The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-07-20

VIE Has FSsghf the Bo@rsi Of Trade Of
That City. Gives FeE PaiHs. On R4atiHz
Telegraph ssmp4aie.-
Speaking Of sc5emes. tllere Is one man
in Chicago who has cznsed the hoard Of
trsds more bother than al the othe. a.
legged electricians put together His
name 10 o. ~ Stone. past master IN
electrical matters, sho has spent years
in patient study Of electricity. and whoss
fertile brain has evolved 80 MANY
schemes to circumyent the powers thas
be that he has been called the king o.
wire tappers Mr. Stone il q Tnodes.
man BE looks like granger. bat an
one who tries to sell him a gold brick
VIII surely get worstsd in the TRANSIT
ton Believing that disquisiti0a o.
wire TAPPING would be incomplete with
out few words On the subject fr0sn
this patriarch Of the profession, rrPrs-
sentative from The Herald asked the cleo
tricisn whetber he thought wire tapping
could be accomplished
Mr. Stone could not vouch for II from
personal experience. but from an cleo
trical point Of view he was decidedly o.
the opinion that he could He tho1gh;,
however. that II would require, in this
city at least. q knowledge Of electricity
which not one 10 a hundred possessss-
In the past thrss years. observed Mr..
Stone, q suppose that upward Of 100 dif.
ferent parties. each representing a cotsris
Of amateur sports, operators and others.
have approached me for information GA
this subject And II has invariably b=eg
in regard TO horse racing that they want
ed enlightenment Were | 70 mention the
names Of some Of these visitors the rae
ing department Of a telegraph company
would be horrifed Operators a. a rule
do not get princely salaries, nothing near
what they should be paid, 50 that when
. proposition is made TO them whereby
they may clean mp big stake IN day
they naturally have an itching to give it
q trial But to all these young fellows
who have been inclined TO test their luck
IN this way I have seriously advised
against making the attempt
"A large proportion Of those who do
attempt to tap wires make miserable
failures. And it IL because Of their
gross ignorance will venture the IS
sertion that 90 per cent Of the operators
In all large Offices cannot set mp and
work common set Of telegaphic ap-
paratus. taking the wires from the tins
they come into the Office until they take
the battery or go out again Yet with
a great part Of this class the idea Of
wire tapping emanates. They think they
know all about it. and when some Of
them come to see me and unfold their
schemes | have to smile at their sim
plicity. They do not recognize the diff
ference between an instrument of four
ohms and one Of 100 ohms, and upon the
subject Of galyanometers and Wheat
stone bridges they are completely lost. :
1t was suggested to the veteran cleo
trician that a recital Of his experiences
with the Chicago board of trade in get
ting quotations would be interesting,
and he was asked If he could say how he
received the markets during the tins
the quotations wers withheld from the
bucket shops
In the first place, said he, the board
Of trade had detectives innumersbls al
hunting for taps supposed 10 furnish
me information. fooled EN- dreadfully
On that point. however Nov that the
Hzh. 70 all over VIII szy thzt not only
had no wire tapped. but lad no necessity
for tapping enc had better schema
than that
But didn't you ever lose your c1n-
tfnuous quotstiOnsy
Never They had man who CHOPPED
everything In the shape Of wires he could
find. and occasionally he nipped other
wires. but he never succeeded in tracing
ths source Of my information AT ons
time be cut everything be could lay
hands On and then firmly believed he had
me in corner. That made me hot. NJ
ofice was then In the Traders' building
facing the board Of trade rooms. Tn
windows Of the exchange floor were al
soaped over. the directory foolishly he
Heving received quotations that way
and they thought they had me sure
Well. that morning. with my wire al
cut as they supposed, as soon as the mar
kets opened | seized bar Of soap am
scored every eighth change on my win
dow. giving In addition the buyer AM
seller sign It dnmfounded them. !
big crowd stood below on the wal
watching my quotations, and | neye
missed turn In spite Of the cut wires
too. had my customers supplied within
half ar hour after the board opened, an
was furnishing u bucket shops at tn
time
Il suppose you had some funny exp'
riences during the fghtY
well, yes. At one time | had Il
Lot Of old dead wires connected up thu
ran from anywhere to nowhere, similf
to what 10 commonly known as str
circuit that Is to say, the main WI
had legs scattered in all directions, eac
Of which ran in some dark hole, chin
ney, vacant basement or the like, al
there grounded then put heavy ba
terry on the main circuit and sent fl
linz Of markets over 1t. There wasn't
single Office on the wire, but the myst
rious ends made the 'sleuths' believe
was q hot trail, and they would folio
lead after lead, cutting each to pieces
soon as discovered. To further both
them had my man trail them in tn
and connect the wires again to keep ,
tho illusion. It was three weeks befo
<t,a~ <c,,n1 mt had fooled ,arn aOair,