The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-11-18
BLACK ARROW WAS
GOOD TO RUFUS
How SnodgraSs Found the
Hidden Treasure.
WAS IN CAPITOL GROUNDS
Envelope Tucked in Between Loose
Bricks Did Not Escape His
Sharp Eyes.

Five dollars an hour for three hours
IS the good pay which a Black Arrow
brought to Rufus Snodgrass, a young
man OF nineteen, who is cashier in "a
dairy lunch room on Eleventh Street.
at the corner of + Street northwest.
Fifteen dollars was the amount OF the
Black Arrow check which he found. IL
was the Black Arrow hidden in the
Capitol grounds. This is the way Mr..
Snodgrass told Of his good luck:
When 1 read the Black Arrow story
4 in The Times on Sunday. / determined
to hunt for some of the money just as
soon as 1 could set away from work.
j Went out about o'clock in the after
noon and headed right for the Capitol
grounds I have always been lucky and
u thought if there was anybody who
could find the money, / could do IL. and
so yOu see / did.
Did Thorough Work.
When / read the paper / had no
idea where 10 look first for the Black
Arrow. bat thought it would be around
some tree or other. When / came 10
the Capitol grounds / turned 70 the left
and began working up toward the grotto,
looking carefully over ali the shTubbery
anu tANH.S 1-Af4Ab AsAN way At'-' W. "a
lot OF other people there, too, and all
were looking for the money all right,
: but some OF them didn't seem 10 want
anybody 10 know that's what they were
there for When anyone would come
alOHg most OF them would sIralghIen up
and go on, as if they had just stopped
for a moment for something else
Il didn't 20 after the Black ARROW IN
that way, and now that 1 Won, i thlhh
my way was the best. l Just went
tA il
was there 20 find the money and did
The way ] found IL was. I went into
the grOttO and found a whole lot OF peo-
pie there. / looked all around the lower
lodges and then got up on a bench, over
which l saw a sign. II was perhaps
seven or eight feet high.
Nothing Strange.
There seemed nothing out of the way,
OF that anyone else wouldn't notice. until
/ came across a small opening between
The bricks. That seemed 10 be a good
iplace 10 look, and there, sure enough.
was a piece OF white paper, all doubled
mp. 1 pulled il out and right away was
sure / had got the Black Arrow. ]
found I was right and then the only
thiug else was 10 find how much III was
for CA can be- sure / was pleased
when I discovered IL was TOR SIS when
presented at The Washington Times or
nee.
IA seers mighty fine 20 get money
like this. because / have been trying 20
get "a good bank account 20 be handy
for raany day. and this will help me in
that attempt ] think my finding this
money shows my good lack has not left
me, for I've been here in Washington
only 81 zee last spring. You can say
think The Times is an right and that /
am happy 10 be ore of the winners"
Lived in West Virginia.
Young Snodgrass came 10 Washington
from Marmet ". Va, about ten miles
east OF Charleston. His father and
mother live there with his two sisters
and two brothers. For some time past
he has been wanting 10 go back there
10 pay them visit. and now he thinks
he viii make Thank giving Day Jour
ney on the Black Arrow money
The Black Arrow envelope referred ia
in the clue has been found on PennsvI-
Vania Avenue northwest but the finder
has not Yet presented il at this office
More money VIII De given away uexl
week. aHS the clue 70 its hiding places
viii be found in the third instalmeut OF
the great detective story. The Black
ArFOW,' IN next Sunday Times