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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
Soviet Delegates
 Conferring With
 German Officials

Berlin, April 4-(By A. P)-The Russian Soviet delegates to the Genoa conference conferred at length yes terday with German government off cials with the object of arriving at an agreement on a common line of action to be followed at Genoa.
 Despite the current impression that the Russians are in Germany only in an unofficial capacity while on their way to Italy, they are showing a1ac- rity in keeping the official and social appointments made for them.
 Vest erday they were entertained at luncheon by Dr. Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, and among those attending were many German industrial. financial and political leaders as we'll as high government officials
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
Council Forbids
 Auditor To Pay Money To Schools
Matter of Dental Clinic
 Again the Center of Attention Alderman ! Veness Only Member
 of Board Favoring Re-
 tention of Clinic by
 Board of Education.

Passage of a resolution restraining the city auditor from paying out to the Board of Education any part of the s35,2f5 which was appropriated for dental clinic expenses by the Board of Apportionment, and the es- tabHshment of a bipartisan munlcip- al garage commission were the most important matters Of business trans actel by the Common Council last night.
 The Dental Clinic ordinance. which was adopted by a vote of 2S to 1,Pres- tdent Alfred c. Veness being the only alderman to vote against the measure. takes the control of the clinic entire ly out of the hands of the School the department to the Board of Health. AS predicted a short time ago, the Council regarded the $35.- 250 as unappropriatel revenue, and teeth for the ordinance passed a few weeks ago.
 Quickly Adopted.
 Last nights measure was intro tee, and was qu5ckly adopted despite the protests of Alderman Veness. af- ter a hve-n1inute recess for consid- eration had been taken.
 Under the provisions of the reso- lution providing for bipartisan municipal garage commission, May or Atwater is given power to appoint the four members of the board. The COnlIIl1SSIOu VIII COHSlSL or two DeIlO- crats and two Republicans, two mem- bers to be appointed annually on Apr41 1. The mayor is also empow- cred to name a foreman. who shall be an experienced luton obile mechan- ic- The salary for his position will be $1.soo a year. The commission has the power of appointing a. clerk for the garabe and the foreman will hire all operating employees. Monthly reports are to be submitted to the commission, and all purchasing by the garage must be done through the Board of Contract and Supply.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
Judge I4andis'
 Best v acatiOn

Chicago, April 4.-Kenesaw NJ Ian dis, baseball commissioner, was back in Chicago today from what he des- cribed as the best vacation I ever had He has been making a tour of the spring training camps of the ma 5or league baseball teams
 The commissi oner declared that he had never enjoyed pleasures more than during the last few weeks which he spent picking oranges and star baseball players and accommodating coat of tan.
 There is more enthusiasm than ever for baseball Commissioner Ian dis declared
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
NEW CURE FOR BALDNEss

London, April 4.-How baldnees was cured by doses of thyroid gland Is described in the Lancet by Dr. H. W. Barber. 8 famous hospital skin surgeon.
 A Dutch girl who had suffered from almost complete badness for several years was given ten grains of thyroid gland daily for several weeks. As a result hair is now grow ing freely over the whole of her scalp.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04

This novel use for salad came when an oven of a gas stove exploded when Mrs. Garrettson sought to light it,
 Plungtng her face into the salad the woman rubbed 1t over her face According to her physician, the fact that Mrs. Garrettson used the salad for this unusual purpose was all that saved her face from disagreement.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04

Gilbert Hitchcock, Democratic senator, faces bitter contest for reelection as his term draws tc a close. The Nebraska senatorial primaries will be held July 1S. It is believed the Democrats will not put forward any opposition to Hitchcock's nomination. The Re- publicans already have two candi- dates in the field for the c. o. P. nomination. They aye q. B. Howell and A W. Jeffries. both of Omaha. Jeffries is now a representative; Howell is Republican national conn mltteemaE
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
Chase Piano Company
 In Big Combine

NorwaIk. Ohio. April 4-The A. B. Chase Piano Company of NorwaIk has been consolidated with the Emerson Piano Company of Boston and the lindeman and Sons Company of New York in a million dollar concern in corporated under the laws of New York to be known as the United Piano Company. it is announced here
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
REGULAR MEETING TODAY.

The board of governors of the city dispensary will hold it's regular b1- monthly meeting at the office of Dr, W. A. LaField Thursday evening at $ o'clock. Routine business will De considered.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
ANOTHER CHURCH DESTROYED
 BY FIRE IN MONTREAL

Montreal April 4-(By I. W. S.)- The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart was totally destroyed by fire today with &4G0, 900 loss.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
WOMAN SAVES BEAUTY
 BY MASSAGE OF SALAD

Glendale, Cal, April 4.-Salad came into it's own today.
 With a newlyprepared salad, in which there was a generous quantity or oil. Mrs. R. s. Garrettson saved her race from being disfigured by burns
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04

basketball game between the
 earIcau Chain girls and the Bridgeport All-Stars, will be played +ba Industriai Service center on Rarnum avenue. Thursoay night Ancinr wu fellow tha game
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04
Late Dr. Northrup We'll Known Here

Minneapolis Mtnn, Aprll 4.-br- Cyrus R. NortIrup. president eneri- t1is of the University of Minnesota died from heart disease today at the age of Ss years.
 Dr. Northrup was sitting in an easy chairtat his home when he died. except fol Fan attack of indigestion, soon after Iuncf1.s until the fatal sei1- ure ten minutes before the end came
 Dr Northrup is very well known and remembered by the older resi- dents of Bridgeport. having been at one time one of the most pE'ominent lawyers. newspap aperineh anu poli'-- clans in Connecticut.
 Hg was born in Ridseheld on Sept 30. 1884. and while in his youth en- tered Yale University, graduauns with the class of 1857 Two years later he graduated from the Yale
 Attorney Northrup took up the nractice of law in Norwalk until he became clerk of the House of Rep resentatives in 1861 and clerk of the later he was editor of the old New Haven Daily Palladium, and from 1S63 until 1884 he was professor of rhetoric and English literature at
 From 1869 until 1881. he served as ,oilecton. of customs for the port of New Haven. In 1884. he was appoint a5 nreside of the University Of Min nesota and several years ago he was made president emeritus
 nr Norttr1up was one of the first advocates of statewide observance oS Arbor Day in Connecticut, and 1t was largely through his erforts that the legislature of 1888 ordered that . dav he set aside each year by proc 1a 1a,ation of the governor for observ- ance of Arbor Day
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-04

Advertise In The Times
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

water, while a more complex and effec-
tive system of tampering with checks
rushed into the current of business. 1t
brought shocking discrepancies in bank
accounts, CONSERVATION in banks, and a
new game was begun between the law
and the lawbreakers. II was known as
CHECK raising" The idea was to alter
the amount line, and this was sometimes
done by means of a few simple pen
strokes the addition of three zeros per-
haps after the numeral in a check for
IS the addition of the letters "thous" be-
fore the word "and" in the written desig-
nation of "eight and O0/100 dollars"
1t was this type of maneuver that
brought tragedy into the life of Theodore
Wasserman, Chicago contractor, in
1909. His certified check was raised from
s27 to $4,000. and his principals kept
him in the courts for years until his busi-
ness and his reputation were both ruined.
He later committed suicide in his Chi
cago apartments.
Then again we find cases where check
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raising was not so simple. Ink eradica-
tors were called into service and more
extensive alterations we're made. When
the banks had been suspicious Of sigma
lures the crooks had occupied themselves
with changing amounts. Now that
amounts were more carefully scrutinized
they conceived the idea of altering the
payee line, the date, the number. Some
times only the signature remained, prac-
tically a signed, blank check, to be filled
in by the crook in any way that pleased
him. A story Is told Of stop payment"
check fixed up in this manner that
slipped through after bank had twice
been warned to watch for 1t. The amount
had been raised several hundred dollars,
the number changed and the date brought
up to the day Of presentation at the bank.
The payee name had been changed to that
of the forger. The cashier could scarcely
have been expected TO recognize the
stolen check.
The story brings out phase Of check
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mated nor HIS game looked upon as an
easy one to beat, for the modern check
swindler is playing for high stakes and
he brings quick wit and an artists
hand into play.
The history of Charley Becker, who has
been called the greatest master of for
gerry and check alteration that ever lived,
shows that he made a study of etching
engraving and painting, in the days be-
fore he tried to outwit bankers, business
men and the police in high finance. His
signatures deceived even the depositors
who suffered by his activities, and they
would declare his forgeries to be genuine
and their own handwriting to be an imi-
tation Among other feats Becker could
tear checks in half and return with them
mended so perfectly that his work could
not be seen. He is said to have been "re-
tired" by certain banks with salary Of
$500 a month to pay him for abandoning
finance as a profession!
Check men have usually been special
lists. There was Henry Wade Wilkes, for
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instance, who was known as the master
plotter," because Of the ingenious schemes
that he evolved to prepare and dispose Of
worthless checks. Like Becker he be-
longed to the period before the dawn Of
the twentieth century, when falsifying
checks consisted chiefly Of forging" the
Endorsements, and was carried on by or
ganized groups.
Another picturesque figure of the times
was J. II. Stoddard, who did specially
nice Job in forgery at one time when he
was actually in the Tennessee State
prison at Nashville. Being somewhat
bored with his life there he wrote his
own pardon and was able to get back to
his profession without further delay.
About the same time Walter Sheridan
was cleaning up so efficiently in the same
game that he decided to quit and retired
to peaceful and respectable old age in
Belgium.
The science of crime comes on apace
with everything else, however. and for
gerry gradually drifted into the back
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My Experiences With Society-By Mrs. Campbell

my heart, but the old gentleness and ten
derness were there-he still loved me.
His pride in his beautiful children and
in my success-that was my reward.
The abnormal position in which he
found himself must have been almost
anguish to him: the girl wife he had left
SIX and O half years before, now the
fashionable actress, surrounded by the
rush and excitement of smart friends.
smart parties, smart clothes.
The curiosity, too. that surrounded the
husband of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
was into1erable to him. also the hospi-
tality extended to us both, which we had
not the means to return. He was great
gentleman, Pat, and his position must
have been most irksome to him.
He longed for his children and HIS wife
to himself away iu the country--to drink
in England again-to pick up the threads
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terrible death. / think would have been
able to have got away this month, put his
death has smashed up all my arrange
ments. :"
The following telegram from me to Pat,
dated March 12. 1894, speaks for itself
Just received letter. reply paid
whether I shall post money to you at
once. Borrow on my name IL possible,
i. will save time. Let me know, dear,
where to meet you. SO glad you have
come. STELLA CAMPBELL.
"16 Manchester street."
when Pat arrived I saw In his eyes
that youth, with all the belief and faith
in his own efforts and his luck, had gone;
his health and his energies were under
mined by fever, failure and the most Bit
ter disappointments. Nothing had come
OF his hard work. his hopes and his sac
rifce The expression in his face wrung
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Protecting the Public Against the Expert Check Manipulation

raising that touches the private indi-
vidual more closely than forgery ever
did. II mans name has been forged"
on check he can easily claim that the
resulting transactions have no connection
with him, that the bank is clearly at fault
for passing out money for spurious
check. IL his genuine signature stands
on a check 1t is difficult to prove that he
has ordered payment of SS and not $4,000.
In the eyes of the law the bank is almost
always held blameless and the depositor
is the one to suffer.
Realization of this fact brought the
fight on in earnest between the forces of
law and OF crime, evidenced on the one
side by new financial disaster, on the
other by a flood OF mail at the United
States Patent Office Offering means Of
complete safeguard" But banks and
business men soon settled back comfort
ably under the protection of safety pa
pers"--until they found that It was
child's play to the expert check man to
remove the safety surface and by aid of
electroplate or tint block put It in again
when the desired changes had been made.
Then came the first protective ma.
chimes, made to perforate the amount of
the check. The check man retaliated by
making new perforations with a similar
machine and carefully filling in the orig.
inal holes with the pieces that came out.
A s12 bank draft raised by Becker in
1895 was perforated in two places in ad.
dition TO being written on the best
safety" paper and with the best "acid
proof" ink then available. Next came
machine to crinkle the check and thus
prevent erasures, but the crook beat this
by pressing out the crinkles on plate of
glass. other machines we're made to
stamp the amount completely through
the check. The latest development is
machine which impregnates the check
with ink OF one color for number words,
another for denomination words, and at
the same time shreds the lines. Papers
on which to print checks meanwhile are
being developed into something quite un-
like the first attempts in this lima
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Of our old love and youth. He never
spoke of those years in Africa, with the
exception of one big game shooting ex-
pedition when his friend was mauled by
a lion. Pat carried him for miles: he
died in his arms. Pat dug his grave as
best he could and buried him.
Every few days he was i'll with malaria.
l had eight performances week, my two
children, household cares, social respon.
sibilities and never enough money to go
round Dearest and Lady Burne-Jones,
at Phil's suggestion. offered their house
at rockingham to us for weeks honey.
moon.
remember how Miss Mary Moore and
Mrs. Charles Wyndham came over from
Brighton to look at usl
Concluded Nert Sunday
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sat, waited upon by No. IS, who, like the
old ivy clinging to the back yard wall,
has clung faithfully to the place in which
he first found employment upon his ar
rival from Germany as an immigrant
twenty-five years ago. William Wagner, the
original No. Is, mentioned in some of O.
Henry's stories, furtively watched the
strangers as they negotiated with his
BOSS" for its possession, and he re-
marked that perhaps it was well o. Henry
passed. on in the pre-volstead days, and
that he himself would return home to
Bavaria.
by golly," said Billy, as he is called,
"well do 1 remember Mr.. Henry and the
writings he made here. That old suit Of
armor there fpointing to an armored
dummy near the fireplaceI always made
him laugh, and when the old Boss hired
a young man to wear it and stand in front
of the door. Mr.. Henry wrote a story
about 1t right at this table,"
"a Scotch highball was his favorite
drink" continued the waiter, ''and he
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

A GAINST the highwayman our nat
"A ural resort, IL police protection
= fails, is to weapons. The high
wayman seeks jewels, gold, banknotes,
and an attempt has been made to- foil
him in a measure by supplanting the
banknote to a still greater extent with
the check For years we have done more
than nine-tenths of our business with
checks and drafts, and the present "crime
wave" has extended their use to 95 per
cent. Of our $4O0. 900 100000 annual turn
over. But this precaution has served
merely to enlarge the opulent opportuni-
ties of the expert manipulation.
Raised. checks, drafts and stock certifi-
Gates, in the opinion of William ]. Burns,
now in charge of the secret service for
the United States Department Of Justice.
are more dangerous to the financial
peace of organized society than the nitro
glycerin can Of the professional dyna-
miter."
For checks are money. An order on
your banker to pay ten dollars differs
from a ten dollar banknote only in that
it is not likely to circulate so far nor so
long. It serves the same purpose, and
has the same value-unless an adroit
check raiser gets hold Of it, in which case
your bank account suffers. No other
country in the world uses checks to so
great an extent as the United States. A
general ignorance on the part OF the
public of the dangers and advantages of
this kind of currency-which professors
call deposit urrency''--makes the work
of the professional manipulation Of such
paper all the easier.
Reports from police headquarters and
detective bureaus reveal increasing man.
ipulation of negotiable paper, particularly
in forging and altering checks. Thirty
or forty million dollars is lost annually
through check tampering.
In order to equip our checks with ade-
uuate defenses we must know what they
are to be defended against. Who is our
opponent and what weapons will he use
to make away with our worldly goods?
His capabilities are not to be underesti-
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TheTdssinq fQHenrys Favored f1aunts

mantlad, which had on the walls many
German texts which made him laugh and
often exclaim that they were bad transla.
tions of the Cincinnati poets. The story
Of the boy who was dressed in the suit of
armor was sketched at his usual table
near the fireplace and was published un-
der the title of The Halberdier of the
Little Rheinschloss.' The story is quite
true in almost every particular, but the
incident of the balcony was introduced
for effect.
MANY manuscripts had their final revi-
sion here, and sometimes when he would
be asked what he intended to call some
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wrote bit of verse to this favorite tip
pie of his"
That said William Allaire, breaking
in on the conversation, was published
under the title of The Rubaiyat of a
Scotch Highball,' and we'll do / remem-
shall swell the theme and be set forth in
abundance He also wrote Of our cashier.
who was golden haired. fine looking
German girl, that her hair was the color
of twenty dollar gold certificate, blue
eyes, and system Of beauty that would
make the girl on the cover of a July mag
azine look like the cook on a Monongahela
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Continued From Page Eight.

Continued From Page Eight.
ing up Kaffirs. making culverts, marking
out banks and cuttings, &c. At night din
ner. then to bed-dead tired Sundays
are the same as week days.
"T fear you will find me greatly
changed. -. I pray God you won't
turn from me. ."
On the 31st December, 1893, Pat wrote:
"Fontisville,
Near Beira.
'I have just received your letters Of Sd
and 18th November Thank you, my own
Stella wife, for writing such kind loving
letters; they came at time when was
very miserable. Believe me, darling, I
am coming to you the first moment
have the money. 80
Il wonder whether you have received
my letter telling you of poor Hannay's
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coal barge The cashier couldn't
understand 1t, and she was wroth
when some person, jealous of the
little courteous attentions Mr..
Henry paid her, told her ishe had
been likened to a coal black
nanny. 1t took mighty lot of
translating on our part to con-
vince the girl that Mr.. Henry only
meant the highest kind of COM
pliment.
"Mr. Henry possessed boundless
spirit when he was here and alone.
He chaffed with my father, myself
and Billy; his optimism was hilari-
Gus; he knew how to laugh. And
his breeziness was at its best when
he hailed to the, bar some poor tramp
and ordered the best in the house for
him. And it didn't stop at food and
drink. Many a time l have changed
twenty dollar bill for him and have seen
him give the tramp five or ten.
'Mr. Henry" continued Mr.. Allaire,
was fond of the old Red Room, now dis
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der dog in the social struggle. The
tramp. even the gentle CRATER" was en-
braced and welcomed to No. SIS by the
man who knew how to make them kin by
personal touch.
His rendezvous at night was Allaires
"Ofd Munich, or Schoeffel Hall, which
on the very day the photographs here re-
produced were taken was being trans
ferred by the last of the proprietors, WILL
lam Allaire, to new owners.
At table close to the old fireplace.
which tacitly was understood by all wait
ers to be always kept for o. Henry, he
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r the time o. H(nry wrote his frs

A T the time O. H(nry wrote his first
~ short story of Bagdad on the sub
way, the heart of New York was
just about the spot he chose for his home,
Irving pllce, No. 55, within an arms
length of the home, still standing of
Washington Irving, and on the edge Of
the privileged residential domain Of
Gramercy Park.
1t was. moreover, in o. Henrys day the
literary oasis Of Manhattan, housing
within its eight block length many of the
high brow" cult, who could be found
browsing in the old second hand book
stores that fourished in the vicinity.