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alma mater, took up the study of rail-
road questions to such an extent that
he was shortly appointed university
lecturer on railroad administration, and
the public began to hear of him for
the first time as an expert on all things
relating to railroads, both in their
civic and commercial relations. Alex
ander Twining was known to but few
outside the state Of Connecticut.
During the three years that he was
university lecturer, which Immediately
preceded his election to the professor
ship of political economy in 1886, and
the following years, up to 1895, his
name and influence grew. He was the
only member of the Yale faculty, Presi-
dent Dwight excepted, whose name was
even fairly well known among the 49,
600 odd Yale graduates and beyond
university circles. His numerous mag
azine articles on railroads and trans
portation, and his appointment as COM
missioner of labor and statistics for
Connecticut by a Republican governor,
despite the fact that Hadley was
known to have supported a Democratic
president, had made him so.
Thus matters stood when in the early
nineties Prof. Hadley's boyhood ambi-
ton took definite shape. President
Dwight had announced that he would
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sneak, out for the big goods, will trail
a prize package for weeks and over
thousands of miles.
"A sneak, for example, spots a we'll
to-do woman travelling with maid.
The thief can tell at glance whether
the mistress or the maid is carrying the
money and jewelry.
How the Sneak Works.
Suppose the mistress and the maid
to be travelling from New York to San
Francisco. They stop for rest in sew
eral cities en- route. The sneak makes
the same hotels as they do.
AT the first hotel he carefully notes
whether the satchel containing the
goodies goes to the hotel apartments
If the money and valuables are de-
posted in the hotel safe, the sneak
knows that that's habit with the trav-
cling woman, and his work is cut out
for him.
IF, however, the stuff is not deposit
ed the sneak has more or less of a snap
He watches the movements of the mis-
tress and the maid.
IF the mistress leaves the hotel for a
bit of shopping unaccompahied by the
maid he trails her to find out whether
she has the stuff on her or has left il
at the hotel in charge of the maid. The
woman carrying her jewelry in a
channels bag in the bosom of her dress
has habit Of constantly feeling to see
If it is there. If she does this the sneak
bides his time There is nothing doing
with the situation framed up that way
and he has got to watch for the inevi-
table careless moment
Worked at Chicago Hotel.
If however. the stuff has been left al
! the hotel in charge of the maid there are
various methods. On of them was skill
fully worked by sneak In a Chicago
hotel not long ago.
The travelling mistress was out shop
ping, the maid remaining in the apart
ments to guard the valuabIes The watch.
full sneak scrubbed line to the maid
signing the head clerks name, telling the
girl that the pet poodle travelling with hei
mistress: and kept in accordance witt
| the hotel rules in the hotel basement un-
der the porter's care, was having a fit
and requesting her to have look at tht
| dog. He sent this note to the maid by q
| bellboy
The maid hurried to the basement
| The sneak at the same moment was go.
! ing up in another elevator, and he walked
into the unguarded apartment an6
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to connect with stuff he is after. One of
them followed a swell New York couple
to Chicago. They put up at one of the very
gilty Chicago hotels, which, of course, was
good enough for the sneak. too.
Watched the New Workers.
1.-The sneak was on hand to observe that
the New Workers deposited their shiny
rocks with the hotel clerk. After day or
so he took note of the fact that when they
left the hotel they always took their key
with them.
ION the second day after their arrival
the sneak saw the New York couple leave
the ladies' entrance to the hotel in walking
dress. They took their key with them, as
usual, and the hotel people hadn't noticed
their leaving the hotel.
THE sneak went smack to the suite of
the New York couple and let himself in
with one of his handy keys. Then he sat
i down at the escritoire and scrawled line
| to the hotel clerk.
"'Old chap the line read, be good
enough to send up that packet of mine
that you've got in the safe, will your
The sneak signed the name Of the man
of the couple. He had practiced signing
it,. from memory, after scrutinizing 1T
handy with his pen. He knew that the
guest was on chummy terms with the
head clerk, and had heard him address
| him as old chap.
1.-The bellbov he summoned took the
| note down to the head clerk, who took the
| packet called for out of the safe and sent
it up, telling the bellboy to be careful of
it. The sneak tossed the bellboy a dol
lar, closed the door for a. moment then
clapped on his hat and stroned out of the
hotel with little bundle of cleaners be-
| longing to the guests wife that netted
| him good 5000
If the clerk had insisted, as most
clerks do. that the guest receive the pack
ct himself over the counter, and receipt
| for it on the spot, the sneak's goose would
| of course, have been cooked. But the airy
familiarity and ease of the sneak's note
! threw the clerk off his guard, and he took
| the chance.
But as general thing the trailing no.
tel sneak's work is a good deal simpler
| and less complicated than the instances
1 have mentioned. Sometimes they will
take a chance on getting into the room of
! a heavy sleeper and annexing stuff.
| Worked the Booknnaker
ga very wise bookmaker, who had al
ways imagined that he was pretty fly
mug before the thing happened, was
shredded for a $4,000 bank roll at a New
| Orleans hotel by. a night working sneak
two years ago this winter. The layer had
his stuff in tin box on his dresser. and
he never deposited it in the hotel safe.
THE sneak had him spotted for q
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declared another. 'He is preacher,
was a standing objection, "and there
is a founded conviction that the
next president should be our first
secular head" Only once were the
members of the new corporation any
where near agreeing. That was on
William H. Taft, the new secretary of
war. But the corporation divided into
three well-drawn parties again when
1t became known that Judge Taft's re-
ligious views were not orthodox.
All this time Hadley's name was be-
fore the corporation. It's members
could not get out of hearing of 1T.
They were repeatedly told that Hadley
was a layman, the only Yale man gen
orally well known, a man who had
shown business ability in the manage
ment of his private affairs, and Yale
needed business man to-, direct It
Alumni associa tons, especially those In
the West, constantly sent in petitions
praying for his election; numerous in
dividual communications called for his
election, as did also influences Indirect
ly connected with Yale, and the under
graduate body was almost a unit fol
him:
"Why are you students in favor OF
Hadley?" a member of the corporation
who opposed him asked of his nephew
WELL" replied the boy, Professor
Hadley may not be much for looks, and
he may be gawky, but he's got dandy
mind"
Hadley's opponent turned to his COM
panion.
''HadIey is in the air." he said eve
can't get away from him."
That was the view taken by all those
opposed to Hadley, except Dwight anc
his followers, when, just before the
meeting OF June. 1898. a petition t.
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the corporation, signed by many mem
berS of the faculty, asking for Hadley's
selection, made an especial point of
the fact that there was no other man
for, the place in sight. At the June
meeting they faced the situation
squarely; Hadley was in the air; no
other man was in sight, and they cast
their votes with the staunch Hadley
supporters and elected him, President
Dwight and his forces holding out to
the last. In the words of one Of the
men who voted for Hadley, while still
believing he was not just the man,
he was forced on US; we could not
get away from him"
1T had been five years since Hadley
assumed the presidency Of the univers-
ity. Yale now has twenty telephones
installed, typewriters are plentiful. and
the president has a secretary. Like
wise, many of the reforms that Hadley
advocated as a professor have been
made, and, to quote one of Hadley's
former opponents, more building has
been done under his administration
than during the whole of the previous
regime"
This same member Of the corpora
ton described the causes of President
Hadleys rise to educational leadership
in this fashion:
He was born to the academic pur-
pie for one thing. Then he has a won
derful philosophical turn of mind, the
power and patience to investigate and
grasp a subject to it's minutest details
and the finest memory 1 ever heard Of
which retains all that comes its way
In childhood he displayed a faculty
for remembering things that made him
exceedingly precocious; in later years
his memory has sharpened, if anything
1t certainly enabled him to digest In
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positively resign the presidency whe
he was seventy years of ageSin 1898.
Prof. Hadley was controlled Nv nat
ural desire-he wanted to be Dwight's
successor.
With that end in view he began put
ting Hadley in the air,' as one of his
most intimate friends recently ex-
pressed himself. Through articles pub
lished in prominent magazines and in
interviews in metropolitan newspapers,
he declared his position on educational
matters in general, and the problems
that confronted Yale in particular. At
that time Yale did not own typeWrit-
er or lease a single telephone. Presi-
dent Dwight had no amanuensis; he
would sit up late into the night ad-
dressing circulars to alumni far and
near; the university was a stronghold
of conservatism. The liberal element
among the alumni and the corporation
read Prof Hadley's articles, put their
stamp of approval upon them, and
found in him champion.
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There swiftly devolved upon the cor
poration the duty of selecting Dwight's
successor. Prof. Dwight and his fol-
lowing entered upon the task firmly
opposed to Hadley, whose name had
been mentioned in various quarters.
They wanted a conservative, or at
least man not so pronouncedly liberal
at Hadley. There was also another
element against him, made up of those
men who did not want a conservative,
but who held that Hadley was not the
right man for the place. Then there
was the outright Hadley party.
The names Of scores of leading edu-
Gators and other prominent men were
suggested for the presidency The ex-
ecutive of this college and that was
named. But he is not Yale man
we do not want to go outside the
faculty and the alumni for a new pres
ident," said all three parties. One we'll
known Yale man after another was
proposed. HE is too LIBERAL" said
one party. He is too conservative. .
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He HAs A WONDERFUL PHILOSOPHICAL utNo
BY GUY T. VISKNISKKI.

@n RTHUR TWINING HADLEY
mn is not without honor in his
IHI own city. Neither did he have
S/au to leave the place of his birth
to achieve success, as is the
cases with many successful men. His
career from school boy to president Of
Yales university has had New Haven,
Conn, for it's entire setting.
The rise of President Hadley to edu-
cational leadership is the fruit of an
ambition that he nourished, first rather
haziIy and later with definite clearness,
FROM his youth up.
1t 8vas a natural ambition with him.
He vas born to the academic purple.
His father, James Hadley, was profess
sor Of chemistry at the now defunct
Fairfield medical college, in New York
State and later professor Of Greek at
Yale from 1851 to 1872. His grand
father, also James Hadley by name,
washa professor at Yale and author of
many standard American text books.
One uncle, George Hadley, was a pro-.
fesser in the Buffalo medical college;
anosher uncle, Henry H. Hadley held
the chair of Hebrew in the Union theo-
logical seminary, and on his mothers
sidei third uncle, Alexander Twining,
wasl a steward of Yale as we'll as a
railroad engineer. Moreover, Arthur
Hadley was born in a university town,
and so, unconsciously influenced by
blood and environment he decided
while still schoolboy to be the third
of his family in a direct line to occupy
a PROFESSIONAL chair in some education
al institution. The graybeards of New
I Jorr %
he was asked by them what he was
going to be when he grew up, "Art"
HadIey would answer:
"A professor and a famous man."
Twenty-Five years later, in 1885, he
was full-fedged professor in Yale,
where he had graduated ten years be-
fore. In the interim he had prepared
for the position by equipping himself
in the specialties of his forbears, and
not infrequently, in sporting parlance,
going them one better. His father had
been a professor of Chemistry. When
Arthur was a school boy still several
years removed from his teens, chem
. istry was as familiar to him as the
multiplication table; he could reel off
and work out the various formulate
with the ease of an expert chemist.
His father and Uncle Henry were lin
gusts. Arthur led the ancient and
modern language classes at Yale, and
graduating at the head of his class,
took among other honors, the Winthrop
prize for students most thoroughly
acquainted with Greek and Latin
poets" and the Woolsey scholarship,
founded by a roommate of Alexander
Twining, uncle on his mothers side.
This uncle laid out many of Con-
necticut's railroads; his original lines
Were followed when the New York,
New. Haven & Hartford several years
ago began the elimination of curves on
it's system. The nephew, during the
four years that he was tutor at his
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heavy sleeper. and he didn't have much
bother in pushing out the key on the in
side of the door and in getting into the
bookie's room. He got the bundle out
of the tin box slipping into its place a
phony bundle which he had prepared to
meet any contingency.
He accidentally allowed the lid of the
tin box to fall with a clank, however, and
that woke the bookmaker up. Instantly
the sneak touched the button that switch
ed on the electric lights.
:" Who the devil are you, and what are
you doing in here?" the bookmaker de-
manded, sitting up in bed.
" Why, wasn't it locked?' inquired the
bookmaker, not remembering whether he
had locked it.
No. nor even fully closed growled
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.HAoGcY'5 STUDENTS
-SWoRE eY HIN.

few years an enormous mass Of rail-
road data, thus gaining him his first
public recognition. Ht 9i
"Then he is a liberal in education
without being q radical. That made
him popular with the students under
him. He introduced improved methods
in his classes, notably lectures and
personal and original research. The
result was that his students swOre by
him, because they said they learned
more of him, and when the time came
to select Dwight's successor, Hadley's
old students put up solid front in his
behalf. Again, he had natural and
highly commendable ambition to be
president, and, finally, his powers as a
story teller and an after dinner speaker
had brought him before the public.
All these things served to obliterate
the fact that he is awkward and not
personally attractive or magnetic. and
put him In the air and eventually In
the presidents chair"
President Hadley as a raconteur is
noted not only in Yale circles. but pref
ty generally over the country. His
wonderful memory has stood him IN
good stead here. Il have heard him
tell stories for five years now" said
Yale man recently, Il have yet to
hear him repeat"
A typical Hadley story, which ha
does not hold to be original with him,
runs as follows:
A Methodist preacher was vigorously
expounding the text. there shall ba
weeping and wailing and crashing OF
teeth" --- III.
Aye" lie said, there shall be gnash-
ing of teeth! Yes" he shouted, pound
ing the pulpit with his fist. there shall
surely be crashing of teeth"
But l amt got no teeth" shrilly
piped up ar old woman who had been
worked up to a full realization Of her
sins by the preacher.
Then. madam" yelled the minister,
turning in his direction, they will be
provided"
Like many other men who have risen,
President Hadley attributes much of
his success to his wife Mrs Hadley
is daughter of Former Governor Lu-
ION B. Morris. of Connecticut. She is
paid this tribute in the dedication OF
one of her husbands books:
ION whom l have depended, both for
criticism and assistance, at every stage
Of the work"
Copyright, 1904, by Guy T. Visknisk-
KID
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the sneak. 4 noticed the crack as 1 came
proving along, and your layout here
would be nuts and raisins for a hall
sneak
1.-The bOokmaker looked chagrined. and
box and raised the lid to see if his bank
roll was still there. He saw the phOny
bank roll. with the yellow outsider, that
the sneak had dropped into the tin box
in place of the real one. and was satisfied.
1.-THE house detective went out with
another word Of warning or so, and the
layer locked the door and went back to
bed. The things he had to say the next
day when he picked up the bogus wad
and looked it over made even Virginia
Carroll. the wild man and pirate Of the
betting ring, blush all over"
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HE cable the other day told how
lawyer had been robbed of
91S.000 at a London hotel, and
that started an old thieftaker talk
ing:
THE fellow who copied that real
tasty roll" he remarked, probably
smelled that money from the beginning
of the lawyers journey to London. An
Englishman with lot of money on him
is peculiarly liable to play patty-cake
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-04-04

gained, It has been comparatively
easy for me to make a study of socio.
logical conditions owing to the fact
that our officers, now numbering about
$500 live in close personal contact
not only with the slums, but with the
average working classes.
Met With Opposition.
After studying the problem and for
mulatng my plans, encountered
some unexpected opposition on the
part Of those from whom had hoped
to receive cordial sympathy and as
sistance. A committee Of ladies' and
gentlemen waited on me in my Office
at headquarters in New York and in
formed me that unless my plans were
abandoned they would consider II
their duty to oppose me in every way
possible. found that they had al
ready laid their views before the May
or and Charity Commissioners. AZ
first my best arguments appeared to
be in vain waited personally, how
ever. upon Commissioners Faure and
OBierne. and found that they We're
favorably impressed with my propos-
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compelled me to take up public life.
To this day my summum bonum of
happiness is not the platform or the
press. kindly as l have been treated
BY both, but the four walls of my
home. the solitude of my study. The
hermits and anchorites Of the past
have had a peculiar fascination for
me from my very boyhood. They
seemed to fit in with my dread pub.
Helty. | seldom pass lonely light.
house on the coast without envylng
the keeper,
After leaving college I studied for
some three years in London under
|pecial Examiners" and succeeded in
passing the series of examinations
necessary for the Indian civil service:
After going to India l became a total
abstainer and signed the pledge in
the interest Of the soldiers and civil.
ians among whom I had commenced
to hold meetings. This made me at
once a speckled bird among officials.
Il was plainly intimated to me that If
would not attend or give dances,
or offer my guests wine or other
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struggle with intense interest.
Slum Work In America.


Realizing that India, European and
English experiences would be of little
use to me in America, and resolved
TO study the needs of the working
classes from the very substratum of
society upward, | made It one Of my
ordinary first duties to spend nights
in lodging houses and slums dressed
as an ordinary workingman, and even
as a bum"
My theory was that to know what a
pin prick feels like there is nothing
better than running II into ones own
flesh. l have since suggested that
1t might be well for legislators ant
secretaries OF charitable institutions
before being regarded as qualified fol
their positions, to pass through q
similar experience, to be dressed II
shabby clothes, without dime in
their possession and turned loose tC
find work or living and lodging for al
least twenty-four hours in the streets
Of our great cities.
In addition TO the information thus
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ais. My suggestion that a special
meeting should be held at the United
Charities building, when | should De-
given an opportunity for explaining
our plans in detail, to be followed by
a public discussion, was heartily
agreed to. In order that there mighx
be no room for Misunderstanding D
committed my address to paper, and
had the satisfaction of hEding that
the principles laid down were received
with favor that had hardly anti
cipated. As a result we were left
free to carry out our plans without
the slightest opposition.
Agencies to Fight Poverty.
The main outlines were as followss
1. City institutions, including shelters
for men, shelters for women; indus
trial homes for the unemployed, labor
bureaus, rescue homes for fallen wo-
men, slum settlements, day nurseries
for children and orphanag5s for neg
lected, destitute or orphan children. 2
Far colonies, for the removal Of wor-
thy families from the cities and their
ICOntInued on Page SKI
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