New-York tribune., 1911-04-16

A% courarement TO humility TO watch
81 ,boSe instruments. made like a.
..o,od,o, or the half section of an up
,;,s- piano. which guard elevators.
u,rtroeut house corridors and all large
.rceS. See the girl working the double
- Of bras5 plugs and cords, the ranks
- hrass bound holes for the plugs to fit
into the row Of buttons to push. the
-o,, of little handles to twiddle, the
,,ass capped signals. tho glass signals
..,,b electric lights inside, the numbers
,,,5er glass at the top-and she keeps
them all going at once. Imagine what
,,,css you or would make in her place!
Now the telephone switchboard is not
nod comparison for the tangle of evil
ao,cc inference and proof that is now
,o;rc MANIPULATED under the name of
,bo carnegie Trust investigation The
n,strict Attorneys staff make deft oper-
o,ors They have obtained excellent
connections with the still greater tangle
- banking affairs that cover the whole
c;tv and somehow. too. the public has
,oon allowed TO listen in" on the con-
versations that have passed over those
,.i.os Not that we have heard the
whole affair: only broken fragments and
lively hints about "a high city official"
40 prominent officer of the state and
.ho like. hut there have been some good
sto-jes. and quite enough to make us
itch to hear more.
THE GRAND JURY is TALKING.
For instance take UP the receiver
che paper receiver. seven columns wide.
,brough which the talk of the investga-
linn has come-and you overhear tale
something like this:
on Four men came out Of the subway at
Wall street one morning in the winter
n 1909. Three of them were long and
,oon. the fourth was shorter, with
cueer perlv set to his shoulders. Rain
rame flying over the buildings in gusts.
carried by an easterly gale. They
crossed Broadway with long strides,
their hands showed deep in their over
coat pockets. Before they had skirted
TRINITY churchyard the water was run
ming in streams from their black felt
hats.
They kept a sharp watch on the build
,nps at their left. and three or four rods
tevond the churchyard they swung
through a broad doorway guarded by
handsome stonewOrk and massive oak.
In the lofty banking room Of the Car
negie Trust Company, all wrought bronze
and notified gold colored marble, they
stopped al a grill and a glazed counter.
The little man snapped out a card.
Take that to the president, if you
please sir" he said. tapping it sharply
with the tips of his two middle fingers.
The clerk wrinkled his eyebrows, took
n long look at the four wet and some
what awkward figures. and turned away
With a doubtful. 'much-good-it-may-do-
you" air The four men stood quietly,
looking straight in front of them and
dripping uuddles on the marble floor. The
clerk came back in a minute or two with
q better face than he had taken away.
A BANKER RECEIVES A CALL.
"Mr. Dickinson will see you" he said.
"Wil YOU step this way, gentlemen?'
He led them through bronze rallied
passages. down marble steps, past the
great shining steel bars of the safe de-
posit vaults into the southern room.
i was very bare. very yellow, very full
OF electric light, furnished with one
plain. solid mahogany table with an ink
well and some solid mahogany chairs