The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-08
Bows Nestce Suits. SI.4o
Jonas Longs Sons.

1.-TWO days later he got a letter ask
ing him To call at IL certain Office in a
little street not far from Wall street
ferry. The signature was a. strange
one. but il was evidently Spanish, and
after thinking the matter over for u
time he decided to go ana see what
the writer wanted. lie found his man
in a small office on the second floor Of
a tumble down building and introduced
himself. There were Il ndmber Of
Spanish looking men around, but his
interview with the man who was evil
IDENTIFY the leader of the OUTFIT was he
hind the closed door Of u little room
off the main office. The hrst question
put to him was:
You love your wife?
"1 do was the reply.
Then listen to me attentNely. and
the man proceeded TO unfold his plans
Spain needed agents in this coun-
Try. War would be declared very soon
it was declared the next day-and
much must he done. Would he enter
the Spanish secret service? The things
he would he asked to do would not
cndanger his life or his good name.
lie was simply to engage on some
| newspaper as a reporter, and with this
backing to seek certain facts that the
| Spanish were DESTROYS Of obtaining.
"All Of this was put with exquisite
! tact. but when my friend Indignantly
| spurned the offer "a change came over
| the other
"'You do this thing or you lose your
| wife. This is no time for parley. VIII
| you accept
There was a faint rustic behind my
| friend. Turning he saw his wife stand
| ing in the rear of the room. Her face
was pale, but resolute. She stayed
| there just long enough to say: He
has the right to say what he does,
and then left the place.
81 am ashamed to say that my
! friend, after half an hour more with
| the smooth Spaniard, became Il spy
| against his own country in the service
| of Spain. There is no use going over
! the suffering that he endured and the
| agony that weakened his ordinarily
| strong nature and brought him to such
a disgraceful employment Suffice it to
| say that he became a spy, and that he
| was let into secrets that amazed him.
"Tho amount of information that the
| boss Spaniard had in his possession
| amazed him. lie had charts of the
| harbor of New York. maps Of the
! Sandy Hook fortihcations and of the
| forts in the Narrows. and submarine
maps. purportinG to saow the exact
locality of all the mines that had ever
been planted inside of the Horse shoe.
He had correspondence from Washing
! ton giving a tremendous amount Of in
| In n hn ma mi ,In
and the signatures to these letters
showed that men OF every nationality
were doing secret service work for
| Spain,
| "Now, | don't pretend to say how ac-
| curate this information was. because.
of course. / do not know, but certainly
| a spy system had been organized here
| by Spain and work was going on stead
! lily. The agents were numbered in the
hundreds and they were spread all over
the country. There was at least one
man in every navy yard in the United
| States, and the boss Spanlard told my
| friend that some of them We're in the
employ OF the government rs mechan-
| les. He didn't show anything TO prove
| this, so you can take il or leave il as
| you please.
"The disaraccful position in which he
i, found himself So preyod on the mind
OF my friend that he rode up and down
on an elevated train for nearly five
hours after his interview with the
Spaniards. The more he thought over
the matter the more convinced he be-
came that he could not do what he had
promised to. 1t was long struggle
but honor won out, and the,next morn