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Evening star., 1924-10-26

give a more particular description OF
her ancestor ! would try to dig him
up. figuratively speaking.
She was an educated woman. She
had spent five years as a freshman
at high school and had taken an \. Il.
degree 81 one of the big colleges IN
department and punctualitS. tod
her of the message that no fanny
named MnyrosYne and no girl named
t.uterne ever lived on Good Hope
hill. that ! never owned a horse called
Pegasus and never knew Il girl named
Eutcrpr. The lady laughed til! the
hot tears melted the enamel on her
face. She rocked TO and fro with
delight. And as sh" laughed the
Rambler thought: Here Is a girl
win" knows good story when Sne
bears it She laughed II ! the pow
der Was off her nose and. drying her
eyes with her handkerchief. she
leaned over TO rue. look cd rne glorious
ly in the face. and said ''Eut. or
course, YOU did know the Young
woman. didn't YOU ''
While the Classical League was
still in session in Washington the
Ranh'er introduced in one of his
Evening star., 1924-10-26
BY STERLING HEILIG.

PARIS, October Is.
is Sir Basil ZaharoT the richest
man in the world? His recent.
sudden and unexpected marriage
1 with the widow of tho King OF
Spain's first cousin brought out,
principally, his position as arms die
tator of Europe. and as the man who
bought up Monte Carlo as an anus
ing side line.
Few know that Sir Basil is a petro-
leum king.
None knew it until the Versailles
peace conference, when observers be-
gan to see his hand in measures ad-
vocated bS Lloyd George and Glenn
enceau.
And now, so great and varied are
his other interests, the fact has be-
come simply forgotten. Not one Paris
newspaper noted that, with all the
rest of his vast controls, Sir Basil
Zaharoff is, here and now, one Of the
worlds petroleum royalties.
AS he has married, if not royalty,
at least royalty's widow, it is worth
mentioning.
What If he were the richest man in
the world?
Specialists are beginning to assert
1t. No living man, not Rockefeller
nor the Duke of Westminster (who
owns good part of the ground on
which certain districts of London are
built, but does not always draw
ground rents in proportion to real
value-or he surely would be rich
estD, and certainly not Bertha Krupp.
commonly set down as Zaharoff's 8
great rival, has more powerful, nu-
merous and varied money activities
In the world.
Let us sort out the money bags Of
this man who began with 80 cents
and looked like it-and has looked
like it ever since, if you glimpse only
his hat and coat, as SO many press
photographers have done.
The richest man in the world, per-
haps, Sir Basil is certainly the least
photographed of i1lustrious person
ages. He has a genius for side-st
ping the camera. and Is said to en-
ploy a shadow" to be on lookout for
the snap-shotter and Intervene
regularly by getting in between. Sir
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Worlds Wealthiest Man, Zaharoff,
Oil King, Weds Relative of Royalty

Basil also is quick on the turn. So
beard. felt hat and sack coat. cut by
the shadow Of the shadow
x x * X
OUNCE 1921. the press of Europe has
~ obtained just three press photo
graphs of Sir Basil Zaharoff!
The money bags.
Cd He was a merchant. then a
manufacturer. and then all but a
monopolizer Of a great deal of the
world trade in arms and munitions.
Bertha Krupp would have been only
too glad to have had him on her side
when Germany began blazing away.
But he went with the allies, of whom
he was perhaps the greatest provider.
(2) He has been a banker of
world widespread, as every world
fense. Witness the Standard Oil, and,
in a more local way. the case of
Henry Ford. zaharoff's banking. as
will be seen. is truly widespread.
(3) He has financed. or nearly.
whole country of Europe-Greece.
And when the Greeks, like impatient
children. set to fighting the Turks
and squandered their blood and
money and the possessions which
peace conference through his in
fiuence with Lloyd George and Glenn
enceau, he stands the gaff
(4) AS a side line, he buys up
Monte Carlo-that is to say. the gam
bling Casino with its assets, fixtures
and appurtenances, including its great
and glorious Hotel de Paris, and,
pretty nearly, he-Prince and princi-
pality as well! All the reporters re-
membered this: but none seemed to
know the story OF (which. in &c
tion, was anticipated by Arnold Ben
nett. and came, in time, to be pulled
off. in real life,- by Sir Basil!
(5) And not last in Importance is
the money. activity and worldwide
influence which. this man of mystery
has placed in petroleum and holds
there.
do not speak Of such playthings
OF very rich men as art collections.
city mansions, European palaces and
chateaux, and other trifles. Sir Basil
has them. more than others. But.
for all the money bags from nrst to
fifth, he has never told who he is nor
Evening star., 1924-10-26

For example. take the hold-up Of
the Southern Pacific express in the
Siskiyou tunnel. Bandits shot down
the engineer. fireman and bra eman.
and, in exploding an excessively large
charge OF dynamite. set fire TO the
mail coach and burned the clerk to
death. The steam line was broken,
filling the tunnel with live steam. SO
that the bandits were obliged to flee
without consummating the intended
robbery. Detectives arriving the
scene found the following items: a
set of batteries used in exploding the
dynamite charge. pair of canvas
owe ershoes covered with burlap la gs
soaEcd in Creosote to prevent blood
hounds from following the trail, and
an old pair of greasy overalls.
+
pRoMPTLY garage mechanic
an cX-"onvict-in nearby viii
lagc was arrested as the suspect ed
owner of the oyerallS. He wasn't.
Heinrirhs microscope told him that
what looked like grease was actually
pitch-and The garage mechanic was
Released. SUCCESSFULLY the oVeralIs,
the buriap sacks. batteries and etc.
PASSED through TIeinrich'S Berkeley
laborato tory. Slowly the picture be-
gan to take on color and form. At
last the report was ready.
The man who wore these ovs~aIis." !"
ayerred Heinrich. and was one. of
the three men who committed these
murders is a left handed brown
haired lun berjack, between % and
% years of age. about } feet s inches
ta!i and thick set. He has been work
ing in the Pacific Northwest. either
North western oregon or Southu est
ern Washington. Then. as an after
thought: "IIa is fastidious in his per
sonal habits and probably clean
sh2ven.
WatSon's classic interjection is in
order at this point. But the great
Holmes himself could scarceIy he
tester than Heinrich in rejecting full
some admiration.
You're not surprised when a pal
eontoiOgist reconstructs an entire
geologic epoch by his examination of
Il single fossil. are you? Why is my
work any more surprising? Scientific
method is the same. no matter in
what field it is applied. And this
particular reconstruction happened to
be rather simple. How did l know
he was left handed? Notice the left
hand flap of those overalls. The un-
derside is sticky with pitch, whereas
the right hand flap is clean. He took
off his overaIIs with his left hand.
were taken from the right-hand
pocket of the overalls. 4 left-hand
woodchopper stands with his right
side to the tree. and consequently the
chips and bits OF Douglas fir needles
flew into his righthand pocket. And
the rest is equally simple. j deter
mined the color of his hair from a
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his home-cured twist" of tobacco
drowned Il fiv at five PAGES. and said
Il guess that'll hold .em for while.
They can't get around that"
i; :; !: 4
nlCk, the next speaker, had 10 dI ink
pitcher Of water before the
crowd got settled lie defended the
Republic and the Constitution and
said q good word for the Ten Com
mandmentS, hut the audience was
only mildly interested. As he neared
his peroration he raised his voice till
1t split the shingles on the barn,
stretched up his arms as though to
call down rain and roared: Voters
of this district, care not what Cicero
may say. but ] tell YOU. men on
whom the fat" of this Republic rests,
, that in the grand, Sonorous words of
Cornelius Tacitus Of Rome. f. pluri-
! bus unum. ad inlinitunl. pro bono pub
I leo, President pro temp"re. delirium
tremens and nuN vomica.
The crowd went mad. Men threw
their hats in the air and save the
rebel Yell And the band played
I Maryland. My Maryland The old
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been many changes in the neighbor-
hood since his felloW-author, Homer
wrote it UP.
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lie thought the members of the
Classical League would come
down to the office to shake hands
with him and subscribe to the paper
fhey did not. a subscriber wrote to
she office that the Rambler is pre-
sumptuous in comparing himself to
Homer, who was one of the sue
ccSSful writers of the olden time
and far superior to some writer's we
have today"
On top Of that relative sent him
this message: cut out the fiction.
ou never owned "a horse by that
name and l know every horse you
ever rode. No such girl ever lived
S'car Good Hope and you never had
e. girl by that name"
Some time afterward lady came
~ the ofticc looking for an ancestor
W no had a royal patent from King
Charles to l1."o0 acres or Virginia
land and owned a thousand slaves. /
told her that every ancestor / ever
hoard of in this part of the country
had a patent to that amount OF land
from King Charles or Lord Baiti-
moro and aleo owned the same num-
her of slaves, but that if she could
Evening star., 1924-10-26

is matter of history; but. To general
surprise, it became known that one
of the rising and competing world
sized petroleum companies was
financed if not owned by Zaharoff.
His company is registered as the
French Naval Company. and already,
then he had two ultramodern tank =
boats Of his own, which he could
spare and put at the disposition of
the French government:
EOUR years later (early 1929 a few
L members of the French Pariia-
ment became agitated by the activity
of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Charles Baron. Deputy specializing &
in petroleum, sounded the alarm
Thanks to it's undertaking with
the British admiralty, the Angloy Per-
sian. with it's profits assured, can
overcome all competition in the west
ern Europe market"
He added: NO doubt trusts like
the Royal Dutch and Standard Oil,
trading in all the markets of the
world. can recuperate their losses in
the French market else where"
The inference was bad luck for 10
cal French companies. Baron thought,
even, that the Anglo-P Persian might
become able to sell so per cent of all
petroleum used in France.
How such a trust war turns out
matters little: but 1t disclosed that,
taking names for names. Zaharoff
can stick out his tongue to Rookie
feller-because the Anglo-Persian, in
France, is considered another name
for Zaharof!
1t was in 1922, after the death of
the old Prince. of Monaco, that the
name of Zaharoff cropped up again.
in quick cosmopolitan finance.
The principality had long been sup
ported by the greatest gambling es-
tablishment of the universe-A1onte
Carlo. A good part of the stock was
held in England-the Blanc family
kept just enough to secure control.
Suddenly big things eventuated. The
new prince dismissed 400 croupiers
and the head Of the Blanc family
went to Paris!
zaharoff had come. Quietly he had
bought up the control of Monte Carlo
stock-especially after certain un-
fortunate Blanc speculations And
when Zaharoff had control the new
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Autre:noYt brothers are now fugl
tiVeS from justice and a reward al
$1,000 i offered for informant on lead
ing TO their arrest.
Heinrich grew reminiscent and re
called other cases
y III. dmOnt negro. who was SOM
thing more than a Pceping Tom. =
now serving four years in prison q
a result of the cola boration Of fat.
and Heinrich. Piedmont is one OF TIL
most exclusive of the San Francisco
residential sections. rpulsnt wifr
spreading shade trees, wide lawns
and pleasant arbors much fredueutci
by p"tting parties. But for months
amorous couples had been terrori2rd
by giganti. negro. who would
pourcc on them from behind hcdcc.
demand money and disappear. ~
last one evening the police picked ur
negro in the vicinity who was IN
able 10 give satisfactory account
Of himself. But the couples who hHd
been robbed were unable 10 identify
the suspect positively as their as
sailaBt. Heinrich Was called in. II
the pockets Of the negro's clothes
We're found particles Of leaves ana
hedge trimmings corresponding cX-
actly with the character of the
shrubhery at the point where the at
y J
pentd TO he the only hedge of it,
kind in Piedmont. the identification
was complete and the negro got
jail sentence Of four years
There was the shooting affair III
which Hcinrich'S testimony settled
the issue between the State, which
contended that the principals wcrr
standing l. feet apart. and tho dc
fenSe. which claimed that they were
graphing. Heinrich studied Il blood
spot about the size of a pinhcad and
showed that by the physical laws
governing the projection of a droU
Of blood through the air and the Law
Of "oaguiation the parties to the
struggle must necessarily have been
graphing. \ verdict for man
slaughter instead of murder resulted
There was the case of the lcwd
anonymous letters which kept com
ing 10 san Francisco society women
The police suspected man and We're
on the point of arresting him. Helm
richs analysis took account OF tht.
fact that wonlans vocabulary is az
different from that of a man as is
ker physique. Phrases, figures cf
speech. the direction and flow Of
thought. all indicated that the author
of the letters must be woman.
Finally Heinrich studied the letters
with microscope. and his finding
of eyebrow hairs and the fbers OF :.
silk sleeve confirmed his first analysis.
;; = +
THE slayer of Father Heslin left
his card" in more than one way
After burying the body of the slain
priest in the sand on a lonely stretch
of beach near Redwood City, High
tower stretched a length of rope from
the highway to his tent on the beach
as guide to the searchers, from
whom he hoped to collect reward
for the recovery of the body. But the
knife which he used in cutting this
rope was the knife which he later
admitted TO be his own. And the slot
in the hilt of the knife retained traces
of sea sand; also. microscopic eXam;-
nation OF the edge of the blade
showed minute strands of rope fiber.
Finally, Hightower took back a picc,
of that rope to his room:
l had two principal curiosities re
CONTINUED on Fourth Page)
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what he is doing-and the news
paper men, least of all,
In Europe, they fell down so hard
in reporting his marriage that, after
great headlines unjustified by Scanty
outline facts. the Paris papers gave
up all attempt to feature it-and only
two or three lucky ones told frac-
ton of the story all had started out
to cover"
DETROLEUM first! 1t is Zaharoff' s
last world possession for the
European public to discover; but by
working backward from it to the
original so cents, an idea may be had
of the epic career of this man who
has done his best to cover his tracks.
Standard Oil and Rockefeller are
monotonous prose in comparison. 1t
is a queer coincidence that just when
Sir Basil's marriage was being sketch
ed for woman readers, all Americans
in Paris were interested by cable
dated Washington, d. c., that "the
United States has no billionaires"
This" continued the cable, sis indi-
Gated by the study of income tax
returns for 1922 which the Bureau of
Internal Revenue is making.
1.-THE richest American man has an
year, according to these statistics;
and the absence of billionaires is de-
duced therefrom by assuming that no
successful American would be con-
tent with only ) per cent on his
money"
There are no such returns to cal
culate the income Of Sir Basil, but
his known affairs are those Of a man
welding billion dollars; and there
is every appearance that the billion
belongs to himself.
During the peace conference ques-
tion arose what to do with the fleet
of petroleum tankboats that belonged
to Germany. Such boats cost into the
millions apiece, and the Standard Oil
Company put in it's own claim. 1t had
furnished Germany with petroleum
before the war, and these tankboats,
to the amount Of 20,000,0 900, had been
built and paid for by the Standard.
But the French government had been
promised some of the tankboats in
postwar reparation for submarine
damage.
How the claims were compromised
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prince. his friend. became master III
his own house. Together they run
Monte Carlo. Sir Basil owns it.
He was an old Monte Carlo habituc,
and the rich Hotel de Paris, just
across from the Casino, had refused
him some slight favor concerning
his rooms 1t was just before tho
great change. Sir Basil insisted UP
to the high direction. NO. we can
not do that" said the high direction.
Il think you'll have to do it. ga
bought the hotel this morning.
Readers OF Arnold Bennett will
remember the Story told in "The
Babylon Hotel OF an American mil,
lionaire. Now. it has really hap
pened.
SIR Basil thus has been seen do
ing $100,000,000 operations in petro-
leum along with the governments
of England and France and a $40
100000 operation on his own, t.
please the Prince of Monaco
Yet these are his almost most re
cent deals, away ahead of vast muni-
ton furnishing in the World War
after he swung smaller wars in three
parts of the world How deep he is
in world banks. which finance nations
and trusts, nobody can tell. They
mystery~
!; X = ::
EVEN concerning Greece, which h
- financed openly, we see only
other hundreds of millions, paid or
defaulted, who knows? The Man Of
Mystery tbats an eye" as Paris street
boys say. He obtained Greece's great
concessions for her. He cook sides
with Nenizelos, whose ambitions for
his country were toundIesS Did
either countenance the attempt OF
Greece to capture Asiatic Turkey by
force of arms?
Wore the arms from Sir Rasils
factories? History is silent All. per
haps, is not finished. Sir Basil regu-
larly has string tied to his mil
lions
Who is this man who, in the
shadow, has become a world power.
He deals with the great powers as
Continued on Sixth Page)
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Rambler ArOuses Criticism
When He Dips Into Classics
Situation Reminds Him of Some MAGNIFICENT Political Oraory

n r old house looks at YOU from
this page today. The Ram
( VI bier has been out of workin g
4 order, due to an injury to
the throat sustained in the
world series and the foot ball game
between Georgetown and the Marines.
0e would not write to YOU at all this
1>Ak. but for the sunday editors fear
ttat without this letter our circula-
rion would slump. 1t is not so easy
20 hnd old houses in the eastern part
o. the District as once upon a time.
5nd some old houses, sensitive about
Ihclr age and looks, shrink from haV-
lag their picture in the paper
few days ago the Ram bier set up
h;s camera before a house of respec-
liable age and long experience. out IL
woman came out and said: IF YOU
are the Rambler. please don't take
i picture of this house. We are going
10 rebuild it soon and then you may
make d picture Of il and I'll take
one from you"
| looked the venerable mansion in
Ine face and said. How about it,
old house and the old house said
You see | am a little out of date
Those new bungalows down the road
with "A gilt number on the transomS
have put me in the shade I used so
Il" a belle Of = hoUS., and travellers on
tn" stage coach would look at tn. Ii
laos in my garden. and say. That's a
Pretty place | had lace curtains ~
my windowS--wr called them Iamhre-
>'1ins-aud above my parlor door was
:, motto in bright worsted God Bless
tur Hom". had family Bible and Il
n"lodeun in my parlor and VAS
very happy. Bat ann now 50 behind
tho time that my mistress is not
proud Of me. Perhaps il | could %"t u
coat of paint and i new set Of shin
"t"s and have my hair bohhed and
hcnnaed | would look better TO your
leaders"
The Rambler feels that he has
known YOU long enough to tel YOU
some inside stories r confidence. He
may bore YOU. but n" doubt some
cher newspaper writer's bore YOU
They do me. These stories concern
classic aIiusiors in the rambleS. y
I"w months ago the American CIaS-
: cal League met in Washington and
there was lameutatiur that the Hes
<p"rid"> are not 80 well known as
Mack SeDHttt'S bathing girls. and that
ftyariuthus = not 50 popular as Ben
TUrpin. Buster kcatUu and Harold
I.lnNd
TIL" Rambler thought hc would
SHOW fhc scholars that the classics
sjiii hold Il place in this distracted
lobe. lie wrote i'll one Of the Good
Hope raHbl"S a story of his travels
IN the Mount Olympus neighburhond.
;'nd said that he used to ride out
there on his mare, Pegasus. 10 call on
Miss Euterpv. who was quite "A per
former on the Tyre and uhuiele He
said that the Mount had been cut up
INTO building lots. that a gas station
had been set up and that there had
Evening star., 1924-10-26

mined caught on one OF the overall
buttons. That also settled the uues-
tion Of his age. We have charts
showing the condition Of tn. pith OF
hair at various ages. His height and
weight We're determined by the siz,
and shape of the oyerallS. AS 10 his
fastidiousne snesS'-Heinrich paused and
brought small vial fun Of pocket
dirt within the range of the micro
Evening star., 1924-10-26

scope-"well. the ordinary lumherjack
doesn't clip his finger nails as care
fully as this. And, as a matter of
fact, this man was not the ordinary
lumberjack. The three D'Autremont
brothers were sons of a small-town
barber, and this one had in fact
worked in his fathers barber shop
during slack periods in the lumber in
dustry. Is there anything else YOU
want eXplained?''
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THAT seemed enough. Certainly it
was enough for the Federal au-
thorities, who promptly instituted
search for the man answering this
description. with the result that the
Evening star., 1924-10-26

patriotic and heroic voters Of this
congressional district. that in the
words of Demosthenes of Athens
Democritus o. Abdera and Diogoras
OF Melos. 'arrterio scIerosis, an
gina pectoris, streptococcus. PERM
rious anemia. laryngitis and gyue-
rology.'
The crowd lifted the speaker from
the store porch and bore him trium-
phant to the nearest tavern. For
the ilth time the band played
'MarIiand.. My Maryland" Many of
the crowd got utterly out of step
with the eighteenth amendment but
that happened long ago. The Ram
bier went home TO dinner with the old
man who sat next him at the sneak
ing aud the old man said, That's the
lines; speaking that's ever been
heard in this election district. /
/ don't believe il could be beat at the
courthouse in Marlboro or in the
capitol at Washington, The way
those fellows talked Latin was a
treat. They put up arguments that
can't be beat.
THE Rambler hopes he has not tired
You with this recital though he
knows he has. But forgive and for
how. When he sat down and pulled
the cover off his typewriter. the type
writing machine. hc meant to tell
OF the building and dedicatio Of the
new Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge
IN 1890, and the making over Of the
old -iquedu"t Toll Bridge and its
dedication as a free bridge in 1883,
and il YOU will wait awhile--say un-
til next sunday III" will serve you
with those stories fresh from the old
records.
There are still several inches of
undamage paper i'm the typewritine
follows from The Evening Star Of March
%. 1890:
The new bridge over tho Eastern
Branch at the foot Of penns-lvania
avenue is finished at last, and was
opened up TO traffic this morning
This morning col. +. q. Hams of the
Engineer Corps. who has had charge
OF the construction Of the bridge
from the beginning, went over to see
II and gave it a thorough inspection
from top to bottom and from end to
end His only criticism was that a
few more nails should be driven and
one or two planks made more firm
This was done and he then ordered
the timbers to be removed that barred
it at either end. and announced that
the bridge was open for travel. There
were no ceremonies of any sort.
The bridge cannot. perhaps, be
considered formally opened until l.
has been accepted by the Government
and all transfers made, but it is
thought that this is a mere matter Of
IA short time now, and wagons are al.
liberty to cross just the same as if
this formality had been gone through
with"
On Monday. August e5. 1890, the
bridge was dedicated by a ceremony
which will be continued in our next.