New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-03
DIAMOND CUTDIAMOND.
Marvels of Burglars' Ingenuity-A New
Plan to Circumvent Them-The Teles
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Plan to Circumvent Them-The Teles
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From the New York Times.
With all the machinery, more or less COM
pick, employed for the preservation of our
lives and property, notwithstanding bars
and bolts and scores of policemen. sup
posed to guard our doors, burglaries and
even assassinations are unfortunately of too
frequent occurrence. If notable attention
has been paid of late to the construction of
houses in order that they should be made as
secure as possible, the thieves in the mean
while have not been idle. Rascality has in
deed been almost as progressive as any
thing else.
Let any one examine a burglars kit Of
tools at d police station, coming from some
recent capture, and he will be amazed at
the skill they evince in their manufacture.
No jewelers. outfit can exceed them i'll fin
ish. As to material, you will fluid they are
made of only the most approved qualities of
steel: as to mechanism, they are master
pieces of Ingenuity. Firstly, they are con-
| structed so as to accomplish the greatest
amount of work with the smallest outlay
of power: and, secondly, to do'their bust
ness in the most noiseless way. very
| pretty tool we saw some time ago. 1t was
| /. triple auger. One turn of the handle
| set three bits revolving, cutting three holes,
| ene-half an inch in diameter each and
about a quarter of an inch apart.
In five minutes you could cut out an oak
| panel two in ches thick with it. Then there
| was clever arrangement about 1t, which
held the panel toward the operator; so that
| it could not fall outward and make clat-
ter. Another pretty thing was a double
| spring saw for cutting through iron. 10
each end was attached rubber pad con
| tanning oil. which not only deadened the
| sound, but at every movement acted as
| selt-lubricator. Once a hole drilled through
an iron shutter, and the saw in, it would
cut like a hot knife through butter, and as
to an inch bolt. it would have been like
parsnip.
If the best protection against counterfeit
ing is to produce bank plates OF such high
order of merit as to design and execution
that no rascas can be found clever enough
to initiate them. obviously the best way to
thwart the Ingenuity enlisted on the side of
the burg lars Is to prevent the opportunity
of its exercise. The telegraph, as an instru.
ment used tor the capture OF thieves, is well
known Your bond rObber has his swag all
safe, and steps on the English steamer. He
is lust in sight of Liverpool when his theft
is discovered. Click goes the quick tOngued
messenger, fatboms deep under, perhaps,
the very keel of the vessel i'll which.h he sails.
Before he has reached the shore his crime Is
known and the handouts await him. How
to use this method for the better protection
of our houses has occupied for some years
the attention of some gentlemen well known
as telegraphers, and has resulted IN the
formation OF the American District lele-
graph Company.
All the streets of New York and Brooklyn
are to be united by network of wires,
communicating with an intinity of branch
offices called district offices. In each of
these district offices, night and day, GER
tain number of policemen and messengers,
in the pay of the company. are to be on
duty. A connecting wire Is carried into
your house, an instrument placed there, and
You are en- rapport with an office. Suppose
YOU are a lady, all alone in your house.
Your husband has suddenly been called
away. in fact, IOr the nOnce, You are an I'M
protected female. 1t is night What is that
YOU hear. very suspicious sound. Not
| quite gnawing nor scratching. 1t stops
for a mOment-then goes on again Now
| it is a distinct saving and filing you hear,
at a shutter. You are too Paralyzed to
scream There are robbers in the house.
You very quietly stretch your arm out to
| the machine at the head of your bed. just
apply one finger to it, and instantly an
alarm is sounded at the office, and in three
! minutes a policeman is laundering at your
| door and inquiries what Is the matter.
Say it turns out only to be a strange cat
istaction to know it was even that. and your
fears are appeased Suppose smell OF
smoke pervades your house. and you are
afraid there is fire. You go to the instru-
ment tick it, and in few minutes comes
help.
Not only will the company give their
assistance for those graver accidents of the
household. but they propose to attend to
any of those sudden emergencies which
arise. claSsed under the general category OF
accidents happening IN the best regulated
families. Some one may be taken suddenly
i'll, recurring immediate medical care. The
instrument is again brought into service.
This time different knob of the machine
is touched. This brings a swift-tooted
messenger, who runs post haste at your
command for the doctor. Even an aus
piciols event. anXiously looked for, requlr-
ing the physician and the nurse, can be
attended to by this easy method.A
Your minor details of domestic economy
NAV find here too their solution. BIddy
may be very much the worse for liquor.
and openly defying the united efforts OF the
house to turn her out, a single finger on the
telegraph brings help, and tranquility is
once more restored. Your waterpipes
| burst. your house and furniture stand the
chance of being ruined, you send your sig
nal, and in a twinkling the plumber is on
hand. Your mother in-laW comes a Fimpr0-
riste. and you want sumptuous repast,
served with fairy-lke promptitude, you
call messenger, and for thirty cents he is
willing to run one full hour all over town
in your service, to the butchers. the restau-
rant, or the confectioner.
A great deal OF very beautiful machinery
has been especially invented tor the use OF
the company. One very important point
is. that the Instrument in the house requires
no battery There is no danger OF upset
ting chemicals on your carpets. The ma
chine can stand on the mantelpiece. If
you like, as you would bedroom clock. The
instant the signal is made it is reported
automa tically at the nearest district Office,
and the precise number and locality of your
house indicated-like a hotel register If
the burglar should attempt to cut the
wires. prior to a robbery, the thief stands
| no chance. Instantly the fact records
itself at the office, the alarm is sounded,
and somebody hurries TO the spot to see
what has happened. The difference be-
tween the burglar-alarm and that of the
District Telegraph Company is that while
| the former only puts you on our guard, the
| latter calls some one instantly to your side
Perhaps overt timed people might employ
both methods, and thus be absolutely
burglar proof.
silk Making in Connecticut.
From the New York TribuneI
About four years ago, at one of Alice
| Cary's charming little reunions Ill New