The evening world. Newspaper, June 25, 1919, Page 20

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1919 : Story of Fritz Duquesne, ~The “Soldier of Fortune” ~ Prison Bars Couldn’t Hold ~ AS TOLD BY INSPECTOR TUNNEY. Was Boer Scout, Captured by English, Sent to Ber- | Posed as American Officer to Spy for Germany in _ «South America, _ Shipped “Films” From Brazil on Steamer—“Films”’ ‘<< Exploded, Steamer Sank. Stored Other Films in Brooklyn Warehouse—Ware- |" “house Caught Fire. . tel dar teed to England for Trial on Mur- written by the late Richard be deported for England, whero murder on the high seas, Capt. most ingenious escapes in'the was in the prison ward at at thin air, clad only in siippers—ell without attracting the attention of the © dummy of blankets in his bed. Se Trinidad with a United states pass- Port, “poses as an American officer, Dut tn reality ts an intelligence oMcer in the service of the German Govern- ment.” Color is lent to the report by @ letter found in his possessions Gubtemale'to the German Gonrta.n jonsulate in Nicaragup, and sient recom. mending the captain as one who “has ba many occasions given many nota- i warviews *© our good German THE FATAL UNDERTAKING THAT LED TO HIS ARREST. ‘i i i iF bee fli! fii} | i te ri i ice ENTWINED WITH FIRGT ESCAPE. ocurred in her hold sailors were killed. The never reached New York. Duqueane turned up in Buenos Ayres and em- barked on a new audacity—nothing collecting the insurance of jesyees for the loss of the film which claimed to have shippé red ye ipped in the | From the Argentine he returned to New York, “He stored néw films he claimed to have purchased in a ‘ware- house at No, 437 Cariton Avenue, Brooklyn, stored them as ‘statuary,’ " scording to Inspector ' | ty possibilities for himself, - apd he came to America as a mighty “Munter of big game.” i Y wrote and lectured on his its as a Nimrod, “Hunting Roosevelt,” and in 1910 oc- ‘what to me is one of the most incidents of his career, The ; from Louisiana then sit- in Congess introduced a bill to © ‘Fré-popuiate the backwaters of his — gonstituency with families of hippo- | Mgotamuses—which recalls the famous 4 of the Alderman who wanted {nto Central Park a male gon- and a female gondola—and let take its course, Ddright and voluble Capt. declares Inspector Tunne: Id the committee (of Agriculture the House) extraordinary things ine home of the hippopotamus, the of its flesh, the amiability temperament, and the care- of its appetite.” One of his its was that the hippos eat up the river plants, which Pe exhausting the air in the water and killing off the fish by as- mysteriously caught fire, By a queer coincidence the ‘films’ which, of course, were destroyed in this fire, too, had been insured by their pur- chaser for $33,000, and he set out to collect the $33,000 for the tota) loas of his property.” HIS LAST ESCAPE IN CHaR- ACTER WITH OTHERS. Last November he pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with Presenting thie fraudulent claim, It was found he did not own the films, Meanwhile a certain lecture we which shall be nameless swallowed him whole as “Capt. Claude Staugh- ton"— lovely name—of the West Australia Light Horse, who “has per- haps seen moré of the war than any man at present before the public, who bas been four times gassed, three times bayoneted, once pronged by a German trench-hook,” and who would be charmed to lecture on “German Spy Metho@s"—with that Jetter in his pocket commending him for “many notable services to our good German cause!” He “gulled a few suburban Sunday schools,” concludes his historian, “but his arrest put an end at least to his attempt to pick up a bit of odd change by collecting insurance,” At the request of the British Govern. ment he was to be extraditea within & week and tried for the murder of the sailors on the Tennyson, when Fite “FLEET OF HIPPOS” FOR LOUISIANA BAYOUS. )*Tt is historic vaudeville.” eums Apspector Tunney. “A German wy seaching @ class of American en about the hippo, and subtly that when they & fleet of the great beasts Louisiana bayous they let him them up. He would have done had been American money NoT PE PTRYING RD PAPER BOV Be a Better Stenographer and Earn Bigger Pay HOW TO SPEED UP YOUR SHORTHAND, INSURE ACCURACY AND INCREASE EFFICIENCY HOW TO GET, ALL THE CLOTHES INTO ONE SUIT CASE FORGOTTEN ARE we! 4 WE'LL LOAD UP HER DOORSTEP | ¢ whine SHES BowN BY THE SEA! FORGOTTEN . FORGOTTEN, A —_* Fourth of a series of twelve articles written especially for stenog- rapher readers of The Evening World by Herman J. Stich, world's champion high speed shorthand writer and international authority on the subject, Mr, Stich, who is a court reporter, is the first shorthand writer to obtain a speed of 300 words @ minute, twenty words more than the best previous record, By Herman J. Stich Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World). How to Secure Legibility. read it, A NYBODY can write shorthand, but only a: good stenographer can Legible shorthand in the main depends upon four factors. First: Choice of outlines, Second: Precision of execution. Third: Familiarity with your shorthand peculiarities, Fourth: Mental concentration while writing, Fifth: Vocalization and positional writing. CHOICE OF OUTLINES, ‘The shorthand outlines for the words used in ordinary «peech should be impressed on your mind through practice on the principles by the “speed sentence” method as already suggested, The Mterature of your shorthand system wifl as @ general rule give you thé best outline for less frequently recurring thoash just as important words, Never use one outtine for a word at one time and @ different outline for the same word at another time, When you find outlipes “clashing” avold it wherever possible by chang- ing the consonanta! structure of one of the outlines, Where this is not feasible, vocalize one or another of the conflicting words or differentiate ‘by means of positional writing, Be sure to write carefully, ‘This in itself sinister pote ts sounded in| he proved once more that stone walls @& not @ prison make for @ soldier of fortune, . “Throttle!” is published by 8: all, ‘Bras ta Maynard & Go. Boston, _ will obviate many conflicts, PRECISION OF EXECUTION, Uniess neatly written, even the most error-proof shorthand will be- some ilexible, - Preserve your proportions. . See to it that half-lengths are half-lengths; that your single-lengths are single- lengths; and that your doudie- lengths are double-lengths, It is a good idea to make your double-lengths triple-lengths and your single-dengths about two and a half times the size of a halflength. Make your curves distinct curves and your straight strokes absolutay straight, Medial angics, while sometimes of necessity “sandpapered,” should be angles just the same Complete your circles 0 that they wil not be mistaken for hooks, Don't close your hooks or you will mistake them for circles, Preserve your proportion tn hooks and circles so that a emall hook is not misread for @ laege hook or « small circle for a large circle and vice versa. Here, too, it is a good plan to. exaggerate the large hooks and large ciroctes, This will make them un- r Don't bear down on your pencil or) and facility in reading and writing shorthand. You must attain thorough error-proof outlines and familiarity with your notes. Arid the only way to become familiar with your own notes ig to read them. That is the only way you will learn to recognize your personal peculiarities of pen- manship, So that when an occasional outline is badly executed you will be pen. FAMILIARITY WITH YOUR SHORTHAND PECULIARITIES, Every day in your newspaper you run across words (perhaps in this very article) which in the hustle and bustle of the typesetting rooms ap- pear misprinted, Neverthleas you read them without difficulty, In the same way, in the burry of shorthand writing there may be an outline here and there which has be- come slightly distorted. In fast shorthand writing this die- tortion of outlines is inevitable, As you write more rapidly your short- } hand acquires more “swing,” more fluency; your angles become more “sandpapered.” But ali this should not tn the least detract from the inherent legibility of your notes, By constant study and reading of your notes you uncon- sclously accustom yourself to depar- | tures from vopper plate, It is not ex- \pecting too much to require you to | be able to read your shorthand as | readily and as unthinkingly as you {read your newspaper, “Until you can write one hundred words @ minute on editorial matter jfor @ ten minute period everything |that you write in shorthand should be read back. The methods indi- eated in the articles on Auto-Dic- tation (tg be published later) will compel you to read back what you write along those lines, 9 But be sure to read what you write frem dictation, ‘The “speed sen- tence” method, one of the means of auto-dictation already dwelt upon, forces you to read the line above the one you are writing on, Be sure The Annual Vacation Problems Of Mr. and Mrs. Manhattan able to read it correctly, It 1s hard to say it, but tt must be aid that If you do not wish to take the trouble to read back your notes, you may as well quit striving to become a high-speed writer. Spend your time profitably, When you can write 160 words a minute on fairly diMoult editorial matter with 100 POR CENT. AC- CURACY, or thereabouts, you need read back only half what you write from dictation, Until then READ BACK HVERY- THING, (Mental concentration, vocalization and positional writing will be taken up in the next article) ———_ America’s Pioneer Wood Engraver. HE first engraver of wood jn America, Alexander Anderson, was born in New York 144 years ago. His father was « Scotch- newspaper. physician, but in 1798, after having performed many deeds of heroism fighting the yellow fever epidemic of that year, he abandoned medicine and made en- He died in Jersey City at the age of ninety- four, and @ vast number of boo! justrated by Anderson vouch for the ability and industry of the pioneer in wood engraving in the man, the publisher of Anderson first became graving his life profession, the art Aa ka il-| 4 WEDNESDAY, Bolshevik Villist —Want an Orderly Democracy. : By Zoe Goprrtght, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) see ,AM a radical. One can be a radical without being a Bolshevist. The Bolshevik group are the Villistas of Rus: world. Do not take them too seriously. ber diplomacy and example are better than anger and violence, I hate violence, ‘They are angry at me because I will not be angry at them. They threatened to kill me, even. But here I am, you see.” I saw a rugged, robed and wind-tanned high priest, Platton Rozschestevensky, Metropolitan of Odessa, rep- resentative from Russian Church. appeal for the support of the Kolchak-Denikine Govern- * ment at Omsk, and the preservation of the religion without which he believes his peopie cannot thrive. He is picturesque and kindly, with big blue eyes which he closes as he talks, flowing gray-black hair and grayish whiskers of scope and pro- fusion, The canohs of his religion forbid marriage, yet be has so under- standing and brotherly ® manner that there is no suggestion of his ‘be- ing aloof from all the bumanest af- fairs of life, The Metropolitan speaks limited English, so @ fluent friend told him the visitor wanted to know how this greatly feared Bolshevism was ramp~| ing along in Russia. “It is killing itself,” said the priest simply. “It has lasted surprisingly long. But by t) sign I foresee its passing—that the peasantry are re- pudiating it. The people are joining the armies of Kolchak and Denikine. ‘They want drastic reforms, but they do not want violence and chaos. They are weary of them, for they have suf- fered long under the old and dark regime. “Nobody in Russia wants !mperial- ism. Stories are current that Kolchak is an Imperialist, a slightly modified Czar. This is positively not eo, The tales are circulated by enemies of the Co-operative Movement. If wen. Kolchak and Gen. Denikine are sup- ported morally and substantially they wil give the people a government based upon the workable principles of Socialism. “There will be nation-wide educa- tion, an equable division of property, freedom for both sexes and all classes, weparation of Church and State, municipal and state ownership of ne- cessities—in short, an orderly and jast government, a democracy. I am @ radical”"— and he spoke the words that open this story. The Metropolitan fled from Odessa just two days before the Bolshevik Red Army took possession of it about three months ago. There was a price upon his head, and he was forced by his followers to leave under escort of French troops. “Rut I did not fear them,” he as- sured me, “I have faced many mobs which were mad with blood lust. In 1905 at Kiev, I stopped 20,000 men who were bent upon a massacre of Jews. In 1915, at Chotin, in Bessarabia, I pre- vented another pogrom. In Odessa I forbade the pogrom and insti- tuted drastic measures to enforce my order. I believe the Rolsheviki would not have harmed me, ‘They know I stand for most of the reforms their programme calls for. But I oppose their methods of obtaining them. “It is not true to contend that vio- lence and wholesale murder was the only course to pursue, Millions of Russians of the Centrist group pe- long to the Co-operative Movement and would have aided the overthrow of monarchism and rule of might, But they passed over the logical, or- derly steps, They reached too far, ‘They cannot last. They should not be permitted to rule by force and anarchy any more than the Villistas of Mexico, “I do not ask active intervention of the Allies or of the United States, But I ask support for the Omsk Gov- ernment, and all the aid and force of example possible.” Platton Rozschestevensky is said te have created quite a furry in the Duma some years ago when, as a Clerical member, he raised his voice for gil sorte of political, industrial and social reforms. He Is an ardent feminist and holds the sound belief that “sex is no barrier to thought and feeling,” and that “women's ideals are equally necessary with men's © the making of a g00d world,” He is “brother to all classes and races” and was elected at Kiev by the Jewish Committee to protest against the cruel horrors of the WITH THE INVENTORS, patent has been granted a French inventor for a process for Qrying and bleaching seaweeds for ee eaaael The “Bad Boys of the World,” . SAYS THE METROPOLITAN OF ODESSA Movement Is Killing Itself; Omsk Government Is Gaining “Peasantry Are Repudiating Bolshevism and Join- ~ ing the Armies of Kolchak and Denikine—Want Drastic Reforms, but Not Violence and Chaos JUNE 25, 1919 as of Russia and Just Government, a Beckley the bad boys of the Deal firmly, but remem> Myself, Yet I do not hate the Bolsheviki. Kiev and “Moscow of the Orthodox He has just arrived in New York to ' Pogrom and to gain certain rights and redresses for the Jowish people. As we were talking a telegram a rived for the Metropolitan. It wi brought in by a handsome blond Rus- alan brother In a dark green hubit, who knelt at the feet of the cleric and presented the envelope with a magnificent gesture, a low obeisance and a fervent kiss of the hand. The high priest said something quick!y in Russian, the young man rose, and | withdrew with a puzzled look upon. his classic face. F “It is not intended as an expression of humility,” the Metropolitan said, turning to me, “He means respect for the high office I occupy—and try | to fill,” he added with a smile. “One cannot, then, have gavernment without order and regpect for au- thority?” “I believe not,” he answered with his very kind smile. “I know that the masses of the Russian people need their religion. But I believe in misk- ing that religion a useful, sympa- thetic and constructive thing—do- operative, not despotic.” ‘The poor Metropolitan has had al- ready one cruel clash with a most despotic. armed force—the American dentist, He pleaded exhaustion as a reason for curtailing the interview. And being nothing if not liberal, I Prepared to withdraw with murmured sympathies, “Oh, it was horrible—horrible"—— the good priest said, holding up a pair | of shapely hands to heaven and clos- ing his eyes in sad reminiscence, “And five more times to come! Ab— it makes me feel as old as I look in that picture.” And he pointed to ‘The Evening World's photograph of yesterday. { “You are not old,” I noted the Metropolitan's clear, ruddy skin, bis stalwart frame, his alert blue eyes and ready smile. “Sixty,” sald he. “As for this*— touching his sunbrowned cheek—“I use nothing upon it but wate; OLD GINGHAM APRON’S MODERN SUCCESSOR Seneen cue ane Unekmoee Morning Dress of Blue Chambray Sleea in White Linen, Simply Made,