The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-04-15
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

continue to take daily vote for Sen
ltor.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK, April IL, 1874.
BOSS TWEED
Doesn't like his quarters at Black
wells Island. 1t was expected by
The burly Boss, and his friends, that
the officials on the Island would not
dare treat the great swindler as other
criminals were treated, but they were
grievously mistaken. Boss was
and cropped, and arrayed
like Joseph in a coat of many colors,
and pants to match, and he was put
to Just such service as he was fit to
do. Consequently he has tired OF 1t,
and invokes the law to get him out
He wants to Igo to Ludlow-st Jail,
where man may have as many rooms
and Just such living as he chooses to
pay for. Judge Davis sentenced
Tweed to Imprisonment in the "coun-
ty jailr which he corrected to "the
penitentiary." The Boss's counsel
insist that he had no right to make
the correction, and that LudlOw-st
Jail is the place where he must be con-
fined. They want the Boss in quar-
.ers where he can reorganize his
court; where wine and wassail will be
as OF yore, where he can bring togeth-
er the scattered hosts of Tammany,
and be once more the dictator of
New York Democracy. For after
all they miss the great organizing
ability he undoubtedly possesses.
The Boss will get out before long
entirely. Then look out for a ring
that will be ring
CREMATION.
There has been society organized
here for the purpose of doing away
with burying the dead-burning the
body instead. The members pledge
to be burned as fast as
they die, and, as if to show the world
the value of the idea, one member
died last Friday and was burned.
The coffin, we are told was placed in
an upright position inside fire-proof
through which artihcially
heated air was forced in q current,
carrying all the noxious gasses up a
and leaving after the process
a small residue of snow-white ashes
only. The process was completed in
twenty minutes, at a cost for fuel of
1925. The ashes were gathered and
placed in an urn in the parlor of the
father of the deceased. Those who
are urging it say that the cost of dis
posing of remains is brought to a
very small point; that the idea Of
a body by fire is not so re-
puguant as to put it into the ground
to decay and that as cemeteries are
sure to be crowded, cremation is bet
ter on sanitary grounds. The papers
are all discussing it. 1t will doubt
less come into quite general use.
THE POLICE.
To keep such order as is kept in
New York requires an army of po-
iceman, 10 the number of $500,
which costs the city about So, 500, 900
per annum. This includes only the
regular policemen. The
DETECTIVES
ire body by themselves, who, while
hey are regularly appointed, get no
Day from the city but from those for
whom they work. These men seem
% be a necessity, but it is questiona-
Die whether they do not make more
crime than they suppress or prevent.
The first requisite is to know, person
llly, every thief in the country their
and manner of work.
We will suppose a bank has been
'obbed and a detective sent for. He
ooks at the work notes how the safe
)r thieves got into the building, and
low the safe was operated on, and
determines in his mind exactly who
lid it. He recognizes his work as
accurately as q shoemaker would a
shoe he had made. Suppose bonds
o the amount of $25, 900 have been
AIKEN. The bank offers $4,000 for
he recovery. The astute gentleman
knows that Jenny Dawson" Crack
ed crisp" and he knows also that
the finding of Jenny would be an
impossibility. Buthe knows Jem-
mey's woman, or one of Jemmey's
friends, and so in his good time he
informs Jemmey's woman that the
of the bonds stolen from the !
Bank Of so-and-so is in his hands. |
and waits. Presently Jemmey's wo-
man enters into negotiation with him
the bonds are returned, the Bank
pays the $4,000 which the thief and
detective divide, and it is all over.
There are very few arrests and con-
OF big thieves, for the reas-
On that the thief is necessary to the
detective, and the detective to the
thies. They have a common interest
in fact they work together. To ar
'est skillful daring and industrious
burglar would be to destroy his busi-
ness. Another use these men are
put to is.
sHADowING
people. Foi instance, if a
,ank officer or merchant suspects an
employee of appropriating money, a |
detective is put apon his track. |
Wherever he goes, there will be
behind him a gentlemanly man, who
never looses sight of him. The num-
Der of times he goes into drinking
places-the very liquor be drinks,
the kind of money he pays for it,
The gambling places he goes into, |
and the houses OF i'll fame he yisits-
oil these are recorded, and SO record |
ed that 1t can all be brought home
10 him. They never know thew are
being followed, for the detective is
100 adroit for that The result of
MS observations are given every
morning to his employers, who have
no difficulty in coming to very aecu-
ate conclusions. If the suspected