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The Washington times., 1909-05-23
Richard Whalley Giver of
Cue That Dock Scales
Were Crooked"
CASE HAMPERED
BY NEWSPAPERS
Gigantic Expose Passed Over as
Trivial-Government Fight
Just Begun.

this tabulstion of the weighs upon
which the Sugar company paid duty,
with the rates upon which il paid the
producers. At first the work haz TO
wait upon information laboriously col
Ieeted from the shippers. Then the
Government was moved 10 issue a cub
poena uIon the compan. Tor its records
3ut the company chose TO do volua-
tSriIy what it could have been compelled
to do and so gave to the District At
torney certain books which revealed this
very comparison. They are called pink
books" They consist Of two small
diary-like volumes pasted together, and
one of the smaller records Is that of
the checker in the scale house while
the other is that of the corresponding
checker at the city weighers' balance.
In other words, for the entire period
covered by the Governments claim, the
American Sugar Refinery had IN its
possession records which established
every ounce of difference IN these TWO
weights.
Books Show
How Much Was Lost.
The parallel vas never more deadly.
II is before me as write. The column
of instances where the duty weight
EQUALS or exceeds the purchase weight
is practically empty. The column OF
instances where the weight upon which
the company was to pay duty vas less
than the weight upon which the com
pany was to base its purchase was
practically full The total Of the dis
crepancies against the Government In
the period covered by the suit was e,2l2
tons. And these differences fell 10
normal the very day OF PARIS discov-
cry.
Occasional exceptions to the general
rule puzzled the Government attorneys
considerably. Thus out of fifty-nine
oargoes unIoaded in 1902. there we're two
which weighed slightly more on the
Government scales than on che steel
yards; In 1903 there were two out OF
forty-nine; in 1904 there were two out
of sixty-six; in 1905 there were no ex-
ceptions out of ffty-seven; in 1906 there
was one out Of sixty-six; and to the
date of the discovery in 1877 there were
fifteen exceptions out of sixty-two
cargoes-
Well. Surveyor CIarkson and Deputy
vail we're on the docks on the days OF
the two exceptions Of 1900. One OF the
exceptions in 1903 is due to the fact
CONTINUED on Fifth Page.)
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Of the civil action against the sugar
company fatty charged his form
er associate in the service wi h perjury.
Brzezinski has in the meantime been
dismissed from the employ of the Gov
zrument
Why was this iron so important to
Splitter? Let's go back to the scale
house and find out. With Deputy Sur
veyor of the Port James p. Vail in
Kehoe's place I stepped on the plat
form Nv weight was read as 162
pounds. Then Mr.. Vail called.
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No. i. The hole through, which
the corset steel WIS passed Is In
Dictated by the arrow. Note the
ragged edges, showing how con-
slant rubbing had worn away the
wood. The board nailed above
was sOr the guidance of the hand
Of the man operating the steel
No. =. Diagram illustrating the
method or classifying the weights.
No. 3. This shows the hole in
another scale which GOPsn't look
as sc 1t had been used Bfuch. The
original hole WAS so badly worn II
WIS plugged up and n new hole
bored in the plug.
No. 4. Photograph showing the
corset steel ih it's proper place
No. :. PIaHt the American
Sugar Refining ( Bpany.
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Shows How
TIE Spring Worked.
NOW watchi'

Now watchT'
weight was changed to balance it, and
then the reading came:
re falling off. You only weight
ia pounds"
The corset spring had been put to
work. A pressure or one ounce from
that little strip of steel on the inside
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was held in the corner. HIS face
changed color-not once but many
times
What are you monkey-doodling with
down theTe?" demanded Parr.
''NuthiH'. - answered Kehoe.
But Parr ordered Kehoe out Of The
way, ran his own hand beside the
stanchion in the corner of the scale
house, and his fingers fell on a thin
strip of steel, wound with string 10
protect the fingers, protruding from
the scale post.
Things happened quickly in the en-
suing five minutes. Kehoe "ducked, Z"
stopped only when told he was under
arrest, and then denied all knowledge
of the spring which Parr held in his
hand Two Of the company's checkers
IN other scale houses were Immediately
relieved. One vacated his post without
waiting for a substitute And that is
the record of all the checkers at work
that mo. ming. When the three other
scale houses were inspected, as soon as
could be done without losing Kehoe, no
springs were found. But holes were
found, and there were abundant signs
that these holes had held springs q
good many months.
Splitter was the man of authority on
the dock He had hired these men. He
kept their records. He wanted to know
what was going on. What did he do?''
was asked of Parr in the course OF
the civil action. The agents answer
was:
Took me by the arm AMI walked
with me a few PAGES and said, We will
have to fix this thing up. and not ex-
! pose this thing, and get lot OF people
| into trouble 1 said that If there was
| any trouble it was their own fault, and he
said that was all right, that we would
/ have TO fix it up; that there was a LOT
of Masons around here. and they would
all re IN trouble If the thing was ex-
| posed, and he talked along that line
for some time.
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Tries To Bride
The Treasury Agent.

And he said that If I would report
the scales out Of order that ( could
name my own price. that ne would
hand me the money. and no one would
know anything about it. and nc one
would ever know how I got the money:
that he would cut his right arm off
before he would tell about it. told
him there was no chance. He said he
had fixed up many one before. 1 said
] understood he was a good 'hxer.' but
he could not do anything with me- He
said: Send BTzezinsH over to me-
and / said: 'BrZeZinski won't leave the
scale house. / would not have him
leave the scale house, and / walked
away from him.
AT that time Mr. Hyatt Ga Govern
ment weigher) was just about ap-
preaching the scale house Mr.. Splitter
said that that was Mr.. Hyatt, the Gov
eminent weigher. and I asked him If
that was the scale expert, and he said
no. he was a Government welgher i'm
charge of the district. And 1 said Ito
Hyatt): I have something TO show you,
and Splitter hurriedly came in and
brushed tight in between us and got in
conversation with Brzekinslki and short
~ after-after he talked for an instant
or SOL overheard him say: We are all
Masons and this thing has got to be
fixed up and BTzezinsiki turned to me
and says: Dick, this man says you
are all right And I says: Nothing is
all right with me; everything goes as
it lies Mr.. Splitter left the scale
house and l escorted Mr-s Hyatt over 10
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loop. Rattle go the trucks along the
planks. "Clink-clink," go the scales.
Round and round the circle of Poles
and Slovaks, trucks. and sugar, winds
and winds.
All day long it keeps up. All day
long the men sweat and swear. All
day long the scales are weighing 100
truck loads an hour. All day long the
sugar is being dumped in piles. with
here and there the brown coarse stuff
oozing out of a hole ana being i'm
mediately swept, with the dirt of the
floor. into security from the slightest
possible waste. And all day long over
the whole landscape, upstairs and down,
astream and ashore. hangs a smell like
cooking molasses. Eyes, ears, and nose
are all challenged and all perforce con-
fess the domination of the view by this
empire of business.
Scales To Show
What Government Gets.
Seventeen slips make up the docks.
They stand away from the main build
ings Ike teeth TO a comb. At the base
OF each slip is a weighing house. There
is seemingly nothing extraordinary
about il. Anyone who has ever seen
ton of coal weighed will know how the
| scales look and will understand the pro-
| cess from platform to weigher's pad
| But these balances have a particular
use. Each one OF the seventeen has
| been provided by the American Sugar
| Refining Company, that the Government
may know the amount of sugar import
ed at these docks, and so withdraw
from funds deposited by the company
with the collector Of the port the amount
OF import duty TO be charged. That is
the only use Of these scales. But near
| by are others OF very different type
They are old-fashioned open-air steel
/ yards and they are in the hands OF men
! employed by the sugar growers to deter
mine the quantity of that product when
/ it has reached the refinery. These
steelyards are operated by contractors
who are paid by the grower of the sugar
and-though they have no official status
| whatever-are called city weighers-
The case of the seventeen holes is the
| case of these seventeen little scale
houses. In each scale house is a little
hole And it is the use to which that
hole was put which withheld from the
collector OF the port the 100000 now
repaid.
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Smugge Tempered With Sugar Operations

ROD CONNECTING SCALE WITH WEIGHING PLATFORM.
(THE MOVEMENT THIS 400 UPWARD
WHEN SUGAR rs PLACED on pLATFORr41
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Treasury Agent
And His Suspicious.

As the result Of three years of mug
nacious hard work there stood on the
dock Of this refinery the morning of
November 90 1900, with what he be-
lieved TO be a chance to get the
gang one Richard Parr, special agent
Of the Treasury. He had come there
by agreement with a former enplove
Of the company. Richard WhaIIey. The
latter had reported TO Parr that when
ever draft Of sugar was put upon the
scales the company checker In the scale
house dropped his left hand at his side
In a peculiar way. The understanding
between Whalley and the Treasury
agent was that il the practice was OBJ
served next day a signal should be
given
Parr came with another agent. James
o. Brzezinski Almost Immediately they
received the signal from WhalIey. Parr
went roundabout and quickly to an
other scale house. He pushed open
the door. Just after he entered an
other draft % ..ugar was weighed
which is a eect Of great interest I'm
view OF what followed In the mean
/ time the two truckloads just taken
| from the platform were called back
and reweighed. Here is the result:
The draft which Parr had seen weigh
ed tipped the scale at the figure in
the weigher's record.
But Of fhe two other drafts one now
tipped the beam at fourteen pounds
more than the records of three min
utes before and the other Indicated a
corresponding increase or eighteen
pounds
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devices introduced, detected. forbidden,
but not punished, and discarded in turn
for some more ingenious continuance
working the same result.
The Washington times., 1909-05-23

had Offset forty-eight ounces OF weight
on the outside.
On scales of this pattern the actual
weight on the platform IS balanced
by the much lesser weight on the bar
because of two intermediate walking
| beams or transmission bers. One of
| these is above the pois bar. The other
below. This spring was inserted so as
TO engage the lower transmission bar
| and, while allowing IL to swing a little,
yet pressed down upon it. The effect
| was a reduction O. each truck load on
the entry of the Government weigher
by from ten to forty ar pounds.
There were seventeen of the scales
and there was a hole in each of them.
Above the hole in most instances a cleat
had been nailed for the apparent pur-
pos Of guiding the operators hand as
he re Iched down in the dark. In one
case he hole had been REINFORCED with
tacks after it had worn large. In an
other it had been plugged and bored
new and then pajnted; and the remark
able thing about this post which was
introduced in evidence was that even
this coat of paint had had time to grow
! old and wrinkled.
Case Would
Be Hard Fought.
On this showing the Government
might have obtained the duty on the
sugar that was meanwhile smuggled IN.
But the case would have been hard
| fought. The Six and Splitter were i'm
mediately segregated. Kehoe. who is
| believed to be a devout Catholic, is said
not to have been TO church since the
| detection of the spring in November.
1907.
| So the attorneys set out to compare
| the Government weighIngs with those
at the steeIyard scales. District Attor-
ney Henry L. Stimson had taken into
| association with him Assistants ". T.
| Denison. II. R. Buckner, Robert Steph-
! enson. and II. 5. Demming. They were
| opposed by the firm of Parsons. Closson
! and McInvaine, John b Stanchheld, Fl.
f. Cochrane. and James B. Sheffield
If the latter group was to be overcome
at all It must be by virtue of a strong
, case strongly fought.
A score or more OF accountants work
ed steadily for six months TO complete
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Parr Discovers
The Strip of Steel.

The company checker, Kehoe, was
meanwhile crouching down in the dark
corner OF the scale house. His left arm
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
WHAT WIFE SAYS "GeEs."
But 1t Sometimes is Bad For. the
Painting.

Painting.
When g property-owner knows
nothing about paint it is bad for the
property-owner, and bad for the
painter. 1t would not be SO If the
property-owner would always hire a
skilled painter and then really leave
everything to him. But the house
owner so often fools himself on one
or the other of these things.
The skilled painter in every COM
munity has some of the most incom-
petent competitors that ever vexed a
conscientious workman or contractor,
and the incompetents get jobs gener-
ally by working cheap. In the next
place, when the skilled painter Is
hired. they do not leave everything
to him, as so many property-owners
boast they do.
They interfere most ignorantly and
most fatally. They insist sometimes
on using paint materials without in
vestigating whether they are good or
not. Or perhaps they insist on the
painters hurrying the work.
"I'm not going to have this painters
mess around my house a month, the
wife says, and what wife says goes
at the cost of lot of wasted painting
money. ;,
If the painter stays away few
DAYS to allow the paint to thoroughly
dry the owner says: "That painters
neglecting this work-guess he's side
tracking me for Jones work. / won't
stand T."
What chance does painter have to
do good work for a man who is con-
tinually nagginS at him and other
wise handicapping him without
meaning it, of course)7 A poor job
is the inevitable result Of such inter-
ference.
Poor painting costs the houseowner
money-don't forget that. 1t might
pay you to get the practical paint
book, painting specifications and in
strument for detecting. paint adul-
terants, which National Lead Co. are
offering under the title Of House
Owners Painting Outfit No. 49. Ad-
dress tional Lead Co., 1902 Trinity
Bldg, New York City. This company
do not make paint (they leave that to
the painter to do) but they make
pure white lead ("Dutch Boy Painter
trademark kind), and they can tell
you how to save money by securing
durable painting.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Cats That Have Only Two Legs.

Linoln Park "zoo' probably will
have two remarkable additions to its
large family Of animals within the
next few days. These are a pair OF
two-legged' cats which N. Slotkin
236 1-2 Madison street, contemplates
placing with Cy De Vry, keeper OF
the geological garden. The cats were
brought from Sydney, Australia. and
arrived in Chicago Saturday. In
shape of body, excep! for the absence
of hind legs, they are the exact pro,
tctype of the ordinary house cat. On
account of possessing only two legs
they resemble to some extent the
kangaroo, yet differing from that ami.
NAL, they walk on their front legs
which are of normal size and shape
Their gait may be liekend to that Of
tight-rope walker as they gracefully
poise themselves, retaining perfect
equilibrium. They possess no hips OF
joints of any kind which may have
been intended for the missing legs
the spinal column of each proceeding
without interruption. to the tail. They
were examined with great interest by
certain German professors at Bremen
while en- route, and they, it is said,
were unable to offer any explanation
for the deformity, as the cats were
crossed with no other animal.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
DIDN'T REALIZE
How Injurious Coffee Really Was.

Many persons go on drinking coffee
year after year without realizing that
1t is the cause of many obscure but
persistent ailments.
The drug-caffe!ne- coffee and
tea, is very Ike uric acid, and is Of
ten the cause of rheumatic attacks
which, when coffee is used habitually,
become chronic.
A Washington lady said recently:
IT am sixty-flve and have had q good
deal of experience with coffee. I
consider 1t very injurious and the
cause of many diseases. am sure 1t
causes decay Of teeth in children.
when I drank coffee had sick
spells and still did not realize that
coffee could be 80 harmful, till about
a year ago / had rheumatism In my
arms and fingers, got 30 nervous
could not sleep and was all run down.
"At last, after finding that medi-
cines did me no good, I lccided to
quit coffee entirely and try Postum.
After using it six months I fully re-
covered my health beyond all e1pec-
tations, can sleep sound and my rheu-
matism is all gone" There's Rea-
son."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the famous little
book, "The Road to Wellville," In
pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
ure genuine, true, and full OF human
interect
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
witty Sayings.
A noble life before a long.

i a noble LIE before long.
Friendship is the wine of life.
There is no wisdom like frankness
, A bird in cage is not half a bird
Entreatry and right do the deed
A. gosling flew over the Rhine and
came home a goose.-German.
A great reputation is great
charge.-French.
Every miller draws the water to
his own mill.
Everyone knows best when his OWL
shoe pinches.-German.
ST hope with. nerve to be able to
stand just criticism and to improve by
it and not to 'care durn' for un,
iustcriticism. Taft.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
IHE REASON WHY

Rheumacide cures rheumatism to stay
cured. Rheumatism Is On internal dis
Rheumacida strikes the root Of the dis
ease and removes its cause. Rheumacide
Linlment stops the pain while you are
taking the internal medicine. Rheuma-
and Is sold by druggists al 25c.. 50c. and
81 per bottle. LIniment. 25c. bottle
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Always shake in Aliens Foot-Ease, a
powder. It cures hot, sweating, aching,
swollen feet, corns, ingrowing nails and
bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, 25c.
Don't accept any substitute. Sample mailed
vpEr Alien 6 Olmsted. LIE Roy, N, Y
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Those who know what intense
pains come with some diseases OF the
eye can hardly believe Mitchell's Eye
Salve is able to do all that Is claimed
for 1t, but a trial soon conyinces oae
of the extraordinary curative powers
of this little remedy. Sold all over
the United States. Price Csc.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Pneumonia and Consumption are always
preceded by an ordinary cold. Hamlns
Wizard Oil rubbed into the chest draws
and prevents all serious trouble.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

A psssimist needs Garfield Tea, the Herb
laxative which regulates the liver, corrects
constipation and brings good health and
good spirits.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Only Ono "Dromo Quinfne"
That ia Laxative Bromo Quinine. Looh
for the signature Of e. w. Groye. Used the
World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25o
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

A combined Danish and French
scientific expedition will visit the
Danish West Indies in an endeavor
to determine the part played by
blocd-sucking insects. in spreading
leprosy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Fools have the liberty to say what
they please.-German.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Nature never did betray the hear
that loved her.-French.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Hick's CAPupINE is the best remedy
relieves the aching and feverisllness- cures
the Cold and restores normal conditions. It's
nquid-effects Immediately. ldc.. 25c. and
b0c, at drug stores.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Folly is never long pleased with
itself.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
A domestic .Eye Remedy

Compounded by Experienced Physicians.
Conforms to Pure Food and Drugs Laws.
Wins Friends Wherever Used. Ask Drug
gists for Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

The devil has his martyrs among
meu.-Dutch.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

He who sows brambles must not &C
barefoot.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
To Rreak i'm New Shoes.

Never ask pardon before You are
accused.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
A Marvellous Eye Remedy.

Those who sow injustice reap hate
and vengence.-French.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

Constant exposure of mirrors to
the direct rays Of the sun is apt to
crystalline the amalgam and destroy
the brilliancy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

If you cannot drive an OK, drive q
donkey.-Spanish.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17
Eor OuLps and GRlP.

A man is an indulgent censor tc
himself.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-03-17

his head to her own knee and took
gentle hold OF the tourniquet, "you
are wonder! That's right, Just he
quiet and don't take on a single bit.
Rufus'n be all right just as soon as
the doctor can bind up that wrist,
and the wedding can go right on.
Don't you take on bit-just keep
him quiet"
Hebby was not given to taking
on" but. her lips trembled, and the
eyes that were bent wn to her low
er's were full of tears. III she sat and
heard how Miss Patty had stopped on
her way to the postofice early that
morning to bring Rufus root or her
rose-bush. and had found him in a
faint beneath the new chicken-house,
with the blood squirting out of his
| wrist.
BY and by the doctor came, and
Rufus was carried inside the house
and made comfortable; butt, Hebby
ran back down the hill alone, and
looked about her.
Everywhere were evidences Of his
loving care for her-the new houses
and yards she had planned, the little
spring-house already begun, and lying
close to where he had lain was little
rose-bush, all withered under the sun.
Off. where Miss Patty had dropped
it in her excitement, and forgotten it,
! was shoe-boX wrapped in brown
paper and addressed to the Governor.
Hebby stopped and picked it up. but
instead of smiling at its absurdity,
she dropped some tears upon it.
Hebby was not crying girl, but some
thoughts and feelings vera taking