The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1906, Page 16

i Botered at the Post-Office at New VOLUME 46... ereeee cr eceeee ‘There was about $8,000,000 profit in ing well under $30,000,000. would, if it were actual capital, build This false capital, coined out of on the difference between three-cent a from 4 to 18 per cent., would build in the present one, pense of over $200,000,000. lines. The remaining two cents pay years tu come, sort, past and present, What Panic One of the comic reasons given ing Department inquiry is that it will rooted out the better. down. If this inquiry is squelched it wil A New Detective Martin Hewitt, a brilliant private detective, with unique methods, 16 the hero of these adventures, re- counted by his friend Brett. The first story of the series was “The Lenten Croft Robberics.” ® CHAPTER I. Murder! HE old house wherein my chambers and Hewitt's office were situated contained, besides my own, two or three more bachelors’ dens, in addition to the offices on the ground and first and second floors. At the very top of all, at the back, a fat, middle-aged man, named Foggatt, occupied a set of four rooms. It was only after a long res!- dence, by an accidental remark of the jhousekeeper’s, that I learned the man’s name, which was not painted on his door or displayed with all the others on the wall of the ground floor porch. ‘Mr, Woggatt appeared to have few friends, but lived in something as nearly luxury as an old bachelor living in chambers can live. ‘The man himself was not altogether wg. Fat as he was, he had @ way of oarrying his head forward on his extended neck and gazing widely ebout with a pair of the roundest and most prominent eyes 1 remember to have ever seen, except ina fish. On the soon. ft was in this way: Hewitt and I had dined tegother at my club, and late tn the evening had returned ty my rooms to smoke, when suddenly we were etartied by a loud report. Clearly it wns in the building. We listened for a moment, but heard nothing clse, and then Hewilt expressed his opinion that the report was that of a gunshot, Gun- ehots in residential chambers are not went fo the landing, stairs and down. She @ubNaned vy the Press Publishing Company, | {F' But what would it do in subways? The original subway now in operati enough to build twice over every subway That is the cost to New York of high finance panic do the gentlemer expect to produce? Surely no honest bank or banker need feel disturbed. A panic among rascals will not ruin any stable business. Perhaps some preten- tious banks and trust companies have been hiding their yellow-dog col- Jateral in other vaults than their own over the periods of examination. ‘This sort of stuff has no place in their list of securities, The sooner it is By Arthur Morrison, Author of ‘‘Tales of Mean Streets.”’ commen things, wherefore I got up and looking up the ‘At the top of the next fight I saw No. 88 to & Park Row, Now York as Second-Class Mail Matter. 16.2365, York aeveseat ctcses coosse NOs What a Merger Costs. The Morning World presents graphic illustrations of the cost of the Belmont-Ryan merger. The $108,000,000 of water poured into the iniquity would, it shows, build twenty battle-ships like the Dreadnought. The inter- est alone would pay the rent of 24,000 small flats at $15 a month. or buy ten tons of coal a year for 70,000 families, or feed a “bread line” long enough to reach round th: world. ion cost the city $35,000,000. its construction, the actual cost be- The $108,000,000 of capital which Ryan and Belmont propose to “create” in this last, greatest and worst merger at the cost of the public three great subways as long as the present one; and the small change left would drive a couple of tunnels under the East River to relieve the bridge. But there have been mergers before. There was the Metropolitan eecurities “water,” the City Railroad Company “water,” the original Metropolitan “water,” the “water” in every one of the leased lines. In all, including the latest proposal, there are $400,000,000 of water in Manhattan-Bronx and more than $500,000,000 in the city. the discomfort of the public, reared nd five-cent fares, won by throttling the city’s development, and most of it now paying guaranteed profits of tie whole city sixteen subways like We do not need so many. Some of the most useful routes pro- posed are short and cheap links and branches. The most complete pro- gramme proposed for present construction does not contemplate an ex- The peoytie of New York are paying out of each five-cent fare three cents for running expenses and a good profit on the actual cost of the the interest upon “watered” capital the city will need for fifteen of the Ryan-Befmont Is Feared? at Albany for smothering the Bank- bring on a panic, What kind of a We believe it has been a practice to send securitles from one bank to another for this very purpose, and that the Banking Department has either connived at it or has been too indifferent to hunt the roguery ll be because some one is guilty! Series knocked at Mr, Foggatt’s door. There was no reply. Within, a sign, Mra. Clayton maintained, sbie. Mra. (essing and in the end Hews open the door with a small poker. All. scream, could think of no doctor in the imme: diate neighborhood, but ren up street awny from the Strand. as be: ing the more Itkely direction doctor, although less #0 for the police. man, dind the medico, at a private hot by a red lamp, at @ private hotel, vnother five to get back with a police man, Pogeatt was dead, without a doubt. Hrohabiy had shot himself, the dooto: ight from the powder blackentn a other circumstances. budy cout ave passed my Iand inside made th . Mra, Clayton, the housekerper. ‘appeared to be frightened, and told me * @hat the report came from Mr. Fos- . ‘ ‘e room, She thought, he migit bad en accident lay pistol 1, ou musta’: i Clayton,” Hewitt yecome of us 21) it was an accident’ at wi Through the ventilating fanlight over the door it coubd be seen that there were lights that Mr. Foggatt was not out. We Knocked again, much more loudly, end called, but still ineffectually. The door was locked, and an application of the housekeeper's key proved that the ten- ant’s key had been left in the lock in- Clayton's conviction that “something had happened" became éts- pried Something had happened. In the sft- ‘ing-room Mr, Forgatt sat with his ead bowel over the table, quiet and ‘The head was iM to look at, and by It lay a large revolver o: the full size any pattern, Mrs. Clayton ran back toward the Janding with faint ret!" sald Hewlit; "a doctor and a policeman I bounced down the statrs half a ‘ight at @ time. “Hrst," I thought, “a doctor, He may not be dead.” I the for the Ittook mea good five minutes to nd Certainly no- have left the room by the t of the door being thinks . : ‘ = RR ly a [Pip eee aia 3 Worre's Woewe Modazine. Thursday Evening, February 1, 1906. Breaking In. By J. Campbell Cory. Wants Origin of Siang. ‘To the Editor of The Bvening Wortd: ‘Will some reader who !s good at trace | ing derivations explain the origin of the expressions “vs” and jae have been unable to get any light on the subject and would appreciate any information. INQUISITIVE. ‘Twelve Times as Fast. To the Ekiftor of The Evening World: « How many times fester than the hour hand does the minute hand travel on the face of a clock? ae | Van Schaick a Scapegont! To the Editor of The Brening World: In my opinton Capt. Van Schaick has heen made a scapegoat. An employec often dares not, at the risk of his job, | “Run, Brett!” said Hewitt, He took s small bottle of sewilng-ma- t und landed er for the oll fro nis pocket an the daughter, thanking hi were wis little evidence at the in- st. ‘Tho shot had been heard, y had been found—that | was ‘tical sum of the matter. No frie Hh the nde the | even suggest putting his employers to the expense of new or proper life-sav- responsibility for worthless equipment | ing equipment. He might be courtly told |scem= to mie to I! that ff the Government Inspeotora were |door and nowhere else, Perhaps C: fo at the inspecto: - Martin Hewitt, Investigator : We went upstairs with her, and she “A Doctor and a Policeman.” or relatives of ward.‘ to the probab! cident, and the Dolice evidence tended in the same been found to indicate that any Thumbnail Sketches. UBJECT—Rey. Thomas Dixon, jr. S Favorite Spom—Opening old wouhds. Favorite Tesk—Re-garing the bloody shirt. Favorite Book—“The White Company.” Favorite Author—His own press agent. Favorite Artist—uck Cade. Favorite Fruit—The bitter aloe, Favorite Plant—Potson tvy. Favorite Vehicle—The high wire. Favorite Musical Instrument—The steam calliope. Favorite Character in History—Simon Legree. Pe ‘ the other hand, his &e., proved him to any nearer connections acquaintances, e fd wnat ft H we view of case. yea." he replied, “perhay From the point of view of the on thelr informat! quite Teasmable. watt did not shoot a sailor, but certainly a 8] perhara man whom 1 thin a yong certainly now do you, know this?” bial at the inquest?” “My dear iellow, | imterences and conj hey only want evidence. ld have oom 1 AS a matter of vstMe that the and know @s mm ‘They don't give Leet icnow, ‘But, tne dead ma gave | ty of su opinion as ide Or an ac- Airection, Nothing naa 4a! other person had been near room on the anlght of the ot ks Rg PSs satisfied that was enough. So that the Yan Sohaick was or, ins | ‘than | fellow clubmen | what do you think of the ver-| Ou @eemed to be the most Ne, and to square dt does. jury, and feverthebess, hirsclt. He was a rather tall, metive young man, ddentity if I saw thom” 6 shnplest possible inferences, easily guees, if you will they Gon't want any jectures, ft ted with the ¢ fact, It is quite iat Letters from the People Answers to Questions not more neglige than many other captains in regard fire drills, b 1 at I do ng so far. Individually think he erred F. WOODHEAD. People's Chorus, Cooper Union. To the Editor of The Eventng World: I have been advised by friendy that I have a very good yol And should have it ‘cultivated Wher could T have my or at a low rate? What Percentage? To the Dditor of The Evening World: A man | did he would have made 10 more than he did. W1 he make? The B tH IPN ify ‘pers, bank book, us take a book at the back of the house. & man of con- ile couldn't have left by Fo; Ing door, as we know; un: there (I am of t the chimney is out of thi there was a fre for all th the that Ue onl; escupe Sce, now, look up there, The window at the top floor and st has a sill. Over the window js the flat face of the gable-end; but an, | lovel of the top of the window, an tr | Gutter ends, Composition, f an ported cI fa m the end of the window ail himself by the left an the right, he cold cage touch of this gutter with his right har retoh, toe to finger, ie fmohes, I have measured it. but a strong iron gutt thi full sty three fie eictor with a alleht spring and it draey himself up on the roof. You gay he ld Mave to bo very acti dexterous and cool. So he would, $e 7 a 8 man to look, (as J an s s oe showid be suspended. several | voloa trained free AR sold some goods. Had he bought them at § per cent. less than h per cen: at per cent. di t's land- others: fe. of that window, then, he went." f course ft is. But why will you broad | f¢ nothing but the righit, and a foot or two above the Observe, % 1s not of lead ust at its end by a strong ’ L steadying Jeanin) a 1e feot An gymnast or @ sailor, could caich wll use it nar- uary. e know the | 7 Because, THE MEAL-TICKET MAN. By Martin Green, HOW me,” demanded the Meal-Ticket Man. “Show you what? asked the Handsome Waiter, “T was going to say,” explained the MoealTicke§ Man, “that 1 would Hke to be shown some society, person who didn’t give up to Col. Mann, WR didn’t do them any good to put alum on their bank-rolla when the Colonel extended his Tunch-hooka. All of * which goes to show that this is an easy village I'd Ife to have the privilege of spieling the nuts at the corner of Thirty~ | fourth street and Fifth avenue, They'd have cramps in their arms Ufting up the shells to find the little pea. “Thera must be some hypnotic power in a set of meerschaum-colored whiskers, Look at Dowle! All he had to do was show the drapery in his countenance, and hundreds of enthuslasts threw the long green at him, You will notice from the testtmony in the Town Topics suit that several prominent and influential citizens went to Col. Mann’s office to call him down. As soon as they saw his whiskers they called up the bank to find out how much they had on deposit, We have lots of fun with the Rube who comes to New York and buys the City Hall from an affable stranger, paying $50 down, the balance to be produced in instalments of $10 a month, Where do these people who paid for Col. Mann's stock got off the hay cwagon?" “That Fads ard Fanctes graft certainly had the mayonnalse on It," declared the Handsome Walter. “Oh, very well,” agreed the Menl-Ticket Man, “but Col. Mann was Hild | the general who led his army {nto ambush and reported that he had made | a tactical mistake. The bewhiskered Colonel went after the wrong class off | people. An unwilling mark is always framed up for a welch. Col. Mang should have started off his list with a couple of live ones, and then adverse |tised to catch tho people whose wealth 1s Just off the shelf. Instead of | grabbing out for folks whose money 4s an ‘incident, he should have swung for those with whom a miilion-dollar bank account ranks like e emall boy's | first pair of long pants.” “Everybody seems to bo getting the graft," stzhed the Handsome . Waiter, 5 “Yes,” agreed the Meal-Ticket Mun, “but not all of them are getting ‘away with it” + 2____ Science and the Primary Colors, SCORDING to Prof. Redard, of Geneva, Switzerland, each of the primary colors has a spechal and well-detined action on the organism, Red light i an exciting and an Irritating agent. It modifies the virulence of certais eruptions and has been used tn cases of varioloid. Yellow Ught seems to have & depressing action, while with the blue light fs obtained a sensation of calm and ease. To apply the anaesthetic method blue Ught the patient ts seated on a chair at ten Inches from @ fifteen candle-power incandescent Mmp, The bulb of the lamp Is of ‘jue giass and {t has @ nickelled reflector, ‘The head ts covered with a thin blue vell nnd the patient directs his vision toward the lam After & few minutes the subject |s found to be in an unconscious state, In this At | state a tooth can be extracted or other short operation carried out without palm {2 | The effect is not attributed to hypnotism, but to the direct action of the rays upos d,| the nerve centres. a See The Perfect Pearl HE qualifications of a pearl of first water should be, in th jeweller’ I grunge, “a perfect akin and a fine orient,” . e it mum iw oe domeaae texture, free from speck and flaw, nd clear, almost translucent, with subdued Irhlesoent sheen. It should be apherical; if not, then of @ aymmetrient pearl shape “La Peliegrina’’ in the Zouinia Museum, Moscow, te mld to ems body perfection in shape, and weighs 2% carats, ‘The Beresford-Hope oollection in the South Kensington Mu: sample pearl that welshs three ounces and has a circumference 60 tour ena Cee half inches, says the Sunset Magazine. The bay of La Paz, Muloge and Loretto |tmve all produced samples fully equal to the most celebrated pease from the Persian gulf fisheries. The Encyclopedia Rritannica credits La Paz with « peaah | found in 1882 wtighing 7 karats, Case of Mr. Fogeatt body comes of business, bi ce re) | Ways being {mpossthle this alone re- | mains, difficult as the feat may seem. ‘The fact of his shutting the window be- hind [him ‘further. proves his, coolness | lar t an dress at so great a height from | my eyes open a: y the ground.” | Sometinues these ay memory In origi ‘All this Was very plain, but the main | hands by th. ves, as it i point was still dark, that case, of course, { acy ‘ott “You say you know that another man | 2", ane ready to ‘help th AG Tevolr! Taaid. 1d Am 8 busy man myself, and thoug it's conundrum more of Hew! f some time; indeed, when I did) thin! to the answer, week afer thet ek after the inquest I day (I had writtea my ni ree fader regularly eve: lay for the t five years). and ho more. of Howse a Me teat, return, with cat Ng we tomother ‘turned, Gant Paw 4 of Coventry street, for dinner, ips very 2 my regue slat keep ome to Oe tt as ute ouiel't ateettos Naturally I was in the room “Hox do you know that?” “As I sald, by an obvious Inference. Come, now, ‘you shall guess how I ar- rived at that Inference. You often speak of your interest In my work, and the attention with which you follow it. This shall be a simple exercise for you. g in the room as yaelf. Bring the sceno r memory and think over the various small obects iittering about, and how they would affect the case, Quick observation {a the first essential Ot my work. Did you see a new: for _instance?"’ ‘There wes an evening news- paper on the floor, but I dida’t ex- amine It." x “Anything else?’ in the table there was a whiskey decanter, taken from the tantalus stand on the sid That, by, the by,"" I added only one perso Bo It did, perhaps, ference wouldn't be ont” “There was » fruit stand on the sido- late beside it gontain- ry di sany "I have beon hi Intely,”” Hewitt eald; “they feed. very Well. No, not that tadle’—-he selzed my arm’ as turned to am unocel ‘ we corner—"T taney He led th table hore Maar iiNet ed tok @s could be seen) ‘tall young man. fiady amt, and took chairs oppos We had scarcely seated be fore Howitt broke Inte a karo Colca versation on the subject Aa our. previous ‘converse of a Iiterary sort, known itt at any of Lise re allghteat interest present. although the in- very strong. Go orange u ordinary f of course, Dut pe chair ed up to tle table ex used Fogyatt himeelf. 7! oept that, hate all I no-| Fe Stay—tht ash and a hi ‘urniture, pew i ticed, 1 thinik. tray ‘on the table cigar near |t—onl. Nipxcellent—excell as memory and You saw overy now you would that another ma ut how? The window ts fifty feet lieve, was man riding now, and I tl yuzzle some of them to beat BF he was at his best, tis—reall) there were not ash, oorresp’ ! on ng CSE a as we went down: turned a bottle of oll te the Kkenper’s. di or, T think. houaekarrr ant that give. you. bint? Come, you urely have It now? “I havan : Ge : you don't de- ve te best ina Gone” mention the ve Ht aie thing stares au i eee ‘Yourself tt’ you 3% Ber “rneres a case in ht t you Dropowe to @o furiher Into nis. 0 “on er, “You wo “Lilea," said the young man en yon—talea te wast Chastey yt Wasnit it a championship?” ‘Mile champtonshty, 1830; Cortis a ae als ia Conte 4 "Yea, Ao he we he first broke the ol? 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