The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1906, Page 8

Passa AT RIA Doe ens York One good thing Mr. Jerome fone is to send a few law) jail. District-Attorney Clarke, 0 Kings County, has done his part also in this excellent enterprise and has now an opportunity to do more. | Many lawyers in Brooklyn have collected fraudulent claims against the city for sewer damages. ‘“Run- ners” have worked up imaginary) claims and sold them by the dozeny to lawyers. Sometimes the people! who were named as claimants knew nothing about the matter. Others who admit they suffered no dam- age from flooded sewers were per- suaded by the “runners” to file claims, Others still scented graft | themselves and were eager to-share it. The Brooklyn Eagle says that one shoemaker claimed to have had Spoiled by water in his cellar 170 barrels of flour, 2,000 loaves of bread and eieven sacks of caraway seed—supplies for a baker doing a big busi- ness. One woman claimed that she kept her piano in her cellar, where it got soaked. Some of the lawyers bringing such preposterous suits were gullty of nothing worse than negligence. Others will have a hard time proving that they were not scamps. For a lawyer to employ “runners” to solicit business Is a misde- meanor. To buy claims for prosecution is also a misdemeanor. Present- ing false claims to a public official is a felony. Too many lawyers in this town are trying to do business on a stock in trade of cunning without character. There should be a clearance. A hawyer is a sworn officer of justice, His relations with his client and with the public are delicate, responsible, exacting. No profession requires a more exalted sense of professional dignity and personal honor. Mr, Clarke isa very quiet District-Attorney; does not advertise; but generally makes good. Watch the procession start, rate bill” that will pre- a ride that costs g would mean “Harlem im Less than Forty Minutes!” Popular Taste in Music. ' "The experiment of two singers in St. Louis to determine whether so-called “popular” songs or sélectians from grand opera would evoke the j greater applause resulted in the rout of ragtime. But what other verdict was to be expected? There are few greater faflacles than the assumption that the public does not appreciate good music. It applauds ragtime as it thrills over summer novels, but it never for a moment loses sight of the superior claims of the great masters of _ _ Witness the enthustasm which grests familiar operatic music played Detween the acts at theatres, the success of “English opera” ventures, the ‘throngs at people's symphony concerts and at the concerts of Russian tmusic, the crowded upper galleries of the Carnegie and the Metropolitan, joven the popularity of the fugitive performances of Sunday opera in Four- teenth street. Given standard music with moderate admission charges, the popular yesponse Is immediate and generous. To belk at Wagner at prohibitive prices ts not indicative of any lack In the multitude for a love of true melody. That lack is more often to be looked for higher In the social) {7'°",/* (het. scale, THE NEW x # w DETECTIVE Martin Hewitt, a brilliant private detective, with unique methods, is the hero of these adventures, re- counted by his, friend Brett. The story of sories was “The set of drawings has teen stolen.” “From your house?" “From my oitice, in Chancery lane, | this morning. The four sets of draw- ings were distrituted thus: Two were at the Admiralty office, one belng a finished set on thick paper and the other Ua of a hen. vill readers | k ment, for it has me guossing? J. A. AMT 87) = Hs ne Mad pallial: seein 2 Mondoey Even toe lita iia Si “He Wont Be Happy. Till He Gets It.” By J. Campbell Cory. Letters from the People A Weird Discussion. To the Diltor of ‘The Evening World: | In an argument recently: I contended that tripe was not meat. insisted that it was, considering It was part of a beef. But I say. his argument, that eggs are also a Still, they are not meat. | for at the time when fire was dis- My opponent in line with edly settle this argu- To the Hdttor of The Evening World: is, as he claims, that he dared not call the company's attention to it for fear of losing his position, as thet were plenty of pilots ready that woyld take the chance. But I do not agree with the writer's statement that Van Schaick | should have beached the boat earller, covered he dil not dare beach his boat for fear of running aground, He beached his boat as soon as he could. I make this remark from good author- Is President Roosevelt's present wife| ity, as 1 was aboard the boat at the Miss Alice Roosevelt's mother? EDWARD H. From a Slocum Survivor. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I quite agree with Mr. F. Woodhead that Capt. Wililam H. Van Schalck has | been made a scapegoat in one respect, he was not to blame for life-preservers which were aboard the !ll-futed steamer if it Martin Hewitt, Investigator. Croft Robberies.” CHAPTER If. The Theft. The time was half-past lin the af- ternoon, and Hewitt sat in his inner office, when hia clerk quietly entered the room with one of those printed slips which were kept for the announcement of unknown visitors, It was filled up im @ hasty and almost illegible hand, ‘thus: Name of visitor: F. Graham Dixos, Addre: Chancery lane, Business: Privete and urgent. “Show Mr, Dixon in,” eald Martin Hewitt. Mr. Dixon wras a gaunt, worn-looking man of fifty or eo, well, although rather carelessly, dressed, and carrying in his strong though drawn face and dullish eyes the look thet characterizes the Ufelong strenuous brain-worker. He leaned forward arrxiously in the chair which Hewitt offered him and told his atory with @ great deal of very natural agitation, “You may possibly have heard, Mr. Hewitt—-I know there are rumors—of ‘the new locomotive torpedo which the government te about edopting; it is, fact, the Dizon torpedo, my own inven- ‘Hom, and in every respeot—not merely in my own opinion, but in that of the ‘government oxperte—by far the most ‘efficient and certain yet produced. It ‘will trevel at least 400 yards further han any torpedo now made, with per foot accuracy of alm (a very great de- carry an unprecedentedly heavy charge. These are other advanitagoe—speed, sim- & set of tracings therefrom; and the other two were at my own office, one | Detng a pencilled set, uncolored—e sort of finished draft, you understand—and the other pet of tracings almilar to those at the Admiralty. It is this last et that has gone. The two sets were kept together in one drawer in my room. Both were there at 10 o’clook this morn- ing. Of that Iam sure, for I had to go to that very drawer for something else when I first arrived. But at 12 o'clock the tracings bad vanished.” “Very well; we will get to Chancery lane now, if you please, and you can tell me more as we go.’ “I have a cab waiting. What elee can I tell your" “I understand the position to be suc- olnotly this: The drawings were in the office when you obody came and yet they That ts 90, When I say that abso- lutely nobody oame in, of course I ex- cept the postman, He brought a couple of letters during the morning. I mean that absolutely nobody came past the barrier in the outer office—the usual thing, you know, like @ counter with a frame of ground «lase over it,” “I quite understand that. But I think you said that the drawings were in a drawer in your own room—not the outer office, where the draughtamen are, I pre- ama eume?" ‘That's the case. Tt 1s an Inner room or, vather, a room parallel with the other, and communicating with {t; Just $a. yous iowa rasm {s, which we have Just ae 2. “But, then, you eay you never teft| wer opposite this. 1 your oMoa, and yet the drawings van-| work, In the Inner office 1 work my- iahed—apparently by some unseen] golf, These rooms communicate, as you agenoy—while you were there in the| pee, by a door. Our ordinary way in Poon?” ‘Let mo explain more clearly,” The ca was bowling amoothly along the Strand, and the eer took out pocketbook Baa pe: ‘I fear," he ceeded, t I am a little opntused in my explanation—{ am naturally rather agitated, Au will see pres- ontly, my offfces ognelet of three rooms, $wa ot ope aide of w corridge, and tho and our of the place ts by the door of the outer office leading into the cor- ridor, and we first pass through the usual iifting flap in the barrier, The oor leading from the ‘nner office to corridor 1a always kopt looked on ‘the insido, an I don’t suppose I unloot tt once in threo months, It has not heen unlooked all the morning, Tho drawer in whioh the mipeing drawing» time and never left until she was beached. Suspend the sentence, Judge, A SURVIVOR. Women in Business. ‘To the Bittor of The Hvening World: In reply to business girl, who thinks she answers C. Rein's letter on deserted homes, and w 2 Answers to Questions would Itke to say that if women who)not be impanelled who could agree on do not stay ut happy homes eed to work for a liv home there would be fe’ nd divided families, un- 1d |the guilt of the party or parties whose port granted a Le 1) that the evi se to the boat jance proved was not sound think {t would be better for such wo-|in any part or equipment or adjunct? men to stay home and ‘‘mend and make Acter an exceptionally honorable career clothes" in the day time, as any well-}the captain to-do gtri with th would do plas place of and family pects supper already returh from his dally toll." Pity for Van Schaick. To the Editor of The Evening World: I think it fs a pity that poor old Capt. Van Schatck should be sent to prison for the term of ten years at hard labor. i know 3 she has a@ position|the best he could. formerly held by a man, and states she Jury could be brought to convict the does housework on her return home, I aged captain off-hand, yet one cou est idea of fair dof taking the a man who probably has a wife to support, and “who ex- prepared on felon’s cell. ering Ls. | To the & Wh Sootety f to Animals’ unde? the circumstances he did How 4s dt that a His Fourth Case THE DIXON T were kept, and ‘n which T saw them at nosite. Indeed, Worsfold was at the 10 o'clock this morning, ta at the place|deor of the outer office most of the| inner office. marked D; Ir is a 1 ohest of shallow | short time, He came to ask mo A” ques- jrawera !n which the plana le flat,” tlo “T quite understand, Then there ts] « * Hewitt replied, “it all comes he private room opposite, What of/¢, the simple first statement. You that?!” ‘i know that nobody left the place or Para rea ee LS oe arrived, except the postman, who | stavd?’ biel Ne lata meee bt fier couldn't get near the drawings, and neae Interviews of a very pi When I sald I never left my office I ald not mean that I never stirred out of the inner office, I was about in one room and another, both the outer and the inner offices, and onoe I wont into the | private body came either in or out of any of the rooms at that time, for the door of vate room was wide open, and f was standing at the bookcase (I hud the priv gone to the fact board the ship tryt the passgngers until his very eyes his were nearly burned out of his head, the clothes burned from his back, might have had a little pity for this poor in- | valid of a scapegoat. ‘Twenty-sixth must end his Ife in a I think tle Judge, consid- he remained on to save the lives C. KLEIN. Street and Madison Avenue, The Evening Wo dress of the American he Prevention of Cruelty LILLIAN M. NICHOLS. cd “The Tracings Had Vanished!” room for five minutes, but no- consult a book), Just Inside the | jo¢ go, door, with a full view of the doors op- yet the office?’ stone building, led the took a casual glanve round each of the three rooms, in the frame of ground glass over the barrier to admit of speech with visttora, ‘This door Hewitt pushed wide open and There was a sort of door He and the engineer went into the “Would you Uke to ask Worsfold and Ritter any questions?” Mr. Dixon inquired. drawings went. Is this your “Prosently, Those aro thelr coata, 1| Met “You, those are all thelr thinge—boata, hats, atick and umbrella.” fi those coats were searched, ‘you, The cab had stopped before a large Mr, Dixon alighted and way to the first floor, Howitt ORPEDO #29 Soi SES cia enh ath i THE_MEAL TICKET MAN. By Martin Green, HOW me,” demanded the Meal-Ticket Man, as he took his seat at the corner table, “the address of ‘a cor respondence school that will tell me how to marry, a rich widow who does not show her age.”’ “Maybe you're not there with the bunk,” suggested the Handsome Walter. “ “That must be it," agreed the Meal-ticket Man. “Or else {t's because I have no past. A real, gamey past goes a long way toward giving a bright young man like me the best of it; but, alas, when others of my years were accumulating a past, I was compelled to toil in order that I might accumulate food. I had an adventurous spirit. but I also had am appetite and a foolish desire to pay my debts. Now, when I would fain slide on the slippers and smoking jacket of a departed millionaire, the best I can get is a quick view of the mansions occupied by the widows from the deck of a Yap Wagon. Cut out the breakfast food to-day. I've eaten 80 much of it I feel like a grain elevator, “What's the use in being poor, anyhow? Look at the First Deputy Police Commiesionership. It was as vacant as a show girl’s mind for days and days, while fully 200,000 eager and honest young men of meagre assets yearned to fill it. But Bingham goes and chooses Rhinelander ‘Waldo, a millionaire clubman. who doesn’t need the salary, Not thot Rhinelander fsn't equipped for the job. He has a head, a torso, two hands and two feet. The only qualification he possesses that everybody else who wanted the job lacks is a bank account that runs into seven figure When Rhinelander's duutle buffaloed the Tenderlcin polee he made g simply because he said he was Rhinelander. Those to whom he sp thought he was Rhinelander. Now, if he made people believe he ws First Deputy Police Commisstoner by sayjng he was when he wasn't, why wouldn't he have made as good a Commissioner as Rhinelander Waldo? “You hear a lot when you are yourg and palpitating with life and confidence in humnatty about the Door of Opportunity, Your kind old Professor, who makes you think he knows everything In life and draws down the tremendous salary of $83.33 1-3 per month, assures you that the Door of Opportunity is around every corner and that you must rot pass it by. Finally, you go out to hustle, and after you have butted into a few thousand blind alleys and made yourself cros d lcoking for the Door of Opportunity, you sucdenly bump into it. At the same time you find that there is a number painted on it.” “What is the number?" asked the Handsome Waiter. “Twenty-three,” replied the Meal-Ticket Man, —s Why the Sea Is Green. HE green color of ocean water depenis upon the number of medusae and I other minute animal forms which Innabic {:. [> deep green nortnern seus literally swarm with these minute creatures; in some as places re (i m, 47, ie inch 1.184; a cuble f many as 128 of them have been found in a proportion a cubic foot of water would co and a cubic mile, 48,776,000,000,00). From soundings made in the districts wore these creatures are found in such immense numbers, $t Is probal'e that the waters will average a nie im depth; whether these forms occupy the w depth ts uncertain. Provided, tome ever, the depth to which they extend Is YW fathoms, the shove number of one species may occur within a space of ore square mile. o—__ ——__— Thumbnail Sketches. UBJECT—William ‘H. Taft. S Favorite Sport—Taking on flesh, Favorite Task—Taking it off, Favorite Book— y rite Artist—Dr, Tanner, vorite Frult—The prize pumpkin. vorite Plant—The Big Stick. orite Vehicle—The plano van. Favorite Musical Instrument—The base tuba. Favorite Character in History—Falstaft, By Arthur Morison, Author of ‘‘ Tales of Mean ‘Streets,’ searched, of course?" hydrostatics, chemistry, ¢ jclty and | “Oh, certainly; every drawer was | pneumatics are most delicately manipue taken cut and turned over." lated and adjusted, and the smallet | “Well, of course, I must asvume you | error or omission in any par woud |made ne mistake In your hunt. Now {Upset the whole. No, the drawings aio necessary tw the thing, and they | tell me, did anybody know where thege | are gone." beyond yourself and your Bist igs S far as I can tell, not a soul.” 1 don't keep an office boy?" No. There would be nothing for him to do except to post a letter now and again, which Ritter doca quite well -for."* | “As you are quite sure that the draw- ings were there at 10 o'clock, perhaps the thing scarcely matters. But I may as well know if your men have keys jof the office?” ‘Neither. I have patent locks to each door and keep all the keys myself. It Worefold and Ritter arrive before mo im the morning they~have to wait to be let in, and I am always present myself when the rooms are cleared. I have not neglected precautions, you see.’ “No. I wuppone the object of the theft—eseuming {t 1s a theft—tis pretty plain: The thief would offer the draw- ings for sale to some foreign govern- ment?" “Ot course, They would probably command a great sum. I have been looking, as I need hardly tell you, to that invention to seoure me @ very large fortune, anit I shall be ruined in- deed Af the design is taken ebroad. I am under the strictest engagements to eecrecy with the Admiralty, and not only should I loge all my labor, but I should lose all the confidence reposed in me at headquarters; should, in fact, be subject to penalties for breach of contract, and my career stopped for- ever, I cannot tell you what a serl- ous business this is for me. If an cannot ame, the consequences wi be patter, Bad for the dervice of the “As At this moment the door wf the outer office was heapd to open and somebody entered. door between the two offices was ajar, and Hewit: could soé right through to the glass door left open over the barrier and into the stace beyond. A well dressed, dark, bushy bearded man stood there oarry! ing a hand bag, which he placed on the ledge befbre him, Hewitt raised his hand to enjoin silence. The man spoke in a rather high pitched voice and with o slight accent. “Is Mr. Dixon now within?” he asked. ; answered one of the very particularly en- gaged. Iam afraid you won't be able to see him thie afternoon, Can I give him” any message?” “This ta two—the second time I have come to-day, Not two hours ago Mr, Dixon himself tells me to call again, I have @ very tmportamt—very excellent steam packing to ahow him that is very cheap and the best of the market.’* The man tapped his bag. “I have just “Really, I'm sure you can't thie afternoon; he isn't sesing anybody. But | | if you'll leave your name’!—. { He ask me to little later, and I country, too, of course," “Of ‘ete Now, tell me this: It would, I (mke it, be necessary for the to exhibit these drawings to any- anxious to buy the secret—I mean take it, hanging just to the right of the hs ‘ouldn't describe the invention by outer offloe door over the umbrella | wong of mouth.” “Oh, mo; that would be fmposslble, ‘The drawings of the most compll-