Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1909, Page 13

TRICKS OF THE SUGAR TRUST | Money Penalty Paid for Cheating the Government. CASE OF THE SEVENTEEN HOLES Wow the Weighing Scales Were Ma- nipuiated by Em yes—The Dis- €avery, Prosccution and Result. ‘The sugar trust has paid into the national ry & total of $2134,000 in settiement of judgment obtained in the New York federal court and the financial penalty im- | posed for traudulent welghing of sugar by means of which the government was cheated for years past. Following the set- tiement of the money penaity comes the announcement that the government Wwill at once institute criminal proceedings, against the company and its agents The manner in which the Kovernment was cheated in the welghing of sugar Is #et out with flluminating detail by Harold J. Howland in the Outlook. under the feteh, ing title of "The Case of the Beventeen Holes'’,’ a number corresponding with the number of scales manipulated by the com- pany’s men. Thesa scales stretch along the company's dock on the water front of Brooklyn. and are used to welgh sugar as 1t comes from vessels. The writer says. in part As the sugar comes over the side of the #hip it 18 wetzhed by the customs officers. and to that end there are seventeen big “uirbanks scales placed ntervals along e docks. PO TE 1T platform elght jor ‘ten feet square, its surface flush with ‘ths surface of the dock, like the scalek that you have seen so often outside a coal dealer's or a feed store, The brase bar of the scale, where the weight is read. i within & little house fronted with glass 80 that tha weigher can see the platform and what 16 on it ue he adjusts thespoise. These scales, it ehould be remembered, be- long to the company. and representa- tives Keep the keys of the s ouses and are supposed to lack them cvery night. e the Joke on the the At *has a of I plat- sca throug: the Behilaa two men book on my beam, scalu-house & Dbar, facing m. with a smail blank tie ledse before him. The man left pushed the polise along the il it baianced, and read off my welght, “One hundred and s nty pounds. Potan men corded the figures In their bools. Then the other man leaned over to the left and dropped his nd into the dark corner under the lcdze. Once more the weigher adjusted the poise—but the beam balanced at 160 pounds. In two minutes 1 had, without knowing how, been robbed of elght poinds of weight. It was a little masquerade that we en- acted. 1 represented a truck bearing four bage of raw sugar. The man on my left inpersonated the customs officer charged with welghing the sugar and recording the weight for the collection of the duties. He is known as the gévernment weigher. The man on my rigw. took the,place of an employe of the refinery, whose duty it was to check e operations of the goy- ernment welgher and keep a record for th coingpan He Is known as the com paay checker. The motions we had just gone through were a dramatic illustration of the practice by which for six years the Sugar Kefining company had been stealing frum the government. Stepping from the scale platform, T went around into the scale-house. Taking the seat In the corner, I fan my hand down where my companion's had been a moment before. As I sat where a company checker had sat every day for vears, just by my left knee was & thick p sup 4 end of the shelf beneath/the scale bar. Under (he shelf was a system of levers and Joints which formed the connection be- tween the registering beam and the rod leading to the platform outside. Between the rost and the end wall of the scale- house was a space perhaps a foot wide, ax dark as a pocket. Running my hand down the post, I touched a thin strip of iron protruding from the post, its outer end bent Into a ring. The strip worked 100sely in & hole in the post, and as 1 pushed it through, its inner end ran over a joint of the scale mechanism. It wa easy to ses how the spring of the stee! would exert force upon the levers and make the registering heam drop. “We've found,” sald my companion “that a pressure of one ounce just at that goint s good for a loss of forty-elght ounces on the platform outside. You see now where those eight pounds went to that you lost so miraculously. Inspecting the Hol Lighting a match, we drew out the strip and inspected the hole in which it had been. It was perhaps a quurter of an inch in dlameter, and its edges were worn and rounded. Just above it was a cleat; and beneath the cleat horizontal scratches con- verged into a veritable groove as they ap- wroached the hole itself. It required little imagination to picture the bit of steel epring, held in some hand (whose in the world but the man's who sat in that chair day after day?) in the gloom of that nar- fow corner scratching across the post, @uided by the edge of the cleat, in search of the hole into which it fitted. On the nner side of the post the hole was worn much larger. Regularly spaced along the dock stand the seventeen scale-houses; and in the obscurity of each on'e farther corner a sturdy post is plerced by a hole like this Bome were worn more, some less; for not all the scales used at once. As each ship unloads, its cargo is weighed at the scale-houses nearest its berth, and in the natural course of events some berths are more continuously occupled than others. 1t was proved at the trial that nine-tenths each iooking | now | of the sugar received at this refinery was weighed on five of the scales, and it is worthy of note that the holes In the posts 1n those scale-houses were very much more worn than those in the other houses Beventeen scale houses there are, and by the same token seventeen holes. Hence the federal attorney's designation of the case: The Case of the Beventeen Holes against the American Sugar Refining com- pany of New York. A Test Case, The action was merely A test case. It covered only sixty-elght cargoes of sugar imported since the end of 196, for the statute of limitations on frauds of this | character bars action after three years. From all the cargoes brought in during those two years the government selected, in order to make its case impregnable, only those on which the average difference of welght on each draft was about the same s the difference on the two drafts weighed on November 2, when the fraud was dis- covered. The case called for the forfeiture of about $134,000, the value of the sugar on which duty was not paid in the selected cargoes. In this connection, too, the gov- ernmente asked for less then it might le- gally have claimed, for, in the words of the presiding judge, “Under the law the entire sugar In any cargo—in any pack- age—might be forfeited in case of proot that there was any fraud used in respect to any pf the sugar In that package by which less duties were pald than should Lave been pal The purpose of the gov- ernment in maki this a test case, de- manding only the most moderate penaities, was not to punish adequately the sugar company, not to make the punishment fit the e. What would a great corpora- ton like the sugar company care for the forfeiture of an insignificent sum like $134,- om, or of any sum which a jury might be likely to award? Ralsing the price of sugar for a few days would make it good. The purpose was to establish the fact of the frauds, to tix the frauds upon the com- pan, Lo establish the principle that such frauds can be penalized, to lay the foun- dation for the return of the unpaid dutles, and, apove ali, to secire the deterrent etfect. ihe starting point of the government's cuse was the discovery of the spring, the ing ot the seventeen holes, one in every on the docks, and the observed result the three drafts of sugar were re- shed Jjust before the spring was found— dratt welghed originally while the s,cclal agent was in the scale-house show- lag no change on reweighal, the two others, welghed originally before his presence was | discovered, showing an increase of four- | teen to elghteen pounds, respectively. That evidence showed how the fraud was ac- complished. Other evidence tndicating that the stealing had been systematic and long | continued was soon fortheoming The American Sugar Refining company (the parent company) s a §%0,000,000 corpor: tion organized in New Jersey. It is popu- larly known as the Sugar trust. It pro- duces, according to the best estimates, about one-half of the refined sugar used In the United States. Its relation to the American Sugar Refining company of New York Is that the New York company holds the title to the property in that state, but the stock of the latter is owned and its business is done by the New Jersey com- pany, all payments are made from the gen- eral treasury of the New Jersey company, and the interests of the two are identical So, while in fact it is the New York com- pany which was nominally the defendant In this case, it is not beside the mark to say that the Sugar trust itself was the real defendant. The case of the seventeen holes revealed that the sugar company had been for at least the greater part of a decade engaged in smuggling sugar by the dally use of a fraudulent device. Tn the six years from 1801 to 1807 76,000,000 pounds of sugar were smuggled, on which the unpaid duties amounted to near $1.230,000. Since the trial the government attorneys have notified the sugar company that the government also clatms that it was defrauded of duties on shipments of sugar reaching as far back as 1507, and both at the Brooklyn refizeries and at the refineries in Jersey City. THIS WAS A REAL HUG & of Sweetheart Slats Ca Slump Caress Market n Virg! The popularity of the hug as a farwell ~aress between sweethearts has taken a de cided slump in the Virginla market since Elwood BScott of Pungoteague broke his watch and a rib belonging to his inamorata in bldding her good-bye at the gate, Miss Lola Westcott s one of the best looking girls in the neighborhood and she has caused flutterings .in the breast of many a swain hereabouts. But It appar- ently wasn't until young Scott crossed her { path that she lost her heart and now she almost wishes she hadn't. The boys round about Pungoteague all are nifty examples of physical size and sym- metry, but Edward is a Hercules among Herculeses. He belongs to the Brobdingnag species, and when he dpes anything he does it on a generous bas! He fell in love with Lola and his love was blg. The old foiks in this Arcady look not with disfavor upon cooings and billings, but they limit 'em to 9 p. m. or a few mo- ments later. 8o a couple of hours after he came over the relentless cuckoo clock on the mantelpiece told Elwood it was his move. Lola went with him out Into the gloaming and when in the moonlight he gazed down into her limpid eyes and real- ized he would rot see her again until the next night his heart was filied with sad- ness and his soul with Infinite yearning. Her little hand touched his shoulder and all the pent-up longins within him found escape in the ardor with which he grasped her about the waist. The girl yelled and then fell in a swoon. Scott ran for a doc- tor, whose dlagnosis showed a compound fracture of the fifth dorsal vertebra.- Richmond Dispatch. wiien » (dcan in London, finds bimself in very per- +to prove that he Is not the missing hus- THE BEE: Current Literature “New Italy,” by Augusta Hale Gifford, 1 & newly revised edition of the secend part of Mrs. Gifford's standard book, “Italy, Her People and Their Story,” pub- lished a few years ago, the first part of which related stmply to Anclent Italy Mrs. Gifford through long residence in Southern Europe, where Mr. Gifford has for years held important diplomatic posts, has had exceptional opportunities for gath- ering Important material not generally available. Her work has also had the ad- vantage of careful revision by competent Itallan editorial readers, and Is authori- tative, Interesting, and unique in value. The book Is a popalar history of the de- velopment and progress of Italy from the time of Theodorich, the Great, to that of Vietor Emmanuel III, and as such will find a place in ibraries and homes. Loth- rop, Lee & Shepard Co., is the publisher. “The Outcast Manufacturers,” by Charles Fort, is a novel of slum life, the charac- ters truly dwellers of the slums. In the drawing of these strongly individualized characters lies the book's whole merit; the plot is subordinate. The method is repre- sentative of Dickens. Like Dickens too is the cholce of setting and players, the utter misery without hopelessness, the absolute squalor with unexpected redeeming touches of human—very human sympathy. The author's style is as unique as his method. The completw sentence he seems to think an absolute grammatical usage. There results a series of fragments of de- seription, sometimes annoyingly monoton- ous, but always incisive and forceful. Pub- lished by B. W. 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Published by the W. B. Covkey company. “A @Gentleman of Quality,” by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, author of “The Magic Story,” s a thrilling tale of mis- taken identity. The scene is laid in Eng- land for the most part, the time being the present. John Ashton, a young Amer- plexing circumstances when: called upon band of the lovely young wife of John Hertford, earl of Ashton, who has myste- riously disappeared on their wedding night. The story is dramatic and hold the attention to the end. L C. Page & Co. is the publisher. ‘“The Seven Who Were Hanged.” by Leonid Andreyev, translated from the Rus- slan by Herman Bernsteln, while in the form of fiction, is a protest inst the reign of terror in Ru It tells of seven persons who have n condemned to death, two of them women revolution- fsts. It {s a powerful study of thess seven distinct and contrasted types. In his spe- clal introduction to the American edition Andreyev says: “Knowing the sensitive- ness of the American people, who at one time sent across the ocean steamers full of bread for famine-stricken Russia, I am convinced that in this case our people, in their misery and bitterness, will also find understanding and sympathy.” Published by the J. §. Oglivie Publishing company. In “Mr. Opp,” Alice Hegan Rice, author of “Mrs. Wigge of the Cabbage Patch” and “Lovey Mary,” has given us another appealing story. Mr. Opp is a pathetically pretentious and grotesque figure; and his Cove City nelghbors—and the reader—be- §in by laughing at him. But as the story carrles him on his patient, brave, unsel- fish way, talking, always talking, fight- ing against heavy odds, putting aside am- bition and love for the sake of a lttle, half-witted sister, his days one uncom- plaining surrender of self and self's nat- ural hopes and longings to the comfort- ing and helping of those who have need, nelghbor and reader come to honest re- spect and hearty admiration for him. Pub- lished by the Century company. ! “Whither Thou Goest," by J. J. Bell, | is the story of a generous girl, to whom great wealth comes unexpectedly, and quite as unexpectedly love. With an un- selfishness characteristic of her, she lav- ishes both upon those who are quite un- worthy. A deslgning aunt makes trouble between her and her lover, and is even willing to sacrifice the happiness of her | daughter to satisfy her desire for wealth and soclal prominence. There is much real, wholesome Scotch humor and excel- | lent character study. Fleming H. Revell company, publishers. “Dreaming River,” by Barr Moses, is a story out of the ordinary—a story of a| {man and a sirl together on the prairle of | Minnesota, with the meanest neighbor pos- | | #ibly twenty miles away. The man, Jason, HERE are other straw hats that wear well; other straw hats that have style, but where a number of straw hats impress themselves upon your atten- tion as having been well selected from both these stand- points the chances are that the most of them will prove to be x5 KNOX HATS Pease Bros. 1417 Farnam Street | stven |one born and bred OMAHA, SATURDAY, 18 & dreamer, 'a poet, and is sometimes n ttle wild The girl is sweet and good and, In a way, ignorant, and yet quite clever and wise. If one ecan overcome the mense of disregarded propriety, the | book will be feund enjoyable nmumeai by Frederick A. Stokes company. “Dave Porter and His Schoplmaster,” by | Bdward Stratsmeyer, is the fifth volume | of this serles. Dave is back at Oak Hall after his theilling teip to find the father | he has never seen. His chums are leaders | in the activities of the school, and Dave continues to be the best type of an Ameri- con schoolboy. “For the Honmor of Oak | Hall" he brings about the complete | reformation of a former bully, Who was rapidly going to the bad. Athletic events and jolly fun are constantly mingled as evidence that the boys are not at school entirely for that, many take high honors at the close of the year, Dave being prize essayist, to the great delight of his friends. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard company is the publisher. | The power of the thought—forces to mould destiny is the subject of Orison Swett Marden's latest book, entitled, “Peace, Power andPlenty.” It is a volume of eighteen chapters, each pf which is as them are: “The Law of Opulency “Health Through Right Thinkin Chemistry,” “Why Grow Old?" “The Mira- cle of Self-Confiderce,” and “Good Cheer— God's Medicine.” The tone throughout is optimistic, sunny, inspirational. Published | by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. “The Hawk,' by Ronald Legge, s a story of aerial warfare. It tells of the accomplishment of an attack by a fleet of air ships. Moving quickly from incident | to incident, Its exciting tale of war in the | air, and of the awful power of this wonder | of the age, makes present reality of future fact. In the midst of all the breathless actlvity of a tale of adventurous doings, the reader is begulled by the romance of a famous actress, which Is a strong fea- ture of the plot—and by the humor of the | inventor, whose timely ald clears the air | in the end. Published by the John Me- Bride Co. ““Cherub Devine,” by Sewell Ford, author | of the “Shorty McCabe” stories, is the tale of a tinanclal magnate, with a vast for- | tune and ‘a strong grip upon facts. But | he spends money serenely, and the buying of a country place is a little matter that he almpst forgets for three weeks. Then, having a week-end on his hands, he runs up to see it, and plunges into a series of adventure. There is a mystery in the be- ginning, and in the end a man-hunt of | weird and fascinating interest, complicated by the herolsm of a bleating calf. There Is a young and charming countess, with | whom it is impossible not to fall in love; a sof disant blackmailing count, and a butler whom it s a privilege and a pleasure | to meet. But all the characters are mas- terfully drawn. Humor, however, ia the dominant note pf the story, but the lov Interest, dainty and very real, has an un- usual appeal. Published by Mitchell Ken- nerley. In the May issue of “Eternal Progress’ | appears an excellent fllustrated article on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. With the June lssue the name “Eternal Progress" will be dropped and a new one, The, Prog- ress Magazine, will be assumed. This means a change in policy al Although we shall retain the good of the old, among | which are the inspiring editorials of Mr. | Larson, the publishers leave behind the speclal propaganda of the New Thought and enter the much broader field of Op- portunity and Progress in every walk of | life. The Book-Keeper for May offers a col- | lection of articles of interest to the gen- eral reader as well as the business man and those whose work is devoted specifi- cally to the keeping of accounts. This is shown In such articles as “Simple Account- ing of a Small Adirondack Farm,” “In- sublimely and sweetly, In her rhythm of a Small Mail Order Business,”” “A Simple and BEffective Method of Keeping a Record “The Bank Clerk and His | “Sinking Funds and Reverse Ac- ' “Notes Recelvable In the Install- ment Business,’ and many others of a semi-technical nature., There are discus- slons of broader business subjects, covering the ground all the way from “A Glimpse of Newer France” to a discussion of the business relations of a typewriter and her employer. The May Strand 15 an especlally good number, containing excelient fiction by Hall Crane, Conan Doyle, W. W. Jacobs and others less famous. The articles deal with such widely different subjects as “Mountaineering Tragedies,”” “The Whirli- 5ig Beetle,” “Mazes and How to Thread Them" and “The Light Side of Finance.”" Alma-Tadema, R. A., the famous artist of Greek subjects, contributes some chapters of “My Reminiscences” which are illus- trated with many of his best known pic- tures. Charles Battell Loomis, an American traveler and writer, under the short, ex- pressive title of “Just Irish” has crowded | & mighty clever writeup of life and scenery fn Treland. He was one of a party of six Americans whose lines were cast in pleas- ant places and out-of-the-way places in Ireland about 3 year ago, and his experi- ences, adventures and impressions make a book as entertaining and instructive as his preceding work “Cheerful Americans.” Th: author makes a number of observa- tions which reflect the breezy contents of | the book. For instance, he says there are | other places in Ireland as beautiful as Killarney, but they have not had poets in | their publicity departments. He heard the “Bells of Shandon sound so grand on tha| waters of the river Lee,” mingling thel notes with a jarring outburst of canned ragtime, and he expresses the convietion born of experience that a Corkonfan can outtalk the native of any other county in the Ould Sod. The author is itical only In spots. His character sketches are life size and breezy, framed with anecdotes and amusing Incidents “‘racy of the soll The cover, on which the printer has garbed | & son of the soil in a garish red coat, is only an “Irish bull’ oP-American vintage undue prominence. Richard G Badger is the publisher, Boston. on “Fate and the Butterfly” by a new author, Forrest Halsey, is a novel of con. temporary American society as it is. Hal- sey knows soclety with the knowledge of therein, He doesn't flatter his soclety, he doesn't condone or condemn or excuse or, preach socialism. He tells his story, the love of three men for a woman and her return, simply rapidly, forcefully, The setting includes w York, Beypt. Italy, New York, and the ways between them. The butterfly heroine, tied in marriage to & weak, mor- phine-drugged, brandy-soaked brute, re- &ains that measure of freedom that the code of her class allots her, only to fall in love with a man high In the political councils of the nation and on the ves of rising higher. His election to the sovern- ship, influenced by the rumor of his rela- ORKR 1810 DOUGLAS STREET Over 1,000 Tailored Suits on sale at $12.50 and $2 Suits that sold from $25 to $40 Mr. J. B. Orkin, president of this great specialty house, sent the order from his New York office that our policy of n ever carrying over a single garment from season to season should be carried out, and in order to dispose of our tremen- d n that sold at $19.50, $25.00, $ b *12.50 ous stock, which is the result of a phenomenal season’s busi- ess, we offer over 1,000 beautiful suits at great sacrifice. Over 400 Tailored Suits, l Over 600 Tailored Suits, that sold at $35.00, $37.50 and $40.00; on sale Satur- day, at— 52500 27.50 and $29.75 saturday at— on sale a New Lingerie Dresses $7.50 and $10 These dresses are charmingly designed and made of fine embroidered mulls, Japanese lawns, Persian lawns, linens and dotted Swi $ ses, trimmed in pretty laces and embroideries. 10.00 and $12.50 $7 50 $:J;.17-'; un«: $15.00 $10 . ‘alu Fy a e values, at. .. Great May Sale Beauliful New Shirt Waists Each day we are demonstrating to hundreds of new customers that they can buy at Orkin Bros.’ great specialty s tore, smarter waists for the money than they can find else- where in Omaha. Saturday we will place on sale hundreds of new styles, representing all of the newest ideas for the su Up to $5.00 values; on sale at | | | $1.98 tions with the notorfous Mrs. Roth, hangs in the balance; and to save his career she | makes the supreme sacrifice. Ba W. Dodge & Co. s the publisher. Above books at lowes retall price. Mat- thews, 122 South Fifteenth street. All of the books reviewed here are on sale in Brandels' book department. ‘Bennett's Late. Fiction Library—Book Dept.—enables you to read the newest books at little cost. SAVED BY A THUMB PRINT Man Suspected of Capital Orime Un- dergoes a Most Trying Test. A thumb print has cleared Willlam Reilly of all suspicion In connection with the death of Mrs. Margaret Grippen, who was murdered in her home In Winnebago, Iil., the night of April 2. Reilly, who was a neighbor of Mrs. Grip- pen, left his home shortly after the murder was discovered and came to Chicago. He underwent a surgical operation at the office of Dr. John M. Auld, 161 State street, and then was taken to the Woman's hospital, where he has been for the last week. Sheriff Charles Colller of Rockford and Coroner Paul of Winnebago brought to Chicago a lamp chimney on which are finger marks and also brought impressions of corresponding prints found on a door In Mrs. Grippen's house. These are the only clues the Winnebago authorities have to the identity of the murderer. Prints of the fingers and thumbs of thirty persons living In the neighborhood were compared with the telitale mark on the Jlamp chimney. hut none of them tallled Reilly was taken from the hospital to the bureau of identification in Chicago, and im- prints of his fingers and thumb were taken by Edward Evans. They were compared | with the marks on the chimney. Reflly and his friends waited for the report in & down- town office. { “"They are entirely dissimil was _the decision of the Bertillon operator, and when | the finding was telephoned to Rellly he re- | ceived it with evident satistaction. “It {sn’t the most pleasant thing in the world to be suspected of such a thing, es- pecially when you know the people involved are known all over the country, as I ywn,” sald Mr. Rellly. Reiliy made a statement to Captain Mor- gan A. Collins of the Thirty-elghth street police station following the examination at he bureau of identification 1 am i3 years old,” he sald. “I have one son who lives In Rockford, 1ll. A daughter, Mrs. Minnie Mellin, lives in Winnebago Mrs. Margaret Grippen was & widow. I had known her for thirty-five or forty years. She was 66 years ola and she lved about wo blocks from my house, where she owned eighty acres of land. She did not have money in the house that I | know uhout. 1 understood she just kept enough there 10 keep hér going. She lived | alone. Eie had not called at my house | since my wife died last December, but be- fore that she and my wife were frequent visitors back and forth. I mever went to her house after my wife died “The murder must have taken place Wednesday night, because they found the body Thursday afternoon. 1 could see the | crowd up there from my house, but I did not go up myself because I was too busy getting ready to come to Chicage. 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From three to seven of a color; special Saturday, ea., 22¢ Specials in Basement Blue and white China Baking Bowls. These bowls come in 7 81 inches in diameter. Some of our own importation Japanese China. These bowls sell regular for 30¢, 40c and 50c each. Special for Saturday only 19¢, 24c¢ and 29¢ each, respectively. Suit Cases $5.90 for this attractive cow hide leather Suit Case; full leather lined, heavy brass trimmings; straps all around; Rus- sian steel frame, sells regularly at $9.50; for Saturday only ...$5.90 Weinlander & Smith Ladies’ Exclusive Funlsmm Special on Muslin Underwear BIg Values, Fine Assortment Corset Covers from b0c up $4.50 each Dainty ght Gowns from up to $6.00 Beautiful Drawers up to $2.50. We also have a nice etticoats, chemise and com- bination suits at all prices TAILORED WAISTS all prices and style to 98¢ from §0c ltne of Graduation Gifts Did you.ever receive a gift? 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