The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-11-14
GRAVES ! FAIL TO HIDE DEN|TYs0F
90 SUPPOSED UNKNOWN VICTIMS

New York, Nov. 14.-Not even the
grave Is a. hiding place nowadays.
Under the direction of Detective
commissioner Dougherty the bureau
,or the ldentiacation of the unidenti-
ned dead--which is IL grucsome
name--has reduced us all to a com.
mon denominatOr Of card indexes and
cross references. Broadly speak,
Ing said Sergeant. Grant Williams.
who Is in charge. the only body wa
cannot identify nowadays is that OF
a. Bowery down-and-out-and most
Q them have lost their identity years
before they reach our hands,"
Not one man. in 100 has ever been.
hinge printed or Bcrtilloned. So those
aids to the police are Of little use to
Williams. But he has discovered that
most shoes carry private marks, and
that ready made, suits. no matter how
cheap. have concealed about them
cabalistic numbers through which the
seller a be identified. Williams has
booked the 1000 odd laundry marks
of the greater city, SO That three min
!utes after a bit Of linen has been put
before him he Is phoning the laundry
man for the name of the customer.
Each ieweler has his private mark.
when he repairs a watch he scratches
read without a glass. but Williams
has listed them all. Perhaps 400 i'm
known dead come. into the morgues
each year. 1t Is all a matter of sys-
tenn. Some n knew most OF these
things before. But no M aver
bothered to make Il workaday instru-
ment of the knowledge.
Two hundred thousand dollars is
a lot OF money. With it n can be-
a leading citizen in most towns west
of Tenth avenue. When he returns
from Europe the ship news reporters
will cal. him the we'll known west
ern millionaire. and snap his pretty
daughter in her Paul Poiret. Also.
with 100000 he can buy a parterre
box at the Metropolitan opera house
If the directors will let him. Two
boxes were sold at that figure this
season.
Years ago they called the parterre
the Golden Horse Show, and after the
f1rst-night reporters concluded taking
an inventory of the junk it contained
they devoted a few hasty lines to the.
opera. Few ladies received mention
they were worth n million on the hoof.
The elder Mrs. Astor was h sole ex-
.ception. The reporters r%evercntly re-
ferred to the Aston pearls-capitaliz-
! ing pearls and sheen and ducal dur
ing the reverence-and not until her
sOChIl1 UtO they utoGuNSI LuC l'SollS
were worth about u quarter apiece.
The canny lady had traded on the fact
that whatever glitters is gold, until
the acid is poured.
As the quotations have mounted
from the first price Of $4,000. so has
the number Of box occupants in
creased. j. r. Morgan. Vincent AS
tor, Mrs. Ogden Goelet, w. Is. Wander
bilt and Mrs. !. B. Stanchfteld lone
have boxes all to themselves now
..adays. and Mrs. Stancl,tield Is on her
; first season. Other Vanderbilts and
. Goulds and Bclmonts and Hartman.
and ,Huntingtons and 1sclins. and
some scores of others share boxes for
the scason-somc being such good
little pals that several boxes have as
many as nine PERFORMERS. It's very
much worth while to have even a
.toe-hold on the parterre. The mere
; possession Of, dollars will not hois.
zone into the Horseshoe. One man OF
money is reported to- have offered II
cool quarter of a million. He was
turned down.
! when he sees a dish Of peas" said
"a .Mefronolitarf director. 'ha instinct
fvely reaches for his knife, !.
. Four wears ago the sicilian players
appeared here-and New York turned
lpale and reached for its smelling salts.
TN Those DAYS VIA were sweet and