Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1910, Page 21

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: 1D you ever go out with the Com- mercial club on & trade boosting Junket? It not, you have missed some- thing worth while—especially It you delight in things optim for trade booster trips beget optimism, only among the sojourners, but with residents along the route, as well It i only of late yesrs, perhaps within the last decade, that the trade extension idea has taken hold upon the live com- mercial clubs of western cities. And, by the way, It 18 & western and southwesterfi tdea. Nobody ever heard of the Commercial club of Springfield, Mass., or Providence, R. 1, or Wheeling, W. V., going out on such an excursion. But Omahs, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louls, Houston, Dallas, ElI Paso and other western and southwestern citles, ven down to the smaller jobbing centers like Amarillo and Pueblo and Albuquerque, have the trade extension idea well de- veloped. Man D s s bd e, not the prudish folk who home may fancy that these grand hurrah, sort of a meteoric through and that no actual results. lag behind at trips wre one flight space, kood It such skeptic there be in Omaba, let him journey forth once in the role of com- mercial missionary, and he will, nine times out of ten, become a convert 1o the new jdea. The wholesaler or jobber or manu- facturer who goes on one of these (rips does not expect to sell goods while he is out. He may book a few straggling orders, or he may not. In elther event he is satis- fied, because he knows that he is castng bread upon the waters, that he Is indirectly sowing seed that will in future bear fruit— and best of all, If he be of patriotic trend, he may justiy feel that he i advertising his town a whole, Take the present itinerary of the Omaha Commercial club trade boosters for in- stance. Doubtiess the name of Omaha is already well known along the route, but even ®o, In this era of rapld fire move- ment, pers is necessary and the more times the name of Omaha is mentioned in Nebraska, Towa and South Dakota, just so much better does Omaha stand In the trade territory that rightfully belongs to this city, There is handshaking and speechmakirg along the line, ' Merchants meet customers face to face. There {8 much In personal contact and after Mr. Jos Smith up at Blickville, Neb, has met and talked with Mr., Willlam Jones, wholesale ocer of Omaha, he feels that he s in close touch with the Omaha man, and all things being equal, next time he wishes to place an order, the chances are that he will re- membeyr the man from Omaha iwvho spoke pleasantiy to him and who shook hands with him as he swung onto the rear coach of the hooster train as it sped out of Blink- ville, Moreover the junketing wholesaler is fm- bued with a feeling of personal warmth to- ward the customers he meets én route. He has met the merchapt, he has seen him emerge from behind his counter to extend the glad hand of welcome, he has formed his acqualntance under conditions tending to optimism and In short, the wholesaler und the retaller become friends—something that 1s hardly possible by the mall order plan. Another result that shows up the oredit of the booster traln idea is the good that the town as a whole derives from these nilgrimages. The doctor, the lawyer, the Toal estate man and others who do not seil goods 10 country merchants may at first glance fancy that the booster train s no affalr of thelrs, but on second thought It is apparent that whatever makes for the general growth of any city Is & boost. In- as tent and consistent advertising * ®® BOOSTERS B 8 directly, to every man who does business in the city, no matter what kind of busi- ness it may be. Still another advantage is the fact that booster trips promote closer relations be- iween the men who go out on these trips. Whirling along between stations, they naturally swap ideas as to what is best for Omaha, and the germ of much co-operation for a better oity is thus sprouted. For a business man who from overwork and long indoor confinement has acquired what In street parlance is termed a “'grouch,” there Is no better tonic than a trade junket. It opens his eyes to the optimistic view of his fellow tradesmen and before he returns he, himself is an optimist—and it takes optimists to build oltles. Dally reports to The Bee from the various points visited by tha Omaha boosters on the'r present tour Indicate that much good missionary work Is being done, and when the home-coming whistle sounds, the returning boosters, travel-tired, but all the better for it, will recelve the glad hand from those who remained behind. This {8 by no means the inftial trade junket of the Omaha Commercial club, This city caught the booster eplirit several years ago, and trade winning expeditions now at regular Intervals punctuate the work-a-day routine of commercial life at home. After each return the club's story tellers are kept busy for several weeks and new enthusiasm is thus generated from time to time, This interest kept up from year to year and reservatiors on the Booster train never go bagging. The accompanying lllustrations sent from the booster train a staff correspondent of The Bee, portrays the boosters in var- fous stages of their missionary work. INYPINLAY, w6 CALICO FPONY AND "CALICO"BYRNE ®S®w ® MAY 22 1910 0% mmvmwo.nm&o'tA tray Chapters from the Record of New York City’s Noted Sleuth* HE death of Thomas Byrnes, once sugerintendent of the New York police department, opens the floodgates and frees Innu- merable storles of erime and oriminals with which Byrnes' been identifled during his years of service as rounds- man, detective, Inspector and chief, To his name clings the thrills and romantic history which attends one who ferrets out crime, and his record brings in review realities of crime rivaling the atorled heroes of Gaborlau and Liovie, As a thlef catcher Thomas Byrnes was skilled, He had a retentive memory and he could identify men in various gulses. He familiarized himself with the haunts of criminals; he played off ono maie- factor against another, for he knew well ‘wherein lay thelr strength and their weak- ness. His advi sought in the depart- ment on matters which required an inti- mate knowledge of conditions and skill in handling men, und In that narrow circla he became recognized as & capable and efficlent detective, Captain Byrnes won name has thirty-two his Inspectorship through the capture, in 1579, of the dar'ng burglars wWho robbed the vaults of the Manhattan Savings institution, at Breal- way and Bleecker street. The plot had been more than thre: years in maturnz and involved the complicity of the bank watchman and & policeman and enlisted ths services of such adepts In crime as ‘Ol Man" Hope. The bank was rifled of cash and securities, Captain Byrnes within eight monthes had found all the robbers and they were sent to prison for varylng terms. The bonis were re-issued and the total loss to the bank proved to be only $60,000 in the end Every now and then one of the cancelled securities will bob up in the ma:ket. Such was the pertinacity of Thomas Byrnes that he never abandoned the idea of recovering every scrap of the pape.s, and even just before he left the department he obtained some of them. The fact that these were worthless did not in any way alter his determination 1t is llkely that his iIntercession with Governor Flower for the pardon of one of the convicted men, John Hope, had much to do with the never-ending quest for the Ignominious End of Warrior N ODD mixture of human quali- tles went to make up the char- acter of Harry Douglas McDon- ald, whose fate It was to he- come most widely known through the frallest and not the noblest of those qualities, and to be branded with the name of bigamist, wife deserter, murderer and suicide, the last two comunitted at Fairfield, Ia. Ae- cording to friends who knew McDanald well |n Chicago, his had been a life of adventure, that of the typical soldier of fortune, who had faced death in four sep- arate wars, taking part in some of the world's most famous battles, only to dle by his own hand, the bedy of the wife he is supposed to have killed olasped in his arms, the scars of many a savage's wounds on hix head and the medals ac- iming brave deeds pinned to his breast. In view of what he had been and what ho had done, his triends refused to shut their eyes entirely to all Wut the crimes which marked the close of his lite and at least to awalt complete contirmation of all reports before removing the laurel of the hero from his brow, It 1s knewn that the MeDenald family is one of no small prominence in Seotland, where the brothers and father of the dead man and all his male ancestors for genera- tUons have been ministers in the Presbyter- ian ohureh. A brother of the father, it is said, was the earl of Glencalrn, and an uncle ls now & copgressman in Kentucky. It was & family of culture, breeding and education. It was the Intentlon that Harry McDon- ald should also enter the ministry, but he joined the Gorden MHighlanders as & boy piper, ahd the love of adventure held him from that eime on. In the course of his military” career, he served five years in India, all through the Boer war in Africa, went through the slege of Peking and, after eoming to this country, seoursd & ocom- mission (n the United States &rmy a8 & captain and paign He came out through his fought through congressman-uncle, the Philippine cam of the wars battered and scarred, many a Hindu's spear and bullet having siit his skin. In one Hindu cam- paign, the British government reported him among the dead. An adoring sister in Glas- gow, greatly grieved od all his relics and belongings and cherished them among her dearest possesions. After many weoks the news came that instead of heing dead he had been a captive, but with a captain had escaped the Indian guards and was back with his command. Such thrilling adventures were common, and his fund of personal reminiscences covering the bloody ground of which Kipling never tred to write was never-ending. McDonald was a captain in the Boer war After the Highlanders, he jolned ' Kitchen- er's horse regiment, and was the captain who commanded the detachment, which took the captured Commander Kronje across the country to the coast, to the ship which carried him away. After & life so full of action, it is sald by acquaintances here that he was restless for the soldier's life again, and would have welcomed war. They assert, however, that he was & calm, spparently upright, frank, honest and rugged Scotchman, & man who impressed with his evident sincerity and high character. A short time ago he sent to Scotland for the medals he won in war time, and these were all marked with his full name and attested that the stories he had sometimes related of himselt were not tabrications.—Chicago Record-Herald secu A Bachelor's Refleetlo) You are entitied to feel you are reason- ably sane when you don't think nearly evorybody else la crasy. The more fun & man thinks he can have being out nights the more his wife knows she €an't When & man comes to you with an offe to make you rish you're lucky it he doesn’'t go away with a dollar he borrowed from you.—~New York Press Manhattan bonds. The robbery in 1§73 turned the eyes of the world upon Thomas Byrnes, catcher of thieves, and in 1879 he was designated to reorganize the detective bureau, and in placed of it, with the rank of inspector. He was made then, by special enactment, a chief inspector, with a salary of 95,00 a year. These were the days in which the name of Inspector Byrnes carried a veritable magle. ) was in charge i o Draws the Dead Line. The metropolis teemed with criminals, chief among them were those aristocrats of theft, the bank burglars. The safes of those days were formlable enough in &p- pearance, but they lacked the numerous contrivances and checks of the present day. The city was not so well lighted as it now is, and the police force was inconsiderable as compared with the army which Is now on guard. The ferrles were Infested by bunco men, green goods operators and the like, many of whom were on terms of easy familiarity with small politiclans. Wall street was alive with sneak thieves and burglars seeking plunder, while Maiden lane was periodically plllaged of plate and Jowels laspector Byrnes first established branch of the detective bureau in a lit room in a Wall street bullding, paying the rent out of his own pocket. He then through General Brayton Ives, asked that the Stock Kxchange give quarters for his men under its roof, which was accordingly done. The arrangement was satis- tactory, for practically every bank or Important broker's office in the district was connected with the bureau. Iu this connection the order given by the inspector that any with eriminal record seen south of Malden lane should be arrested, and the Instructions were so literally carried out that the “"Dead Line" proved an effectual barrier. In Wal stroet he met Jay Gould, who lald the foun- dation of his forty The berry talent, a a N most by wire was man a reorganization of the bureau In street brought a galaxy trained after the maner w N Muls of detective of Byrnes, Plan Byrnes' plan was a simple one. He kept tabs on the crimiual classes just the police of Paris und Berlin keep tabs on all classes of soclety. By a system of Inform- ers and ‘“stool-pigeons” in the various dives and “hangouts” he learned of the thieves' comings and goings and could gen- erally put his hand on & wanted man in- stantly The strong point of his system was al- ways the complotenesé of his staft of in- formere. Famous criminals were on it &nd men entirely unsuspected by thelr fel- lows; for instance, John, allas Red Leary Then he had the toolmakers under his thumb, and this was most valuable. One fameus maker of burglars’ tools, who had a place on Bleecker sireet, near the Bowery, told him every uUme & tcol was ordered When the tool was ready to b delivered the place was watchcd, and the petron was allowed to g0 in and make his purchase, ard depart in peace. He would be fol- low ed, however, and picked up on sispicion, perhaps five miles away from the tool- maker's. Many notorious thieves from the west and from other cities were caught In this way, The toolmaker had to play fair with Byrnes, for he never knew when an order might be glven for a tool by one of the chiet's men, and then he himaelf be as nabbed as he went to deliver it. Keepers In prison, saloonkeepers and little thieves were all on the staff, and the salconkecpers were well in hand, for they could not sell a drink on Sunday If they did not give all the information they could when it was wanted. An {llustration of how well this worked was the ocase of a saloonkeeper on Hudson street. Thls man had two patrons who were thicves and who spent their money freely at his bar One night they asked him to advancs them some money on a valuable weteh they had, saying that they were short of funds and were going up to Connecticut that night to rob an old miser they knew of. The saloonkeeper lent them the money and told a policeman, a friend of his, who wanted to get in the good graces of Byrnes Now, just as the chief got this information from this patrolman word came from Con- necticut that the old miser had been robbed and murdered and that it was thought the robbers had started for New York ot course Byrnes knew thelr names, and as they stepped off the train they were ar- rested The rule of the Inspactor was harsh and absolute and also effective to the last de- gree. The crooks was arrested sight, irrespective of whether the magistrate held them or not. on Begiuning of the Third Degree, Out of this method the third de- gree, which was reality the use of physchology of a most practical kind, Its first application by inspector was In solving the mystery of the killing of Louls Hanfer, who kept a French wine shop in West Twenty-sixth street. He shot in 1882 at the hcad of the stairs oa which he wus descending to the tloor, which had been wrecked by a band of ruf. tians. The woman Gloin grew in was lower {nspector enlisted the services of a keep track of Michael E. Mc- one of a band of young despiradoes known as the “Seventh Avenu: gang,' and he also obtained Information concera- Ing three others whom he believed to implicated. All the quartet were so tak:n that no one knew of the other's arres The had McGloin tak'n into his private room and o placed the chairs that the would be look'ng out of the window into the courtyard. As the fnspector and he were talking & man en- tered the room and laid down on the desk the pistol with which the French Innkeeper had been The inspector looked at tin a casual way W It as weapon which had been used by the derer and asked McGloin if he had seen it before. The prisoner, although the sight of the wonpon had unnerved him, tried to keep up an air of although the Inspec or already had caught the expression of mo mentary dismay on his face. Then, calmly smokig & clgar, tl of of detectives referred in a matter of fact way to thres men; all of whom had seen the murder, for they had said so. be inspector prisoner killed referred the mur- ev neoncern Dramatic Confe Then, in the courtyard, waiking bet two poiicemen, marched first one then another of McGloin's intimates. The prisoner fell on his knees befors the inspector and confessed that he and others d gone to wreck the saloon because its proprietor refused to be taken in by & flim-flam game, and he had fired on him. intending only to scare him, Mo- and Gloin was executed and the other three men were sent to prison. Tactics .fln more dramatic were employed in the cdee of Unger, suspected of giling and membering his roommate, named Bohles, and of then shipping his body from Brook- Iyn to Baltimore. Unger was taken to police headquarters, where he was put casually into a cell which had been fur- nished with the blood-stained appointments of the room in which the murder was committed, He fell to the floor from the stained bed on which he had been forced to sit and confessed the crime. Many a time was the third degree worked in the time of Inspector Byrnes, its chlef factor being the consclence of the man played upon by the shrewd and forca- ful mind of the master detective. K} tion and the drama since have made us» of the third degree as a theme, but to tue inspector it was regarded as a means to an end and in his hands it was the most effective of weapons. >— Detectives in the Making. Inspector Byrnes' great achlevements as a detective made him a frequent subject for comparison with detectives of Wiction, He once gave this comparison between the de- tective of tact and of fiction: My advice to boys who want to become young sleuths Is to stick to school till they graduate and then learn trades. The detective of fact owes nothing to the de- tective of fiction. Take the wonderful dis- guises of the detectives of fiction. Le- cocq and Sherlock Holmes play a score of different roles. There Is nothing ltke that in real detective work. One thing wrong about the detective of fiction is that It all the same Read detective story have read them all. In real lite that come at you are all differ- detective of fiction tells the oriminal all he knows. It would be hard to concelve & senseless proceeding The French detectives of fiction proceed 1o confound the criminals by laying be fore them proofs of thelr crimes. All the criminal has to do Is to Then, i? proof fails, he is free ‘When 1 arrested a a serlous crime I he was arrested, 1 about his mother but a word that he was thought of in his head what him is one and you the cases ent The more deny the charged told him talk with his home, his employer, about his crime. I knew not listening to me. The his crime whirling about and he knew that 1 knew ne thinking about. It worrled that 1 should not talk about He strained himself trying to think much 1 knew. It he saw any of his accomplices march past the window or any of the clothing of the viclim or the wea- pon of the crime he was more After a time felt that he easier if he told all than constantly strain- ing and he and lept eanily That the way we got them 1t {s not remorse that eied criminal tal with why him man never might not was was the how or uneas he would be confessed was exactly worrylng. after It makes the hard confess; it Is anxlety, men- strain Waork Apnre ed. In the whole time that he was in charge of the datective bureau the thiev: caught by his men received prison sentences ag- gregating more than 10,000 years The abllity of Mr. Byr on several oe- attracted the attention of the United Elates governmeni and & place '» caslons the secret service was offered to him, which he declined. King Humbert of Italy would have made him a chevalier of the order of the crown, but this decoration he asked to be excused from accepting, as he wished to be regarded always as an American citl- wen, Inspector Byrnes passed through many a stormy political struggle during his time at police headquarters. He was made sup- erintendent of police in 1802, and later was summoned before the Lexow committee, where he gave a full and frank exposition of the source of his wealth, which even in 1894 was generally beliaved to have been large, The inspector explained that when he went to Wall street he had between $16,000 and $20,000, part of which he had inherited from an uncle and part representing his savings and small Investments. He per- formed several egervices for Jay Gould, wha in turn Invested some money for him, until the inspector through that source had amassed $220,000. Later George J. Gould looked after some investments for him which brought to t! police officlal returns of $45,000. He n-?{- mated that at the time of the Investigatio he was worth $29,000. Mr. Brynes on his retirement continued to invest and speculate and his property, especlally a plot at Fifth avenue and Forty- sixth street, steadily advanced in valus from $165,000 which he pald for it, to $760, 000 at which it is now held. He was more than a millionairg to all accounts at his death. He lived at No. 318 West Seventy- seventh street in a finely appointed Houss. He had a country place at Red Bank = Ballooning for Weather (Continued from Page One.) of tests both before and after they are sent on their exploration of the sky An ingenious device enables the workers of the Mount Weather observatory to repro- duce the conditions which the {nstruments will meet in the attentuated upper air, or the *“‘permanent inversions,' as they call it in technical phraseology The Instruments are placed in a partlal vacuum in which the pressure can be con- trolled by means of inlets and exhausts permitting the production of any degree of pressure from practical zero to that of fourteen pounds,_the normal barometric registration at sea level. The temperature within the testing cham- ber Is brought to the terrible degrees of cold of the upper alr by the circulation of gasoline chilled by liquid air. The gasoline is cooled by driving it through threadlike colls In a bath of the liquid air before it is forced through the evoling devices within the vacuum chamber. By this meaps the action that the devices will follow when subjeoted to similar condi- tions naturaily produced in the atmosphere. Mensurements and corrections are made until the apparatus can be depended upon to deliver an accyrate record of conditions to be met, When the device s at last re- turned (ts equipment Is again put through the test for the purpose of determining whether or pot further corrections of the record may be necessay The standardization of the hydrometer Is acoompiished by & process similar to that by which 1 thermometer and barometer are set aright The total welght of the basket precious burden of Intricate devices is but & little more than two pounds. The lift ing power of the balloon {s about four and a half pounds. This allows an upward pressure of approximately two pounds (o carry the bulloon upward. This ts suffl elent to carry the balloon to the maximum of ity dlstance in usually than hours. The capacity of the gas temperature and pressure of point, about 120 cublc feet makes the sphere about dlameter. As the balloon rises the atmospherio pressure s reduced, allowing the ges within to expand, thus keeping the lfting pewer of the balloon near 10 & constant and its less thres bag 1s st the the starting This n of gas six feet mits of extension. It is not until thegub- ber bag is distended to its elastic Timit that the balloon explodes and releases instruments, which come tumbling to earth urder a parachute. Seldom does the bal- loon rise to more than fifteen or sixteen miles above the earth, while the limit fgus far has been but two miles above This level. At thils point the gas bag is greatly expanded to nearly twice its dimensions at the starting point of the flight When the excessive pressure of the ex- panding gas with the balloon the Bas envelope, the rubber sac from the parachute, which is spread over the top of it, and In falling bles down across the basket conta!ning recording {nstruments. It then is welght, which helps in bringing the record back to earth through the miles of thin air. The rubber bag has then its mis. slon and Is no long The delicat fustrument, howeve ially comes to carth unharmed and can bo used for an indefinite number of flights The traced record on the smoked cylinder when once within the environs of the Mount Weather Is treated to & coating of shellac, which “flxes" It In much the same way as fixative is applied The aluminum sheet smoked record 1y u rolled from of the eylinder and yeduced to @ flat sheet, which can then be handled in & card Index in the Mary of the bailoon fleot. Working over this flatiensd | with dividers and scale the weathes able 1o get the measurements on recsq which tells the tale, The thinness of (he air ha t reglon which the weather baloons n.,\»ro~ Jouruey is shown in t ipper part of thet by the record of a balloon which estalb Itshed the elghtee A thie elevation the bar pressure rec was but four-tenths of an ineh, while the average pressure at the altitude of Omaha Bbout 1,860 feet abuve wea devel b3 (wenty- nine Inches, Reduced to ether terms means that it would take euble Inched Of the @ir at the eightosp.mile level to contaln the sume amount of fwatier o) that of the cubic inch ¢ the level o) Omaha, The ascension of the sounding balloon s Itmited only by the slasticity of the rubbes velope which holds the gas Unless the rubbes r & more elastio substitute gAn W, found, 1t ts not probable that el balioon will ever reach ‘m enty miles above the level of the coo'in balance, so long as the gas envelope per« ll breaks falls under tu the a dead performed safe Aboratory arcoal sketch t the core toa whieh carries sheet expert extre mle record metric