Evening star., 1903-08-15
CHARb OF PRAISE.

ence 20 the almost weird streaks OK Dull
head luck which all S{ US occasionally have
in snagging people We go after" said a
noted New Yofk sleyfh who came down to
Washington to 'looF around" during the
typos session. 3, myself have received
vast amount Of credit that I never deserved
since became a fly cop. although. of
course. am boeYnd ta say that I've always
taken these undeseryed honors with a
haven't found # incumbent upon me to mar
rate to my sqperiorf the lucky circum-
stance in connection with captures for
which have received the most praise.
Only three years ago made haul for
which got the glad word in the newspa-
pers all over the country. and yet 1t was a
piece OF work that any eighteen-year-old
poy with pear-shapeds head could have
pulled on given the same amount of 1,O00-
to-l shOt luck that drifted. my way in con-
nection with the capture
young New York chap the manager
OF a sizaple brokerage Office in one of the
uptown New York hotels. got into the spec
ulatiVe pond over his head during the alb
sence or his employer in Europe On the
gay pefore his employer was due to arrive
IN new YORK from the trip abroad the
young fellow Quilted the plant taking not
ohiy large amount of the old mans cash.
put several tens of thousands of dollars be-
1UhslhS ,S TO customers of the establishment
III.
employer found the works up on a kite
when ne got or the steamer on the follow
ing oay. and scOrched to Headquarters in a
devil wagon to tell about it. 1 was we'll ac-
in which the brokera ee office was Ioca tod
was nang-out of mine. and so the chief
tossed the case over to me- At the yery
outset OF my, preliminary inquiries among
tti me enipezzier 1ntimates ascertained that
tne young Fellow had often expressed a de-
sire 10 some day visit Japan. Nine men out
oI ten nave In their minds a certain coun-
Try that they hope particularly to take a
~ Ja IN a., d, When things come their way and
II IS strctiy the initial stunt of a detective
sent IN chase of a fugitive to find out from
'he lattef s pals. If he can the name of tho
country for which the jumper had. in HIS
pansVe ,nassas conversational moments, ex-
pressed desire to- visit This Young fol-
low, as say. appeared to have had the
Japan pug pad, and. although 1 had no
otner clue of the slightest value to his
~, nv tl Siehts. determined to take a chance
oh the PRESUMPTION that he had II In mind
70 convey himself and his hastily ANNEXED
Wau TO the land Of the 'rickshas on the
s Steamer which was scheduled to sail from
san FRANCISCO six days later
80 made the Quick hike to San Franc,s
co. got threre at about 10 O'Clock a+ rioht
oos tIred. and had myself driven to the Bal,
ace Hotei. nguring on taking a long sleen
1 1e,ore oeginning the scour on the following
Gay ior my little man.
Il found the hotel ianmod ,,.,
-
n,1 D1es sun In an uproar even at that bour
me annual convention of the Native Sons
tior me ne Goioen West. that close corpora
tlon OF the Californians was on and the
town was In the hands of tens Of thou
SANDS OF excursiOnists from all over the
state. The night clerk of the Palace a
,an .rrin ~ Knew We'll. gave me the connerino
book my name on the
How'd you like to bunk I'D with an
oaner man? the"'night clerk asked me.
I'd just as soon sleep with a wet dog -,
I replied 'Whyg "e' oos'
cause you've get to. chum, If you're
s1lns % TO stay with rus this time he re-
the roof. We're slamming 'em into rooms
IN ,i,, sets or fougs and they're sleeping on
billiard tables. in the halls, on ton Of the
sstamonary 5 a wash tubs and in the sink But
one other duck-New York fellow he ia
so you will probably be able to make ont
better with him than you might with what
you conceited Manhaftanites cali q IN;
per- vi"
II murmured a few phrases to the night
clerk about the ihanKy-pankiness of an al
iesed town that couldn't give an old-ttme
guest OF a hotel decent nights rest with
out doubling him up with rank outsider
but the clerko onfy'' beamed under nv
grouchiness and told me that he was
doing doing the best he, could for me-which. of
him that I'd. take a poke around among
some of the, other houses to- see If I
coulon get room to myself, and start
ed out. All of the other hotels were in a
worse stampeded state than the Palace
and the best that any of them could offer
me was chance to turn in with four
other more or less 'riotous Native Sons So
hiked back to the Palace, getting there at
midnight
Sill got that vacanny with the civil
lied New York maverick? I asked the
clerk and he told me that the vacancy
still existed.
And you needn't take it so much to
heart, old man. the night clerk said
'Wait'll you hear the beef the New York
duck'll put up when he's gently requested
other +t
THE night clerk sent me up to the room
occupied by the New Yorker with the head
bellman to help me in making an entry to
banged on the door-deep snores were pro-
ceeding from the room-but there was no
reply until the bellman had slugged the
panel for about three minutes. with all
his might
Then there came a voice:
What the devils coming off here"
"And / guess perhaps I didn't stick my
ears forward when l heard that voice The
with his pipes. and he spoke in a high,
raspy shrill tone that could have been
recognized anywhere, once heard, by any
BODY The voice of the man in this room
was the voice. I woud have bet a million,
Of the man 1 was after. But 1 determined
to do just a little more listening. for
safety.
".Dey's gemman hyuh wot's gwine tub
sleep with yo ALL called out the bellman
.'Tll be id ifthere Isl! came back that
piping voice from the room, in tone of
considerable wrath.
"'Ain't no hep TO- it, suh.' sung out the
bellman Du c,uk, he say de gemman dun
got tub sleep with yo' all. Open de do,
please, ,suh.'
".Open nothing shrilled the man in the
room Go chase yourself and give us a
rest-nobody backs into this stall while
I'm in it
Il reached out and yanked the bellman
away from the door. Then put my shoul-
der to the door, and in it went with a.
crash Then 1 made jump for the cleo
trolier turned on one of the lamps-and
there was my man sitting up in bed, re-
garding me with natural enough amaze
ment.
Hello, Freddie I said to him You're
it,
"And that's about all. I occupied the
same room with him that night, but 1 didn't
go to sleep any-had 'em send me RELAYS of
black coffee SO that could keep my lamps
open The young fellow saw that the dance
was all up and he c9gn1sented to come back
to New York with ME without the papers
and just elevefi days from the time I'd
started from New York had my man
back there and in the Tonbs.
They haventt got through hurting words