The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-28

pensioners. 1 am assured that this cour-
Jesy has not been extended to a news
paper man before, and am inclined to
think the statement accurate. The Lon
don police are not favorably disposed to-
ward the London reporters. They call
them penny-a-liners, and speak of them
with scorn and distrust.
The open sesame which threw the por-
tails of Scotland Yards mysteries apart
for me was a letter from Supt. Byrnes
of New York. Byrnes is considered over
here to be the greatest detective in the
world. There is not a man in Scotland
lard, from the chief superintendent down
TO the cockney in uniform at the door.
who does not admire him and listen
TO tales of him with reverent interest.
Scotland Yard is the most famous de-
tective center in the world. 1t owes its
fame to fiction-that is, to novels Story
writers, led by Charles Dickens, have
centered detective tales without number
about it, and Scotland Yard, as the pub
lie knows it, is their creation. Many
writer's of romance good and bad, have
had a hand in it's building, and it is a
strange and wonderful structure. They
hide it in a remote part Of London, gem
orally among the docks. They make it
little black windows blinking mysteri-
ously through the London fog. They fill
1t as full Of secret passages and uncanny
trapdoors and concealed cupboards as
a Masonic lodge room. Shrewd sleuths
off duty lounge about it, waiting for great
crimes, which they may clear away, and
in their idle moments telling gruesome
stories of extraordinary sinners. ShreWd
sleuths on duty, clad ever in elaborate
DISCUSSES, glide cleverly from dark door
ways out into the highways and the
byways to recover stolen necklaces OF
incredible value, to find abducted maid
ems, to solve the dark and bloody puzzles
of impossibly mysterious murders.
This is the Scotland Yard of fiction.
The Scotland Yard of fact is a hand
some red brick building, elaborately trim
TSsmes 'n 1t Is one neO of the highest build
ings in London and more nearly resem-
bles the modern American office build
ing than any structure have seen here.
Taet, with smooth White walls ana tiled
corridors. Nowhere within its doors is
there any hint of sensationalism. The
building was designed especially to az
road a headquarters for the vast police
business of the British metropolis, and It
is business-from it's foundation stones
to its weather vanes.
If this explodes one of the pet bub-
bleS of your imagination i am sorry.
But the real Scotland Yard is as in
teresting in its way as the Scotland
Yard of the ictionists has been. one
gone wrong when they approached Lon
don detectives and their work is that the
police mere like TO shroud their operations
In manifold mysteries. Among the Off
cials, excepting Chief Superintendent
Shore-as honest and hearty gentleman
as one may meet in a days journey
there is an intimation that detective work
is full of red fire and melodrama. An eX-
inspector, who was with me in miser-
able Whitechapel lodging house, gravely
assured me that there was not a man in
the place who would not have cut my
throat if the police had not been along
TO protect me, although an experienced
eye could quickly class the inmates of
the place as simple paupers and as far
from professional criminality as posi-
BILE The ex-inspector well knew that a
beef-fed citizen, with a good thick club
could have driven the whole unfortunate
crew from Whitechapel to the Highlands
of Scotland if they had strength to run,
but he liked to pose.
For two hours this officer kept assuring
me of the bloodthirsty character of the
stupid, half-starVed and wholly submits
sive creatures whom we passed on the
streets, until finally 1 wearied of it and
left him. AS l went on alone | found, as
] expected, that not one of them had any
crime more horrible than the begging of a
copper in mind, and that ha' penny
would send their hands to their caps quick
as lightning.
The British detective first treats YOU
as If you were dirt beneath his feet. Then
when he finally finds that he must recog-
nize your humanity, he gravely proceeds
on the assumption that you are an ass
ana gulls you into spasms of hidden
How rare the information which have
succeeded in extracting from him dur
ing the week is evident by an experience
which l had just before 1 left New York
certain newspaper man there has made
up reference system of newspaper clip
pings. Clerks have for years cut arti-
cies from all sorts of publications. Amer
lean and foreign, containing information
concerning all sorts of things. These have
Oeen placed in envelopes, indeKed and filed,
away, In the collection almost every con-
eeiVabie subject is represented. If this
newspaper man wished to write arti-
Sle about the /Maharajah of Kumpore
SWhom l met last night he would proba-
ply md biography of him and half
uozen anecdotes concerning him in his en-
xelopes But IN all his collection there
was not one word concerning the real
Scotland Yard. In fact, only two anthem
TIC articles are remembered by the off
claIs there. One was written for Society
LONDON weekly, by Mr. Lestoeq, the
&Tuenor OF Jane" and now Mr. Charles
tbe IlhaIl. representative over here, and
me other was published years ago in the
London Illustrated News. So, whether
pI not what | write interests YOU it may
pe a satisfaction to note that il is new.
embankments, but IL Is as easily ac-
cesslole from Whitehall, the broad thor
ouShIdfe which leads from Trafalgar
square to the Houses of Parliament. The
Dig building stands to one side Of a great
court and towers high above its neighbors.
- y surrounded by a tumble of cabs for a
sood part of the day-conveyances in
Whtch eomplainants have come to state
tlelr up to ''file their reports" in which
onclads having reports to make have ar
rived 1t Is the headquarters of the Metro
politan police made up Of two branches
me constabulary Tor uniformed mem and
me Criminal Investigation Department Cor
detective force). The word detective" is
rarely used over here. The private detec-
I'VE offices are known as Private Inquiry
bureaus"
London. II should be explained. Is un-
aer control Of two municipal governments
HlfN-thN
oi England, the stock exchange and most
or the great financial Institutions are cen-
tefed-is controlled by the corporation,
headed by the Lord Mayor. 1.-THE county"
which completely surrounds the city, ana
when contains the greater part 81 Lon
upu's population iH governed hy the county
council The city ana county have police
forces which are eaflrfiH separate 90 FfH-
lem anl manalnmnnL IIn civ llIul 4.