest « not'a'single illitérate. Most had high- | Rodriguez_and the final® catastropi- grade trades—adjusters, electricians, | 1Ward which the shooting up of t Chantilly Bauk was the last leap o how .turners, mechaniclans. They use slang: .bui cah’ write. clear. vigorous. | d¢speration. ! disvréet. Frenih. Their defense at! Rirette was not in it trial ‘is teasonable. vorrect. They Riri was living quietly in a bourd disdain_thé-.anarchist tirade. They | 18 house of the Odeon quarter. aloi s { with Mlle. Smoofs—who was so stupi- ithe .tuff, -theoretically, at Degory's | UP—because its membership changes are modern, styafght business.” The roomns in Courbeveie: but it remained | ¥ek1y. Lili does LGt command them. ' would laugh At the idéd of a “robber | (hat she never knew what she was lin the satchel. The mnext day the|The men simply “work™ together 'band"—‘that's for- the moving pic- cused of. 'Rirl was following le - queen took if. to turn it into money, | The¥, have no blobd-brothephood. nb * gures say tures at the Sorbonne. 1 knew th the crowd following separatel, word. A jewelry robhery is mere-+ The queen is. more so. Li men,” she said. “but found them ba creetly. But they waited outpide 1y “an affair on which one After 'xqy, hegan-lite a Bordeaux, as a School | COmPpanions, =0 1 quit them. I hav. to do with hrewker bounet” at the | "othin their: business r she | affairs” All -the same, .lnal. . i Riri, Rirette, Little Laughtet wa~ 1 acquitted- along with Mile. Smoofs { The others were guillotined or got life sentences. So here is a querr ? thing that came out in the war. Onv ®.lday. in 1918, there came tricklin pdown from Brussels those old stol jrecurities which they had taken fr. the bank runner. teacher and age.of t i they had her up fo mousl to 2800000000 | CADY- franes But beéides this. after onep Honest value had been paid wear. interest at 5 per cent on’ the | them by innocent third parties, ambunt in dojlars was to be paid !nj the ‘bonds were traced, slow Xchange rafe: of the |urokers of the perfectly legitimat. | “hase “price Tor an curbstone bourse of Rotterdam win bad disappeared in the world war to be £id of these! Rotterdam had bought the bonds in Amgrican Army stocks? Well, as far | 1915. "It was two years after th. s 1 am, concerned, 1- think we shall | tragic band had utterly dissolved in be in sight of the end .of thé v\hole | death.. lquidation about' July this vear, 1822 | The u k. “When s the, French gov- sple survivor was the lads rades knife him. that she lost two|thought that the Erench government. There wili certainly.not be enough |Riri! . left unsold to need ‘my or any other | special services. - By December ace: One Way to See Ghosts. N eminent investigator has re- unts of 1!:1 the posts. Since_then theres have been many |-telegraphs and telephones, public works -} spoil the home market as' w&ll as in- Fumors that these accumulated -Arfy | stodks were being 'dilapidatéd be- cause the French govermment is mbt manned for their upkeep While wait- ing to realize on them at profitable sales Amerjcan ‘magufacturers . of | similar goods got frightened lest por- tions of such stocks might be bought ! ‘up, cheap and -shipped back. for sale in the United States. .Thix would jure the chances f expprting similar producty to ‘France. Even Congress was called on to stop this back-wash of the Amgrican-Army stocks that hud: been left in France. The story of what has, been réall done -in. France 'with these stocks up, to the beginning of this vear and] whether the French gdvernment ig likely in the long run to make a profit | or loss on.them has just been told:} by the man who knows most about the whole matter. As cabinet miyis fer and undersecretaty of.staté and s high commissioner for this spicial purpose, M. Andre Paisant‘has beeh. charged with the. liquidatio and, without & title, he is_contiituing the work under Prime Minister Poincare. “The American Army stocks” M. Paisant explajns, -“arq- made ‘up of two parts. -One was handed pver to me to be sold. The other had alteady béen appropriated to different gpvern- ment ministries for their own use: ahd my only business with this part has béen to see-thgt the ;stocks are recuperated and that-the treasury re- covers their value. Here are the fig- ures, taken altogether: “The stocks were bought by the. French governmient for-the lump sum of $400,000,000, payable at thie rate } of exchange ‘of the day in ten years— that s, in 1929. In 1919, when the bargein was made, the French treas- ury reckoned the.dollar ‘at seven (nnca, lnd this \hflllld make lhe pul and the rest—had Yaken over stocks adapted to their s to the amount ‘of 1.794.000.00p franvs out of the orig- ported fome intercsting observa- tions on a new visual phenomenon, [ which, he suggests, may have so Tof profit’ or [> |dullm have to be paid? inal” estimate of 2.800,000,000 francs|connection with the subjective pro- for -the whéle ($409.000,000 reckoned | Guction of images, ghosts, wrait at seven frants 1o the dollar). Somie | telepathic visions and so forth, in cvr ‘of-these xtocks thit went in this way | tain conditions of the mind aud bod: to public sdministratiqus have beenr The phenomenon he deseribes may i | witnessed by fixing the eyes, turned over to foreign . countric: or pref- ‘But thé French treasury has by 1o |erably one eve, the other being closed, |meahs recovered: this part .of the |steadily ona distant electric light, or amount - which it owes for.the pur-|a very brilliant star; all other lighis ‘chase price. . : | being carefully sereened off. After ‘It is_not the same’ fof the sales|while the watched Jight will begin 1o made to private parties, for which 'exhibit curious movements, the origiy | the amounits have beeén -almost entire- | of which, it is thGught. is in the cer: - L1y Vaid. | Thr total amount of such|bral L\‘nler for vision. private sales fo, Decéber' T, 1921, was | L 00,000 francs. I calculate that. o1 catnlogue’ prices *now: in foi . there Temain stécks still fo- beisold |- Mark Twain’s Story to the amount ‘of from 225,000,000 to| FYENRY WALLACE, Sccretary 7 250,000,000 francs. . J i Agriculture, recently, when flu H 7 feringly introduced to an audicus L b de | ’ befurc any e“lmnle can be m.{ e Y xoresecd) teepiiation’ Mhat/iir he ors on _the American Atmy stocks: for- the French! govern: army _stocl Ks - the -expénse - has never the expenses of upkeep and sales have cen: Public’ opinion has.been very much excitéd about -t For the correspoirding liquidation of French army. stocks. the expenseh as never been over ono-half of ene per cent, should undertake to make a speech after such a fulsome eulogy he would ! Jay himseélf open to the charge which Mark® Twain. made against Bob Bur- dette on a certain occasion. Secri- tary. Wallace told the story thus: “Bob, you know, was one of our Towa humorists. In his latter years &nd for the American stocks™it is a|he became & minister, and he started little_over .three_per ‘cent. The up-|a little mission church out in Califor- keep ‘of French’ snu-kn was already | nia. Not Igng afterward Mark Twaia provided” for—that makes the differ-| happened 1o be there over Sabbatn, ence. - Qné ‘Vear ago_ the liquidation|and went around to hear Bob preach. of both stocks employed 4.000 persons; speakinig of it afterward Mark said throughout Frange. ow- there are| rat. after Bob had been nr.shing some fiftéen or twenty minutes ©> “In’ sum, at.seven .ffancs to the|made up his mind ‘that when the dollar. the French Government would [ collection ‘was taken he would give already have @ :good profit—more|$100-to put that littie church on its than 1,000,000,000. frangs. .But what| feet, but as Bob continued he grad- win i ddllr be worth in francs|ually lost his enthusiasm, and when ‘wheh the’$400,000,000, with interest in[they’ finally passed the basket. he stole'a nitkel oyt of it”