Arizona republican., 1909-08-15
GIANTS OF COMMERCE
 DOGGED BY SPIES
EVIDENCE OF A NEW SECRET
 SERVICE.
New Works Prominent Business and Financial Men Watch and Are
 Being Watched.

New York, Aug. 12.-(Special Corre- spondence of The Republican )-Start- ling testimony in connection with sev- eral prominent recent business failures here has brought to light evidences of a regular system of business espionage and secret service extending not only to employees, but to business rivals as we'll among the more important com mercial interests. New York has long been cited as the city in which ones personality could most easily be lost as well as the one place where nobody gave more than passing thoughts to the activities of others. That such a supposition is entirely false and that it is practically out of the question for any one even verging on commercial prominence here to escape constant surveillance has now been brought to light. Nowhere else in the world has the science of minding other peoples business been so highly developed, not because of idle curiosity, but as a re- suit of the mad race for commercial supremacy. Not only do business men have their employees watched, but heads of firms have the heads of rival firms. together with their able assis- ants watched continually in an effort to discover what they are doing or planning to do in a business way. In the secret archives of the agencies em- ployed to do this work of espionage are records of many events in the lives of well known men, which they regard as secrets known only to them selves, simply because they have never been made public The only in- dication which the public in general ever receives of this secret shadOwing system comes occasionally as the re- suit of a noteworthy lawsuit. It is then that the intimate lives of the per sons involved are revealed in a man ner which shows in its wealth of detail that in some cases at least In addition to being watched from the time they leave their houses in the morning until they return at night persons are ac- tually spied upon in their own homes, house servants sometimes playing a part as strange as any in contem- porary melOdrama of five-cent detec- tive fiction. It is estimated that not less than s1.OOO.OOO a year is spent here for this secret surveillance.
 While New York alone accounts for nearly One-tenth of the 1,5O0.00O per sons who make up the annual hospital population of this cOuntry-that is, the number Of persons treated in these in stitutionsth-is city is steadily pro- gressing in its effort to become the healthiest municipality in the country. How far t has succeeded is shown in the fact that in spite of the trials of dog days during the past month. with its vicissitudes of weather, the death rate of the. city touched new low mark of a fraction less than 15 per 1000. which Is almost per 1000. or 14 per cent lower than the average given out by the census bureau for the whole country in its last report New York's great advance in the field of healthful- ness is attributed by experts to several causes. Chief among them is the great advance in municipal sanitation rang ing from the proper cleansing of the streets to pure milk and pure water campaigns. In the hospitals them selves, where patients are actually treated. and on whose reports any an alysis of the causes of the low death rate must be largely based, the advance has been equally striking. The reports of the Flower hospital, the leading institution in the city, show, for instance, that in the last ten years the average length of it's pa tients' star has been reduced from one IL fr fat nd hal lax- 30 per cent, and that the mortality rate has shown a corresponding decrease. This. of course. is only another way of saying that the methods of curing a patient have advanced as rapidly as the precautions taken by the city to keep him from becoming i'll. Tn view of these facts Father KnickerbOcker sees no reason why his death rate should not continue steadily to de- crease, and it is predicted that an other decade should see it reduced even more rapidly than in the ten years now ending. Yours for health" is now the slogan of the city in this respect
 The first human bomb on record in the shape of a living, walking and ap-
 
 ing the greater part of the police force and a considerable part of the sum- mer population all sorts of apprehen- sion since he is liable to explode at any moment with just as fatal results to bystanders and incidentally himself as though he were composed of dyna- mite or nitro glycerine. Never before has such -politeness been exhibited on street cars and sidewalks. the ordinary desire to push and shove having given way to an almost universal habit of deference. All this is due to tine fact. that the human bomb, as yet unlo- cated. would explode at the slightest jostle, and as there is nothing pecu- liar about his appearance to indicate his ath-dealing possibilities every 0ne iS Ia kiraur all sarts. of r,ror,n,,tirr,r