The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1906, Page 8

VOLUME 46. The Merger © community has before been made. | from the public as a passenger and stocks. _. commission to prey? State. The end justified the means, “railroads do away with these special There is the promise of an abolition Passes, =0- minimum rate. - The Williamsburg fhe Broadway B. hew bridge. © compel night-working patrons to goa a Mearawhile the splendid Jersey Two tunnels will soon be added to it is a loss to the whole city B.R. T. fe i Pebtenea vy the-Press Publiching Company, No. & to.6 Park Row, Now Yorks : Bntered at the Post-Office at New York:as Second-Class Mail Matter, “| “Whe city parted for a tithe of their vaiue, That they shall be vested with the right to-collect from-thirty gen- trations of passengers in ever-mulfiplying number the extortionate tax tof excess profit above the legitimate cost of transportation which Bow collect from three million people. That they shall be legally empowered, practical! in perpetutty, Bs 9 counptiton, 10: bead lmaseholis for revenies oth of Se hhelong to the city, to water public stock for private gain, even to the Gapitalization of the very discomforts of city travel, and to foist upon in- mocent investors securities based on fictitious values. No such brazen demand for an official authorization to plunder a Is'it to be permitted? Is the buccaneer combination to receive its Passes and Two-Cent Fares. The Ohio railroads having cut off passes, the Ohio Senate has put through a bill making two cents a mile the maximum rate of fare in the the highest credit on legislators’ principles. But the public gains, which is the main thing. It gains whenever the roads now pursuing this policy is considerable and the effect salutary. city. Queens Borough, with the prospect of i fastest-growing section of the city. ina time when means of communication are so rapidly improving 'y that getting to Brooklyn is made so Tifcut » by the greed, the folly and the inefficiency of the ferry companies and the ! No. 1—— The Lenten Croft wr Celera NO. 16,280, Marauders. In applying for a- certificate -of Incorporation, the Interborough- Metropolitan Company asks, the State of NewYork to grant:to two men, Thomas-F, Ryan and August Belmont, the-exclusive control-of all transit facilities in Manhattan and the Bronx for'999 years. It asks 'the:State to -say-that for thirty times the length of an ordi- nary lifetime these men-shall enjoy the sole possession of enormously remunerative franchises, with which License to loot is what the Ryan-} Belmont merger asks—license to compel street-car passengers to genera- tions yet unborn to stand and deliver; license to exact a double tribute as a purchaser of its manipulated though the means may not reflect Privileges. The number of trunk of express franks and of Pullman All this points to a time when the railroads will find it to their best interests to carry all passengers without favoritism or exemption at a Getting to Brooklyn. Contptroller Metz and his predecessor, Mr. Grout, discovered on ‘Wednesday night that no trolley cars were Tunning on the bridge. Any theatre-going Brooklynite could have told them’ that it is the custom of the B. R. T. to “economize” at night by packing the few elevated trains on the bridge to suffocation, ferry company now stops its boat service on both and Grand street ferries because of the competition of the They keep the cream of the “rush hour” business, but stopping the trolleys and by long way around. ferries do an_ increasing business, the westward-bound Passenger ca the Pennsylvania tunnel, up the trade of private detective. out the help of professional assistants. SYNOPSIS OF PRECHDING CHAPTERS. ‘Martin, Hewitt 1s summoned to Lenten Croft it Tames Norris to investigate. wo ering. Several Jewel therts. or t Lenten Croft, in each case a burnt match being found lying on the spot whence the jewels have been removed. HewAt at length says he is on the jt He takes to his room a parrot be- Jonging to Sir Jamesre secret vd, and e secretary for the poi ‘On the Jatter’s amival he charges Lioyd with the ‘Woetts. CHAPTER IV. Crime’s Old Agent. HI0S is the person who will be accused, I think,’ said Hewitt. “What, Lloyd?" gasped Sir aghast. ‘“No—not Lioyd—non- James, sense! “He doesn't seem to think it nonsense hiniself, does he?” Hewitt placidly ob- #ervel Idoyd had sunk on a chair and, Bray of face, was staring blindly at the man he had run against at the office door that morning. His lips moved in >) Spasms, but there was no sound. The wilte’ flower fell from his buttonhole t0 the floor, but he did not move. “This is his accomplice,’ Hewftt went On, placing the parrot and cage on the hall table, “though I doubt whether there will be any use in charging nim. Eh, Polly’ 3 ‘The parrot put his head aside ana a chuckled. “Hullo, Polly!” it quietiy @urgled. ‘Come along! Bir James Norris was hopelessiy be- wildered. “Lioyd—Lioyd," he said, under Dis breath. “Lioyd—and that!" his was his little messenger, his useful Mercury.” Hewitt explained, tap- ping the cage complacently; “In fact the @ctual lifter. Hold him up!’ The Inst remark referred to the ‘wretched Lioyd, who had fallen for- ward with something between a sob and ‘@ loud sigh. The policemen took him by the arms and propped him tn his chair, “System? mid Hewitt with a shrug ‘of the shoulders an hour or two after in Gir James's study. ‘I can't say I have system. I call it nothing but common \ pense anc a sharp pair of eyes. Nobody S) Msing these could help taking the right ©) oad Jn this case. I began atthe match, tem” beyond a judicious use of ordinary faculties. were narrated by Hewitt to his friend Brett, a newspaper man. He maintained that he had no “sys- The following experiences just as the Scotland Yard man 4d. but I hea the advantage of taking a line ‘through three cases. To begin with, it was plain that that match, being left there In dayNght in Mre Cazensve's room, could .not have been used to light tthe table top in the full glare of the window; therefore it had tbeen used for some other purpose—what punpose I could not at the moment guess. Habit- ual thieves, you know, often have curl. ous superstitions, and some will never take anything without leaving some thing behind—a pebble or a Plece of coal, or something like that—in tho premixes they have been robbing. It seemed at first extremely likely that thie wi case of that kind. The match fhad clearly been brought in—because, when I asked for matches, there were mone fn the stand, not even an empty Dox, and the room had not been dis- tunbed. Also the match probably had not been struck there, nothing havigg been heard, although of course a mis- take in this matter was just possible. This match, then, {t was fair to assume hhad been lit somewhere else and blown out immediately—I remarked at the time that St was very little burned. Plainly it could not have been treated thus for nothing, and the only possible eject would have been to prevent it igniting accidentally. Following on this it became obvious that the match was used, for whatever purpose, not as a mutch, but merely as @ convenient splinter of whod. | “So far 60 good. But on examining tne | match very closely I observed, as you | can see for yourself, certain rather | sharp indentations in the wood. ‘hey are very wmaill, you see, and scarcely visible, except upon narrow Inspection; | but there they are, and thefr positions are reguiar, See, there are two on each sie, each opposite the corresponding mark of the other pair. The match, in fact, would stem to have been gripped in some fairly sharp instru- ment, holding it at two points atove and two beiow—an {netrument as !t may @t once strike you, not unlike the beak of @ bird. <9 “, ee Robberies SOLVED BY Martin Hewitt began life as a lato clerk, but quickly developed euch re- markable talents for the ferreting out of complicated mysteries that he took His business was always conducted with- M:ea.g¢a-zime. Saturday Evening: Blowing Himself Up. By J. Campbell Cory. , a Letters from the People Old-Age Pensions. To the Editor of The Evening World: Sesimg in your columns recently a plea for old-age pensions, I would like to add my vole in favor of them. Why {s it that those commanding high salaries receive life pensions, while those less favored, but just es worthy, are often neglected in this respect? Many women who have been s:rugeling for many years, many with others de- pendent upon them, find themselves now with their earning capacity de- creasing each year and old age creep- ing on, worrying about the time when they will be forced to give up the strug- gle, or the possibility of thelr resigna- sion being asked for in favor of a younger person at any moment. Out of their small salaries it has taken “Now here was an idea, What living creature but a bird could possibly have entered Mrs. Heath's window without a ladder—supposing -no ladder to have been used—or could have got into Mrs, Armitage's window without lifting the it was already open? Plainly, nothing. article was stolen at a time, althougn others were about. A human being oukl have carried any reasonable num-/ without dropping, ‘% but @ bird could only take one at every cent they could rake and sctape together to meet their necessary €X- penses, and it has been impossible for them to save for their old age. D. 8 W- Cola Swbway Cara. "To the Editor of The Evening Worldt This afternoon 1 went downtown on the Subway at One Hundred and Forty- ninth street and was told I would have to go to Ninety-sixth street before I could take the express downtown, but when I entered the car at One Hundred and Forty-ninth street I found tt cold I asked the guard why the car was not heated. He sald the car had just come out of the shop, That is a common ex- euse for a guard or conductor. When I reached the express train at Ninety- sixth street I found that ear about as bad as the other one. I asked the guard why he didn’t get up some heat His answer was: “You're foolish.” In this city to-day there are a large number of people very sick from colds. I think many people get cold in the Subway and on street cars because employees are too lazy to put the heat on, R. P. W. Providence va. the Trants, To the Editor of The Evening World: Every dog has his day. So has the trust. So has the public. In anticipa- of a severe winter the coal barons, ac- cording to habit, raised the price of coal to $6 or $7 per ton, notwithstanding the fact that mountains of the fuel are piled up—through greed antl overproduc- tion—at the mines and elséwhere. The | 2 ww Answers to Questions Presence of @ mild winter and the va- Tlous heating devices enable us to keep comfortably warm. so that His Coal- ship is now going begging for a cus- tomer. The egg. cornered as usual, is an indispensable article to the house- keeper, and to a person in-a-hurry-for- his lunch. Its price ts three, four and five cents—very soon {t will be a drug in the market. thanks to the benevolent consideration of the weather man. F. DEEKMAN. Apply to Supreme Court. To the Editor of The Evening Wortd: Where could I apply to have my name changed? A. B. Pink for Girl, Blue for Boy. To the Editor of The Brening Wort: What are the proper colors for a haby girl and for a baby boy? cD. a. : a) vel | if mn 1 a time, Rut why should a bird carry @ match in {ts beak? Certainly tt must have been trained to do that for a@ purpose, and a little consideration made that purpose pretty clear. A notsy, [chattering bird would probably betray ash higher than the elght or ten Inches {Itself at | trained to keep quiet hoth while going Further, {t {e significant that’ only one|for and coming away with Its plunder. once, Therctore it must be What readier or moré probably ¢ffectual way than, while teaching !t to carry to teach ft also to keep quiet while carrying? The one and i Lil fi “This is his acomplice!” Hewitt went on. thing would practically cover the other, “I thought at once, of course, of a fackdaw or a magple—thése birds thievish reputations made the gucas natural, But the marks on the matt! ere made too wide apart to have he beak of either, I con- me that it must be a raven. 80 that when we atrived the coach-house I selzed the opportun- raven in the nlace. I also incidentally, by getting a light from the coach- house box of matches, ascertained that the match found was of the sort gen- sed the extabishment— 0 lange. thick, red-topped English match. But 1 further found that Mr, Lloyd had a parrot which was a most intelliment pet. and had been trained into comparative anietness—for a par- rot, Also. I learned that more than once the groom had met Mr, Lloyd carrying his parrot under his coat, at faving, as its owner explained, learned the trick of opening its cage and escaping. roid nothing, of course, to you as yet noth- of all thi use I ing but a train of argument and no results, I got to Lloyd’s room ae soon as possi! My chief object in goin there was achieved when I played wit! the parrot, and induced it to bite a near| room quill toothpick. “When you left me in the smoking a the aulll and the found that fter -‘Janwa A New Detective Series Partin jtewitt, Investigator. og 27, “! Pi A GROUP OF IN PICTURE HIS is @ “sacred apron,’ made en- tirely of carved human bones. It was made in Tibet, where it ts used 1A the religious rites of the Red Lamas. The bones are strung together Uke beadwork and their mirfaces are polished and quaintly carved and chased. The “apron” forms one of the strangest and most precious relics in all the “Forbidden Land. The tllus- tration ts reproduced from the London Graphic. A curious scarf pin worn by a Téver- pool man fs a petrified human eye set in a gold frame. The present owner of this singular ornament found it in Peru while he wus on an exploring tour in the land of the Incas with a party of scientists. The canaries of Germany excel all other canaries as singers. ~ ° ODDITIES AND STORY One has been recorded to continue a éingle trill for one and one-quarter minutes, with twenty changes of note in it, As recently as the years 1901, 1902 and 1903 there were respectively thirteen, ten and nine applications for patents re lating to perpetual motion made at tne British Patent Office. From the year 1617, the date of the earliest patent, dowm to 1908, there have been over 600 applications for such patents. In a London hos- pital the wave siren shown im this pic- ture is used to test what sounds a deaf person hears. When once it és discovered that a certain note is not heard or only heard indistinctly a tuning fork of this note Is selected, and an attempt !s made to stimulate the muscle and arouse the nerve. If the tuning fork 4s not sufficient, the sound is increased by the means of a res- onator. Measuring seven miles in length and signed by 690.004 per-) sons, a petition is to be presented to] the British Parliament next session ask-| Ing that a bill be passed for the pro- hibition of the vivisection of do: Aitken, an English specialist, gas is the In experiments he first investigated inu: visible. of the 200th year. A Thought Brare, brave were the soldiers (high the fight, But the bravest press'd to the front Is the sense of smell excited by gases or particles? smell a microscopic quantity inconceivably minute, a fact wi tists. Dr, Aitken carried out his researches upon the cloudy condensation basis, according to which, {f odors are attributable to particles, the latter form nucted ‘of cloudy condensation in supersaturated air, and thus make their presenc@ A Manchester, England, firm, has posted this in one of its windows: “No- tice to the burglars who broke into these premises on Nov. § and Dec. & Would they kindly notify the proprietor of thelr next visit? He will then leave the doors and win- dows open to save m the Inconven- ot and trouble of breaking the giass and woodwork, as on the two previous occasions.” fe Another “ad"s Robert ite ce forse sluughterer; dead horses nd cows please telegraph,’ Another: ‘Tricycle wheels; good condlt! &e, 4; three Apply," Accor to Dr, John 3 of the sense vf smell, thle to detect by 1 Known to scten- fundamental busi: sk, of which {t Is poss A contrivance has been Invented to make mountain climbing much easier, The foot is held with the aid of | straps in a clamp. The hecl is two parts; one is shaped Mke the boot; and the other, T, {s screwed in the first, thus rafsing the heel on level with the toe, These o tivances can be fastened onto the tor of the foot when the climber fs descending. A London money lender pressed his claim for money loaned In a City Court and the Judge, after an exhaustive quiry into the merits of the case, di- rected the defendant to piy the debt at the rate of one penny par the entire amount to be paid by the end month, Some of the streets of Warsaw, Poland, are paved with straw pressed into blocks and made hani enough to be used for this purpose, $2 ——_____ for To-Day. named to-day) sho lived through and fell, unnamed, unknoren. WALT WHITMAN, By Arthur Morrison, Author of ‘‘Tales of Mean Streets.’’ Jadies walking before dark on the day of the first robbery proved nothing. because, since it was clear that the match id not been used ¢o procure a Hight, the robbery might as easily have taken place in @iylight as not—must have so taken place, in fact, if my con- Jectures were right. That’ they were Tight I felt no doubt. ‘There could be no ether explanation. “When Mrs. Heath left her window open and her door shut anybody's climbing upon the open sash of Lioyd’s teh window could have put the bird upon the sill above. The match placed in the bird's beak for the purpose I have Indicated, and struck first. In case by accident It’should ignite by rubbing inst something and startle the bird —this match would, of course, be Gropoed just where ‘the object to be | removed was taken up; as you know. in 3 the match was found almost upon the spot where the missing article had been left—acarcely a likely triple coincidence had the match been used by a human thief. This would have been done as soon after the ladies had left as possible, and there would have been plenty of time for Lioyd to hurry out and meet them before dark— especially plenty of time to meet them coming back, as they must have been, veince they were carrylne the'r ferns. The match was an article well chosen | for {ts purnose, as being a not alto- | eether unitkely thing to find on a dress- Ing table, and, If noticed, likelw to lead to the wrone conclusions adopted by the official detective, “In Mrs. Armitage’s case the taking of an iaferlor brooch and the leaving of a more valunble ring pointed clearly eliher to the overator being n fool or unnsle to Matinguleh values, and cer- °. from other indémtions, the thier seemed no fool. The door aras locked. nd the guafiiter, eo to speak. on guard and would scarcely risk discovery by attompting to replace it. especially a thief in fo great a hurry as to snatch the brooch up qwithout unfastening the pin, The bird could ress through the opening as it wes and tear the pin cushion to pull the off. probably holding the cushion down wiih ts claw the while, teat erecta one te, window of condition e Sts hut and fastened, but the door ‘wars onen—but only left for a lew mi utes, during which tme no sound was ‘heard elther of coming or golng, Was it not possible, then, that the thief was already in the room, In hiding, whil» Mrs. Cazenove was ‘there, and’ solzed its first_ opportunity on her temporary absenca? The rooni Is full of draperies, hangings, and what not, allowing of plenty of concealment fora bird, and Robin eculd leave the place noiselossly and quick‘ hat the whole rcheme was strange mattered not at all. Rot- beries presenting such unaceotintabla features must have been There was no many hun improl ie Matec Sey UA ona pedal, | ty "Puc SvepP tit “Asay nde Ber e si of dors i i ascertained that there was fo dame The fact of joyd faving met the! how | ke Polly's educat! —=NOo. | finitely higher degrees of bint training Are exhibited in ‘the LonJon streets every week for ¢ “So that on th hole I felt precty But before taking I resolved to see If persvaded to exhibit ts to an indulgent "Fo purpose I contrived to send Lloyd away again and have a quiet hour alone with his bird. A plece of sugar, ag everyt knows, 1s good parrot bribe in half is a bette be used to It me with both ally if the you to furnish jy was shy at first, ut I generally long very well with pets, gnd a little perseverance soon led to a Complete private performance for my benefit, Polly would take the mateh, mute as wax, jump on the table, pi up the brightest thing he could see, ins a great hurry, leave the match behind, and scuttle away arcurd the room; but at first wouldn't give up the plunder to* me. It was enough. 1 also took th» barty, as you know, of a general look round, and discovered that little collee= fon of Brumma rings and trive @ that you have just seen—used in , vo doubt. When wa sent Lloyd away, it rtruck me that he might a8 well bé usefully employed as | nol, so I got him to feteh the police, deluding him a little, I fear, by about the wervant er. There will be : dence; he'll confess. Of that I'm gure, I know the sort of man. But I “oubt if you'll get Mrs. Cazenove's brooch You see, he has been to London this tme the swag is ly broken up," Sir James listened to Hewitt's expla- nation with many expressions of assent and some of surprise, When it was over he smoked a few whiffs and then mid. “But Mrs. Armitage's brooch was Dawned, and by a woman, “Exactly. I expect our friend Lioyd was rather disgusted at his small luck —probably gave the brooch to some fe- male connection in London, and she realized on it, ns don't aly ways trouble correct ade dress." The two smoked fn silence for a few and then Hewitt continued: 't expect our friend has had an easy job altogether with that bird. His successes at most have only been three, and I suspect he had many failures and not a few anxious moments that’ We know nothing of. I, should judge Ag much merely from what the roo told me of frequently meeting joy with his parpot. But the plin not @ bad one—not at all, Even if the bird had been cavght in act, it would only have been ‘That mischievous pars rot,’ you sce, And his master would only have been looking for him.’ uch pe to give a he nce! tn Uewiltt, Tnven(igator, Stolen Athlete,” will begin im Monday's Evening World, x ‘