Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

the top. The passerby finds it hard TO
| resist the temptation to step IN and get
| Il hot drink.
Machine Was Wise
Not long ago an amusing incident Ito
the audlence) happened at smoker"
OF a certain lodge held in Harlem. One
| of the numbers on the program was an
illustrated stereopticon lecture extolling
the advantages of that particular lodge
and comparing the benefits of fraternal
| insurance over the old line" companies,
| to the detriment Of the latter. The lee
tUrer, after giving a mass of facts and
! figures, turned his attention to the head
| officers of the order. "Now, gentle
men," he began, IT have the great honor
of presenting a picture of our chief, the
most efficient and honest Just then
! the operator of the picture shot forth
a fac-simile of a newspaper cartoon,
showing a portly gentleman with a bag
of gold in each hand. fleeing down the
street, with an appropriate head line.
At that moment the machine became
"out of order" and the lecturer pro-
ceeded, but without the aid of pictures.
Name Boulevard for Teddy
The sum of $246, 900 having been set
aside to convert Seventh avenue, from
One Hundred and Tenth street to the
Harlem river into u boulevard the work
of selecting a name for the transformed
thoroughfare is about TO be undertaken.
Great interest has been manifested in
the rechristening of the proposed boule-
ward. A large majority suggest that
the boulevard he called either "Theo-
dcre Roosevelt road or Andrew Green
road There is Il Roosevelt street
;,, hut 1 ie OIL
that the name Theodore Roosevelt
road" will not create any confusion.
Huge Rogues' Gallery
I There are in the rogues' gallery at
police headquarters here nearly 10000
pictures and so cumbersome has the
system become that the original pur-
pose of collection has been lost. 1t was
the design of Inspector Byrnes, the
founder of the gallery, to enable per-
sons who had been Victimized to exam
inc the pictures of known crooks and
thus establish Identification. In the
first years the plan worked well. Only
800 pictures We're collected and all of
them We're professional criminals. 1t
was easy for a person who had been
robbed or defrauded or assaulted to
look over the collection. Many convic-
tions were secured through this me-
dium. AS the collection grows its
utility Vanishes apace. The very vast
ness of the number bewiders and tires
the would-be identifier. There are hun
dreds of dead mems pictures in the lot.
Hundreds more are of men serving
practically life sentences. Worst of
all, there are very many pictures of
men and women who We're never con-
victed of crime. 1t is strange that tho
police are permitted to keep these pic
lures and exhibit them to the public
Many tentative efforts have been made
TO have the photographs of innocent
persons removed from the gallery, but
none was carried to the court of last
appeal. 1t is certain that the collec-
ton kept here could stand wedding
Even Il person of ordinary information
in looking over it finds many photo
graphic records of men long dead ana
gone from predatory fields. The collec-
tion Is, of course, very interesting as
a museum, but for practical purposes IL
amounts to little. Some windmill fight
ing Don QulXote will rise one day and
challenge the right of the police to
maintain rogues' gallery OF any eX-
cept convicted persons.
Telephones on Trains
An innovation i'm the use of telephones
is now employed to limited extent on
the New York Central road. 1t pro-
vides communication between con.
ductor and engine driver on moving
trains, and the connection of the train
with business houses in places where
a temporary stop is made so that pas
sengers may talk to friends or Gus
tcmers without the necessity of leaV-
ing the train at all. This idea, tried as
an experiment on a western road and
successfully carried out in course on
a recent trip of officials Of the Pennsyl-
Vania railroad, promises to come into
general use on the railroads of the
country
Twin to the rlnity
The wonderful Trinity building here
Is 10 have twin. The new structure Is