The evening world., 1911-08-05
MYSTERIOUS Jap
At STEEL HEARING
SBE|NGW WATCHED
Secret Service Agents on Trail
Of Strangely lmperturbable
Asiatic.
MAY BE COMMERCIAL SPY
Attends All Sessions and Never
Moves From Chair, Not Even
When Togo Arrives.
NAY BE COMMERCIAL SPY

United Statcs Secret Service men and
United States Steel Corporation detec-
tives alike are worried over the mys-
FERROUS Japanese who has edged his way
into the very central scat OF the Con-
g~ress'onal Investigation OF the Steel
Trust which has been going on for .
veek at the Cty Hall.
The Oriental stranger Is OF unu.ually
dark skin. He has a narrow face with
large features and an eye as inscrut-
able as q sculptured Buddha. Every
day. half an hour before the hour set
for the ~heartng-and that "a invariably
an hour before they actually Begin
The Japanese has some. smiling TN
personally at other carly arrivals. the
furniture and the pictures on the walls
and has pulled a cirsir close UP to the
Sn5 "a which ito w;taossss So.
Thu Yellow Stranger never lea ves that
seat once he has taken 1t. until Chair
man stanley declares the committee sd-
journed or orders all outsiders out be-
cause Of an executive session.
NOT At ALL INTERESTED IN
ADMIRAL TO0O's ARRIVAL.
When Admiral Togo arrived at the
Cfty Hall yesterday to call on Mayor
Gaynor. and City Hall Park was
throngsd with a shouting. pushing mob.
and police bugles were rooty-tooting all
over the place. the steel Jap sat tight In
the chair. A clerk OF the COMMITTEES was
curious over his apparent indifference to
the nearnese Of the great Jspanese war
rios.
ibid you know" asked the clerk.
that Admiral Togo II out thereY"
YES" said the little man shortly. II
know"
You can see him from the window.
Go look p
NO." said the mysterious one shortly.
IL I leave this seat some n else gets
the place. I must be where / can hear
zach word whenever u 10 spoken. I
must see the look on the face. some
other time, when I am home I can sec
the Honorable Togo. l thank you very
much"
SO far as In known these arc tho only
words, except murmured apologies.
which the Yellow Stranger has uttered
at the hearings.
MAKES NOTES WHEN ASKED "
NE WAS A NEWspAPeRMAN.
A. hrst the members OF the committee
n the others who have gathered at
the hearings thought that the man was
the valet Of one OF the millionaire wit
nesses. but the captains Of industry
came and ven the Yellow Stranger
stuck to his post. Somebody asked him
II he was the reporter OF q Japanese
Newspaper. He promptly took out a
pencil and began to take notes on tho
back OF an envelope. Apparently fearing
that II he did not act like . newspaper
reporter he would 10 thrown out Of his
'hosen position.
After his third day some Of the steel
people became interested. There have
been fairly well founded reports for
several years that the ambitious nation
al plans of the japanese do not stop
with military projects. They have com
mercial spies without number. II
sssmed likely to the Steel Corporation's
representatives NJ the hearing that the
Yellow tranger was n representative
OF the Alikado's commercial secret ser
vice.
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steel hearings which is not open to al
the world. There Is no fear that an,
secret OF American success will DO re
veaied by Lewis Cass Ledyard. Charles
n. Schwab. JOIN A. Topping. Leonard
c. Hanna or any other OF the Captain
Of Industry which will give the Asiat
,cs any unfair insight over our success
The interest OF the Steel Corporation
and also Of the United states Govern
ment is to find out just what system o
e~spionage the Yellow strange repre-
sents, and how far that system extends
SECRET sERvIc AGENTS
TRAIL MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
J To that end a United States Sccre
Service Investigation was begun yestor
day. Up TO the hour OF adjournnlen
1 N Yellow Stranger had not diyulso'
his name. Closely as he follows IN
testimony at the hearing he suffered
sudden duiness of his understanding O
English when questions Were put I
him.
= And when the session finally adjourne
last night, two different groups @
trailers slipped away In his shadow
and at the opening OF the bearing &c
day they slipped into the city lila
after him. II they had solved the my,
terry OF his mission the sleuths sal
nothing. But the Yellow Stranger seen
ed unconscious of the interest he ha
aroused. He picked out a chair, dragge
1t over beside the witness chair an
composed himself INTO a yellow pore,
lain image to wait until the daily du.
OF wits should begin.
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