Evening star., 1899-04-13
N HOTEL CORRIDORS

A. j. D0Vlne, trdVelinB man lTom 81
Louis, at the Metropolitan. You see, the
members of the fraternity to which 1 be-
| long are the greatest theater-goers in the
world. No business is to be done at night,
and IL we are not on the road. the first
thing do Is to strike for the theater.
During a week in the capital city l have
| had opportunity to visit nearly every show
place in the town. and / therefore speak
advised1y
Il presume that there are few people who
more thoroughly enjoy a good play than 1
do, especially something that has a little
humor and life in it. Apropos of the latter
features the piaywrghts can always count
on one particular weakness of their audi
ences to make a hit-that is, the local ri
valry between adjoining towns Here in
w aShington / have noticed that any old gag
that Is gotten off at the expense of the
arcent seaport and commercial center of
Alexandra or even of Baltimore in the
variety houses evokes immense applause
on the part of most of the audience and
violent remonStrance from any Individual
who happens to have crossed the Potomac
from Alexandra to attend the play.
Everybody throughout the United States
has heard of the intense rivalry between
st. Paul and Minneapolis, MINI. At least
they have hear the old gag which goes:
Hey, you heard about the preacher who
| was lynched out in Minneapolis?'
" No What was the matter?' is the
| query.
"Oh, he took his text from st. Paul and
the congregation could not stand it. "
'The credit of the American nation is to-
day founded on rock solid as the
famous stone of Gibraltar" said l.. C. Tall
madge of Chicago at the Raleigh. "As yet
1 am a comparatively young man, but If
any man had predicted to me twenty YEARS
ago that by the end of the present century
the limited States u-0ul1 he lending
to Europe 1 should either hav> suspected
him for knave or pited him for a fool.
Nevertheless. today the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank of Chicago has S1.Q00,.sD Of
money placed at interest in the old world,
and Chicago and New York are debating
the rate of interest for the money market
of the world
Some years ago-and it has not been so
very many either-the cry of the agitators
ran that the United States held in the
greedy grasp of the European money pow
er. They said that We We're owned and
controlled by Great Britain and by the so
called robber barons-the Rothschilds. 1t is
strange to note how that cry has died
natural death. My business is that of a
broker and money lender, and / can state
positively that money was never easier to
get than 1t is today. No man who has any
sort of security to give for loan need go
further than Chicago and New York to OBJ
tain all of the money that he wants. In
fact, the United States may bs said to be
practically free of foreign indebtedness and
to own herself"
Crime Is on the decrease throughout the
United States" said Col John w. Camp
bell, chief of police of St. Louis, Mo-. at the
Arlington. This / know to be the case in
ST. Louis, and 1 have no reason TO suppose
that different conditions obtain elsewhere.
] attribute this fact to many causes, not
the least of which is the Bertillon system,
whereby the life of the really and profess
sicnally wicked man is made burden to
him.
THE main bureau of this system is at
Chicago, Ill. When a man is caught at any
work that leads the arresting officers to
suspect that he has record he is meas
ured UP by the Bertilon system These
measurements are sent on to Chicago and
compared with those on file at the central
office. If he has ever been imprisoned be-
fore for any serious oTenSa his measure
ments are there. When these are found to
correspond with those submitted, his his
tory is furnished his captors and he is
dealt with accordingly. The accuracy of
the system is simply wonderful, and
time goes by it will become more ana more
valuable both as a means for detecting
criminals and one for preventing crime.
Many people have an idea that crimi-
nals are ofttimes driven to deeds of vio-
iciiCe "IoHS DS poverty anu WALL
Then. some have maudlin sentimentality
regarding them after they have been cap
tured and are awaiting punishment. The
nrst idea is mistaken and the last almost
criminal in itself. Our worst criminals are
generally men who come from the better
classes. Intellectually they are of a very
fair type, and If they could only be in
duced TO turn their hands to some honest
occupation instead of to wrong-doing they
would be successful men. The criminals
VINO come from the lowest classes rarely
get above the level of the common yaga-
bond, beggar and tramp
Montana is still unanimous for free sill
yer, said X. Fl. Hale of Helena at Will
lard S. The state is silver-democratic, sill
Ver-republcan. silver-populist silver-any-
thing, so long as one of the typhenated
words stands for the white metal The
truth of the matter is that no man can
estimate the amount of the white metal
that lies beneath the broad bosom of my
state, and law remOnetizng silver would
make Montana bloom into paradise for
miners.
The consequence Of our practically unan-
lmous view of the one paramount ISSUE
locally SO vital, is that We have to get ND
a little row among ourselves over a sena-
tofial or congressional fight to keep the
political pot boiling. Our last senatorial
fight, from which Clarke came out victor
ious, with the row that is still on about
satisfy US until the presidential campaign
In 1900. 1t is no use to ask man from my
section who is going to be the nominee of
the democratic party and who is going to
carry the presidential election next year
He Is in no better position to give an i'm
partial opinion than is Vermont repub-
lican."
You WaShingtonians want to advertise
your peace jubilee celebration little more
than you have DONE" said c. r. Hall of
Ohio at the Ebbitt. THE first that l heard
of anything of the kind was on my arrival
in Washington couple of days ago 1 see
by the local papers that it is going to be a
big affair, and ! can imagine no more ap-
propriate place to hold an event of the
kind than the capital city of the nation in
the month of May.
I'm the first place. you will find through
out the United States none of that jealousy
of Washington that exists toward all other
cities, towns and villages who attempt to
hold any kind of a national celebration.
Every citizen OF the United States feels
that he Is identified with the capital and
that he is part owner here. When he Wis
its Washington he is not in a strange town