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New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

from his pocket that NOT sound would il
emit. He puffed and he puffed. but his man
got away And one sunshiny day when he
was sitting there studying and tapping
pencil against his teeth the incident re-
Cured to his mind and he decided there
ought to be some way of keeping lint out
of police whistles. There was. and he
found it. It's being used now not onlv in
New York but by the police of South
American, cities. And the royalties on the
simple little device help keep the lint from
gathering in Faurot's pockets
Then there's a sleeve valve to make anv
motor silent motor. 1t is adaptable TO
automobiles or aeroplanes. 1t is of simple
constructions reduces friction to remark
able degree and is of light weight and cheap
to build. One of the biggest automobile
concerns in the country is making one now
Tor testing purposes. Its inventor is Sc
reney confident that it will meet every test.
That contrivance will bear the name of
Faurot, too. An improved transmitter for
telephones and dictagraphs is another idea
that occurred to this deceptiveL leisurelv
policeman
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And the Stakes He Plays For, in Com.
pany With Villas Teacher,
: Angeles

clercals and anti-churchmen, liberals,
radicals. Felicstas, Maderistas. Villistas
and some who have changed parties fre-
quently. Luis Manuel Rojas, one of Car
ranza's chief legal advisers, was a mem
ber
Americans in close touch with Huetta
say his method Of dissolving Congress
was typical of the safdonie humef Of
the man, He had invited the members
Of Congress 90 dine with him Al the Cafe
Bach and the management Of the eafe
had made elaborate preparations, The
climax came at the end Of a typieaI
Huefta day, Such days began at 1890
a, M, when Huerta, unshayen and un-
buttoned, drove from the Castle of
Chapultepec to the Cafe Chapultepec, at
the foot of the hill on which the Presi-
Dental residence stands. Out would
dash a waiter with a bottle bearing the
magic three stars Thence Huerta would
drive to the Cafe Colon, where his barber
would meet him, and he would breakfast.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
From Sporting Goods
To the Force

1t was good deal of an accident that
taurot IS policeman at all little
more than twenty-three years ago be was
clerk in Spalding's sporting goods house.
he policemen whose post it was on used
70 come into the engine room 10 smoke
faurot stll smokes cigarettes with fhe
afdor OF MS clerking days. II was quite
hstura that he and the policeman should
become we'll aequante Another empleye
OF thH itm, stfappng 1fishmah, often
loihed the smokers ~ the cellar
"fbe copper was always telling him,
laufet said, "iWhY don't you joiH tbs CONS,
young fellow and he kept al ma The same
Wsy Well weighed only 40 pounds in
those days and ! didn't think had =
ehanee' Roosevelt WAS Commissioner then
ana the exams we're pretty stiff. This big
lrlshman decides all of a sudden, though,
that he'll try it and more because |
wouldn't take dare han for any other
reason | went along, too.
"Well, he was turned down and passed
And he wanted the job and | didn't know
whether did not. took it. though. and
I've been twenty-three years in the de-
partment now"
Faurot is one of the few scientific do
tectives among American policemen and he
is among fhe best Of the few. He was ac-
qualnted with the great Bertillon himself
and developed the Bertilon system Of
measurements in the New York Police De-
partment. Later identification bv the
fngerprint system became his hobby. He
studied it in London and Paris and in
stalled it in New York
IT
through the calculated wizardrv of
finger smear identification he has solvod
crimes that would have remained forevor
mysteries had they been committed n,;or
TO 1905 A corpse buried in Tbomnsop
Street cellar, the dingy house above do
serted and the only significant bit Of owl
dence left behind n rusty spade. const;+u.s
the maklngs of fair to middline mvsterv
Finger prints solved X Thew ;dan,isoa
the corpse and imprint on the handle
OF the shovel weeks later identified rho
owner OF the house and the murderer after
he had been killed in d brawl in Cnliforri,
ihen there Is the story Of the fngor nrin.
on the soup ladle brought out by corrosion
a year after a burglar had made 1.-THE
ar IN that little Office fronting on Centre
Market Place reeks OF mystery stories
Tracking and the measurements and No
culiarities of footprints also have ercsr.d
the attention of Faurot; likewise metric
photography, by which a diagram to scs,o
40 "'Aue oi 'he scene OF crime simply by
opening ana closing the shutter of CAM
cru IN ms spare moments during the last
iour years faurot has been writing a book.
~ IS 20 be published III few months. It
's study of police methods the world
over particularly with regard to the trac-
ing and identification of criminals.
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the one which is dearest TO Inspector
Faurot's heart, II is the great jewelry
houses in The Maiden Lane district that
he hopes most to see try the gate with
success. There floor after floor is laden
with priceless treasure of assorted and
matched gems. The deadlne which Byrnes
set ut rulton Street is scoffcd at by thieves
OF THIS generation. The Maiden Lane dis
trict is an allurng prospect.
The safety of valuable museum conec-
''eHs would be increased greatly by use Of
thc cate. Thcfts from museums are of rare
occurrence, but the loss is often irrcpara-
bic when it does occur, and the skilful
th'cf might be able to smash a case, seize
his plundcr and escape in the confusion
caused by the crash. But with the thief
catching gates at work guard could close
every exit at the first suspicion that any
thing was wrong
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Trapped i'm the
pOSf0MCe

Nor are the city despcradoes the
only ones to which the Faurot-Wolfe
gate is applicable. The brotherhood
of yeggs, less skiful and less daring
craftsmen, who ride the brakebeams from
county seat to county seat, stopping off
to ply their trade at the most insignificant
villages, Will have an interest also in this
invention Of two New York policemen
A drill and jimmy, a supply Of "sounv
and dark night make an almost nerfoct
combination for yegg now He ia likeIv
to 70 about his task in carcfree man
neF' even If he doesn't take the risk of
"h'stllng as he works. For it is freouentlv
the case that even when he is discovered
at work in the village postoffice or bank
no ono darcs to give the alarm until the
burglar hns put safe distance between
hlmself and the townsfolk
But put n Faurot- Wolfe gate on the bank
the postofficc the railroad ticket offico
ana It VIII be resourceful ycgr indeed
who makes his getaway with the currency.
postage stamps or railroad tickets. The
contrlvance can be connected with Tho
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the Cafe Sylvan and others, followed h.
an auto ride In the suburbs.
On the evening of October IN /.
strolled into the Cafe Bach and was j.,
mediately ushered to the banquet bsll
"Ail is prepared" said the bowins bs.a
waiter. How careless Of me, snswsrea
the general. II did not invite chs bss,'
ties 70 dinner tonight" In the sssa
time the 2gth Battalion had surrounded
the Chamber ~ Deputies. two blacks
away. arrested the Deputies and tsksn
/ o Of them 10 Beiem Prison,
"fhey must not think ME neglect
fui host" said Huerta "They shall
have their dinner" And he made tbs
cafe proprietor pack the banquet into
baskets and carry it to the prisoners IN
Belem. What had happened to the i'm
prisoned Deputies became known 70
their families and friends only throuob
the nerve of a newspaper reporter Gon.
salo Espinoza, who took a workman.
coat and dinner bucket and talked h.
way past the guard, carrying hastilv
written messages from the Congress-
men.
The grim humor of those davs was
not all upon the side of Huerta. Arch
bishop Mora y Rio, ranking prelate Of
Mexico, accompanied by the Archbishon
of Pueblo, now dead, and the Arch
bishop of Guadalajara, still verv much
alive, sought Huerta to plead with him
to give UP his personal ambitions and
resign for the sake of the country and
to avoid further disorder and b.oodshed
Huerta received them graciously. but
declared that while he had no personal
ambitions, he could not be so unpatriotic
as to abandon his. post when the country
faced such a crisis. He concluded hv
dropping to his knees and asking the
archepiscopal ~~ blessing Archbishop
Mora Rio extended his hand above
Huerta's bald head and pronounced in
Latin the blessing used in consecratine
the candles burned in the cathedral. It
may be freely rendered: ''You, who are
about to burn, bless you Huerta
arose from his knees and bowed his
visitors out with perfect satisfaction.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
The Perils That General Blanauet
Goes TO Face Against
Carranza
By John c. Royle

end Immediately left him and came to
the United States Villa was soundlv
thrashed at Celaya for the first time and
began the slide which bumped him,
6rohe'i IN health and military strength,
ut the bottom Of the bandit elass,
NOW Angeles. according 10 his friends
mere, Is going back 10 "befsilade" Villa
"a eliminate himself rs a political faetof
IN Mekje9, IN other words, he is going
to supplant Villa In command of the
forces opposed to Carran1a in the north,
Any one who has dealt with Nilla knows
now amenabe he is to "persuasion."
Angeles must face not only death in bat
Tie but the possibility of a knife in the
RIBS and dose of loco weed in his food
as we'll The latter was the fate of
Empress Carlotta, wife of Maximilian.
above all he, too, can see, when he
shuts his eyes, the staring muzzles of
the firing squad, either of his friends or
the Carranzistas. Angeles lived in pros
perlty and comfort in New York. He
was trusted inspector of munitions for
the French government during the late
years OF the war He has known the
best social life in European capitals, vet
ne, too, unhesitatingly answered the
call of the game. although few would
sleep soundly in his present bed.
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home of The hank president, the postmss
ter or the station agent, with the alarm
right at the head of his bed
AT sound of the gong the man who is
belhg robbed opens his eyes, yawns
stretches and looks at his watch. He gives
the yeeg few minutes to get we'll inside
the building, telephoning meanwhile to
the neighbors who have shotguns and buck
shot. Then he presses button which
cages the intruder, perhaps so silentIv
that ne is not aware he is a prisoner; pulls
on his breeches and boots grabs his guns
and goes out to join the posse.
All the shotgun company has to do.is to
SIT down and besiege the burglar, Ncure
in the knowledge that he can't subsist
forever on postage stamps When he sur
renders they can direct him to toss that
canister out of the window and then 70
lease him and march him to the ca1anoose
The same features which make the oa+e
a handy thing in Maiden Lane or for tho
metropolitan Museum of Art render il usa-
iui also IN criminal courts, prisons and in
sane asylums. Harry Thaw might still he
IN MatteaWan; Vincent Gaffney might never
have escaped from the Tombs to enoaoe
'HV'''S idtcl III ms spectacular rOOf-tOD
battle with the police in Harlem if the
thief catching gate had been in use.
How did come to think of it? In
spector Faurot repeated. ooh, don't
Know; how does a fellow come to think of
any Of those things? Something of the
KIND had been in my mind for long time,
| couldn't tell you how long You lust sit
and study for a while and an idea hits YOU.
and when you get a chance you work it
out and after while you've got the whole
thing
SO the man who sits tilted back in his
desk chair overlooking that insignificant
byway of Manhattan isn't so inert as he
looks He's Just sitting there studying
and some time idea will hit him Sew
erni have scored bull's-eyes already. In
spector Faurot is an easy mark for them
when his consta abulary duty has been done
once when he needed help in a hurry
and whipped his police whistle TO his lips
nc found the cylinder so stuffed with lint
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sh'sf' One thrusts revolver through
tellef's window and orders the gate in the
grating opened for his aocompliee Tn,
bank force Is transfXed, with hands raised
high in obedience to the threatening re-
Volver. Not n movement is discernible in
that tense second which is to decide the
success Of the robbery
Click!
There is metallic note of fnalitv in that
sudden sound which comes from behind the
robbers backs And on the instant the
brazen clangor of an alarm gong sounds
outside tho windows on both sides Of the
building
The bandit with pistol turns-or
doesn't he?
That sudden alarm brings everything to
locus. The hold-up man gets sudden,
numbing suspicion that he has walked into
a trap.
you can't tell what he'll do" Inspector
Faurot says "Ilc don't know himself un
til he does it. But one things sure. most
men who set out to rob have no intention
of committing murder"
II the robber does swing around if he
loses his grip even for a second his fangs
are drawn For the alarm has no terrors
Tor the bank employees. Probably three
or tour of them have loaded rcvolvers
"ltnIn arms reach At this particular
brooklyn bank the weapons were living in
plain sight on the counter behind the rrat
ing. When the robber returns to his task
ne will be facing firearms
In such case, of course, the button
WORKING the steel gate is in the floor.
There may be two. three or n dozen of
them IN various parts Of the room so that
II man always viii be standing over at
least one Of them. A pressure OF the foo,
and the thing is done. 1t is done without
trcmor of the upraised arms. With such
an appliance bank employees could have
drills similar to the fire drills in foctor,os
which would enable them to deal bv force
OF habit with any emergency that miph,
arise.
But While this is the most spectacular use
70 which the gate might be put, it is not
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tossed Diaz into the discard and made
himself Provisional President and Writ
ual dictator. Banquet, commanding the
29th Battalion, a regiment he had
brought to a high state of efficiency, was
made Huerta's Minister of War.
At that time Banquet arrested
Angeles, who remained steadfast to
Madero but Angeles later was allowed
to go to Europe, whence he returned
later to join Villa In 1914, when Huerta
was forced to flee Mexico Banquet
accompanied him to Spain, but left his
former chief to live in Brooklyn.
In October. 1913, Huerta dissolved the
Mexican Congress, putting 1tO of its
members in prison. Banquet and Felix
bia1. according to Dir. Roberto Gayon,
leader 6f the Uiaz movement In New
York. do not recognize The legality Of
any action of Huefta s hftsf thai sei,
i9f lhal reason General Blauauei signs
himself AS genera Of division inislaf
generalj instead Of field marshal, as the
latter rank WIS conferred on him after
Congress was dissolved,
Neither General Diaz nor General
banquet desires to become Provisional
President OF Mexico, DR.. Gayon enys.
General Diaz, he declares, Carranza hav-
ing been defeated, will call together the
Congress dissolved by Huerta and that
body will select a Provisional President
until proper elections can be held. That
Congress, Diaz asserts, was the last
legally elected body in Mexico, as he de-
nies the legality of the new constitution
OF 1917, under which the present Mex
lean government was constituted.
The old Congress, if ever reconvened,
would represent practically every faction
and shade of political belief in Mexico.
There were men in it now high in the
affairs of the Carranza government
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
A Bid For
An Army

The arrival of General Laneaet IN
Mexico is strong bid for the adhesion
of the former Federal army. On the de-
parture of Huerta from the capital and
the entrance of Carranza, the Federal
army was peacefully dsarmed and mus.
tered out of service Many still are in
private life, and others Joined the Car
rama forces. General Diaz made siren
uous efforts to attract them to his ban.
ner. but while he was successful in some
instances, the glamour of his name was
but a memory to others who had not
felt the power of Porfirio Diaz in the
days when the vigor Of the President
was unimpaired
General Banquet. even bis enemies
admit, held the respect and admiration
of the old Federal army and The thor
ough affection of the 29ih Battalion
which he made the crack corps of
Mexico He has issued proclamation
promising all former Federal officers who
return to him their old rank and speedy
advancement.
Many old opponents have been brought
together ~ The hia5 HianauAf ranks,
blanduef himself fought against Cen
efal Emiliaho Iapaia in Mofeios, in 1911
The Iapata forces now are consolidated
with him under General Caraveo, for.
mery with Carranza.
Representatives of the Carranza gov.
ernment in New \ ork have declared that
the. planning, in this city, Of the entry
OF General Banquet into Mexico con-
stltuted violation of certain sections
OF the espionage act. Banquet's repre-
sentatlves assert with equal ferver that
no violation Of the neutrality of the
United States has taken place or is con-
templated. Meanwhile, some of the
Americans who gained regulations in
former Mexican revolutions, both as
fighting men and gun runners. are dust
ing off their kits and wondering if the
various movements are sufficiently well
backed with men and money to make
them worthy of attention. Federal
agents along the border in whose HANDS
the observation of the neutrality laws
largely rests are looking forward to
busy summer.
The call of the game, although loud
and imperative to some, has fallen on
deaf ears so far as the three former
living Presidents of Mexico are con-
cerned. Pedro Lascurain, who was
President for forty-fve minutes, is en-
gagged in business here and is out o.
politics, it is announced. Lascurain was
Minister of Foreign Relations at the
time of Maderos fall, and automatlcaliy
succeeded TO the Presidency. only TO hand
it over to General Huerta few moments
later.
When Huerta resigned, Francisco Car
bajal succeeded in like manner. He hed
the post from July Is to August ~
1914. He now. is practising law IN
Southern city, and also announces he mas
retired from politics. Francisco de ID
Barra, who was President from the TINS
Portirio Diaz went out until Madero
came in, also has taken no part IN re-
cent movements.
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he Lure of the Game Behind the New Mexican Revo

Adherents of each claim there is no
connection between the Banquet and
Angeles movements.
Execution by firing squad sounds
commonplace enough, but it is a grisly
entertainment as practised in Mexico.
One of the usual methods is staged just
before dawn in that hour when grave
yards yawn." A sleepy squad of ragged
soldiers are kicked out of their blankets
by bored and sleepy segundo captain,
corresponding to our lieutenant. The
prisoner is led out in the darkness and
placed before a limewashed wall Into
that wall four feet from the ground Is
stuck candle and the prisonor is placed
about I 8 inches in front of It. so tht.
his body stands out in silhouette in the
darkness. Sometimes he is blihdfo1AeA.
but usually is free to speak md inans
improve the brief time remaining ~
them by expressing voiubiY their opin
ioh Of The akeeut0hefs,
a favofle trick Of prisoners is TO pin
saefed picture on the breast In the
nope thhi firing at 1t will make deyout
members Of the firing squad thoroughly
uncomfortable Then the segundo cap-
tan draws his sword, adjusts his gorget,
grunts "Presente" 'Fuego!" and the
prisoner says "Good morning" to st.
Peter; the squad goes back to sleep and
the captain strols over to a cafe for his
morning anisada.
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Huerfa's Little
Ways

His Cabinet usually greeted him there
and most of the business of the govern
ment was done in the glass inclosed por
tlco, with numerous walters in attend
ance. Thence he, would drive to the Cafe
Europea, the Cafe Gobo, the Gambrinus,
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What Might
Have Happened

suppose certain Brooklyn bank had had
the Faurot-Wolfe gate on it's doors few
weeks ago. II was drcary rainy after
noon, when the atmosphere in the banking
room was stale, when few dcpositors were
occupying the attention Of the tcllcrs, and
thf clerks and bookkecpers drowscd over
Their ledgcrs. with watchful eyes on tho
clock.
a ta@icab draws up outside. Two men
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
When 1t
All Started

Out Of the "Decena Trajica," the
tragic ten days" in February, 1913,
have sprung all the revolutionary move
ments in Mexico of recent years. At
that time revolt led by Felix Diaz,
nephew of the former President (the
same now in revolt in Vera CRUZ, broke
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
TIME lure Of the game draws them

ME lure Of the game draws them
back. When q revolt is in the
air few who have gatnbed the
his stakes, life and liberty. In Latin
America ean resist the call. "Viva Ia
Revolution" 10 them Is like the rattle of
dice to gambler, Security, comfort
prosperity on the one hand count little
against danger, hardship and uncertain
ty when the lure Of the game is thrown
INTO the balance.
a. 1t has called two men Of interna-
tional reputation from New York to
Mexico within the last few weeks Cen
eral Aurelio Banquet, proceeding
. secretly to an island of the West In
dies, slipped into Mexico under the eyes
of the Carranzista naval and military
forces to lead the armies of General
Felix Diaz. General Diaz, nephew of
the former President of Mexico, has
t-ewaged sporadic warfare against Car
rama for four years, principally in the
State of Vera Cruz, where Banquet
Joined him.
49,. General Felipe Angeles slipped away
from New York to the New Mexico bor-
der, got past the customs guards
through the outposts of General Cas-
tros government forces into the desert
and joined Pancho Villa in the noun
tain fastnesses of Chihuahua.
General Banquet is seventy-one
years old. He has had a field mar
shals baton, highest symbol of mill
tary rank, conferred upon him. He is
in Europe as we'll as in
a. Mexico as a great soldier and has been
~received as an honored guest at for
eign courts. He is comfortably well-to-
do, with wife, son and daughter, to
whom he is devoted, living at 338
Fourth Street, Brooklyn. Yet he an.
swered unhesitatngly the call of the
game.
He knew what he faced, as he showed
by his farewell words to his fellow
: rev evolutionists here. 81 will see you
next in Mexico or in Eternity he said.
They cannot go to Mexico unless he is
successful He had to venture the
Caribbean in motor launch. There is
no commssary department in Mexican
armies. Each man provides his own
sustenance. He will live on tortillas
and jerked beef. The back of mule
will replace the taxicabs he formerly
used Even a strap in a Brooklyn sub
way is more comfortable than a Mexi-
can boxcar in which goats have lived.