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tn" tarhor raid = aood fsnt foS NE tuning
hint, ~ - IN tuner WIN I'D Tho Ac'ual
swindle a diaFtrf NJ he pin and NE sirs ~,
tail~rs and finesf " NJ On ssch fbs
wNtsr rave his telegraph operators s5S .
month deht Atons and ,hs s,re nrru usually
bfnsen dpwn crooks tke ~ turner's minoT
assistants. n apteca
Thus writer and baohcrs each maic from
tato ~ tsts on tbe turn withouH comina any
whefr within reach NJ Tho arm NJ ,he lac
themselves, Ruth kcpt out ~ sie,N NJ al
staerp NJ tho awindlei and N vac \ poor
wcrk when such men asJimmle MoSally NJ
Ble Haway couldn't turn sight ~ ten
come-ona
\ politician Vim waa hacking four vri,era
~ tho ZANE time mads from 81 M ~ " Zen
q week for Ave years, In that tItns he went
hail for hall a dorm NJ hia s,eefeta ar
rested by the pos'al inspectors on sus.
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one or two crooked addresses for the swim
dlers, were dismissed and the hundred
telegraph addresses went out Of being.
A relic Of the time when the operators
heard from their victims through their
a~ccomplices, the tel~egraphers, is an indict-
ment filed about six months ago with Charles
Van Hagen, Clerk of the Crimina Branch
of the United States Circuit Court, against
one Carey, manager OF a telegraph office in
125th street, for conspiring with green goods
men to violate the law.
Chief Mayors plan of operations reads
simply enough, yet the roofing out Of the
telegraph addresses and the hunting down
of the swindlers was a long. hard task.
Bill Hanley's case was typical. He was
one Of the first topnotch men caught in
Chief Mayors net. He hired a good lawyer,
appealed, got stays of sentence, and when
finally sentenced to four and a half years
imprisonment on three indictments he
jumped his bail.
Post Office Inspectors Boyle, Cortelyou
and Ryan ran him down finally at Goshen,
N. Y, last autumn. The green goods man,
once studious in stunning the society of
other common criminals, was found in the
company of the noted bank burglar and
sneak thief, Abe Coakley. Before the fight
between the crooks and the detectives was
over Coakley is alleged to nave shot Ryan
in the lu1gs and Cortelyou had a broken
arm. Not until then was Hanley finally
brought to justice and sent to Auburn to
begin his sentence.
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groups Of them, operating from New York
in the early 'sos, has been estimated by
the police at upward of 5000, 900. Old Jimmy
McNally, now down and out, made his hun
dred thousand a yea then, say the Post
Office inspectors. as regularly as if 1t
was a mere matter Of clipping coupons.
A picturesque Fast Side figure, a politi-
clan in a small a. all his long life, died
a few years ago leaving a fortune Of
5000 900, nearly all amassed by prudent in
vestments in the green goods business
He put up the roll of real money used in
working the game. Half the returns went
to him, and as he knew his men there was
never any squealing. He was a faithful
churchgoer all his life, a generous giver
to charities. and always known as not only
an honest but a sympathetic man.
Then, about 1885, came the passage of
the Federal enactments making use of the
mails with intent to defraud an offence pun
ishable by eighteen months Imprisonment
and 500 fine; likewise, that giving the Post
master General power to issue fraud orders.
This was the first real blow and, up to a
few years ago, the only effective one that
had ever been struck at the game.
For a time it made all the operators
practically give up business, but in a
few years such men as William c. Wood
worth, known all through the criminal
world as Big Hawley, Inc Jimmie McNally.
then and afterward the king of the con
men, with the assistance Of the shyster
lawyers that are always on the staff of such
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~ Tho RgoHs vac saierteh and vent through
he ehoft torn NJ rlaytna ths pms
Chtef Mayer rest turned he alteration w.
N" ctpchsd telegraph otrrasogs, wihnut
wtrsr t@lr I'M swlndler could MT 10
worked, Tn efSrH anuds men had NO.
waft ~ Htty adIrrssrs w New trfk wherr
tiry serr rrceivlha ieieafsfrs and ~ many
nthfv IN nfoohtyh and isfsay CIV
Ne - ~ wpfk ~ onrr ~ frduce ihis
total " oNS hundred edi ~ ,sfr ~ ~
" w eNli~ctihe rtruf that crt'aln operators
wsft rrceAving d~esrrtctcs fpf ,lw teNent
n afrpn eppds meN fh-r ~ looh he
as' " Tho autluftlca ~ Tho telegraph
company
Mistake ~ ~ mistake . ~ ssld 'ihe~"
swihdlera have received tei0gHms secretly
and inlsv fully through tht, man, your
emubyee an't convict him ~ crime
wlthou, ffraI dlN'rultyi hmt I am satia.
fed ~ HE guilt and ! ash lie dlumisal
The oficiale we're ready enough IN stop
the crooked work when N vas put up ~
them, and tho man vas dismiaaed, No,
n by one, the forty ~ Atty cruoked oper.
A,ora In Greater New York, zach keeping ~
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brsheFa Whs thsn ~ noW ~ . FsatiaS
b,ialnesa N %grncuFina them fF1tn ratsnt
medlciaa bouses and other Hall orler ean
crfna
Thrn thlfty oircuafs mt n = hundred.
- aesins' twelve N. day, allotted fppilea
W ihpaa 4 srcpNd o%ifriiar was meliah
erotosina . samp~ NJ ths alleged cruntef.
feit monsy, invariably a enhWins ~ Nh,
9TH q recommendation that th~ customer
test " IN he friends anil naks SIRE that N
vas ~ "gpod " thu genuine De cptiid huy
counterfeit Money iis' NJ abOd ~ that,
sa,nD WIrth fof tsdn. stOn worth for sika,
and ~ IN THIN MI that remained fdT me-
victim waa n eomc m 10 NsN Yofh and ~
robted
Not only Ignorant country pumpkins hut
intelligent men In evcry walk NJ lfe NJ,
~ Tho hook NJ Tho green goods men Many
u cpuntry banker waa caught One NJ IN
most notorious oasea was that ~ n clergy
man WIN took tlr money contributed Nv
HE congregation Tor domestic MISSIONS and
bst n 10 the sharrefs,
Money came fairly raining IN ~ Tho
~swindlera The annual income Of ton
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picion. Two steerers jumped their bail
and he paid 1t.
His turner was sent to Sing Sing for six
years for murderously assaulting a come-on
who flashed his money but refused to give
it up. The hacker supported the turner's
family until he was out and could begin to
make living out Of the game again. When
the hacker retired at the end Of his five
years he had paid all expenses, had lived
rather extensively and had a quarter of a
million clear in bank.
1t was this dexterous and elusive swindle
that Chief Mayer found in full operation
when he became head of the New York d.
vision on january /, 1905. His first step
was to provide come-ons to reply to the
green goods circulars that came into his
hands.
One supposed on whom steerers
often met in Jersey City was a borrowed
along the regular lines; but when the
turner flashed his genuine roll the pseudo
victim pulled his gun.
Chief Mayors orders were shoot to kill
II necessary, but bag the turner and the
roll at any COST" Policeman Peter Dun
can, who played the come-on eight times,
until the operators got wise to him. had to
shoot the first turner in the shoulder in
self-defenoe. He didn't have to shoot in
the later captures.
AS soon as the bunoo men got one Of the
borrowed policemen spotted another man
Of nerve and resource ron the green fields
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~ 10 interesting IN aota that WIEN Marshal
Iienhei aSFalaned Coatley historic thitef
States Commissioner ahleida ne aloutlna
Ryan tho hank buFeias va hslled out ~
lhe haad ~ . lssae contracting hFm Wtn u
4 bfutheg ~ 1ns ~ tho fofp4Roat politicians
W New Vofh
Una chaptpr fyuin M frcrfda NJ Tho isle.
arnph crmpany Wili auhlcs ~ sboW what
4 resistance The schewefa ptt ~ aaslnst
rhicf Naysf'S fah' ~ the photographers
Whom Mlhe RYAN M alleged writer letfH'si
lha, tha aensrai mahtscr ~ the crmpahy
hal disuiss~i an opefa'oT suspected NJ
helha In HE ray he csre out lnto ths opeN,
demanded that the teleRfatna be sHnt N
him and On tho Urfupshy'a Tef1sal hfuttaht
suit sealns, " iof heavy damages
n wa then, On April ~, iss, that Chief
Mayer hackei ~ tho c%ofnpsny'a stand by
having Ryan'a allenei ~accofGTiice, Carey,
tho i95,h street. matpaarr, indicted, Aooh
after Ryan had dropped tha damage suit
he vas caught by one ~ Chief Mayors
inspectors with the aooda on In another
green goods operation, pleaded guilty and
paid HE fine.
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and above these is a large circular opening
running further down than one can see.
Toss a stone in and one may heal 1t bound
from ledge to ledge until it strikes a deep
body of water and sends upward innumer-
b echoes. The spot is impressive, and
is rendered more 80 by the wildness Of the
surroundings. By the widespread view
obtained from the mountain side is an old
roadway which to-day is an almost con-
tinuous sheet Of metal. The ore dropped
from the carts which formerly carried the
material down the mountain has become
d~isintegrated and again consolidated by
oxidation to form a remarkable example Of
what such a roadbed may be.
All this is snugly hidden among the High
land hills, and not widely known outside
the region where it lies. The picturesque
chemical works buildings which occupy the
rocky islets near the river base Of Anthony's
Nose forme rly extracted the sulphur from
these rocks. Now they import the sulphur
from Italy IN the pure state, finding that
more economical than getting It out Of the
mineral rock which lies almost at their doors.
Their efforts IN the past have given one
more picturesque abandoned mine for the
Highlands %antiquary to visit.
There are traditions of lead in these hills
also. Up on top of the mountain west Of
the line of officers quarters, which stretch
southwark from the plain at West Point,
there is an old mine hole containing sulphate
of iron and pyrites crystals. According to
tradition and omrno report a generation
ago a lead mine existed not far away.
An old man is said to have supplied him
self and his neighbors from this mine, and
the Indians are said to have done the like
before his time. 1t is often hard to trace out
the reason for these stories, yet the fact re-
mains tn at they persist. The State geolo-
gist, reporting the traditions Of this mine;
in a report issued sixty-fve years ago,
stated tina reports and traditions OF similar
import had been found common in many
places in every county in the eastern part of
the State except on Staten, Long and Man
haitian isla nds.
OF course gold has figured in these re-
ports, and the woodcutter already referred
to gravely informed the New Yorker that a
man was quietly working a radium mine
somewhere near Manitou Mountain.
After all, Hudson was not so far WRONG IN
his surmises, and considerable money has
been taken from the Highlands bedrock in
the form OF iron.
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Charles Barry and William Goodman
two Of the best of the smaller operators,
were captured by Inspectors j. E. Jacobs
and M. H.. Boyle and Sergt. McConville In
October, 1905, in a small hotel on Park row,
Peter Duncan, the Bronx patrolman, play
ing the come-on. The 81 500 captured or
the crooks just sufioed to pay their fines,
Barry getting thirteen months on each Of
two Indictments and Goodman thirteen
months on one indictment.
In March, 1905, Sergt. Alphonse Rheaume
played h come-on, a supposed banker
from Noun Hope, Ala. Meeting the
operators in a back room over a South
Brooklyn saloon, he called in Inspectors
Jacobs, Meyer and Boyle, who were waiting
outside, and the four men bagged 5000
and three alleged first class operators
George Cheevers, an alleged very good
turner; Jimmy Wilson, alias The Gimp,
and James s. Rogers, alias Sheeny Whitley.
AS Chief Mayer forced the sharpers to
close up in New York and Brooklyn, they
tried to locate new telegraph addresses and
rendezvous in Jersey City and Hoboken,
out of this Federal district; but Mayer
ran them out over there also.
The green goods game is practically
broken up now. Even Jimmie McNally,
"the king OF us ALL according to green
goods men now in Sing Sing. can't do bust
tertiary for shoplifting the other day. A
week ago he was seen working as a waiter
in a Coney Island music hall. And yet
Jimmie McNally once took his wife and
children to Europe every year and spent
tens of thousands yearly.
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EVER TASTE CHIRSCHMUsp
It Sounds Powerful Go cd -Anybody Can
Make IL.

Last summer I ate genuine Swiss chirsoh-
mus twenty years old, says a writer in the
Ladies' World. 1t tasted like a concen-
tration of all the richness and sweetness
Of the most perfect cherries. In appear
anoe it was a purplish black mass. Are
had not impaired it in the least.
Upon inquiry l learned how this cherry
concoction with it's wonderful preserving
quality, is made. The cherries used must
be perfeet-very large, ripe, juicy black
ones, and, above all, very sweet.
The juice Of them, pressed out and
strained through q bag, is put in a large
preserving kettle, at the bottom of which
is placed a piece of smoked pork fastened
to a block of wood. The wood serves as a
weight to keep the fat down and prevent
the juice from burning as it thiokens.
The cherry, juice is boiled for about
tw%enty-four hours, without sugar, but
stirring it from time to time, until it becomes
a mass OF sweetness so firm and thick hat
it would not fall If the kettle were inverted.
That is all, a simple process, but the re-
suit is delicious. This c~hirschmus is in
general use In Switzerland with the ~lsiisse
Ankle (sweet butter) and bread.
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LOST MINES NEAR AT HAND.
TALES OF PRECIOUS METALS IN
THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS.
The Long Tinker's Vein of Silver That q
Man May Visit once but Not Twice
The EngIishman Who Couldn't Return
TO His Mine-Many Deserted Shafts.

The E%ngIishman Who Couldn't Return
TO His Mine-Many Deserted Shafts.
You need not go to Mexico or Venezuela
for stories and legends Of lost mines Of pre-
cious metals or even for tangible evidences
in support OF such tales. You can find them
right here near Now York, among the noun
tains Of northern New Jersey and in the
Hudson Highlands. There are neighbour
hood tales relating to lost mines Of silver
and gold which have been handed down
for generations, stretching back In some
cases almost to the beginning OF New York's
settlement.
While rambling among the Highlands
the other day, on top Of one OF the
peaks, 100 feet above the river, a New
Yorker met a woodchopper. The two sat
down on a 'og smoked together for a long
time and talked about the mountain people
and their characteristics.
Finally, with the air Of - man who brings
up a subject near the heart, the wood
chopper raid
"In your travels around the mountains
do you ever come across ny signs OF min
erals?"
Well the New Yorker replied. there's
a lot Of iron in these rocks, and some min
erals Of interest to biologists, but l guess
that's about all. dom YOU"
There's silver in these hills the wood
chopper said earnestly. Il know that for a
fact. Some says there's gold.'
The next hour was for the New Yorker
such as a boy enjoys when his mother
tells him for the first time, at bedtime, the
story Of Jack and the Beanstalk. He sank
back in the leaves. lighte his pipe, and
listened.
There are stories Of old silver mines that
have been found, an lost again, an can't
never be found began his new friend,
AN these stories have been handed down
fur years an years by the people Twin
aroun' the mountains | don't know how
true they are, but l know some of ems
true.
Ever near of the Long Tinker's mine?
It's on Black Mountain, whar you was
goin'.
That was a couple Of hundred years ago,
mebbe. The Long Tinker was a dago
an went aroun' mendin' an sellin' pots
and pans an SIGH like t~hings-that's why
they called him the Tinker. An he was
very Tonga long, tall man like, 80 they
called him the Long Tinker.
The Indians-they was Indians aroun'
here then-told him that they could show
him a better way to git rich than by tinkerin',
an the story goes that they took him to a
place in the mountains whar there was a
vein Of real blue silver. Well, sir, he started
to work 1t, but he wouldn't never let or
TO whaI it was, an nobody couldn't catch
him goin' to it.
Then one day he up an died. Fur
years thev huntad all over that mountain
but nobody could over find the mine.
"A good many years passed, an then one
day a funny thing happened. My wife's
father tells how he's heard his father tell
how when he was a boy old Cap'n Waldrom
cum up the river in his packet sloop-that
was before they had steamboats-an' an
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chored in Doodletown Blight, right down
thar, pointing behind Iona Island.
He an the two Rumson boys were RAM
bin aroun' the mountains mex day lookin'
fur game or somethin', when all Of a suddin
they cum out onto a sort of clear space
grown up with bushes an fenced in with
a kind of hedge as if to keep people from
seein' in. They found what they called a
broken pitcher, but of course it van no
pitcher at all, but a lead crucible.
They'd run across the Long Tinker's
mine! But they didn't know it just then.
They found three OIL paths leadin' out
of the ~clearin'. One went down to a brook
I fergit whar the second path led. The
third led straight to the old mine hole.
THE hole was all plugged up with cord
sticks, stuck end in. They pulled some
Of EN- out an poked aroun' in the rotten
wood with the ends Of their OF flint lock
muskets-you Know the kind. with the wood
reachin' most to the muzzle-an' finally
they got a few chunks Of rock out an took
'em back with 'em to the ship.
"Old Waldrom didn't think much about
it, an that night he went back to New York.
One day while his boat was lyin' by the
dock there a man cum aboard to see him
on business. He picked up one of the
rocks what was lynn on a table, kind o.
careless like, an began to look at it. All
of a sudden he give a jump.
"'Whar d ye git them rocks?' he SEE to
Waldrom.
"Waldrom up an told him he d found
'em up the Hudson River an allowed he
thought they might have some value in
EN-.
wall, now, I know somethin' about
minerals says the man. You let me take
them specimens home an I'll test EN- fur
you
"'Wall, I wish ye would says old Wal
drom, who was a simple bic Teller.
wall, l will, says the man.
$50 the man took the rocks an went
away, an old Waldrom didn't think to
ask his name or whar he cum from; an the
man didn't tell him; an that was the last
he seen of him.
Two or three years after hat Waldrom
was walkin' along the street in New York
one day and this man passed him. he saw
Waldrom an ran up an grabbed him by
the arm.
"'Say.' he says, do you remember me
COmlD dDOdTu your DodJ OnCtI Ill IA
some rocks away to testF
THE OIL man scratched his head a mint
an then he says;
Why, yes, pears do
Wall, you cum with me, says the man.
Man alive, do o know them rocks is
full Of silver? / wan you to show me whar
that mine is; it'll make us both rich! I've
tried to find you, but you sailed away the
day after l was on your boat, and l never
could
THE man took Waldrom up to his room
he give him two silver quarters, an
two silver sleeve buttons an some studs.
'Them's made from the rocks what
was on your table, he seq.
wall, sir, old Waldrom he hikes up the
that night an he an his wife goes of
the quiet to find that oil mine. He s'posed
he could git thar easy; but he didn't find
it that day, nor the next. Him an his wife
aroun' the mountains fur a week,
but by George they couldn't find the blasted
They didn't never find i'll
when the old man couldn't locate 1t HIM
self he thought he'd let one Of the Rum
son boys in on the deal. When Rumson
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point by this time and was quite ready tc
listen to another tale.
There's a curious lost mine over thar,
the woodohopper said, pointing westward
Two Englshmen were cruisin' aroun' the
woods near the Cedar ponds-New York
was a British colony t~hen-when one Of EN-
says:
Harry, hurry up an finish your dinner
there's signs Of silver in these rocks. tn
pay Is to follow this up al make a good
systematic prospect. believe this is worth
loohn' into
IAN right, Harry said. Wait till l git
a bite to eat
Just then the first man calls out:
Hey, Harry, drop that grub; there's
somethin' more important than eatin' on
hand. Harry, I've found the vein!'
Harry jumped up an ran over to whar
the other Teller was, and thar, where a big
tree had tipped over, carryin' the soil off n
the rocks with its roots, was a vein of blue
silver a foot thick.
Wall, they skipped of an got some tools
an a crucible an they dug out some Of the
ore an built a fire an tried it out right thar
on the spot. 1t was sure enough silver.
"As soon as they found that out they COW
cred the spot W careful an on the way out
Of the woods hid their tools under q rock.
Then they went back to England to raise
money to work the vein.
While they was there the oder man,
the one what knowed most about minerals
an had found the vein in the frs place,
took sick, an one day he died. So Harry
cum back alone, but when he got to Cedar
ponds he found the English COMMENT had
built a dam there an had put up iron fur
naces an had cleaned off the wood.
Everything looked 30 strange an I'M
natural like that he didn't know Just whar
to GO. Part Of Il e woods had been flooded,
an the long an short Of it was he couldn't
find the mine"
The woodohopper was wrong on one
point-the dam and furnaces were erected
in the third quarter Of the eighteenth CEN
fury by private individuals who had opened
an iron mine there. The old ruins are in
teresting even to-day.
When Harry couldn't find the mine"
continued the woodohopper, -he got kinder
looney, an finally, from much broodin'
over it, he went plumb crazy. They say he
used to 90 about touchin' rocks an whis-
perrin things to posts.
"Of course, other people tried to locate
his find, an they say they did discover
where he an his friend had hidden their
tools under a rock, but nobody ever found
the vein of silver
1t might be added that probably no one
ever will.
That dreams of silver along the Hudson
River hills are not confined to olden days
was shown by an item in an up river
newspaper about two months ago an
nouncing thai a resident Of Putnam county
had at last discovered the famous long
lost Benson mine, back Of Manitou Noun
tain. and had found under the brush and
debris which choked the entrance some old
implements Of English manufac-
ture.
Uncle Cort,' concluded the item, has
no doubts or misgivings as to the fact that
has beyond all peradventure Of a doubt
the veritable silver mine for which
30 many have hunted and squandered their
means. and does not hesitate to declare his
hat stock placed in this mine will
prove a far better investment than stock
in Dominic IS trolley line" from
comment 1t may be inferred that
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Eggs q Century Old.

FROM The London DdiV Mail.
In Telling a large tree some DAYS ago in
Cirencester. Worcestershire, a birds nest
containing four eggs was discovered inclosed
In a hollow near the heart OF the trunk
The sap rings showed that nearly a Gem
fury has elapsed since the eggs were laid.
and II was obvious that the hollow had closed
automatically. The eggs were intact but
slightly faded. 1890 wv