The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-24
CROOKS HARVEST At EXPOSITION
One Branch of Industry at Least Has FOurlShed at the
Great Show, Where so Many Failed.


never seen the east.
Juvenile Highwaymen of the Bazaar.
Always? All, well, there is one ex-
ception to be made. TIE sOuks and
baZars swarmed with little C0pper-col-
ored native children in the comicalest
miniature burnouses or Dther strangely
devised raiment- They had lovely, III
nocent, gazelle-like broWn eyes funny
little brown paws which they would
slip conffdingly into yours as they sided
up to you affectiOnately. All the Wo-
men would say, "Oh, the pretty little
darIingi Isn't he just too sweet! A1d
doesn't he look like lovely little
bronco The lovely little bronze liSped
out the DTettiest request for back
sheesh'' or sous The women invGria
bly, took cut their purse to find MN a
penny. The little stranger drew the
purse down TO him inqUiSitively. ana
put his little brown paw into 1t ever 50
prettiIy and grabbed all he csuid ana
away he flew like a streak Of lightning
all his white teeth cleaning in broad
grin across his chubby brown cheeAs.
That little comedy was played over
and over again, almost always with
success. For they were really lrreSlStl-
ble-these queer little desert freaks. 1t
was hard to catch them and harder 10
identify them when caught
Much more serious than any OF the
various forms of Urse-snatchlng ana
pocket relieving were the literally
countless applications Of the eternal
confidence game. Very cur1ouSly, II
was an "Ought-tO-be wide awake
American who first set Paris asmite
over his easy gullibility. He made
rendezvous with an Oriental hourl, all
silks and bangles, whom he met IN d
kind of Midway dancing snow. Sne
expressed doubts as to his coming. he
pledged his word of honor and his S270
watch and chain, and naturally turned
up to claim back his pledge. Alas, the
hOuri came not, and she hasn't come
yet The police say she was propaply
an Oriental from MontnaFtre-aS who
should say a HindOo from New Jersey
but the simple American. who IS a Dig
business man. would rather have his
watch than the most interesting etnnO-
graphical information
Shares of the Vol a TAmericaine.
This confidence game is known in
France as the vol a TAmericaine,"
swindling after the American fashion.
This is compliment to our national
ingenuity to which statistics do not
prove our right. I asked NJ COChefeTt
which nation had furnished the great
( est number Of VOleuTs a fAmericatne
to the exposition list. He told me It
was not America, not by a long way;
but he would not say which it was.
From this I guess it was France. for
NJ. COchefert is too patriotic citizen
to leave his country under false Su5-
picion, though too honest to SANDER
another. Anyhow, the police calculate
that never before in the history OF
/ Paris was so much money gained and
/ lost in period of six months by the
confidence fraud. as during these ex-
/ position months. One authority TO
whom spoke. suggested as Il cOnSerVa-
/ tive estimate three-QuaTterS of mil
4 lion francs. The same person made an
! interesting observation We all eX-
pected,' he said. that as the genius
of the world showed its top
most fight at the exposition in me-
+ cha nism. science and art, so it would
also in crime. But we had nothing, as
far as 1 know, at this exposition that
/ was not practiced just as Skilfully at
every exposition that has ever taken
/ place It seems as if the criminal class
{ was the only one shat made no prog
D ress with the times. The criminals
. were all here, thousands of them from
: every country in the world, but they
+ brought nothing new; it was an eter-
nal repetition of the weary old tricks. %
Few Crimes of Violence in Slums.
! One thing is very much to the credit
of the French police in the matter OF
/ exposition crime. 1t is that crimes OF
! violence were exceptionally few in
( comparison with what might have been
] been expected. A very tight grip was
kept on the lawless members of semi
/ savage VariOusiy cOlOTed races who
( fIocked into Paris as official parts OF
/ the show. They were kept 10 hours
, and to fixed habitat, and by no means
J allowed to roam the streets at night
( outside their own carefully surveyed
quarters. The dangers fIOm that source
! which promised TO be very great, were
wisely reduced to q minimum. There
Dc f.Al7 "a
dangerous, whom the police had NJ
racial or other warrant for keeping
under constant surveillance. There
were professional scOundrelS Of the
worst kind, from the terrible breeding
places Of crime in all the large cite!
of civilization, men who hire them
selves out as assassins just as regular
" as others hire themselves IOr do
nestle service or for the mendilg o
shoes And yet with all this, the tOta
Of murderOus assaults during the ex
position months has been no highe
than in normal times. a few mysteri
Gus pDearanCeS, a few dead mel
floating down the Seine with knife
I gashes in their flesh, "A few peOpl
! found beaten to insensibility and rob
bed in the dark, lonely streets-tha
was all. Never was the Paris polio
department run on such generous nu
meTical lines, or with more InteIil6eO
direction than during these last ST
: i months. Paris undertook that eXpOsi
ton guests even if they should be fool
enough to part voluntarily or thrGug
care. essness, with their bank rolls. q
least should carry their lives bac
home with them. And the city kept he
! word.
Legacy of Crime Left by the Fail
there are streets and. in fact. Who'll
! quarters in Paris which at Ordinar
, / times it is rash to traverse alone one
> night has fallen-places where the vet
a eran Partisan always walks in tn
+ middle of the road with his hand /
a his revolver pocket. and his eye al
: ways alert, watching the sinister fig
: ures that now and then loom I'D M
f pleasantly from out of gloomy alley
. ways or from the shadow of stea
5 walls. These spots where crime Ga
. a Frenchman once wrOte) hOrribl
+ plays among the children and is the
/ good friend all their life, these wer
patrolled all night long by strOn
] ! forces of the police, whose lantern
r flashed comfortingly on the path of tn
f beIated traveller Fastening home. The
- became as safe in most cases, exceI
@ in very uncentral neighbOrhoods, 9
7 the grand bOUlevards at the "absintht
? hours" the time when tout Paris
Il gathers on the great main artery
I laugh and talk and get an appetite e
= dinner.
Y But the Paris police complain bitter
: ly that their work is not half dor
e with the closing of the fair. NJ. Cocht
q fert I am informed, said a couple
= DAYS ago at "A reunion of police al
5 thorities: Nov that We are losin