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The Washington times., 1902-02-09

! original than the old saw about woman
being at the bottom of everything
| Certainly she was at the bottom of
my going to Australia. loved her tco
much TO stav."
Was she married." l asked.
She was-and to confourded rake.
A chap who ought to have been horse
whipped all over England. He drank. he
raced. he gambled. he led her the devil
of a life"
DO you think she loved him?"
q know she did. That was the thing
which finally gave me the courage TO 90
away. There hasn't been a minute in
these three years that I haven't known
it. and it has made my life possible II
l hadn't known that she was here in this
part OF the world believing in me. trust
ing me, loving me, I'd have lost my head
many's the time"
And now?" asked I.
Now l am going to see her again. She
will be on the train from Paris which
comes over that bridge there in lust one
little half hour. haven't seen her for
three years"
Il suppose her husband had died?" I
ventured.
No He spoke with sternness.
But"
There are no butts about it. We are
going to pretend that drunken wretch is
dead, and begin cur lives all over again.
We are going to take a yacht and poke
its nose into every corner of the globe.
/ am going to take her out TO Australia
and show her some OF those places where
| sutherland where the thought of her
kept me alive"
DO you think that is just fair to her?
She may love you enough, but"
shes willing to risk life with me, and
l am willing to risk it, although there
was time when l wasn't. When two
persons love each other as much as she
and / do. 1t oyercomes everything"
l had liked the man so much that |
hated TO see him go wrong, and | made
a final plea.
But her husband? The man whose
lawful wife she promised to be?'
He gave me heavy grasp on the arm
and burst into his happy. boyish laugh.
but. man. I'm her husbandl She's my
wife!'
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HOW SIN CANE TO HACKWATACK

the pond. for the benefit of tbe racing mo,
and other men who did not race h : vera
i'st' ana the women they brought with
them- 1t was net an expensive place, aud
everybody did IS he chose. There WAS
no pr1lic opinion among the boardcrs
ana as for :he opinions of the natives
thcy did not signify. There was not
.iich sentiment among the natives, anv-
way. People do not quarrel with their
bread and butter in this world. and the
summer folks brought into the place
about all the money that came there. The
farms had run down. The train which
now came up from the junction brought
meat. vegetables, and fruits from the city
cheaper than the farmers could raise
them. The farms were gradually aband-
oned. Finally railroad magnate, look
ing for park which should resemble
chat Of Scotch Duke whom he had once
visited ION businessl, bought about half
the county and turned it into a game re-
serve, stocked with deer and grouse ana
other wild things. The school children
lid not ramble through the woods any
more, and there were signs reading NO
Trespass' to warn Oh others. Italians
and Irish took the abandoned farms and
made themselves homes after their kind.
The railroad magnate turned the votes
{: the community over to his candidate
for Congress, and drove about the town
with the feeling which a feudal lord may
have had when the system was first es-
tablished. His wife and daughters com
planned that the people were not respect
ful as they are in Europe; the servants
refused to wear livery, and the village
folk did not know their place. They arc
finding it as fast as they can, but nobody
ever came into a ready-made fcudal sys-
TEN. Perhaps in a hundred years Hack
matack may have evolved into something
as far in advance of its present state as
its present state is in advance OF those
simple, innocent times when all the chill
dren of the town went to school together
everybody had enough to eat, and no boy
had an ambition higher than that of being
President. In these days the boys who
have ambitions at all wish either to be
head walters in the hotel. or millionaires
like Armour and Hayemeyer. Perhaps.
some day a multimiliionaire will emergt
from Hackmatack, and by a stroke of Ma
pOleonic genius corner all the food of the
world. and then we shall understand how
in the infinite wisdom OF evolution, the
soil was prepared for new and astonish.
ing product in the line OF man.
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explosives upon so-called burglarproof
safes.
Instructed by the Government.
This report was printed and circulated
by the Treasury Department. Those who
read the report experimental. became ex-
pert in the use OF explosives. and taught
others. In that way the use of dynamite
and nitrogIyoerin in connection with
safe burglary. has come to be quite well
understood by the ''Yeggs-"
Yeggmen usually operate in bands of
five or six, one or two of whom under
stand extracting nitrogiycerin from dy-
Mantle and the uses it can be put TO in
robbins vaults and safes. Other members
of the hand carry out such work as is
allotted to them, such as watching outside
of the building while the others are on
the inside. The outside man will hold
up and, if necessary, kill an intruder.
The methods of this class of burglars. as
compared with those of the old and skill
full "cracksman." are simple and labor
saving.
The skillful cracksman of the old school
went forth to commit safe burglary
with tools especially made, including Sec
tional jimmies. copper-covered sledges,
steel wedges of many sizes. ratchets.
braces, pullers. separators. ali pumps to
exhaust the air and draw in the fine pow
der, and many other tools and devices
to aid him in quietly boring his way into
the outer and inner doors of vault or
safe. and finally to penetrate the steel
chest His aim was to do the work with
as little noise as possible.
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IT HERE is much pathos in the sad
finish of Fontaine Maury. After
spending last Saturday night at
No. l police station, he as, on
the advice of relatives. sent to ST. Eliza
beth's Insane Asylum. To be picked up
On the streets suffering from cold and
hunger, overcoatless. on one of The cold
est nights of-the winter, a mental and
Physical wreck, is a most unfortunate
plight for anybody. but when that person
happens to be grandson of the former
mayor of the National Capital, the mem
ber of an aristocratic family. educated,
accustomed to the Iuxuries OF life. and an
eIstwhile cultured gentleman. the story
is pathetic in the extreme.
The world is full of such stories of
degereracy. Sometimes the subjects are
women; happily. more often men. The
cause? The answer to this has been the
study of psychologists. Most frequently
ram is at the bottom.
Fontaine Maury is we'll known to many
people of Washington. 1t is not so many
years since he was highly prospe rous, and
moved in the upper class social circles
of this town. During the lifetime and
administration of the late President
Arthur, Maury was boon companion,
chum, and confidaut of Alan Arthur, the
then Presidents son. 1t was no uncom-
mon thing to see this pair sauntering
down the Avenue, both "groomed to the
nines." the cynosure of many eyes.
For several years afterward Maury oc-
cuPicd good paying Government positions.
But he was restless. not over-fond of
work which confined him indoors. He
chafed under rules. Surcharged with that
spirit which is termed "bohepianism,
he yearned for lively company and the
clink of glasses containing the red fluid
which cheers-for a minute or two. I'm
fitted by disposition for safely holding
down Government office. he drifted out
upon the sea of uncertainty. Meantime
the handsome wife he had married in the
good days became IA neglected woman.
They grew apart. the natural outcome of
Maury's fondness for other company and
the uncertainty of his existence
He was rarely skilled banjoist He
had played the instrument in much merry
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Knights Of tie dnainp-2r, as Some Say,
The James---HoO2n't Been Busy in
These Pats Since The GreatRaid of 'o3.
Some of The Reasons. :. :. :. :. =.

HE remarkable freedom of this city
from the operation of that most
1 fascinating and dangerous set o.
men. the bank burglars. has lone
been matter of comment by the various
police officials OF the country.
With the unlimited wealth confined
within the vaults of the Treasury De-
partment and the millions which are to
be found within the confines of the vari-
Gus local banks never in the history OF
the city has any determined effort been
made to rob any of these places. and
such of the followers Of this profession
as have even dreamed of such an at
tempt have had their plans nipped in
the bud and have been discouraged even
before they had breathed their plans to
their confederates.
The fact that the great Secret Service
machinery of the Treasury Department
has its headquarters here and is an ever
constant ally of the local department has
so far proved to be an inyincible guard
to those who have looked toward the big
safes with longing eyes
Operations in Washfngton.
Even the smaller safes of the city have
been wonderfully free from the attempts
of the handlers Of the powder and the
fuse, and with the exception of an abor-
tive attempt by half-dozen negro boys
on Fourteenth Street store some days
ago, few safes of importance have been
The Washington times., 1902-02-09

T Y ACkMATACh Is a llllie Iul a. N'-4'
- munity snuggled in among the
lesser spurs of the White HIS
A pond is there, known as spec
+ac,e Pond. because it has two haiVes
;oined by a little creek In prehistoric
times the town, like the pond. reflected
| heaven in its bosom and all was peaceiui
and serene. But progress had to happen
rxnIorers came. and saw, and fell upon
| their knees and then upon the aborlsiheS'
and thus sin entered Hacllmatack.
John sanborn had snug farmhouse
near one end of Spectacle Pond, and one
year. when the bugs had spoiled most Of
his potatoes. and competition from the
| West had ruined his sheep farm, he en-
tertained the thought Of taking boardors.
When Mr Van Huysen. Of New York.
came asking about country board at the
Lake View House, John Sanborn was all
ready to entertain him. Mr. Van Huy-
sen was charmed with the place. So was
his wife, and so we're his two daughters
and their brother and cousin, when they
came; and among them they filled the
little Sanborn house so full Of ruflles, and
parasols, and tennis rackets and banjos,
and Saratoga trunks, and japanese fans,
and boot-trees, that there was scarcely
room for the family, and the spinning
wheel and the oId-fashioned four-poster
had to be sent up garret. That summer
was an education for the Sanborn family
They learned to open soda and ginger
pop bottles, and to mark out tennis
courts, and crease trousers. Mrs San
born sat up and made over some OF her
dresses. and John Sanborn bought a suit
Of ready made clothes from a Jew in
Smyrna, which was the nearest large
town. That autumn the farm house was
enlarged by one or two rooms, and YER
anda was added.
The next year Mr.. Van Huysen brought
with him his friend MIR. Carver, and his
wife and daughter They were from Bos-
ton, and took board with the Widow Hop
kins. They read Tolstoi, and Ibsen, and
Amelie Riyes, the latter because they en-
joyed her. though they felt 1t was wrong,
and the other two because they ought to
keep up with current literature. Also
they discussed theosophy. and faith cure.
The Widow Hopkins paid little attention
to them. She knew that II she had ever
lived on this earth before she never would
have come back. and she could not be
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It developed that Yeatman, who was the
son of a Treasury official, and was hand
| somely dressed and prepossessing in ap-
pearance, wcild locate a safe where he
believed there was promise oil a success
full job and left the actual work to the
other men, with whom he rarely asso-
ciated. He was arrested in the Marble
! saloon the following day. AMI together
with Sayles, turned states evidence and
got off with light sentence. Kate
Laekey and Charles and Edward
Lackey, who ran the house where the
eafeblowers were stopping, were arrested
at the time of the raid, but they were not
connected with the crimes in any way.
Charles Foulke and James Mccarthy,
who figured in these robberies, afterward
lost their lives while making their way to
the city to execute a daring plan which
they had conceived of robbing one of the
most prominent of the local banks. They
had been operating throughout North Ca
rolina and Virginia in blowing postoffice
safes and were well supplied with money
when they started for this city on their
dastardly errand. They did not deem it
wise to enter the town in the regular
manner for fear that some of the detec-
tives stationed at the depots might recog-
nize them. and left a Southern train a
short distance below Alexandria.
MangIcd by NitroEIyccrin.
1t was about the middle Of February.
and the weather was intensely cold
bottle OF nitroglycerin which they car
ried had become frozen. End while thaw-
ing it out It exploded. terribly mangling
the men. One CT their companions noti-
fed the telegraph operator at the signal
tower near by and then disappeared
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Foulke and Mccarthy were removed to
the Emergency Hospital in this city,
where the former died the following day,
and Mccarthy on February 26, 1901.
Several years after Foulke and his
gang operated around the city the police
were startled by daring safe job at the
wharf of the Alexandria Ferry Company.
Access was had to the building from be-
meath the wharf by the robbers who. after
overpowering the watchman, bound and
gagged him while they blew open the
safe. a peculiar feature of this robbery
was that had it not been for the energy
Of the night inspector of police in rous-
ing the men out of warm corners these
men would have been caught in the very
act of blowing open the safe
There were two men on the beat at the
time running as partners. 1t had been
their custom on cold nights TO spend a
considerable time with the watchman in
the ferry house. On the night IN uues-
tion as they were about TO enter the house
they learned that the night inspector was
looking for them and hurried away to
another part of their beat. Had it not
been for this incident they would have en-
tered the ferry house Just in time to
catch the thieves who afterwards ad-
mitted that they desisted from their WORK
for time when they heard the officers
approaching
Detectives Horne and Weldon the fol-
lowing day. April s. 1895. arrested the
gang in Candler's saloon In Jackson Citv
lhe% were Buck" ofut. Billy Williams.
Jack Dempsey. and Eddie Desmond. vii
iiams is now serving a term in the pen
Tor knocking man down in the White
Lot and robbing him Dempsey after
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only two gangs of men who have made
any attempt at blowing safes in this
city, although several other sets of men
have been driven away from time to time
The gang with which Charles Foulke and
James Mccarthy operated succeeded in
outwitting the police for some time and
blew number of safes before they were
finally caught, in 1893.
About that time there we're several safes
blown open and considerable sums of
money secured. Among them were the
safes of Nicolai Bros, the oil dealers in
South Washington; the safe belonging to
Charles Jacobson, at the Arlington Bot
tling Works and several others in
smaller establishments. The entire de-
tective force was assigned 20 the cases
and worked night and day for several
weeks.
Finally, on information received, they
Sent to a house on Maine Avenue, near
Four-and-a-half Street southwest. In
spector Hollinberger led the party, which
consisted of Detectives Weldon. Boyd,
and Boardman, the last-named now being
the head of the detective Office, and Po-
liceman Bob Johnson. They surrounded
the house and, entering cautiously, found
a number of the gang asleep in bed
Beside them lay revolvers and weapons OF
an kinds that bespoke the reception the
officers would have received had they
not taken the men unaware. Burglars
tools. powder for blowing the safes, and
many other incriminating articles were
found on the premises.
The raid was on the night Of February
I 1893. As a result of it Charles Foulkc,
william Yeatman, Charles f. Banks. VINO
has since died; John Sayles, ana James
Mccarthy were arrested and locked up.
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convinced that her rheumatism was mere
a state of mind. But Melissa Hopkins
look it all in, and tried to make it fit her
life. which it did about as we'll as Jack
Van Huysen's pointed shoes fted the cid
est SanbOrn boy.
When the summer colony had increased
to six families. the boarders began to tip.
They paid extra for having meals taken
to their rooms, for personal service of
all kinds. The eyes of the inhabitants of
Hackmatack developed a greedy look, and
their clothing showed increasing signs Of
the Hebrew influence of the clothing store
man at SMYRNA. Two racing men who
drove fast horses and led fast lives came
up from New York and dazzled their land
lord. partly with their diamonds and
partly with their clothes.
Jack Van Huysen said he did not see
how anyone could sleep in the same
the two vJciferously dressed men did not
need much sleep. They reached their beds
at two AMI three and four o'clock in the
morning, and their landlady made a little
income off the sale of the bottles which
had accumulated in the woodshed. The
minister. a stern old Calyinist. called
one day. and the next Sunday he preached
n sermon on the text The Wages of Sin
is Death" 1t was net long after this
that the talk began about asking Mr..
Hewes to resign. He was too old; he did
not keep up with all the new ideas; no
body thought as he did nowadays 4
few old people whom he had baptized, and
married, and cons0led in sickness and in
bereavement had a lingering desire to
have him stay long enough to bury them
but they did not count. Mr. Hewes re-
signed and weat to live with his married
daughter; and then the people of Hack
matack found out that they could not
get any minister at all for the $500 they
lad paid him. So they compromised On
a theological student in the summer
tine. and schooihouse meetings in the
winter; and the theological student, not
being in a position to go wife-hunting
Lad a good time in his own way with all
the pretty girls he met
At about this time the Van Huysens and
the Carvers decided that the place was
getting altogether too common, and they
went in sea- cb of fresh fields and pastures
new John Sanborn's house was a hotel
now. and a huge mush- like structure
had upreared itself at the other end OF
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HER HUSBAND : sT45Y 60MESTG YTH 4Hz9E5y H39H5 Of

NT e were dining at the Savoy in
N London, and ! was staring
about ME at the beautiful
English women in the evening
dress which is SO strange to American
eyes in a public restaurant 1t was gay
scene, and l enjoyed its full favor.
/ like London. had been there exact
ly three hours, but the peculiar atmos-
phere Of the place, the Embankment
with the strings of barges on the little,
slow river, the great Nelson Monument in
Trafalgar square-with its lions. the cabs
were all old friends. Like everybody
else in America, / was saturated with
English literature, and as most Of US need
to have thing described 20 us before
we can see it, though it be before our
eyes. really felt that l knew London
better than New York. l had read more
about it,
The man VINO sat opposite me smiled
now and then in vast and beautiful con-
tent. He had told old stories of Austria
liza. where he had been for three years.
He had had important business in San
Francisco and had come home that way
for England was home to him. That waa
about all I knew of him, except that he
was brown of skin, deep of chest, and
with honest eyes and q good laugh.
He had great tales Of riding in Aus
tralia, Of the red dust in the gold coun-
try. Of the winds and the desoIation
Evidently he had felt the tragedy as well
as the comedy Of his life. He was child
like chap. and wished ] knew more of
hira than that his name was Gordon
We left the table presently and strolled
down toward the Embankment with our
cigars. II was the sort oI night in which
a man wants to conilde in something. l
didn't know much, but felt like telling
1t. Perhaps | was hunting a leader when
] said. 'odd man who likes England as
much as you do should have left it
The answer / expected was that he had
gone out to make money, and l had
tale Of my own which hung on money.
But he grew suddenly grave.
II went to Australia for the same rea-
son nine men out of ten do anything-a
woman"
| waited a minute for something more.
and then l could think Of nothing more
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vACKMATACK is a little rural COM
i munity snuggled in among the
lesser spurs OF the White HIS
pond is there, known as spec
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-25
AMERICAN BOY" FUND.


CINCINNATI, April 24-Soon after the
battleship Maine was blown up in the har-
Dor of Havana attempt was made to
collect by popular subscription sufficient
money to build battleship TO be named
american Boy" w. Rankin Goode. a
boy orator of Cincinnati. made speeches
here and elsewhere and considerable funds
were collected. In and about Cincinnati
5000 collected. OF this $1,000 is de-
posted i'm the Merchants National Bank
OF Cincinnati to the credit of the ''Ameri-
can Boy fund The public schools of Gin
cinnati and suburbs were liberal contrib
utors. The question is now raised as to
what TO do with these funds which are i'm
different hands Congress has refused to
have anything 10 do with the matter. IL
Is generally believed that the money col
lected in different cities and still held
there will be disposed of as the persons in
the different localities deem proper Elk
United States Attorney John w. Heron. and
the father-in-law Of Governor General Taft
OF the Philippines. who has been consulted
by parties here. said to-day that If no ac-
ton Is taken by the present Congress there
Will be "A movement 10 have the funds re-
turned TO those donors who are able TO
prove the amounts they gave. and the bal
ance distributed by order of the courts
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-25

The annual report of the Lake Shore road
shows that the gross earnings were 3d.
272,67476, and that the operating expenses
and taxes amounted to $40, PIC, 229O6, which
gives the road net earnings of $9O62. AS 30,
which, with the income from other sources.
gives the road the gross income of 1884,
1875. go
Under the head of the funded debt the
statement is made that during the past
year S1a per cent. gold bonds have been
exchanged for $4,000 consolidated second
mortgage { per cent bonds. AS a result
of exchanges since July /, 1897 at which
time the New York Central came into
control of the Lake Shore securities, the
total amount retired has been Sc, SS0, 900, the
funded debt being increased So, 239, 600. and
an annual interest saving of $l,072 1876 has
been effected. With a gross income of
$lO,3yl I30. % and a surplus OF So 692, 1853. SO,
after paying dividend of 10 per cent. on
guaranteed stock and per cent on COM
mon stock, the road is i'm most prosper
Gus condition. There is a total mileage
owned and leased of 1.41l16 miles, and
track 2.7S050 since 1869. to and including
rectors, and of these thirty are dead They
include some of the most noted names in
the financial history of the country, in
cludirg the Vanderbilts, William l.. Scott,
Jeptha Wade, John Newell, Judah c. Spen-
Ger and others. Last year there were car
ried by the road 5,95l.34l passengers, and
the passengers paid 81, sos, S.13 for trans
portation. The road carried p, $50 425 tons
of freight for which ii received 49, Clio, O96 Il.