The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-12
END Of THE RACING ROW..
New Workers Interested In Racing
Again Read the Entries In
tho Papers.
The Coachman's Famous Hat
"Given Away" for . Cash
Consideration.
Looking for Stolen Clothes In = Pawn
shopper bowling for Women
About Pants.

Especial Correspondence OF THE INDEPENDENCE
~EW YORK, OCT TIRE SCENE
IpJ OF racing excitement has been
TX ahifted from Gravesend to Jerome
- park. But what ID technically
known Al ''the racing public" is still talk
ing industriously about the extraordinary
season on the Long Island track.
New Workers. are again reading raee en-
tries in the morning papers, for thu man
aQer Of Jerome park has mo- made mp his
mind to initiate the tactics Of Mr.. Phil
Dwyer by shutting every avenue Of infor
nation against the pool rooms. Yet II ID
discovered now that there was a sweetness
in the stolen information obtsined during
the Gravesend season. The week of unham
pered observation on Mr.. Morris track has
not contained half tho excitement furnished
BY one day Of detsotive-haunted Gravesend.
There was q fascination about a horde OF
Pinkerton men, all Watching for some
traitors who may be communicating facts
TO the outside world over OF under the IA
nous high fence which ross.extremely high
but somehow never entirely excluded the
outer world.
The coachman and his hat are still q
source OF plentiful gossip. Everybody hal
his theory about that ooachman and the
manner OF his detection. This much II
definite, that the ..coachman' Was n Of
the oleverest telegraphio operators in Amer
lea; that he had q very olsverly CONSTRUCTED
electric flash arrangement in his hat, and
that this flash, emitted in the dots and
dashes Of tho Morse system. was read
through = slit In the crown BY another op
orator, armed with a telescope, in q hote
tower $50 feet away.
saw the man yesterday who supplied
the reflector that was used to intensity tn.
br~illianoy of the electric fash on the hat
interior, for by daylight even electric liaht
emits q relatively mild CLEAN. The appar-
atus %throaghout had been managed very
shrewdly by experts under the pay Of tn,
Western Union company.
There il not such q clear understanding
as to the manner in which this most in
penious OF all the means tt circumven,
Dwyer and get information to the poo
rooms WAS suppressed. At the outset al
the credit was given to Bob Pinkerton
whose lynx eye was supposed to have caugh'
the CLEAN of the electric light through thu
cut in the GROWN of that innocent looking
coachman's hat. But it turns out that Bot
Plnkerton did not sec the flash, nor dit
anybody else who wasn't expected to see it
until q trusted associate of the filchin,
combination revealed the scheme to Dwye
for q consideration.
This consideration is now stated to hav
bsen exactly $1,000. Dwyer was told that
certain system OF sending information on
Of the grounds was in successful operation
He was asked what it was worth to be 'spu
onto'' the secret system. Dwyer, as tn
story now goes. said ii would Be worth to-
one hundred dollar bills, and he put thor
down. Then the informer, who was bein
paid much less to help the electrical coach
man, pointed out the ingenious hat, and tn
jig was UP.
1t will be a long time before racing his
tory furnishes racing people and the cor
templative public with another period o
such curious events.