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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
A New Plaza de Toros

FROM the New York Sun.
II Is evident that Mr.. Guy Lowells cir
cular courthouse for New York city is
going to be sn acquired taste. The aste
when finally acquired. may be very salts
factory and much to the credit of Mr.
LowelPs audacity of initiative. Let us
hope SO, and await results In patience
Perhaps the experiment may turn out
better III the course of the ages than
Monsieur Poeaert's stupendous palace or
justice in Brussels.
Revertng 70 the first principles OF ar
chitectura design there is no reason In
the nature OF things, barring the matter
OF economy OF space in the compact ar
rangement OF urban structures. why the
prevailing foshiop should be quadrangle
lar. 1t is even possible 10 conceive .
courthouse shaped like an Interrogation
mark.
What concerns us most, however, IA the
incaiculable appointment that is SIRE
to overcome man at our visitors from
the dberian peninsula. We can irnaS:ne
the light of arlen' expectation that wiil
shine In the,. eyes when they first be-
hold In the New York skyline tho fan,i-
lar cylinder. "San.issima Maria we
can hear theta exc,a.uinz. 'her- = a
metropolis woi my OF i:s famel" But II
will pain us tc see the est.fnsbls sfclana-
dos rushing pas. the Sun 1.diding towsrd
Centre street, pausing only to Inquire of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

father is kicking him around the room,
| should be looking for a job Just as
soon as the show was over The same
thing If ! began the quick march be-
fore the army moved
Il have heard Paderewski and Leon
ard Berwick and a lot more but they
would be in pickle If they were set
down to Illustrate a wild west drama,
a French bank robbery. pelicans feed :
ing their young, and three comic scenes
all in half an hour. No music. too. /
have got to keep 1t all in my head and
vlmp 1T out when the composers STUFF
dries up before the film is done. \
concert at Queens Hall is child's play
10 It,"
manager at another picture thea :
tre agreed that art was required, but
said he very seldom got 1t. One of
my pianists thought Sweet Dreamland
Faces "A suitable tune to go with a bad
attack of delirium and hammered out
Tverybody's Doing IT while the red
Indians were tying up the beautiful
raleface maiden to be burnt at the
stake. For 80 shllings a week a man
expects better sense than that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
New Field for the Pianist
From London Mail.

From London Mail.
One of the features of the interna-
tional xinematograph exhibition is to
be contest among pianists-not con-
test of endurance but contest of skill
Each competitor will sit before a film
which he has never seen before and
will have to play appropriate music.
That is where the art of tho moving
picture show pianist comes in.
I'VE have got to keep the spectators
in the right frame of mind" said one.
'If we started playing riitchy-koo
during pathetic death scene or
dreamy waltz while the hero and the
Villain are graphing on the edge of
precipice. the show would be ruined.
livery picture must have its accom-
panment just right.
And every note must be dropped in
pat on the moment. If | were to de-
lay the twiddly bit | throw in when
the young man kisses his sweetheart
Until the next second when the girls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

house, among them Mrs. Clara Lewis.
Becks' Store, KY, who gave 1t to her
baby, Elsie, while teething, and says:
1T is the best medicine in the world
for the stomach and bowels" She
writes that she keeps it in the house
for every member of the family, takes
1t herself and that her mother recovered
her health and gained in flesh by using
Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin
, If no member of your family has ever
used Syrup Pepsin and you would like
to make a personal trial of it before
buying it in the regular way of a drug
gist, send your address, postal will
do-7to w. B. Caldwell. Az Washington
St. Monticello, H.. and a free sample
bottle will be mailed you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
An Epigram on Hernldrv

From the Chicago Record-lierala
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. IN the smoking
room of La France listened with smllo
to mllionairc's lengthy description of
his ancestors
On the milliouaire's departure sIr Van
derbiit, whose Knowledge of American
heraldry IS extensive. was asked 4 the
mans claim was good. TO tiis Mr. Ven-
derbilt episrammstically replied
"In family. as in other trees. you'll Ard
that the smallest twigs rustic the Loud
est"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04
Why Endure Sore Feet
Here is Positive Easy Cure

'rne following Is said to be the
sprest ana qu1cfyesa 1l yan, ii,,ss enno Known to
solve Two tab!espoonfuls OF Calocide
eompoiind in q basin of warm water.
soak the feet in this for fully fifteen
Minutes gently rubbing the sore parts"
rhe effect Is really wonderful hll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

this may seem, it has contributed very
largely to the success of the parcel post.
= totally new business has been built up.
The new facilities for exchange have
stimulated and increased exchange
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

Officer Finnegan at the corner at What
time the corrida win begin and q; what
place the bolctin de somhrs may >
bought.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

sUTrHEsH SOtS IHhtantIy. Inc
feet feel delightful. Corns
and ca Houses can be peeled
right off. 1T gives Immediate
relief for sore bunions,
$ weaty, smelly and aching !
feet A twenty-five cent |;
hox OF Calccide is said to be
sufficient to cure the worst
feet. II works through the /
pores and removes the cause
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-04

Of the trouble. Don't waAte time on
uncertain remedies Any druggist has
f,alocide compound in stock or he ca n
set Il IN a few hours from his whole
SAFE hoUss,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-29
SCORES SUGAR
MANIPULATION

Il " lEDSNsA~o
Hon. Gilbert N Haugen, repre-
sentative from Iowa, in a telling
speech in the house on May 2, up
holding the tariff on sugar, said in
Epart:
1T occurred to me that the fact
that Uncle Sam has been paying an
nually about hundred million dol
lars for sugar produced in other
countries, an amount equal in value
| TO the total output of all ou fgold
and silver mines, and the fact that
sugar can, by a proper protection,
cultivation and encouragement, be
produced at home with benefit to the
| farmer. thereby giving profitable en-
ployment to capital and hundreds of
thousands of people, and will unit
mately, if not Immediately, furnish
our 100000 consumers sugar cheap
Fer than now, and certainly cheaper
than if that great industry is wiped
off from the map, thereby giving the
Sugar Trust monopoly on sugar,
and thus placing the consumers at
the mercy of the Sugar Trust, whose
representatives urgent request has
been so generously needed in this re-
spect. AS to proof as to that, re-
fer you to the testimony given be-
fore your own select and excellent
committee, the Hardwick special
committee on the investigation of the
American Sugar Refining Co. and
others, testimony given by experts
employed and witnesses summoned
and examined by your own commit
tee, as is, for instance, found in SEN
ate document No. 37S. sixty-second
congress, second session, A Brief
Digest of Testimony Embodied in the
Hearings Held Before the Hardwick
Special Committee. Its contents,
summed up, are as follows:
Chapter Shows that the re-
finers of foreign raw sugar are unit
in desiring the duty on foreign raw
sugar reduced or removed.
Chapter 2.-Shows that the re-
finers are striving to have the duty
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prices while the home product is on
the market.
Chapter 3.-Shows that the al
legged committee OF wholesale
grocers" is Spreckels, the New York
sugar refiner, who uses the grocers
as cloak to conceal his identity.
Chapter 4.-Shows that when In
September, 1911, the sugar refiners
marked the price Of imported sugar
up to ~ cents per pound domestic
sugar was not on the market.
Chapter 5.-Shows that when do
nestle sugar came onto the market,
in October, it was that and that alone
which brought t1e refiners' price
down to Gil cents in November and
$50 cents in December.
"Chapter 6.-Shows that the most
effective manner in which to lower
the price of sugar permanently is to
increase the home production"
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hama Ike Komna la koke ka hooia aku ka Aha
Hookolokolo Kiekie ka mooelo hama lawelawea Ia
hoke maoko ola paapaa hooa ka waiwai kImu koiia
mai ka Ahahui, ka waiwa kunu koiia mai ka kua
ka waiwai kumu hooholoia ke Komisina. + hoopi
pu mai hoi palapaa hooa la paapala apau
pcpa Ike apau maluna oaa kikulu al Ike Komsna
ka olelo ooolo, Ike kope oeo hoohoo Ia ka oaa
mai kekali hoohalaala pea hki no ka Aha Hoo
kolokolo Kekie, kona aoao clawe ole ko aku mau
ike hon e lawea mai kela anne keia
Iloko ma mahina como mahope mai 0 ka hoohooia
Ike kmu kla like me ia oeoa ae le, ukiia mai no ia
mea ka Ahahui
PArKU A. Apono ana. f no kea Kanawa
lilo kanawa mai mahope aku ka la kona aponoa ana
Ike Kaaina Ike Teritore Hawaii nalao Ike apono
a ka Ahaolelo Lahui Amerika Ifuipuia.
Apmoia kcia la 80 Apera 4. D. 1913.
WAITER F. FREAR,
Kiaaina o Ike Teritore Hawaii.
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"Pa. what's political knavery?"
What the other sides doing my son."
She-I don't care much for canoe
ing. He-Why not? Because you
have to sit tandem all the time.
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reduced on foreign raw sugar in order
that they may destroy the increasing
competition of the home ministry,
which already forces them to lower
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BY AUTHORITY
HOLIDAY NOTICE.

Friday, May 80, 1913, having been
set apart and established by law as
a Territorial holiday. all Territorial
offices will be closed on that day.
BY order of the Governor:
E. A. MOTT-SMITH,
Secretary of Hawaii.
Honolulu, Hawaii. May q, 1913.
5559-lt.
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WAITER F. FREAR,
Kiaaina o Ike Teritore o Hawaii.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

been pushed up against the east side
o. it, entirely out OF the way.
"Of course there was no likelihood
Of wanting to use the money on the
trucks or in the pigeOnhOles back
Of them There were plenty of other
bags that could be readily got at for
NAMED stationary until the final ac-
counting, and. IL all, some three
million dollars accumulated on them.
IN counting over the bags, keeping
the amount on the trucks separate
from the bags in the pigeOnhOles, the
men who did the work found that the
three million was intact Some of the
men who helped to carry out the gold
remembered, however. six vacant holes
near the floor, behind the place where
the trucks generally stood. I was
now getting closer and closer to the
truth
satisfied myself thoroughly that
it was not even possible to bring the
money out into the cashiers office in
the daytime then hide it until dark.
Every afternoon, before the doors
We're closed, the cashier and the chief
clerk counted every dollar. and, in the
presence of the cashier, every day the
o. K Of the chief clerk was placed
Chance to Steal $4,000.
'I went out and took a turn or
two up and down the street; then
point blank i asked myself. If / had
access to this mint at night from the
time of the chief clerks o. h, and at
ter the mint is closed to midnight,
what possible chance would I have to
steal thirty thousand dOllars2"
The more I thought of it, the clear
er it became. until finally I put the
case alphabetically this way I'm or
der to do that it is necessary TO
have entree TO this mint al night un-
der proper preteXt, to have entree to
the cashiers office al night under
proper preteNt, to be able to carry a
valiSe or suit case in and out of the
mint at night under proper preteXt.
If 7 had this entree I could then go
ahead. It would then be necessary
to manipulate the time-lOck in such
a way as to render it imperative.
bination of the vault
"If that were all true, then ] could
come into the cahier's office at 4:S0
o. H. when the clerks had all gone.
At that minute the Waterman on that
floor. who IS as regular as clock
work. has lighted the lights in the
cashiers office and has left on his
rounds not to return for twenty
eight minutes That would give me a
chance to open the vault
Traces Out the Thiefs Course.
I then sauntered into the mint and
traced out the hypothetical course. |
Some one. continued to reason, came |
in at half-past four. opened the vault |
took out one or two Sacks-never I
more for they weighed nearly thirty
pounds-and carried them out Then /
he hid them in a boX-cOunter in the /
cashiers office under some empty 1
coin sacks.
Instead of going out to the main I
corridor by the natural way he must
have gone on through the weighing i
room to the receiving room In Ibis 1
way he would be out of sight Of the /
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

by placing everybody who was in a
position to know anything about the
crime under suspicion, and then, by
what is known as the process of elm
inatiOn," arriving at the possible sUs-
poets.
Let US say that the superintendent
OF the mint was Mr.. AtchisOn. .Atchi-
son enjoyed the distinction Of being
the ablest man who had ever held the
position anywhere in the country.
The chief clerk-let US call him Mr..
Braden-WaS also a man of high char
acter and standing in the community.
He had come to the mint on the rec
OmmendatiOn of some Of the most in
nUential men in that section of the
Mr.. Cotton, the cashier. also bore a
reputation for. the highest integrity.
In fact, all three, Atchison, Braden and
Cotton, as well as the other 200 en-
ployes, seemed impeccable-
Peculiar Condolences
And yet, when the director OF the
mint from Washington had been pres
ent for the government IN its usual
settlement with the various mints IN
the country, he had found that this
particular branch mint showed a short
age of $50, 600
More than that, Investigation had
disclosed the fact that the shortage
was in the vault of the cashier. 1t
was COltOns vault alone that had been
found to be short.
There was a time lock on the vault
ton except Cotton The only copy OF
it was in a sealed envelope. and that
was in the custody OF AtchisOn, to be
used only in case of accident or the
sudden death of the cashier There
was no evidence to show whether or
not the copy OF the combination sealed
in the envelope had ever been tempered
with.
There was another peculiar cOinci-
dence in the situation, too. For in
stance, on the day the shortage was
discovered. IL had happened. as it so
often happens in such cases, that Col
ton had been i'll, very suddenly taken
with a bad case Of tOnsilitis. Thus 1t
present when the shortage was dis
covered But the superintendent and
the chief clerk had been there
Architecture Solves Mystery.
It was the general lay out of the in
terror of the mint that the more
DOndered over ii, proved to play q.
large part in the solution of the crime.
Entering the front door. the visitor
looked down a wide corridor before
him, crossed at right angles at the end
by transverse corridor running the
width of the building from right to
left Directly before him, at the far
end of the main corridor, was the door
of the cashiers office, the office being
at the back Of the building and eE-
tending from the center to the right
wing, along the far side of the trans
verse cOrrlOOr- 1t was IN this right
" ing. at the back, that the cashiers
vault Vhich had been rifled was 10
Gated
To the right OF the main corridor as
one entered. in the front of the build
ing, and consequently lying opposite
the cashiers office along the trans
verse corridor, was the numiSmatiSts
room, where coins and medals were
kept IN museum To the left, as one
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

entered this main corridor, was the
office of the chief clerk Braden, with
a door leading into the main corridor,
as well as another leading into the
transverse corridor. This office eN-
tended from the front of the building
to the transverse corridor. Next to and
communicating with 1t was the office
of the superintendent Of the mint in
the very left hand front corner Of the
building, opening into the long trans
verse corridor.
Opposite these two offices. which oc-
cupied the entire front of this wing OF
the mint, and ranged along the other
side of the transverse corridor, was the
receiving room at the extreme end,
opposite the superintendent office:
the weighing room, opposite the chief
clerks office; and then the cashiers
oeparl menI e1lenolnS thFOuSn tne
other half Of the back Of the building.
All three OF these departments, the
cashiers, the weighing, and che receiV-
ing, communicated with one another
Burns Makes Discovery.
Ny first and most natural query had
been: Was 1t possible to manipulate
the books? That proved to be easy to
settle, in spite of the intricate system.
And II was settled quickly an the neg
alive. No, the books were perfect
According to COltOn's own accounts,
there was a 100000 shortage
] quickly came to the conclusion
that il was absolutely impossible for
any one TO have taken the money in
business hours during the day. The
next question was If the money had
not been taken during the day, how
was 1t possible 20 manipulate the time
lock after the cashiers vault had once
been closed?
7 then tackled the time lock on the
cashiers vault and soon discovered
that I was on the right trail Some
one had filed the dog locking device
so that 1t could be operated by one
who knew the combination, hidden in
CCltOn's mind and sealed in the super
intendents envelope 1t made no diff
ference whether the time lock was SET
or not It was out of business. When
lock the combination. No one ever
discovered it, for no one ever tried
to open 1t out Of hours, except the
thief
The time lock was taken to a jewel
ct. and later a government expert was
summoned from Washington. The eX-
pert and 7 found that the thief had
bent a little arm in the time lock in
such a way that it did not strike the
proper part to lock the tumblers- The
arm had been bent with the idea OF
rendering the time lock imperative,
so that the thief might return at night,
work the combination. and so get into
the vault But he had cracked the
nickel had found that filing the dog
locking device was sufficient, and had
bent the arm back again.
Vault Gives Up secret.
Next devoted my attention to the
vault itself found that al this time
and for several months il had been con-
gcsted with money! All the stationary
p5geonhOles or receptacles for the
scaled bags, each compartment holding
bag of gold with $4,000 i'm it. were
full Therefore, in order to put more
money into the vault, two trucks had
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

sacks-and then later the two OF
them divide up?'
L picked that to pieces. too. until
even Braden had to admit the folly o.
COltOn's dreaming Of such a thing.
Now, why didn't you discover the
shortage before2" I asked
The chief clerk shrugged his shOul-
ders- I took it for granted that they
were all there he answered weakly.
Right here I stuck a pin The
failure to look back Of the trucks
each day showed cOnclusively one Of
two things either some one was out
rageOusly derelict, or he purpOsely
avoided finding the abstraction of the
bags
Il didn't think II was necessary to
look behind there reiterated Bra
den more strongly Il trusted Cotton
An Important Clue.
I went to the men who. covering
the period from the previous settle
ment TO the discovery of the short
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

Waterman who was ALWAYS ar rbe
main door in the main corridor. look
ing right down to the cashiers Of
flee In the receiving room ne Tvo11Id
Inen nave to climb a counter. and
could leave by a door opening into
the transverse corridor.
Directly across from this door on
~ ten rect away, was the office of
the superintendent. This office had =
door opening into the office OF the
chlet clerk. II the gold were hid
uen. ~ might be done up in some
sort or package and carried out that
night or the following day Proba-
bly, the thief returned at saw. eleven
o'clock at night when there was a
shIIt OF Watchmen- He must come
IN. go TO his office on a plausible pre-
text get the two sacks hidden in
the cashiers office. and in that FASH
ion make his getaway.
ms nne OF reasoning told me much.
out IL did not catch any crimina Is
because. as you see, the route taken
by the thief involved the offices Of
Atchlson. Brenden and Cotton, al
Burns Takes ADVANTAGE of an Offer
Of Aid.
was now ready to come out Of
ton
7 have never met you. Mr.. Burns
sald Braden one day soon afterWard-
out think I ought to introduce
Deen detailed on this case"
Thank you. Braden.7 returned
II be glad to call on you later"
It wasn't long before I decided 20
take advantage Of the chief clerks
considerable offer.
You're the best posted man in this
mint on the conduct Of the business
and things in general" wheedled 10
start with NOW, Braden, as man TO
man, give me the benefit for a mo-
ment Of your intimate knowledge.
leu me. how do you yourself think
1t in reason possible for any person to
steal that money! OF course there
must be some person whom YOU slls-
Dect Who is it,
For the first time Braden was re-
luctant to speak.
Name Whispered to Burns.
Braden hesitated, but it was evt-
dent that name was all put burst
ing from his lips I pressed him.
Finally, with reluctance, he whispered
the name of the cashier.
1es-Colton- unused There /
was nobody in a position to do it ex-
cept the cashier. But what puzzles
me is how he could manage it.
Wen, I've figured out several ways.
For instance. the cashier, when he is 4
filling truck in the vault with his I
s1stants-yOu know, he is never /
alone could surreptitiOusly miscount /
the sacks when the other fellow was I
off guard and place a couple of eN-
ira bags on the truck. Then. as il /
was going through the office, he might /
them, and later get off with them" I
But there are too many clerks I
around" I objected
We'll" pursued Braden. why
couldn't he have the other man stand I
in with him-put on, say. two extra
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

age. had been on watch I asked
them if they had ever seen any one
there after the mint was closed
Some said they never had; others SAID
they had on a few occasions. But all
said that WhOmever they saw never
carried a package. a valise. or a suit
case in or out after the mint was
closed
I took the men one at a time, and
finally found that there was really on
" one whom I knew must have been
the man on duty when the package
or grip. whatever 1t was. was carried
in and out I took this man aside
and told him directly that suspected
him Of being part OF the conspiracy
to loot the mint
The Watchman looked at me blank
w. then a new light. seemed to come
over his face He had forgotten, but
now he actually remembered that an
officer of the mint several months
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05

CBy w. J. Burns.)
66T HIRTY thousand dollar short
age discovered at the mint
Require ablest and best talent
IN the government service"
No bank is so exact no record is
kept so clean, as in the United States
money mills. Every ounce Of metal,
every penny Of coin, must be accounted
for invariably before the cashier Of the
mint can call his days work done
Yet SIX heavy bags Of $4,000 each in
double eagles We're missing
If that could happen with $4,000,
why not with $500, 00O-With $4,000, 00O2
The chief of the secret service hand
ed the telegram to me, and shortly
thereafter I began first my secret in
vestigatiOn"
His .Seeret Investi@atiOn.''
In other words, when I arrived on
the scene, / did not let a soul know
who I was or why I was there until I
had looked the ground over 7 began
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