The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-11-24
GRAND FORKS w1DItaDAY, rwEL0

sheets on which vass q series of neat,
black finger-printss he began:
Finger Prints Mystify, Too.
You see each whiIl counts two. No
whirl-no mathematical value. Add
1t up now. Let me efsee. Two and two
is four. and one Il 1--WE, and two is
seven-total; eievon:sss. :!
And the captain hooked about him
triumphantly.
But the students looked at each
other blankly.
II don't believe I quite understand" :"
one of them venturad finally,
Why, that's the way we classify
en-" cried the captain impatiently.
He evidently thought that for univer-
stty students this was pretty dull
lot. Collecting his patience, he went
through the arithmetical formula a
sectOnd time.
Peek at Ressss' Gallery.
What is it-a new kind Of game p"
whispered student.
Which side wins!' another asked
But here V. E. Heidelberg. who. is an
assistant to a professor, took the dis
cussion in charge, and under his ques-
tons the captain was drawn into ex-
plantations less technical of the filing
system and of the general usefulness
OF the bureau. In conclusion he show
ed them the "art gallery" of portraits,
explaining as he swung the screens:
Here's some black gentlemen. Now
the white gentlemen come. Now the
colored ladies. White ladies in the
back" ~
The party thanked the captain and
went next. in the csEe of Monte Can
non. to the cellroon, where the big
event Of the morning took place.. !.
Girl Shrinks From Request.
At first they were sshown the cells
In which men are kept. Blotched. un-
shaven faces leered between the bars,
but no remarks werefmade. The young
women showed deep interest. Moth
ing happened except that colored
prisoner showed a stamped and ad-
dressed letter between the bars with
| the words: aefS
"say, lady, won't you please take
this here letter and drop it in the box
for me? Please, lady"
The girl addressed. drew her elbows
stiffly to her sides and marched away
without looking around.
The next tier of cells was empty,
the doors standing open.
Go right In and look around" sug-
gested Monte Cannon Hospitality.
| Party CfowdsvInte Cell.
Taking him at his word, young men
and young women crowded into the
vacant cells, playfuAy closing the
door behind them, Joking and laugh
Ing. Then, in the best Of spirits, they
trooped into the aisle where, as the
detective announced. I'VE keep the la
dies"
A big eolored woman was lying on
a bench ip one celia With her head
toward the visitors.s she rolled her
great eyes in, a disconferting manner.
Two bedraggied girlas looked out in
iauisitively sfrcm and1 er coli. Still
the party pfessed fors!ard. 81
| As they gathered totpeer into the
next to the last cell there advanced
from the shadow of it's interior; tall
woman, white-haired and wild-eyed.
With crazy snarl she sprang toward
them, grasping+ the bars and attempt
ing to shake them.
Invective Dazes Visitors. y
"Say. mister" she shouted in a
rasping voice and launched forthwith
into. soliloquy which for vileness.
intermixed with the strongest profan-
ity. could hardly be duplicated in the
worst ward Of madhouse. Cannon
puffed out his cheeks and frowned.
Two of the, young men involuntarily
IN
three young women stood dazed for a
moment. Then they regained control
Of their paralyzed senses and follow
ed their already retreating escorts
from the place pell-mell.
The visits to the annex and the
courts, which followed. were unevent-
full, although from the sociological
standpoint, most interesting" COM
mented one of the intrepid explorers
into this grimmest region of Chicago.
Even the three young women bravely
asserted that they were glad they had
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