The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-03
London Weekly Letter
By ne Associated Pres

a mai scale a stone wall the other
day. From this trivial circumstance
have resulted disclosures Of an ALI
between certain uniformed mem
bers Of the London police force and
thieves and hi9hwaymen under
which the police have not only aided
the thieves. but have actually turned
thieves themselves in their hours off
duty.
Amos every London householder
has been in the habit Of calling up
the police department on the eve of
his vacation to ask him to guard his
~unOccupied home. Consequently. the
department has an enormous list of
~unoccupied houses. The numbers of
these houses are given the members
or the force with instructions 10 watch
for burglars.
Recently there has been an cpl
demic Of burglaries in the outlying
residential section Of the city. Prac-
tlcally all the looted houses were
homes Of persons away on vacation
who had notified the department of
their plans. Very few of the burglars
have been caught: in fact, the patrol
men on the beat where the burglaries
occurred invariably reported that they
a seen no suspected characters in
the neighborhood. To make the pro-
blem still more difficult, the burgla-
ries were seldom discovered until
weeks afterwards when the owners
returned home.
A newshoy. delivering his papers in
the thief-ridden section Of the SUI
burbS, saw a man climb Over the wall
OF q large garden surrounding a man.
sion that sits back we'll from the
roadway. He had read OF the bur
glarles; his suspicious were aroused
and he summoned the nearest police
man, having t~elephoned already to the
precinct station. Within a few min
uteS a Gordon Of boobies and detec-
tives closed about the mansion.
Three burglars were captured, red
handed; one escaped by climbing the
wall and running. OF the trio cap
tured two were found to De police
men; one Of them, indeed, the man
who did police duty eight hours a day
located. The neWsboy glimpsed the
escaping burglar and asserted a he
too, was a policeman. The third
prisoner was a notorious thief.
Since the arrest OF the burglar-po.
licemen an investigation has REVEALED
that the ase is by no means except
lional, and that the immunity from
arrest enjoyed by many London bur
! glars is due to a widespread allianc
with the police. Reluctantly tn
Londoner is abandoning the old Gus
! tom of notifying the police when h
lexpects to TAX q vacation. Instead
: he is adopting the American habit Q
joining with mis- neighbors IN enll:cy
ing a Waterman. The first instrUc
tons given the Waterman are t
2 watch h police.
It has not yet been necessary t
employ someone to watch the watch
h man. When that time comes. it is no
D unlikely that the LondoHer will dis
f pense with his vacation altogether.
|
All Great Britain, apparently,
trying to invent a perpetual motto
machine-only Great Britain calls
a "self-moving engine The pas
year has ripened a crop Of one
week. The wires and bones &,
models may be found bleaching
= hundreds on the shelves Of the patel
office. 1t goes without aging tn.
not one shows the slightest i%nclinatiO
n to move itself.
e. Varied and often pathetic are ii
:. histories of the inventors. Mont a fe
= Of them LAY spent the years of the
e prime in the chase Of this unattail
- dropped thousands Of pounds in tt
- quest: still others have trailed u
quarry into the insane asylums.
:. all the wasted energy spent in seel
ing the solution Of this problem he
= been converted into the beaten cha
- | IelS VI eiiu0oNoi- II pcfttib oAii
9 officials believe. there would be fe
problems Of mechanics left today II
solved
Professor = L. Green, Of the II
e ted States Department If A2ricUltu,
ie is in london preparing for a thr
years stay in the interior Of Bra
where he hopes to teach the nativ
how to raise cotton. Professor Gre
: has been leaned to the BRAZIL
re government by WASHINGTON, and
- his moments Of leisure from tcachi
80 cotton growing he will collect VarlO
80 for the American
He believes that Brazil has the &c
Sibility of becoming the greatest CO
ton growing country in the world u
less ingredients IN ine 6
y. make its cultivation on d large sc;
impracticahle. This IS what IrOf'
sor Green viii try TO discover, for
is convinced hat ~climatlcally tn.
of is no reason why Brazil should 7
in raise cotton: also he believes
best quality car be grown there