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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29
New
New YORK, Saturday.

FOR the romance, the gayety. the com
fort, the sentiment the 1uIling and
the content If music, the city of New
York as a municipality and as a people
spends firm 100000 to 100000
annually, either directly or cOllaterally-
You cannot come any nearer than this in
the way Of estimate or computation, be
cause there is so much music bought and
paid for every day and night in the year
that is furnished for instruction as well
as for amusement and entertainment the
best you can do is make a guess and then
you may 5e a million miles-Or dollars
out Of the way.
Approximately speaking, New York
pays out of the municipal purse about
100000 as its minimum contribution to
music every year. The Department of
Parks Manhattan and Richmond-spends
about $4,000; the Department of Docks
for music on the recreation piers about
$4,000, and the schools, directly or in
directly, with recreation sundries, the re-
nainder. Sometimes the school amount
varies. The figures given are the average.
Wonderful results are reported by the
city officials from the music outlay Of
t. municipality. Many folks think the
band concerts on the piers and in the
parks are merely a superficial affair, the
incident connected with the possible whim
of q man or woman who has made fight
for the melody. They are Of the opinion
that let there be a band concert or let
there not be a band concert it makes very
little difference. The public merely
listens because it is there to be listened
to. But read what Charles A. Manley,
the superintendent of all matters relating
10 the city's recreation piers, has to say
about it,
81 have made a careful study Of the psy-
chology Of the recreation pier. I was Of
the opinion when the first recreation pier
was established that the fact that it was
q pier and that the water was adjacent
was the source of whatever pleasure the
people might derive from it. I felt posi-
tive that when tired or perspiring men,
women and children had the pier for a
gathering spot the problem of helping
sweltering humanity during the summer
months had been solved in so far as
it was possible for people to enjoy it.
That was some years ago. I have been in
charge ever since and am still studying
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29
Daring Criminal Operations of Gentleman Burglar

he net a Miss Price. of Wilmington, Del.
and paid he marked attention.
One evening Wilson took Miss Price to
dine with him and ordered a sumptuous
and costly spread. Before midnight he
escorted her to her home. bowed most po-
EteIy and was off for his own home, sup
posedly.
In the early morning Miss Price was
awakened by a masked man standing over
her bed. He made her give up $500 in
jewelry. Fortunately an absent sister had
in her keeping other articles. valued at
.$2,7OO.
Miss Price thought her best friend in
Atlantic City was Wilson At five
o'clock. still hysterical. she telephoned him
to come to her and he came. He advised
her to calm herself. and then about seven
o'clock he took her to breakfast
You should tell the police" he advised
her. and Miss Price telephoned Police
Headquarters at Atlantic City. Two de-
tectives answered tie call and Wilson was
recognized, but escaped in an automobile
to Philadelphia. There he was arrested
Of course I was eIated when word came
from Philadelphia announcing Wilson's re-
capture. We notified the Philadelphia
police to guard him zealousIy, for he was
possessed OF an iron nerve. But it seems
that Wilson found a brief interval in
which this vigilance was relaxed. for he
had picked the lock Of his cell and was
just emerging into the tier when he was
detected. overpowered and shackled
We afterward learned he occupied a
beautiful apartment in Philadelphia He
had a costly motorcycle and this was gen
orally used as conveyance to and from
Atlantic City. A gray wig and false gray
whiskers were found in his. apartment.
and this bore ont the report Of several per-
sons on the road between Atlantic City
and Philadelphia that an old man who
rode like the wind" sped past them so
f-st on frequent occasions that they
rkened his passing to that Of a ghost
But once the iron bracelets encircled
his wrists he wilted and his conviction
and removal to prison speedily followed
As a man Of resource. skill and nerve
he had no equal
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29
Even in Corea You VIII Find
Widows Wise.
EVEN in Cores. where widows

I ENEN IN COrea, where widows are not
supposed to marry again, the wise
creatures find a way Of making off
with many Of the most attractive bach
/ elors of the country.
I The prejudice against the remarriaga Of
widows is founded on the tenets of Con
ifucianism. Owing to the influence of this
religion the women Of Corea believe that
lit is immoral for them to marry a second
time. But like women of other countries
! they find a way to do exactly what they
please.
OF course, reason the willy Corean wom-
en-, we cannot be blamed if men run off
with Us and marry Us against our will.
It is impossible for Us to resist such a
sutton, as he is invariably much stronger
than a mere weak woman.
The dashing bachelors Of Corea are
naturally much more DESTROYS of marrying
widows in the circumstances than they
would be otherwise. as a spice of daring
and adventure is added to the ordinary
joy Of entering into the holy bonds Of
ImatrimOny. 1t is not nearly SO exciting to
marry a young girl whom one is perfectly
free to woO-through the intermediation
IOf her parents. Of course-as it is to run
off with widow for whose capture one
has to arrange an interesting strategy.
Marriages between widows and bach
elOrs are also very much in favor in Corea
because not nearly so much money is re-
quired from the bridegroom as in the case
of his marriage with young girl The
impecunious bridegroom is scorned BY the
parents of the girl and he is also unable to
pay for the elaborate wedding ceremonies
which must take place. All Of this he es-
capes by running off with a widow. It
happens in COrea. as in other countries,
that the impecunious bachelor is often
more desirable from every point of view
but a mercenary one than the well to do
member Of the community. Consequent
" the widow has way Of attaching a
handsome young husband to herself that
might well be envied by the young girl.
How difficult the widow is to manage
while the reckless bachelor is running
away with her is never divulged. OF
course there may be a few widows who
really wish not to take a second husband
and very much resent their capture by a
determined bridegroom. But these are
very few indeed. Generally the capture
is very much like a simple elopement
But the widow is always forgiven by the
community on the ground that it has not
been her thought, and her new husband is
regarded as a brave and dashing fellow.
The announcement OF the marriage is gen
orally made at a banquet.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

J tween 100000 and S15O,OOO is expended
by the Metropolitan Opera House corpor-
alton. The remainder does not represent
all of the expenditure for music at places
of a semi-theatrical character
The head and centre of those who earn
their bread through music is the Musical
Mutual Protective Union, or Local 80
of the American Federation of Labor To
this body belonged 5,1S7 musicians at last
listing Outside of the union it is esti-
mated there are in New York 1900
"floaters." The pay of musicians ranges
on an average from So to S15 a day or a
night. as the case may be. There are
members Of the union who are virtuOsOs
earning hundreds and thousands a per
formance. At the headquarters the i'm
possibility of computation of what New
York as a people pays for music was
pointed out, in that the ratio between
the employed and unemployed varied so
constantly there was nothing positive on
which to base an estimate. The union is
one of the strongest opponents of union
ism among the American trades, profes-
sions or callings. The lines are finely
drawn and they ''stick for the price"
Private music tutors there are by the
thousands Their aggregate salaries it
would be impossible even to guess at
This is the reason why musicians say that
the estimate of what New York pays for
music. all told. may run up to $10O00,-
OOO-and again may not. This large sum
takes in all forms of music for which
money is paid by the New Yorker, in.
GLIDING the graphophone. Conservaively
s.. 100000 might be set as the expenditure.
A musical innovation for the munich
paIity Will be the giving of grand opera
in the parks of New York. which is be-
ing planned by Recreation Superintend-
ent W. J. Lee. In connection with this
open air singing project goes an acoustic,
mobile stage, so that the voices of the
singers will be bound to carry, and the
paraphernaia may be taken down and
set up handily.
Il would have had grand opera in the
parks last year." said Superintendent.
Lee, chad it not been that an agreement
as to details and necessities could not
be reached in time by the city officials
having to pass upon the plan. I am con
fident we shall have it next year. If!
we do, it is lot too much to say that
New Workers will be able to hear at
Jasper Oval. Thomas jefferson Park, /
Central Park ball ground, Greensboro
Park, Chelsea Park and Hamilton Fish
Park the greatest known singers. There
will be a ballet, too. and the repertoire
will include all of the favOrite standard
operas. They Will be given in both Eng
lish and Italian. A small price may be
charged, but we have every hope that
can be made so that even
this will not be necessary. I can state
almost positively that Caruso himself
would be willing to sing the same as If /.
it were Il benefit concert, if he saw that
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

name of Lawrance, who lived at No. 961
East 13Sth street. By the merest chance
Randolph learned that Lawrence five
years earlier had become acquainted with
Charles Anderson while in the Tombs.
Anderson was one of Wilson's many
aliases. Upon their release from the
Tombs Lawrence and Anderson met fire.
quently. This Randolph learned from the
janitress. for the Lawrences had moved
from the apartment without the Formally
of giving notice. merely walking out with
their few personal belongings and leaving
the keys sticking in the door of the flat.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

ton Park, Stapleton, Westerleigh. Peas
ant Plains, Tottenville and Alaska Park.
Brooklyn and Queens and the Bronx have
separate commissions. They furnish
pleasure to music lovers at the parks in
the same way. The Manhattan and Rich
mond concerts last though June, july,
August and September. Last season they
numbered about 2SS concerts.
The recreation pier at Barrow street,
Fiftieth street and 129th street on the
North River, and at Third street, Market
street, Twenty-fourth and 10Th streets,
East River, and at Metropolitan avenue,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

! Mrs. Lawrence was later located by the
detective, who also found that her hus-
band had left the city. she at the time
officiating IS housekeeper for two men
named Fox and Walsh.
Mrs. Lawrence said Anderson had come
to her flat in East 13Sth street a few days
after the Tombs escape. He was into1i-
Gated. she said, and slept on a couch in
her dining room from the early afternoon
until nearly midnight. He told her about
his flight from the Tombs and added that
he had given a boy a dollar for the cap
he appropriated as he dropped from the
wall into the street. He had long, heavy
jimmy, a revolver of heavy caIibre. a fine
gold watch, pocket flashlight and $50 in
cash. He hal been to Boston. he said,
turned trick" there and returned to
New York. He told her he had arranged
to ''pun off a fat job" in the city that
night and still another the next night at
one of the beaches. He expected the
latter robbery would net him $500 and
that it necessitated blackjacking a man
whom he described as "a giant" He
showed Mrs. Lawrence a pair of gold
cuff links decorated with a jewelled skull
and cross bones. These. he said. were
his mascots, for he always cleaned up"
handsomely when he wore them.
Randolph found another family. friends
of the Lawrences and of Anderson, who
Icorroborated all Mrs. Lawrence had said
It was also learned that Anderson had
been previously arrested in New Jersey.
where he was known as the Marble
head Burglar" He gave the name of an
old friend. Fox, at the time of. this arrest
Wilson's. or Anderson's. description.
as well as his finger prints. had been
sent broadcast through the United States.
Canada and Europe. This precautiOn soon
bore fruit. From England we learned he
had operated there and had also served a
prison term. Little by little we traced his
record until we learned his history from
his early boyhoOd in San Francisco
through all his wanderings and to the
various positions he had filled in New
York. The more we learned about him
the more anxious we were to recapture
him
We got a clew which led me to send a
man to Atlantic City and Philadelphia
We'll. to be brief. that cIew was reliable,
for just three months after his escape
f. ~, the Tombs he was arrested as he
stepped from train in Philadelphia
While in Atlantic City Wilson lived ike
a prince at a beach front hotel There
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

YOrk's public schools should not be able
to read music fluently when their public
school days are finished. We are now
teaching so that this is plainly within the
accomplishment of all l have found this
Out-and you may emphasize it as strong
" as you wish and it will not be too
strong wherever you find a public school
showing a high percentage in music you
Will find that same school showing a high
percentage of efficiency in other studies.
1 have never known it to fail There is
that about the close study of music that
requires a kind and depth of thought
which is equally efficacious in the mas
terry Of all other studies. As for what
New York schools are achieving under
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

They bear the brunt of the imparting Of
the rudiments of a musical education be-
cause they have to take up the raw
scholar. We produce excellent results
when you consider we are appOrtioned
only sixty minutes for music tuition per
week and that the cost of tuition per
pupil is about eleven cents a year. or
about fifteen cents per pupil per year,
counting music books. For instruction
alone in elementary schools the cost is
$4,000. There is no other city that does
as much on So little 1t is money well ex-
pended"
1t is estimated that the theatres of
New York spend between 100000 and
S350,OCO a year for music OF this he
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

handsome Clermont avenue apartment
i Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor we're asleep il
their bedroom. at the rear Of their hand
Isomely furnished apartment, when little
lafser four o'clock Mrs. Taylor was startled
-iby the sound = some one moving stealthily
ia. the room. In the half light she saw
the dim figure O. a man bending over the
dresser.
cIrs. Taylors stifled scream awoke hei
husband and brought the intruder to the
bedside with a bound. He levelled a long
revolver and ordered them not to make a
whisper on pain of their lives.
As the intruder gathered up his loot
Mrs. Taylor pleaded
q wish you would not take the wedding
ring"
ooh, we'll" said the burglar, q under
stand. Permit me to make you a present
of the ring"
As the polite burglar vanished the
screams Of the Taylors from a front win
dow attracted a policeman. who, seeing a
man running in the opposite direction,
gave chase and Wilson was captured.
There was no photograph to identify the
prisoner BY. but after taking his finger
prints We sent them broadcast in the hope
that his record would come to US from
other sources. He was locked up in the
Tombs and we bided our time. hoping be
fore he came to trial in the Taylor case
we would be able to fasten other similar
crimes upon him.
Five days after Wilson, Wilson. Will
Jams or Anderson, whichever name one
prefers to call him, since he had hosts of
friends and victims under each. was locked
in the Tombs, New York's most spectacular.
prison escape was effected Soon after
the supper hour and when the noses of the
6SS prisoners were being counted rrepara-
tory to locking them M for the night. it
was found that only 6S7 could be account
ed for. One man was missing and after
again checking the list that man was found
to be Wilson, TIE polite burglar. The
prison was searched from cellar to garnet, /
but no trace of the fugitive was to be had.
Two hours and half after the fihst alarm
was given a man was seen to emerge from
1 manhole in the prison yard on the Laf-
lyette street side. Wilson's duties as /
kitchen man in the TOmbs took him regu-I
arly into vault where coal and potatoes
we're stored. This vault is under the an
mex where the Bridge Of Signs terminates
at the southerIy end.
When he emerged he was only a few /
feet away from William Hoolihan. an
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29
Copyright. 1913. by the New York Herald Co.
riglts reEarTad.l
By JOSEPH A. FAUROT.

Copyright 1913 BY the New York Herald Co. Al
rights reserTedl
MAN who can batter and crash bi'
az way to freedom from the Tomb'
Prison. then so ingratiate himself
into the affections Of a young
woman of refinement as to become
suitor for her hand, all the time with the
fxe5 purpose of 'ooting her jewel casket
in mind, is a criminal far above the ordi
nary and one far safer in Sing Sing than
at large George Wilson, sometime;
known as Wilson and under many other
aliases. is such a person. and the police
Of New York city are highly gratified that
through their efforts he Is safely incar-
cerated behind steel bars and stone walls.
Wilson is variously referred to as the
American Raffles" the Gentleman
Burglar or the polite Burglar" Any
one Of these sobriquets is well merited, for
each fits him to a nicely. Suave, polished
and exceptionally good looking, Wilson,
or Wilson, found it so easy to effect an en-
tree into any. circle of society he elected
that his thefts ranged all the way from
petty larceny to burglary in the first de-
gree, and, in police parlance. he would steal
anything that would net him nickel.
Once more. I am gratified to say, scien-
tific police methods-finger prints to be
exact-made it possible to trap Wilson.
It led to his Incarceration in the Tombs
prior to his sensational escape and it
again brought about his capture in PhiIa-
delphia after his escapade in Atlantic City,
where he robbed the young woman to
whom he had been paying ardent court
For many months the Detective Bureau
was harassed by a series of burglaries
throughout the city. While these robberies
were perperated in widely separated sec
tons Of the four boroughs of New York,
We SOyu dLAAftu dL Lue CUuClustou iudL one
master mind evolved and made possible the
execution Of each. In every instance where
the victims Of these robberies came in
sctual contact with the robber they later
described him as a man of polish and re-
finement and with the manner Of a Ches-
terrified. He was compelled to relieve
them of their valuables. he always ex-
planned, but said explanation was made
with such charm and grace that many Of
his victims afterward declared they really
felt that he was comforting a favor upCn
them by marking them for his plucking.
One Of the most striking cases Of this
sort has to do with the robbery Of Ne .
and Mrs. Frederick L. Taylor, in their
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

Brooklyn, were all thronged last summer
on band nights. 1t is estimated that ten
thousand attended every concert ut the
Twenty-fourth street pier and fully five
thousand at the 10th street pier. Other
nights when there was no concert no
matter how hot the weather the attend
ance was cut seventy-five to eighty per
cent
DR.. Frank r. Rix, who has charge of
the music in the elementary schools and
who advises as to the routine and meth
DDS in high schools, IS enthusiastic as to
the character formative influence of
musical instruction
There is no reason at all why the hun
dreds of thousands of pupils in New
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29
NEXT WEEK

will begin a series of absorbing stories on
unsolved mysteries. The first article of
the series will dwell upon the life of Rene
Gautier. a Confederate spy. who operated
during the Rebellion.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

/ the present system Of musical education,
I wish you could have been at School No
IA not long ago. A piece of music in
three parts was placed before the pupils
and without the slightest hesitation they
read it perfectly. There are fifty-three
music. teachers in the elementary schools.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

many thousand New YOrkers would re-
ceive pleasure through listening to him
l. the open air We came near to pro
ducing grand opera last season. I feel
sure Wen accomplish it next year"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-29

city, and that was enough for US. Our
first clew came, strangely enough. through
another case. Detective Randolph had
been assigned to investigate a man of the
Arizona republican., 1913-10-03

pr and Mrs. J. B Hill have returned from a months visit in California, most of which time was spent in Huntington Beach. The Hills brought a little boy home with them.
 Clayton Brooks returned to Glendale today after six weeks spent on the coast He will resume his old position at the office of the Southwestern Su- gar & Land company.
 V. Summers has been showing some exceptionally fine heads of milo maize around town Summers says he has about thirty acres to match these samples on his place north of Glendale.
 Registered at the Hotel GlenWood are: J L. Jones, c. D. Rogers, c. C. Jacobs, Loren Guthrie, Dean Marley, Margaret Deitrich, Kada Clark, Dale Devereaux, J. w. Graham.
 MT and Mrs. w. w. Wilson are spending a few days with MT. and Mrs. A. w Bennett.
 The Crystal Theater will have on October 10th, week from Friday. the great motion picture From the Man ger to the Cross" Don't miss it.
Arizona republican., 1913-10-03
GLENDALE

GLENDALE. Ariz-. oct. 2.-ToniGht the Crystal Thee CT is show .Er 8 cleN CT vaudeville stunt from the Coliseum at Phoenix. The act is a musical one Several popular and catchy songs and a clever little comedy are promised. On Saturday night the Crystal manage ment has secured "Lekc" whose right handle is Dan Hosmer and his wife who have been showing in Phoenix for several weeks at the Hart Theater with great success. In addition to the vau- devilIe each night four good reels of motion pictures will be shown.
 Y. F. Messinger has sold two more lots in North Park addition to Geo. Walters. This makes seven lots MT. Walters owns in this popular addition now.
 The firm of Mugg & Choenour have leased the R. w. Patterson , acres west of town to man by the name of Lewis from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mr. Lewis expects to make Glendale his home.
 Geo. F. HarpoIe of Manchester Tenn. has come to Glendale and leased the room now occupied by the Glendale News. MT. Harpole will install d watch and jeWelry repair shop at present, md later will add stock of jeWclry.