Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-09

The city of Washington has national
reputation of being the heaven and haven
of fakes and Sehers. Until few wears ago
a man uttering A worthless check aud Oh
tanning the money on it could not be pun
shedl There are more schemes and
schemers on street the Avenue ard one
or two intersecting streets than can be
found in any city in the country outside of
New York. An impudent swindler whom
the GLOBE ran down and exposed some
months ago, and who even uttered checks
on banks in which he had no funds and
swindled numbers Of citizens with tar
roof fake, actually secured a warrant for our
arrest on criminal libel This fellow now
represents himself around town as a clerk
in the police headquarters building
The latest exploded fake IS the Kretol
Company, r. w Brown, brains, organizer
and manager Mr. Brown is from Ohio,
from Doc Norton's own town of Tifin and
If they raise any brighter pair elsewhere
the GLOBE has no record of the fact
Doc" however, is a statesman and Brown
is we'll, business man Ex-Congress-
man Yoder has a tale to unfold of how
Mr.. Brown secured the Kretol which will
make mighty interesting reading further
along.
The long shots and chances Mr.. Brown
las taken would astonish even the profess
sional Washingtonian speculator. The get
rich reasonably quick Kretol, with its reg
ular dividends from the sale Of stock,
caught the department male and female
clerk, besides numerous other investors
whom we could no more reach with block
of GLOBE stock than we could sell genu-
inc diamond for a paste one II Is a trait
of the Washington investor that he con-
temptuously ignores all legitimate enter
prises Of the GLOBE character and hunts up
ard Is easiy ensuared by sowe Kretol fake
The Kretol is a development from an
enterprise Of ex-Congressnnan Yoder, and
how Mr. Brown came 10 be the whole thing
in it will, as stated in due time appear.
Romance isn't in il with Mr. Browns manip-
ulatious. He is a brainY, nervy Ohioan,
willing to work eighteen hours day in float.
ing dead sure things" AT selling stock
and paying dividends he is past master,
and is worth a salary Of $50, 600 per annum
Four years ago he touched Washington
dead broke, and to day.he is "the observed
of all observers" with a comfortable bank
roll tucked away where the moths Caught
in the KretOl nett cannot get at it.
The company is in the hands of a re-
ceiver, but it will reorganize. Its assets
consist of an old brick building in Alex
andria, few pots and kettles for cooking
kretol and bank account of twelve dollars
and eleven cents Its liabilities are-away
no in the tens of thousands, some say sew
eral hundred thousands. But this will not
be accurately known for some time.
Mr. Brown went to Ohio eight or ten
days ago. We had bill for SIoo we tried
to discount before his departure and we
have been anxiously awaiting his return.
Mr. Brown will be kept very busy regu-
lating the affairs Of the company, and it is
useless for lady creditors to try and see
him in his castle of many offices on +
street
Perhaps if some of the department clerks
had taken more interest ia the SUNDAY
GLOBE we might have saved some portion
of their investments in kretol But Mr.
Brown was potential, suave, Napoleon Of
finance and all that And hence those tears
we now hear falling everywhere Mr.. Brown
got in his work.
Mr.. Brown likes Washington, aud thinks
it is dead easy" He will remain here, Of
course, as he has other enterprises on tap.