Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
slo.o0o, he walks up to tho layers stool a.
says, 'Tu bet You ten"
Remark Of John W. Gates.


$4,000 he walks up to tho layers stool and
says, I'll bet You tens
Remark Of John W. Gates. 4
John w. Gates. who has said many wise
| things. made use OF q particularly sage
| phrase the other day. shortly before hs
! went to Europe. when he remarked that
gambling is a luxury. and no fellow can
afford to take 1t up until he has a right
| smart capitsl-about 100000 would be
the minimum figure, should say
Most Of these new race plungers and all
OF the old-time ones have announced their
intention of going down to Washington this
fall to attend the Benning meeting, and IL
they maintain down there a clip approx
mating one-fifth Of that which they have
kept up over here ever since the invasion
of the Chicago crowd" inspired a general
recklessness, that Benning betting shed
will be the scene of some operations worth
the studious attention even Of rank OUT
Siders. who, caring nothing for racing them-
selves. may, nevertheless, experience cue
riosity to observe the fippancy with which
these unfevered gamblers hazard fortunes
on speed contests that last minute or
two.
Fortunes Of Police Officers
Another bit Of interesting tabulation in
which the New York newspapers are tn
dulging lately has reference to the fortunes
Of New York police officers. past and pres
with the tidy sum OF 81 500 900 to his credit.
big Bill Devery. the ex-chief, whose re-
cent election as leader of the ninth assem-
bly, district is openly stated to have cost
him SS5,0O0. comes close after Byrnes. with
$500, 900. A captain OF police who lost his
job the other day for resolutely refusing to
go after the gamblers Of his precinct is
stated to be pretty comfortable with $780,
600 invested. and so on down the list with
more than dozen OF the captains still on
duty credited with as much 100000
apiece. After all. It is small wonder that
the Where did they get it?' slogan has
been such an effectual one in New York
politics during recent years These ex-
ceedingiy rich policemen are uncommonly
brazen in declaring not infreauently. with
strong oaths. that It is none of the public's
business where they got their money. but
the public Is sufficiently perverse to so
right on declaring that 1t Is distinctly their
business to know all about where the po-
licemen picked up their wealth.
Some of the more philosophical cops have
/ fallen into the habit OF guying the Where
did you get it," inquiry. Devery with the
most good-natured grin imaginable over
spreading his vast countenance, tells timid
inquirers for reform newspapers that he
made all Of his money years ago by buying
Comstock lode stock for IL cents a share,
which he afterward disposed Of for $1,000 Il
share. Sometimes Devery bursts into riot
Gus laughter when he tells this story. Most
of the wealthy cop captains account for
their riches by declaring that they have
made money by "speculating in real es-
tate despite the fact that there are sew
eral hundreds Of shrewd professional real
estate operators over here who have failed
at that business during the past decade.
The most entertaining humorist of the lot
was ex-Inspector Williams. who solemnly
told an investigating committee few years
ago that he had picked UP his hundreds or
thousands buying and selling building lots
in Japan"
Byrnes and His Assistants.
IN
charge Of the detective ONCE OF New York
he had with him as assistants about thirty
trained detectives-men whom he had
picked out himself for ability and schooled
in accordance with his effectual method.
Few crimes happened in New York in those
days that these men were unable to get to
the bottom Of very quickly. They we're not
political favorites, they did business with
no stool pigeons, and the crook with polltf-
cal backing Jared as poorly with them as
the criminal with not even symptom OF a
pull" Byrnes and his detectives were
terror to the evildoers Of this town. The
seemingly inexplicable murders that Oc-
Cured in New York under the Byrnes re-
gime were unraveled with little or no 10 do
by the capable members OF ByrneS' STAN.
Well, during the past six months there
have been eight murders. all of them Of a !
peculiarly atrocious character, which the
present staff Of headquarters detectives
have appeared to be utterly unable TO faith
ON. There now attached TO the head
quarters detective stan something like 16O
alleged sleuths. most Of whom copy closely
In manner the conventional gIm-shoe Hawk
shaws Of the dime novels, thereby gaining
the ridicule of those who observe their
funny operations: and more monumentaly
incapable and hopeless lot of crimeunravel-
lers II would be hard to get together. Only
the other day the town was afforded the
spectacle of the chief Of police of 50 de-
spised a little town as Hoboken, n. j..
coming over here to New York with
couple of ordinary uniformed policemen and
finding, without the least trouble, the apart
ment In which a woman had been brutality
murdered. AFTER TINS nne set OF New 1ork
sleuths had been painting and wheeling
frantically for nearly three days without
obtaining the slightest clue as to the Local
ton Of the crime.
Proselyting by the Mormons.
The persistence with which the Mormons
carry on their proselyte-making in the east
was again revealed by the discovery of the
place in which this murder was committed,
The triple apartment was occupied by three
young elders of the Mormon Church, all
of whom as little resembled ones precon-
ceived notions as to the exterior makeup
of Mormon elders as possible They are all
three boyish, but exceedingly athletic and
we'll groomed looking fellows, and they looH
like rollicking, good-natured students Yet
they have been carrying on their Mormon
missionary work with quiet. but effective
zeal for more than a year right in the
heart OF New York city-they have frequent
Mormon meetings at hall on 23d street.
and 1t is said that they are constantly send
ing converts, chiefly women. out to Utah.
A young and good-looking school teacher,
who recently backed OUT OF her an
nounced belief in Mormonism on account Of
certain tenets that struck her as being
pulsive. has furnished some surprising fig
ures as to the success which the Mormon
missionaries in the east have met with in
recent years. She says that whereas most
other missionaries exultantly announce the
number of their converts, the Mormon mis-
| sionaries preserve the profoundest secrecy
| in the matter, wisely fearing the effect Of
| public opinion. Most Of their converts are
! young women Of rather emotional tempera.
| ment, and soon the converts are
| initiated in Mormonsm they are provided
with means to go to Utah and escorts TO
| take them there.
Something under five years ago a set Of
Mormon missionaries began a series of open
and advertised meetings in a Brooklyn hail.
The residents OF the neighborhood IN which
these meetings were held no sooner realized
what was going on ''in their midst than
they proceeded one night to sack the hall