Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-12-05

! elected. A month later the general
manager received another letter from
Lima stating that the writer did not
know if his letter had been of any
use but that he was out of work and
he wished to get temporary job in
help him to do so? The manager
telegraphed him to come at once and
gave him job in his own office. That
young man informed Rathom of all
the propaganda going out and in or
der to get into a guarded room gun
fight was staged in the lobby and
during the excitement this young
man entered the room when the Sc
cret service men rushed out, got what
he wanted and started for Provi
dence.
THE ZIMMERMAN LETTER.
When people read of the intercept
ton of the Zimmerman letter on the
border everyone felt how wonderful
had been the work of the United
States secret service. This letter
went back two years to the time
when Huerta, the former president of
Mexico, was in Europe.
Captain Boy-ed conceived the idea
that if he could get Mexico and the
United States embroiled in fight,
the Americans would keep their eyes
on the border instead of on the other
side. Huerta was to be put back as
president and be paid money to bring
about the war. Rathom decided to
learn exactly what was going on.
Bernstorff detailed Boy-ed to go to
New York to interview Huerta, with
the idea of getting all details fixed
up and having Huerta to go to Next
co and Boy-ed to return to Washing
ton. The little secretary" being
very popular with Boy-ed was select
ed to go to New York and arrange
the conference. He went and ar
ranged the conference rooms in the
Manhattan hotel as no other confer
ence rooms had ever been arranged
before. A Providence Journal re-
porter informed Huerta that Boy-ed
would receive him and took him to
the Manhattan hotel where they were
received by the secretary. Boyed and
Huerta talked till one the next morn
ing, and at eight o'clock the entire
transcript of that conversation was
laid on President Wilson's desk. The
small telephone on the table between
Boy-ed and Huerta was a photograph
placed there by the secretary, and in
the next room stenOgraphers took
down every word. One hour after
the president received that message
Bernstorff knew it.
PROOF FROM DR.. ALBERT.
When DR.. Albert came to New
York as the accredited fiscal repre-
sentative of Germany in 1915, Rath-
ON suspected why he was there but
wanted to find out. Albert register
ed at the Ritz and wrote to Bern
storff informing him of his arrival
and saying he awaited his pleasure.
The letter arrived in Washington on
Saturday morning and under the En-
bassy rules should not have been
opened that day. The Secretary"
him in New York and Jumped the
train to New York with the letter in
his pocket. They decided to play on
Dr.. Albert's mind in manner it was
never played on before, to place him
in defensive, rather than in an of
fensive position. They sent a Jour
nal reporter who spoke perfect Ger
man to the Ritz with instructions to
make him prove he was DR.. Albert.
Albert was SO much impressed that he
opened up to the reporter and in
formed him that he had come to
America as the accredited represent
ative of the foreign office in Berlin,
that he had credit with him of sew
en- million dollars, that he had thirty
million dollars coming afterwards,
and that before he got through he
would spread such propaganda
Americans would be in a most pas
sive attitude towards German fright
fulness. He told the young man
everything that was going on in Ber-
lin, showed him his credentials, and
brought out two or three of his suite
to swear he was DR.. Albert. The |
young man went back with the let
ter and the secretary returned to
Washington. When Bernstorff ar
rived at his office on Monday he
found the letter on his desk. He
opened it, telephoned to Albert to |
come right over to Washington, and
when Albert arrived he compliment |
ed the ambassador on having such a
bright young man to receive him.
Bernstorff replied he sent no one to !
meet him. Bernstorff fired two sec
retaries but fired the wrong one.
BUILDINGS BURN.
On a certain day in 1915 Rathom
went to the department Of justice and !
said that the Parliament buildings at |
Ottawa, Canada, were going to be
burned on a certain date. He went
to the United States district attorney
in New York and told him the same
thing. That plot to blow up the par
lament buildings was Matched in the
German embassy and the emissaries
from the German embassy went up
there and did it. Rathom knew be-
fore this thing took place that all the
fire extinguishers in the Houses of !
Parliament had been taken from the /
building and filled with gasoline, and
when the fire started there was moth
ing inside the building but gasoline
to burn. Only one man who got
hold of fire extinguisher was fire
man and he was incinerated. Three
weeks to the day Rathom told when