Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-19
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heeced him. OF course it was all moonshine,
for there is but little counterfeit money
ever made any more for the simple reason
that il will not circulate if made. and coun-
terfeiters do not like to make money which
Will not pay its own expenses. This does
not mean that there is not a good deal of
counterfeit money made for the express
purpose of being discovered and captured,
Tor there undoubtedly is Il great deal that
is made with no other idea. Anyhow, he
convinced some of the secret service bureau
people oil the Treasury Department that
there was something in his scheme and he
was authorized to pursue. the villains at
FER diem of s. and his expenses He next
demanded transportation, upon realizing
that. pursuing gang of coupterfeiterS
foot n AIDE his feet sore, and application
was made to the railroad company for a
route ticket and secured. His information
or imagination led him to believe that he
should start west, taking very general
tour of Indiana and Missouri, touching at
Nincennes, Ind, several times. 1t took the
railroad company several days to work out
a ticket for him to cover his route thor
oughly, but the necessary arrangements
We're finally made and he made his start
For five days he seemed to be enjoying
his railroad travel, for nothing was heard
from him or the money advanced by the
Treasury Department to pay his expenses,
hotel bills and the like. The next day he was
heard from in a telegram informing the
department that he had been robbed of his
railroad ticket, his clothing and all the
money he had on hand and asking that
so be sent him by telegraph through the
railroad company, well as ticket for
return trip to Washington He added
that he had not discovered the gang of
counterfeiters 1t afterward developed
that the whole thing was put up by a cou-
pie of fellows who intended to rob him.
When they found that he had influence
enough to secure the appointment they
picked on him as their victim. The young
fellow exerted a considerable pull, politi-
caily, and as the story that was given him
was very strong one, for it was con-
Structed by a clever man, 1t went through
all right. Indeed he satisfied the secret serv-
ice folks who have not been able for several
years to find nsuch counterfeit money
for the reason, as stated before, that there
Is none made except for capturing purposes,
that there was a great deal in him and his
information. The young man is now at
work in cigar store here and he has had
about all the detective experience he wants
for while at least He has nothing to
say about the matter Neither has the
secret service. The only party who made
any money out of it, besides the fellow who
planned the whole thing and worked the
N1docq to the queens taste, is the rail-
road company, which did about $3.50 worth
OF transportation out of it, every portion
or which was unnecesSa ry."
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The timing. roofing, gutterng and
spouting business has been better this sum
years" observed old timer to a Star
reporter. TT has been the best summer
since l was an apprentice. There were
two principal causes for this, the first and
the important one being the blizzard last
winter. The heavy fall of snow broke
down the guttering and the various ar
rangements by which the valleys and
downspouts were attached to the houses
all of which had to be repaired this sum-
ner On many houses the snow, as mat
ter of precaution, was shoveled off the
roofs When it was carefully done by the
owners of the property under their per-
sonal direction no damage resulted. But
When servants or persons We're hired Spe-
cially for the job in many instances more
injury followed than would have been by
the snow if it had been allowed to remain
on the roof. While they may not have in
tended 1t. they punctured the thinning in
many places. The subsequent rains and
rusting and the general tendency of holes
in tin increasing in size constantly when
exposed to the weather Gid the rest. This
has been an unusually rainy summer. and
the frequent rains have found many holes in
the roofs that the blizzard was primarily.
responsible for. This is what has made a
busy season for timers and roOferS