Evening star., 1897-01-02

ever-dodging fraternity a knowledge of the
| unproftableness and the danger Of working
Washington during the progress of the ma
tons great Quadrennial fete Of installa-
| ton.
Such dismal report holds many of the
more cautious among the cheerful workers
| aloof from Washington during the effer
vescent days, when lie roi est mort, vive
lie roi" republicanized into '"Three more for
the new one" echoes through Washington's
swarmlng streets. But scores and hun
dreds of others, more reckless, among the
oleaginous tribe, attempt the stealthy
storming and sacking of this Washington
citadel when the myriads of strangers
within Its gate to see q citizen made into
a President are bidding restraint to the
four winds. That these reckless ones know
that their chances Of walking open-eyed
into a cul de sac are of the very best does
not deter them. Hjther they come any
way, taking their chances. Stalking wide
awake to grief, yet they come.
I'VE are making unusual preparations for
an unprecedented descent of the crooks
upon Washington during the coming inau-
guration, said Inspector Hollinberger in
conversation with Star reporter on the
subject the other day. American crooks
have had pretty hard picking during the
past TWO or three years. owing to increased
vigilance and new methods all along the
line III capturing and landing them, and a
great many Of the notable ones among
them look upon the Inauguration period
here as frst-rate recouping and enrich
ing season. But we are going to be better
prepared for them this time than ever be-
fore, and I don't think that 500 of them
Will contrive to get into the city around
the fourth Of March next, as they did dur
ing the last inauguration"
Practice In Identification.
The crooks yeception at Major McKin-
ley's Inauguration will be enthusiastic.
They are to be made to serve an end. They
are to give practice In Identification not
only to the police, of Washington, but to
the police in every leading city in the
United States-to detectives representing
scotland Yard, Indeed. and to several crook
worriers from the Paris prefectures of DO
lice, the English and French sleuths hay
Ing already been detailed to COVER the
inauguration for the purpose of keeping an
eye open for certain famous foreign crimi-
mails known to be in the United States
English and French crooks, when they
happen to be in this country for a little pc
riod of enforced absence, do not scorn to
nave try at this field when the inaagura-
ton vortex is a-vldrl. The coming inaug-
urat1on's roundup of merry bunco men
ana Chesterheldian piekpockets is expected
10 be enormous. International. Welcome
tne coming, speed the parting guest"
measurably, and in a sense somewhat
twisted to accord with police ideas; this is
to be the system of treatment adopted for
the handling of the hordes Of human eels
miner hooking for Inauguration plunder.
The smooth men and women who attempt
10 create purse-filling diversion for them
selves during Inauguration festivals are
M tne eminent persons in their business from
al! parts of the country. Those of them
who penetrated the Gordon Of Argus ewes
that will make an alert ribbon around
washington during the next Inauguration
Perioo tI wi, WIN be smooth, indeed. None of the
hlgh-class and best-known crooks will he
able to run the blockade In the first nIace
the really admirable police force Of the
District of Columbia" as it was termed hy
an English superintendent of police who
be ampified by special force of 400 men
reliable citizens of the national capitaI
sworn In for five days of duty
:, IN ADDITION to these, each large city of
the country will send several of the hest
representatives of its detective department
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brook
lyn. Boston and Baltimore, for instance
wiz n,o each contribute five of it's most ex-
perlenced criminal hunters. and there will
De at least one crook spotter from the me-
tropolises and capitals of nearly all the
states. "
Know Them by Sight.
The detectives Of these outside cities are
familiar not only with the countenances of
the crooks infesting their own communi-
ties, but, through the INTERCHANGEABLE
|
better developed in this country than in
any other country in the world thew have
a general familiarity with the physiogno.
mics of all the most famous crooks male
and female, in the United States, for the
police department of all the major cities of
America now trade criminals photographs
with each other.
Night and day for a week before the
Inauguration these detectives, practicaIjv
unseen and unnoticed, but aIl-seeine. will
nave possession of the two Washington
railroad stations If they should fall into
line together the body of detectives station.
ed at each depot would form a pretty size.
able crowd. but they are not going to do
any falling into line. They will simn1v
circulate around the depot rooms when the
trains are coming in, and during business
hours they won't know each other from,
Adam. 1A
They will gather in their harvest of
crooked men and women quietly and with
out any ado whatever. In front of the de-
pots there will be cabs and carriages. hired
In advance by the police by contract. await
ing the crooks at all hours of the day and
night, SO that they will not be put to The
inconvenience of walking to police head
quarters. In order that there shall he no
"a SUDDEN THOUGHT STRIKES NE,