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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
THE APAcHEs OF NEW YORK
Two New Criminal Districts Of Recent
Years

Criminal life has its history-how-
ever unlikely this may seem from the
stereotyped middle class view point
as certainly as any other rank in So
ciety, writes George Kibbe Turner in
the June McClure's. The Irisn pro-
fessional criminal-the bold and ugly
burglar of the SOS was already de-
cadent in the late COS. But the two
new political criminal districts were
made nurseries in crime for the chill
dren of the two new races of immi-
grants-the Eighth for the Jews and
the Bowery District for the Italians.
The young children of these peoples
were given primary criminal instruc-
ton in many cases by the old Irish
criminal. Little boys of ten and
twelve were carefully trained as pick
pockets in the Jewish district; and
little girls of thirteen and fifteen
started as prostitutes. Out of this
training developed the two racial
gangs of professional criminals that
have replaced the earlier Irish type
the great East Side band of Jewish
pimps and thieves and pickpockets
and the great Italian band of cut
tnroats and pimps who have their
headquarters today in Chatham Square
and in Harlem. Out of these two po-
litical-criminal gangs, with the vari-
GUS members of other races that have
been absorbed by them, has come two.
thirds of the professional crime that
has so alarmed the city of New York
In many ways these gangs stand in
the same relation to New York as the
notorious Apaches, composed of al
most exactly the same kind of crimi
nails. do to Paris.
When times are right" said cri
minal a few months ago, they go out
every afternoon, just like mechanics
goin' to work"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
CHlNAMEN RESIST
immigration officers Had Hard Job
Deporting 20 "Chinks"

New York, May 24.-The twenty
Chinese coolies who deserted the Nor
wegian steamer Hercules when she
arrived from the Far East several
days ago, sailed away on the steamer
yesterday. Always doubtful as to
whether they wanted to sail on the
vessel, they experienced another
change of mind early yesterday morn
ing when the time came for them to
leave the immigration station on Ellis
Island
When they came within sight of the
tug, G. p. Raymond, which was to
take them to Morse Dry Dock. where
the Hercules lay, they revolted. Led
by Moy Sing, almost giant in size,
they refused to board the tug The
inspectors accompanying them were
powerless to put them on board so
they were led back to the building.
From that place 1t was decided to
take them to the steamer in two
groups. Again they resisted all eff
forts to lead them forth and then
showed fight. The inspectors had to
call in help. VITA the reinforce
ments the Chinese were separated in
groups and nearly fifteen Government
employees started the first ten on the
way to the tug
1t was one fight all the way down
to the landing, and the unwilling Gel
estials had to be dragged on board
Their cries filed the air and before
they were all placed on board the de-
porting officials had been strengthen
ened by many others who were attract
ed from the administration building
by the excitement.
The same scene was repeated when
the second group was led to the tug,
with a man chase added One of the
protesting crew broke away from his
custodians and started on a run down
the boardwalk along the south side of
| Ellis Island. After MIN went score
of men, A Waterman intercepted
him, and in second the purpuers
pounced upon the Chinaman. He was
carried to the boat fighting. Persons
who saw the struggle said the immi-
grafton inspectors had to handcuff the
Cinnamon before they could be taken
aboard the tug.
Tne Cinnamon deserted the Her,
cules at her pier at Staten Island.
They charged that Capt. Bjirck had
given them insufficient foods, and also
that they had been subjected to cruel
treatment on the voyage. They were
rounded up by Federal officers and
taken to Ellis Island The law does
not allow them to remain in this coun
try, and on Saturday it was decided
by the Norwegian consul that they
would have to go back to the Her
cules.
| AT 3;30~o'clock yesterday afternoon
the Hercules passed out Sandy Hook
! bound for Sydney.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
YANKS WERE TOO
EASY FOR HOME
BALL PLAYERS
Schenectady Team Shut Out At
Morgan Park
HAD NO CHANCE TO SCORE
Bennington Team Batted Out 10 Runs
Feature Plays Were
Scarce

bennington is. the best baseball
town of it's size on the map, SAID
one of the spectators in the front row
of the grandstand at Morgan park sat
urday afternoon. Here il is raining
he continued, and the grandstand is
full Of people and good crowd on the
side lines. It's too bad that people
who will turn out like this can't have
some better ball than is being put up
by this bunch of lemons from Seine
nectady. 1t looks as though Ed had
been stung.'
Manager Higgins suffered Saturday
and it wasn't his fault at all. The
season opened here so late that the
well known ball teams within reach
ing distance of Bennington have all
made out their schedules for the Sat
urday dates in May and early June
and he has been obliged to put in lot
OF correspondence to arrange MS
games. The "Yanks' of Schenectady
the nine specimens of citrus fruit,
who were outclassed by the boys who
play down on ''the fiatiron" were well
recommended, but they had not been
on the diamond FIVE minutes before
the crowd realized that the ball play
ing would all be done by the Benning-
ton team.
The "Yanks" were not even good
enough to make the home team work
and while the boys raped out IL hits
and crossed the plate 10 times the
game was too one-sided to be of any
interest. The Schenectady outfit was
so slow that it was impossible to draw
lany conclusions in regard to the abil
tiles of the Bennington pitchers. Both
made good records but the opposing
material was too poor to make them
of any value. King and Englewood
also batted with percentages of .100C
but one of tne formers hits could
have been fielded had the Schenectady
man in the right garden been capable
of playing a fair game of bean bag.
There were only two feature plays
in the game. The catch by Engle
wood in the last inning would have
been star incident on any diamond
Prindle pulled down one long fiy ii
left field but the Bennington fans
have become so accustomed to seeing
Caleb perform similar stunts thai
they expect nothing else when the
ball starts in that direction.
O'Meara caught his first game with
Bennington and 1t was apparent thai
his experience with Corey was of as
sistance to the pitcher. Sauter, the
new box man. did the throwing in thu
last three innings. Two hits were
made off his delivery but he famed
five OF the nine men who faced hin
and made a good impression, consid
ering the material he was up against
| The score:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
BREAKING INTO STRONG ROOMS
Marvellous Performance of Burglars
in South Africa

Some years ago a daring robbery
took place at the late Cape or Good
Hope Bank at Kimberley. One sun
day morning the manager of this bank
opened his cash safe to get parcel
of diamonds which were in his Gus
tody. when he found several loose bags
of money lying about the strong room
floor This rather puzzled him; but
on looking around he spied an opening
I'm the wall of the room and came to
the conclusion that a burglar had been
at work. The police were applied to;
and they found that the opening in the
wall communicated with large street
drain in the vicinity. The total sum
distracted from the bank was about
twenty thousand dollars but. on the
drain being explored, about fifteen
bags of silver of the value of five hun
dred dollars each, were recovered.
Messrs Chubbs sent a representa-
i've to South Africa to investigate the
scene of the robbery. He found the
bank vault was built of masonry and
was considered to be the strongest In
South Africa. TIE walls of the room
were three feet thick and to get to
these walls the burglars had first to
penetrate through an outer wall four
feet thick, and through three founda-
ton walls each two feet thick, all
these walls being constructed of sol
id cement and brickwork. There was
also about twenty feet of earth to tun'
mel through, and the hole could not be
made in a direct line, but had to be
constructed with various turns so as
TO enable the burglars with miners
tools TO get through the softest pla'
ces. The lar~e drain opened out into
the street 1t was believed that a
large retriever dog helped in the rob
berry, as it was seen to run out of the
culvert with something hanging round
its neck. Two men chased the animal
for some distance, but the dog escap
ed.-From "The Romance of Strong
Rooms" in the June Strand Maya
zine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
ENERvATED SOIL AND PEOPLE
Plan of Cultivation Under Slavery In.
furious to the South

Says Harris Dickson in Success
Magazine" 1.-The plan of cultivation un-
der slavery destroyed the land. Take
a gentleman in Virginia, for instance.
WAC owned a hundred slaves. Those
negroes had been trained to cultivate
cotton. They knew absolutely moth
ing else. The owner planted his land
in cotton. He could not rotate his
crops. When his land wore out he
moved his slaves to new lands and
pursued the same process. Instead of
replenishing the soil, the planter made
1t a point to clear so many acres of
new ground each season. This virgin
land returned sure yield. But ne
was eating up his capital and leaving
nothing for his sons. We have mil
lions of acres which abe considered
worthless after forty years of cult
vation. In Europe the lands that have
been cultivated for a thousand years
are more productive today than they
nave ever been. Our people are awak-
ing up to the fact That they cannot go
on forever clearing their new lands
and destroying the old. They must
return to the soil every year a little
more than they take off. This change
is coming"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24

MASS. soLoNs IN TOWN
Made Trip Here Saturday in Parlor
Car berkshire Hills"

The parlor car Berkshire Hills
made it's first trip from Great Barring
ton, Mass, to this town Saturday,
bearing tae Massachusetts legisla-
lures joint committee on street rail
ways and trolley roads. Ex-State
Senator C. @. Richmond, manager OF
the Berkshire trolley system, accom-
panied the committee on their trip.
The party put up over Sunday at the
Red Lion Inn at Stockbridge, Mass,
where President Charles S. Mellen OF
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad and II. A. Fabyan who
is at the head of the street railway de-
partment of the New Haven road were
also registered Today the party Is
to make an automobile trip TO Great
harrington, South Egremont, Sheffield
Ashley Falls and Canaan, Conn, the
line of trolley connection the Berk-
shire street railway company wants
permission to construct.
A bill has been introduced in the
Massachusetts Legislature to grant a
franchise to the Berkshire street rail-
way to construct connecting line be
tween Great Darlington, Mass, and
Canaan, Conn, thus making a com
plete line OF track controlled by this
company from Hoosick Falls to New
Haven, Conn. The company is also
DESTROYS of securing permit to carry
baggage from North Adams to this
town. For this reason the Bay State
Solons are making a tour of inspection
before reporting their decision to the
| Legislature.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
THOMAS MADDEN DEAD
Highly Respected Citizen Passed
Away Sunday Morning.

Thomas Madden, one of Benning-
tons most highly respected citizens,
died at his residence on West Main
street Sunday morning at ii o'clock.
He was taken III last November and
had been In a serious condition for
several weeks Death was due to n
general breaking down of the system.
Mr. Madden was born In the county
Galway, Ireland in 1928. He came TO
this country in 1S47 coming directly
to this town. For over half cen
tury he resided in North Bennington,
but during the past few years he made
his home in this village. He was a
contractor and builder by trade and
constructed several residences and
public buildings in this town. Hoosick
and SALISBURY. Among the buildings
in this town which he took part in
building was the old St Francis de
Sales church at Bennington Center.
The deceased was man of unques.
tionable integrity and honest In all
his dealings with his fellow men. He
was an exemplary citizen, kind father
and his death is a distinct loss to the
community in which he lived for over
three score years.
He is survived by one son, James ]
Madden of Troy and three daughters
Misses Ellen T., Mary A. and Rose f
Madden, all of whom reside in this
town. He also leaves four grandchil
dren.
The funeral will be held from st
Francis de Sales church Wednesday
morning at 8 o'clock. The burial will
be in the family lot in the old Cath
Ollie cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24

Fast Team From Capital City Do"ned
by Local Boys

The v M C A baseball team play
cd its first game on the athletic field
Saturday. The game was fast all
through and considering that II was
the first game for the ~" team, the
playing was excellent. There was
some star playing in the outfield by
Buchanan and Scheimenz, and 1t was
worth the price of several games to
see Flynn whip the ball to first base,
and Novels make a three bag hit. The
playing was splendid on the part of
all the "Y" boys.
One of the very prominent features
of the game was the poor support Civ
en- to team made up of entirely Ben
nington young men. Another feature
of the game was the two handsomely
uniformed teams that play the game
Two better dressed teams never play
ed in Bennington.
The Y. Nj. c. A. team has a fine
schedule for most of the summer but
many of the games are TO be played
away from home.
The lineup was as follows: Y. NJ. C.
A.-c f, Talbot End b, Novels; C
Bunn S, Keller; T, Buchanan; LIST
b, Dean Bird b, Flynn; T, Capt The
barge; p. King; f. Settlement.
Athletic club-r f, Capt. Jones; End
b, E. Wilson; (, Stanton Bird b, Rem
ter; s, Rausch; Ist b, X. Wilson; C,
Osterhaut; p, Egan; +, Ginder.
Score, Y. NJ. c. A., 8; Hamilton
Athletic club, 6; umpire, William Lon
ergan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
RACE WAR TIES UP
500 MILES OF
RAILROAD
Enqineers Won't Work With
Negro Firemen
MORE TROUBLE ANTICIPATED
Gov. Hoke Smith Of Georgia Refuses
Railroads Appeal for Military
Assistance

Atlanta, Ga, May 24.-Over the 500
miles of the Georgia railroad, includ-
ing main line and branches, not
train has moved since O'Clock Satur-
day night as the result of the strike
of white firemen against the employ
ment of negroes.
The tie-up became complete when
Assistant Grand Chief Burgess of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
declared Saturday night it was unsafe
for engineers to take trains out with
negro firemen, and ordered them to
refuse to make runs. This is not
strike of engineers, Mr. Burgess says,
but is simply an act to force the road
to protect the Brotherhood men, as 1t
is bound to do by its contract.
Preceding the tie-up the negro fire.
men were being dragged from engines
and mobbed at every town along the
line of the road. The striking white
firemen have committed no violence,
the mobbing having been done by
citizens along the line OF the road,
who objected to white men being sup
planted by negroes.
Thriving towns like Greensboro.
Covington, Athens, Warrentown and
other places have received no mail all
day and have suffered many other in
conveniences, but the citizens are not
complaining as they are determined
to prevent the employment of the ne
groes Telegraphic reports say that
certain kinds of food are running
short in towns along the line, but the
people say that they will manage to
get along.
Automobiles are being used extern
sively along the line of the road by
people who want to make short trips.
and the owners of the machines are
making large profits.
General Manager Scott of the Geor-
gia railroad has asked Gov. Hoke
Smith to order out troops but the gov
| ernor will not do il. He says the state
has not enough troops to patrol 500
miles of railroad and while they might
keep order at one place, trouble would
break out somewhere else, as 1t is
really a fight of the people along the
line against the road. Gov. Smith
sent Attorney General Hart to inves-
tigate and as a result of Mr. Harris
report. he will recommend that the
road and the strikers choose three
4 Georgians to arbitrate the matter.
1t is reported that party of strik-
breakers from the North reached here
today but General Manager Scott says
no attempt will be made to operate
trains until protection is Afforded
The company takes the position that
it has every means to continue bust
ness. but 1t will not try to move trains
until assured of protection.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24

intact were George Leonard, step
father of Turner, A. d. Moon, father
of Frank Moon, and Mrs. Frank Green,
sister of Mrs. Harris. Ezra Turner of
North Adams, father of the unfortun-
ate man, also came to Pownal upon
the receipt of the news of the finding
of the body. He took one long look
at the blanketed form on the river
bank, burst into tears and turned
away. Turner's parents were divorc-
| ed 16 years ago.
After the body had been thoroughly
searched, the money and other arti-
Giles were taken by Deputy Sheriff
john Nash to the watering trough on
the d. T. Bates farm and as carefully
washed as possible under the circum-
stances. The bills were watersoaked
but were in perfect condition. Be-
sides the pocket book and roll of bills
the pockets contained a handkerchief
and paper of tobacco.
The funeral of Turner was held on
Sunday afternoon at the Methodist
| church. Every seat was taken and
it was necessary for the undertaken
in charge to place Chairs in the rear
of the pews and in the aisles to &C.
commodate the friends of the unfor.
tunate victim and the people who
were naturally attracted through cur
iosity. A delegation of the Williams
town order of which young Turner
was member to the number of so OF
more attended and the large floral
wreath upon the casket was from the
lodge. Rev. ]. c. Wright who is ser
wing his sixth year as pastor of the
church OBLIGATED. He was assisted BY
Rev. George Mohl, the new pastor oil
the Baptist church who offered prayer
and read scripture. The bearers were
Frederick Fortune Ernest Sheridan
Philip Sheridan, James Morgan, Mar
tin Lewis and Edward Alcombright
The burial was in the Oak Hill Gem
etery.
While none of the officials who
would be likely to be able to furnish
any information in relation to the
case have given out any definite in
formation the few facts that can be
| CLEANED would seem to indicate that
the young man was dead when his
body went into the water. If such
| proves to be the case ii is more than
likely that more than one person was
instrumental in throwing the body in
to the mill pond. TIE fact that Tur
ners money was found in his person
does not necessarily clear the sus
poets from the charge of disposing OF
the body. They may have been wise
enough, after having found that the
blow on the head with the pick han
die had killed the man to realize that
the rifiing of the dead mans person
would lead to detection in case the
body were found.
Photographer Wills T. White secur
ed some excellent pictures of the scene
of the locality where the body was
found. They were on exhibition il
his display window Sunday and at
tracted considerable attention.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
FOR ILLEGAL FISHING
Five oYung Men Plead Guilty in Mu.
niclpal Court

The five young men who were ar
rested by County Game Warden
Harry Chase on the charge of fishing
In the Walloomsac river before the
open trout season and whose cases
were continued on May 10 to this
morning by Judge Holden were again
IN municipal court this morning. All
nve OF tne fishermen pleaded guilty to
the charge of fishing in waters in
habited by trout in violation of the
statute enacted by the recent legisla
lure. The penalty is fine of $40 and
COSTS put upon representations by the
states attorney and the game warden
Judge Holden RENTED the fines ant
placed the young men in the hands Of
probation Officer John Nash.
AT the time of tneir arrest the
young men pleaded ignorance of the
new law.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
RABBITS IN HIS WHISPERS
Even the Conjuror Couldn't Surprise
ST Perkins

ST Perkins had never been surpris-
ed in all his life. When it showed in
the latter part of April, he allowed
he'd sorter felt it in the air for some
time; when ledge Abbotts barn
burned, 81 thought it was about time;
and when the town hall was struck
by lightning, he merely shrugged his
shoulders and said he'd told 'em that
them lightnin' rods wasn't any ac-
count wnen they were first talkin' of
putin EN- up. Mrs. Perkins had just
about given up all hope of ever excit-
ing her husbands wonder when a
friend told her of marvellous conjur-
er who was showing at variety thea
ire in Boston. She took 81.
When the conjurer called for a vol
unteer from the audience, Mrs. Per
kins urged her husband to go up on
the stage. He did. she watched ex.
pectantly as the professor" extracted
a five dollar gold piece from Sis ear,
passed a watch through his back and
extracted yards and yards of ticker
tape from his shoes. ST looked bored
Finally the conjurer began to coax at
Sis beard and, to the amazement of
the spectators, out hoped three lit
tie white rabbits.
wal" said Mrs. Perkins triumph
antly when 81 resumed mis- seat,
guess that surprised We some didn't
ito"
81 seemed almost surprised that she
should think so. why no." he finally
drawled. Il didn't like to say nothin'
about it. but I've been sorter suspec-
tin that them rabbits was thar for
some time."-Everybody's Magazine
for June.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-24
ATTRACTING ATTENTION
White Space of Great Value as a
Drawing Power

1t is the hadest thing in all the
world for a man to buy newspaper
space and leave ii white. A man
needs to have progressed long way
in the art of selling on paper to pay
for space and leave unsaid some of
the many things which to him seem
essential. The very way In which he
buys space, by the agate line, leads
him to believe that it must all be util-
lied for selling talk. And yet If he
would stop to analyze what advertis-
ing is-that 1t is simply a part of the
selling plan-he would realize perhaps
the value of white space.
The first thing salesman has to
do is to attract attention The first
object of an adj is to attract attention.
Now, it is very evident that given a
sheet of paper which is perfectly
white, you will attract attention by
printing upon 1t characters which are
perfectly black. The whittier the pa
per, the blacker the type the more
likely it is to attract attention. This
is noticeable in posters and handbills.
But the advertiser quite forgets that
with posters and handbilIs ne has an
'ANhoS ohiOuiit vi Wulle space. III
newspaper, where everything is
paid for, the element of white space
is lacking, and so you have dreary
waste of type, each advertiser vying
with the other in getting his type as
black and as thick as possible.
Not one of these advertisers hui
would use abundant. white space If II
were free. Eacn would then realize
its absolute necessity. In a newspa
per, where every agate line spells dol
lars and where tne only way he can
get white space is to go down into his
jeans for the price, it's a different
story. But white space is just as i'm
portant in newspaper ad. as 1t is In
poster or handful, and it must
be had even if it must be paid for.
A few men have made monumental
successes of their advertising by 8
liberal use of white space, and toda,
every man who is using white space
III reasonable quantities in newspap
ers is getting larger returns for hi.
money taan any half dozen men who
are depending upon the largeness ant
the blackness of their type displays
Newspaperdom.