New-York tribune., 1904-10-16

and wearing This about the person, is good one
They aIeiy suffer loss
In hotels the jewels always should be left IN The
office safe. They should be obtained from there
when wanted and returned there invariably 41ter
wearing This simple rule IS of much create
pOrtance than may at hrst appear
They should never be left in the hotel roo1l Tor
any length of time under any circumstances. The
reason IS that the favOrite plan of the jewel srca
is to obtain position hall-bOy hrst-class hotel
Robbery is ali that he is there for, and he VIII lie
the first chance, make his grab, and get away He
prefers the large cosmopolitan watering places. Ike
Atlantic City or say, Saratoga BY adroil of
the intelligence office he frequently gets III de pite
all the care taken by intelligence-Oice keepers and
hotel managers to keep him out The careless
of Jewels instantly becomes his mark and II She does
not make careful use Of the hotel safe she is bound
to suffer sooner later. In places like Newport
where the IS conservative and the visitors
select a stranger Is to be noticed They have
excellent detective force there also, and the sneak
does not trouble them. He prefers the crowded
watering place and the summer rush in eugaging
employees is all in his favor in obtaining favorable
field of operations.
In town and IN the country house maid should
always be left guard upstairs during the dinner
hour. This is the chosen hour of the second-stoTy
man 7" porch climber or, we have come to
call him in NewYOrk, the 'scutte-man-' He deIends
the general custom IN all large houses under which
the families and their servants dine at the tine
all those servants not engaged in waiting being at
table The upper part of the house being thus
DetelV deserted II he enter he mas clean
and an easy getaway" In town he operates
through the scuttle skylight the roof, which
not already open always easy to force TIE gets
up there by of unOCcupied house (aud every
unoccupied house in a block as well as every block
in which there is a house unOCcupied needs watchng
In the country he climbs the porch and enters second
story window. This latter plan is much more popular
in England than here and some Of the hauls there
have been exceedingly heavy.
This brings TO mind the folly represented 5y The
ordinary iewel-case of leather of wood, and the
necessity OF bedroom safes. which almost
known.
The average jewel-caSe. often representa- hall
million dollars of value, could be picked mp entire
by a thief and carried away. 1t usually IS I'm --r1k
and that trunk, during the dinner hour just after
dressing not uncommony Is open. Ii 1t is 0.t he
can force 1t quickly. He carries long file 1.-a
practically a small jimmy" with which hr
force instantly any table trunk lock. He -.ly
makes for the top drawer of the chfonier q the
dressing table where in nine out Of ten he
finds part of what he Is after If they .r-sei
he can open them in a second ANY Kind of r-.tal
safe would beat him completely, however hecl-. he
has time to waste He is in tremendous l.-~v
and takes only what is easily seizabe. Falling The
bedroom safe. one servant always should he ups
at dinner-tirnc. The "secOud-story man rhe1 II
have chance.
Regarding the obtaining of servants the ll,l--
lies with the employer. There is So much d. .-ry
IN obtaining good servants, and people become so
weary of looking up refarl IS,