The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-18

ion to be mode The souks and hazars
swalmed with httio copper-ccl5red ua.ltc
children 20 the comtcalcst miniature
hurnousca or other strangely devised raj.
mcnt. They had lovely. innocent gazcllf.
like brown IS e., funny lttt.e brown paws
which they would slip conhdinTiy in;o
yours as they s.dlcd up 20 you affection
atciy. All the women would say. "Oh. the
pretty little darling Isn't he just too
sweet! And doesn't be lock like a lovely
little bronze Tho lovely utue bronze
lisped out the pretticst request for back
sheesh" or sous" The women invaris.
bic took out their purse TO find him a pen-
n.y. The n,,le stranger drew the purse
down 70 him inquisiuvely, and put bis
Mite brown paw INTO it ever so crcttily.
ana grabbed an he could an1 away he
New Ike streak Of lightning an hts
White teeth cleaning in a broad grin n
cross his chubby brown cheeks That lit
tle comedy was played over and over
AGAIN. almost always with success. Foy
they We're really irresistiblc-these queer
little desert freaks. II was hard 10 catch
them and harder 20 Identify them when
caught;
Much more serious than any Of the var
ious forms Of purse-sna tchins and pocket
relieving were the literally countless ar
plicatsons of the eternal confidence glme.
Very curiously. 10 WAS an "oueht-to- be-
Wide awake American who first ST Paris
asmilc over his easy eullibiity. He mad
rendezvous with an or entail hour. q
silks and bangles. whom be me- In
kind % Midway" lancing show she
expressed doubt as 20 his comma ile
pledged his word 81 hoCor and his $50
watch and chain. and naturally turrei
uP 20 claim hack his pledge Ais. the
hour came not and she hasn't me
yet Tho police say she was prohaaly an
Oriental from Montmartrc-as wGo should
say a HiudOo from New jersey. Eut he
simple American who Is a big business
man. would rather have his watch than
the most interesting ethn1gr1ihi al
Information
SHARES Of the Vol a rAmericaine.
This confidence game Is known IN France
as the vol a rAmcricainc." swindllng
after the American fashion This Is a
compliment 10 our national ingenuity 20
which statistics do not prove our right
asked NJ Cochefert which nation hal
furnished the greatest number Of volcurs
a rAmerlcalne 20 the Exposition list He
did mo 70 was not America. not by long
way; but he would NOT say which 81 was.
From that ] guess % was France. for ~.
Ccchefcrt IS too patriotic a citizen 10
leave his country under false suspicion
though too honest 10 siauicr another. Any
how. the police calculate that never be-
fore IN Che history OF Paris was 80 much
money gained and lost in "a period Of six
months hy the ccrldenCe fraud. one ar-
thorty to whom ] spoke. sugst stei as
a. conservative estimate three-quarters
~ 4 million francs. The same person made
g. intercstlrC observation: I'VE oil ex-
uocted" he said. that as the genius o;
the world showed ifs t1pm0st flight az the
Opposition IN mechanism. science and art,
so i' would also in crime. Bus we had
nothing. as far as I know. M this Expo
rition that was not practiced just as skill
fully az every exposition that has ever
taken place. Il seems as n The criminal
lass was the only one that made no pro-
c~ess with the times The criminals were
E hero. thousands 81 them from every
country 90 the world. but they brought
nothing new: &c was an eternal repeil-
lion Of the weary Old tricks"'
One thing Is very much 70 tho credit ~
the French police ia the matter Of ExOost-
ton crime n is that crimes Of violence
were exceptionally few IN ccmn1rs
with that one would have expected.
very tight grip was kept on the laHl'-s
members OF semi savage vari1usly col0red
races who focked into Paris az Official
rarts % tho show They were kept 20
means allowed 10 roam the streets "a
night. outside their own carefully survey
"a quarters The dangers ON that
source. which promised TO be very great,
were wisely reduced 10 a minimum. There
were thousands or others. almost danger
ous whom the police had no racial or
other vibrant for keeping under constant
surveillance There were professional
-counlreis of the worst kind irolA 'hs
ala 80 fHH#f a a
IRE large cities % civilization. mcu wfo
hire Themselves out as assassins. just as
regularly o. others hire themselves for
domestic service or Tor the mending of
: hoes And vet with all this, the total 81
n1urdcrous assaults during the Exposition
months has been no higher than Boz nor
mai times a few mysterious disapp' ar
ances. a few dead men floating down ih
seine with knife ga she's IA their flesh.
few people found beaten 10 inseus bl.'y
and robbed In the dark. Lonely streets
that was an Never was the Paris Pol c.
DEPARTMENT run on sush generous NUM-
erlral lines OF With more In eligent dit &C.
ton. than during these last six months.
Paris undertook that Exposition guests
even II they should be fools enough TO
part voluntarily, or through earelessnest
with their bank-ro.ls. at least sholld
carry their lives back home with them.
And the city kept her word.
Legacy OF Crime Left by the Fair.
There are streets. there are even whole
quarters IN Paris which az ordiniry
times Il Is rash 20 traverse alone one
night has fallen-plaees whore The vet
eran Partisan always walks 90 tho mid
die OF the read with MS hand IN his
revolver pocket. and his eye Away alert.
watching the sinister figures that nov
ana then loom Up uupcasantly from ont
~ gloomy alley-ways or from the shadow
OF eteep walls These spots where crime
tas a Frenchman once wrote, horri1E
plays among the children ana Is iheir
good friend all their lie these were
ratrolled an night long by strong forces
~ the police whose lanterns flashed com
fortinrlv on the home They became a
s,fe ip most cases. except So very uncen-
tral nelghborhoods as the Grand tolle-
y,rds al the 'absinthe- hours The tame
vghen tout Paris" gathers on the great
main artery 10 laugh and talk and set
an appetite for dinner.
Rut the Paris police complain bitterly
,hat their work IS not half done, with the
closing OF the Fair. NJ. Cochefert' ] am
informed. said a couple Of days ago, az
! reunion OF police authorities, Now that
vye are losing practically all our visitors.
v,e snail have time 20 look more closely
,ftcr tho p!ckpockots and sHindlers they
attracted. and heaven only knows When
ne shall purge the city Of them II was
a crv Of despair, justified hy the eNper-