Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-08
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

stock brokers who take quick flyers from
customers on the New York and Chicago
markets handle more worthless checks than
they, or anyone else has any idea Of" said
G. 7. Campbell of New York. at the Riggs
House this morning. This is particularly
true of the small brokers who conduct their
business in cities away from the markets.
A great many of these people depend for
their custom upon mel who put up small
margins, and either make or lose their in
vestment In the course of two or three
hours. OF course after a man has played
regularly enough at an Office to become re-
garded a regular customer no question
| is raised about taking his check for aLy
purchase of stock he may order, and l
know two or three men. who have tided
over disaster ny depositing checks with
brokers for purchase of stock when they
didn't have a cent in bank to meet the pa
per in case their deals proved disastrous.
This system Is followed every day by op-
orators. who have suddenly become pinched
and throw honor to the winds in an at
tempt to recoup their losses. Frequently
when they lose they either manage to rake
and scrape eT ough money to place in bank
| to meet the check or throw themselves upon
the mercies of the broker, they have at
tempted to swindle. OF course ii they make
a fortunate deal they close IL out and take
back the worthless check part payment
or the proceeds and the broker Is none the
wiser Out in Chicago recently a gang was
discovered and broken up that was using
forged checks in stock operations. In one
brokers' office member of the gang had
used one. Of these checks and there was a
Profit of $500 coming him. The broker
discovered the character of the check and
refused to either pay the profit or return
he worthless paper. There are tricks in
all trades and the man who CANDLES regu-
larry, in. stocks grain is pretty apt to
know his share of them.
| scattered broadcast over the country that
| close watch is being kept on the anarch-
lists In Chicago said Herman Schroth of
the windy city. at the Ebbitt Saturday
After the recent riots had been subdued
the papers teemed with accounts OF the sur
veillance that was being exercised ever the
stock yard anarchists. and the public shud-
dered In imagination of the knots Of red
handed. bold-browed. heavily bearded con-
| spirators, sitting around in dark and re-
pulsive rooms. manufacturing deadly bombs
\ with which to scatter death and disaster
among decent people. Every newspaper
| man I'm Chicago is well aware that all this
stun about nests of reds and dens of
anarchists In their city is largely the result
| OF taking imagination. After the Haymar-
ket affair the same blood-curdling informa-
ton was published by the column full. and
| the result OF IL was that many of the lead
Ing merchants and capitalists OF the city
| were bled for the purpose of keeping up an
| alleged espionage upon the anarchists who
| were claimed to be plotting against the
| safety of the city. Thousands of dollars
| We're subscribed to a general fund, which
\ was supposed to have been paid out 10 pri-
| vate detectives and other sleuths who were
keeping tab on the proceedings of the an
| archists. Pretty soon IL was discovered
| that these self-constituted Vidocqs were
| feasting on the fat of the land and that the
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| work of keeping an eye on a handful of
| men who were suspected of having an
| archistic tendencies. There are no more
anarchists In Chicago than there are in
| any other city where lazy foreigners, who
| are shrewd enough 10 play upon the fears
| of the people, indulge in wild threats that
| they never carry out. These men are dan
gerous only in the effect their loud-mouthed
| oratory may have In making fanatics out Of
| weak-minded listeners, and IL the police
| authorities of every city would arrest the
| individuals who privately or publicly in
| dulge In incendiary language 1t would be a
| very short time before we would hear
| nothing more of the anarchists"
| The class CT japanese from which the
| soldiers are recruited is as quick to fight
as the same class in the Chinese nation
is slow said Charles r. Pentland of Seat
tie at the Arlington Saturday. "Only the
better class of japanese come to the east
a
large number of the tough representatives
| of the Mikado, and they are as quick to
resentment and as eager for revenge as a
Malay, and when they get into a fight they
| will use anything as a weapon that comes
within their. reach, One of the worst muir
ders l ever heard of was committed in my
| town OF Seattle three years ago. Two
Japanese were engaged In a discussion
when one gave the other the lie. Quick as
| flash the insulted heather jumped to the
wall. where was hanging a long and heavy
| Japanese sword with slightly curved blade
such as you have doubtless seen in selec-
| tons of weapons at your National Museum
and out at the worlds fair. Taking the
handle In both hands the Infatuated man
| swung 1t around and aimed II with telling
effect at the others head. The force OF the
blow was 50 great that IL completely cut
the top of the defenseless Japs head of
| The crime was committed in the White
chapel district in Seattle which was at
| tfat time unquestionaby the worst neigh
borhood I'm the world. The scene of the
murder was In a back room. to which ac-
cess was obtained by going down a flight
| OF over twenty narrow steps then through
passaSeway in which two men could not pass
| each other, and then through two dark and
gloomy rooms. 1t was japanese gambling
and eating place. and the tide of Puget
| sound, which. You probably know, rises
eight or ten feet between low and high
came up within two inches of the floor Of
! pany with a detective named Cudihee and
the chief of police, man named Rogers
and in conversation with one of the English
| speaking Japs / was told that the murderer
| did perfectly right. in the speakers opinion,
because his victim took his life in his own
| hands when he told a Jap that he lied
| There appeared to be no excitement among
| them over the crime, either and they eyed
the policeman and myself in a manner that
made me feel uncanny and wished that
was out on the street again. II is this
| class OF men upon whom Japan will depend
| for her strength during the present war
| with China. And IT will be very interest
| Ing thing TO watch the outcome Of a strug-
gle where minority composed OF willing
| and fearless fighters and armed with the
most approved styles OF modern weapons
| is opposed by vast majority OF natural
towards, whose arms for the most part at
| present consist OF little more than bow.
and arroWS ana clubs"
THE HIGHEST TOWER.