Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19

ing across the way. Their addresses are
written In red ink. denoting danger TO any
one who shall NEEDLE with them, and at the
end of each envelope is a large letter "A"
The clerks at the post Office gather all of
these marked letters in a special mail pouch.
TO be delivered into the hands OF the Score
tary, who places their contents in a safe.
their seals remaining unbroken until the
regular day for the monthly count comes
around.
Exactly at noon on the day of the count
Prof Hays will unlock the room wherein
his little class has been at work and will
hand to operators of the two great tele-
graph lines the flash figure" for which all
of the wires in the country and the great
cables to the old world are being held open.
again at O'Clock he will emerge with care
fully mimeographed sheets giving the fore
cast in detail. Outside his door will be in
line a group of newspaper correspondents,
commercial agents and telegraph boys.
ready to snatch the sheets from his hands
and madly rush with them to the nearest
public cable offices.
Tried to Tap Supreme Court.
The secrets of the Supreme Court Of the
United States are quite as vital to specula-
tors at certain times. Particularly is this
so IN the cases affecting the great trusts
and corporations. Wall street waited with
bated breath for the recent railway merger
decision. While it was expected Washing
ton was the focus of the entire financial
worlds attention. and not only New York
but Chicago. Philadelphia. Boston and Pitts
burg financial institutions were clamoring
to their representatives here for advance in
formation. The Washington correspondent
of a Chicago concern received at the time
instructions to step up to the bench of the
highest tribunal of the land and ask one of
the Justices for the gist Of the decision as
soon as the particular justice selected tN
render IL had launched upon the first SEN
tence of that long winded verdict.
All the money in the Chicago national
banks would not induce me to ask one of
the justices What's doing| " the CORE
spondent wrote back to the windy city Il
send you diagram of the court with ar
row pointing to the jail. Do you realize that
the Supreme Court could commit man TO
jail Tor contempt Of court for life. and that
there is no other power short of Divine in
terposition-and i am afraid the days Of
miracles are past-to which l could ap-
peal?''
which was perhaps to send either soaring
or dropping the stocks involved would have
meant fortune to the individual obtain
ing it. More certain II Is, however, that no
one who knows his Washington would at
tempt to tap justice of the Supreme Court
of the nation.
Safeguarding Presidents Secrets.
The President always has up his sleeve
secrets which would give the individual
Spectator a mean advantage could he
bride some trusted confdante to leak. Es-
pecially is this true in these days of trust
busting" and corporation regulation. Wall
street Is always on the qui vive just be-
fore one of Mr.. Roosevelts annual mes
sages to Congress is due, as his recommen-
datfon of laws restricting great railway
lines and other corporate enterprises is
sure to affect the market. Presidential
messages were formerly given to the press
associations upon the day that they were
read in Congress but this practice so CON
gested the telegraph lines that on that day
of the year little other business could be
put through the wires Hence the plan has
been adopted of having the message an
nually set up in type in advance and of
delivering copies to the association whose
patrons are placed on their honor not to