The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-05
REMARKABLE man
TO LECTURE HERE
Isidor Wulfson, Weights and
Measures Expert, Secured
-. by the Y. M. B. G.

Ine Effect or DISHONEST COmpetl-
tion," will be the subject discussed
by Isidor Wulfson inspector of weights
and measures of indianapolis, before
the Young Mems Business club, next
Tuesday evening. The address is ex-
pected to prove exceedingly interest
ing and the public is invited to hear
Mr. Wulfson. The meeting will mark
the opening Of the clubs new rooms in
the Colonial building.
Mr.. Wulfson has accomplished great
things at Indianapolis in unearthing
scandals perpetrated by peddlers and
others.
Unearths Scandal.
George A. Martin, on the staff of
the Indianapolis Sun, writing in the
August number of the American Maya
zine, says of MIR. Wulfson, in part:
Without money or friends, a family
depending on him and he in hospital,
Isidor Wulfson was befriended by
prince Charley" Bookwalter, who
made him inspector of weights and
measures. The motto of the office
was Draw your salary and keep your
mouth shut; don't work.
None of that for Wulfson! He began
at once unearthing scandals Being
original in thought, word and deed,
Wulfsons methods were (and are)
most unique.
When whispers of the hay market
scandal reached him, he disguised
himself as German farmer, mingled
with the crowds at the market, gath
cred his evidence and sent four men
to prison. Two jealous detectives jok-
ingly asked the loan of Isidor's dis
guise. The courteous sleuth tapped
his forehead and replied:
1T isn't the disguise, gentlemen;
it's in here" and turned away
Wulfson slips around any old corner,
any old time to nab" iceman, coal
man or milkman. These surprises
have terrorized the petty thieves
Once Wulfson sat before a strange
suburban he~~th for nine hours, in
slippers and house jacket, awaiting
the oil-man-he got him. When the
company manager came to Jail to bail
out his subordinate, Wulfson arrest
ed the manager-and convicted him.
Cate Dat ,D~AAl>r
1t is not an uncommon sight to see
Wulfson plodding along toward police
headquarters at l, 2 or a. NJ towing
peddler and a half dozen double
buttoned measures. He trailed a po-
tato peddler for two days and two
nights, caught his with the goods
at a. m. the second morning-and
convicted him.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner
of corporations, considers Wulfson's
knowledge valuable enough to confer
with him occasionally. The Stand
ards Department, Board of Trade,
Westminster, S. W., His Majesty's
Service, London, England, employs
methods outlined for it by Wulfson.
A couple of years ago this versatile
Jew went to New York, and showed
| that city where it was losing 100000
900 annually by neglecting the depart
ment of weights and measures-and
New York acted on his advice.
Wulfson's latest original move was
made February "a, of the present year.
when he organized THE Housewives
Protective Association in Indianapo-
lis. Each member of this association
weighs and measures all purchases.
reporting discrepancies to Wulfson.
Wulfson's statistics show that honest
weights and measures would lop ten
per cent from the cost of living.
| But one never would suspect these
things to see him At his battered roll
top desk. in his dinSy, cluttered Of
lfice.