Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-09
ILLINOIS LEADs IN PENSION
SYSTEMS.

SYSTEMS.
y The state OF Illinois leads the coun-
try in. her new pension system, the
object OF which is to help worth y
mothers with children keep their fam
lilies together and to make good cit
liens of their children. A Chicago
correspondent writes upon this new
gift system, which is to be inaugural
ed this month:
Pensions for mothers is a Christmas
1 gift which many mothers, abandoned
by their husbands, will receive this
year IN Chicago as result of the new
Illinois law Already the payment OF
pensions has begun. The dispensing
of them, however, is duty which
already has daunted Judge Pinckney,
who has called upon the charitable
organizations to assist him. In many
homes the pensions promise to make
all the difference between honorable
poverty and dire want which drives
women and children to desperation.
One mother, who has a brood Of seven
children, including two daughters, 15
and IT years old, each earning - a
week, said: with this income to de-
pend on. I can stay at home, make
their clothes. and keep them well pro-
vided for. 1 used to have to so out
to work and then there was no one to
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fearing that they were getting In bad
company getting In accidents The
children are all so good, but it takes a
mother to watch them all the time,
whether they are little or big. I really
was at the point of sending one or two
to some home Wouldn't that have been
too bad? 1t would have broken up the
family forever. Now they can keep
on going to school and come home to
their mother every night" 1t is pre-
dicted that $4,000 to $150,000 will be
spent in 1912 under the new law Judge
Pinckney has objected to funds paid
to mothers being called a pension fund.
No worthy mother, because she is
poor and is aided, should be called
pensioner. Poverty alone should not
be sufficient reason for separating a
good mother from her children. 1t is
the duty of the state and city to sup
ply funds to keep all children at home
if they have a worthy and at mother
THE WAYS OF THE DETECTIVE.
The work of a detective is always
mystifying to the general reader and
he does not see how such success is
achieved. When the detective tells
his own story it is seen his business
is chiefly sharp scanning and accurate
work. He cannot make a move that
excites suspicion and he must be wary
of his tongue. His ieutenants must
be equal to himself in movement and
secrecy.
The detectives who aided William
J. Burns of Chicago place the guilt,
now confessed, for dynamite outrages
are given full credit by him for the
'sleuthfng' which has made him ia
nous. A dozen times a false move
on their part would have spoiled the
intricate net he wove successfully and
Burns has insisted on sharing the
credit with his men. When it was
planned to arrest Jim Mcnamara and
McManigle in Toledo, they seated
themselves, suitcases and all in a rail-
road coach loaded with women and
children, although their suitcases con-
tanned enough dynamite to blow every
body into bits Raymond Burns, a son,
and his men, saw that blunder might
cause an explosion, and they coolly
changed the plan. waiting until they
arrived at Detroit before making the
arrests. When the trail had been
picked up and men were set to follow
ing them, they had an unseen body
guard night and day. "And there's
the trick that solves most of the de-
tectfve mysteries in these days-the
falling" Burns said in his narrative
IN McCIure'S Magazine. It's what
good palrning is to sleight of hand,
It's the thing the operative has to
learn before he can move on a case at
all. He has to learn to follow a man
on the street, in railroad trains, on
street cars, in hotels, picking him up
and dropping him and picking him up
again, without ever really losing sight
of him and without ever being seen or
suspected himself. We kept track of
McManigle and Jim Mcnamara in that
way for months. Our men even fol-
lowed them on a hunting trip, and
'roped' them, as we say-made friends
with them and camped and hunted
with them. McManigle has told us
since that they never saw a sign of
any one shadowing them. And they
were always testing themselves. They
would turn a corner and then hide and
watch to see If any one was follow
ing. They would go long distances on
streets, watching behind
them They would jump on a street
car and ride while ard get off and
go in another direction in another car,
and watch all the time to see If any
one got on or off after them