% cago millionaire," t ORR Nawhere else in the world, other thansin Pittsburg, so far as known, has the decree gone out that bank employ ees Jpust submit to the photographs and ®measurements of the Bertillon syst Yet this:comes as the sequel to the most amazing series or bank lootipgs that mankind has ever known, perhaps. hin the last three years it is estighted that something like $7,500,~ 000 Has been stolen by dishonest bank employees in that city. This is at onoegan unenviable and a unique repu- tation. In fact, it has seemed, of late, a dul year in Pittsburg when a: few millibns do not find themselves dipped with wings that. make the ri ht brothers look like crawlers, and Delagringe and Farman resemble Icarfis after the wax melted. AHN Baba and his forty theives were merg tyros in comparison. with some of Bittsburg's recent 'financiers, .and the wpost-graduates of Pittsburg's schools of embezzlement could earn forttines giving correspondence cour- ses grand larceny to past masters witlthe skill of Raffles. The banks have concluded that the best. course before them--while not wishing to cast suspicion upen any one #--is to photograph ewery one of thei#' employees and take their meagurements by the Bertillon system, so that, defalcation may occur, the police authoritieg all over the world will have the latest embezzler marked | down"as minutely as though he were | the most elusive Max Shinburn who ever alternated between safe-cracking | and jail servige, ' TheAged Hod Carrier Toiled up the Ladder with his Load of Bricks: "Mike--oh Mike !" called the Koreman from the Ground Below. "Phwat is it, Sor ?"' panted the Weary 01d Man, halting in his Creaking Ascent at the Fourth Story. "D'yes moind th' $5 chanst ye tuk in Saterdays Raffle 2 "1 do, Sor," responded the Aged Carrier, as his Swedt Dripped to Distant arth. ' Mikes-listen : Hod the Ye've lost yer "Oh, well--aisy come, aisy go.' And the Aged Hod Carrier went on up Yhe Tadder with his" Load of Bricks ¥rom 'Tender Tales of the Sporting Life." "Rasy come, easy go," might be the motto of Pittsburg, that city of the Vulcans which, having made this the age of iron for the rest pf the world, has tpansformed it into the age « f gold for_itstlf, - The wealth of the great iron inter- ests is flue largely into the banks of Pittsburg; tribute is taken from coal and oil, from the traffic east and west, from the state and the city themselves as rich depositors, and from the people individually, who constitute one of the leading municipalities in the United States. The term "Pittsburg" millionaire" has already replaced, even in the niost distant capitals of 'Europe, the earlier pseudonym for lavish American riches e "New York millionaire"; and that Rr incarnation of Midas, the "Chi- urning up in Berlin to pluck a prince .for his daughter, would be asked to wait umtil his high- ness. had considered the steel stocks and the railway bonds of the Croeseus from Pittsburg. Y And the inevitable divorce would come, booming along with a good deal mare: excitement and expedition than used 'to be regarded as really good form, "Easy come, ¢asy a> the rest of the world has come to se¢ stamped on all of Pitsburg's gota pieces; and, from the pleasant complacency with which the flight of the millions appear to be viewed there, Pittsburg itself hasn't worried so very mucli-over its losses The proposal to utilize the Bertilon systemn on all bank and trust company employees is a startling form of pre- _ caution, and doubtless 18 unnecessary, "so far as can be judged, for applica- ""tion to the present force of bank - employees in that city. But it is the sign that Pittsburg 1s awakening to the necessity of adequate safeguards, as it is, also, the first safeguard of any adequacy that has been proposed. Eo etnin Hike that was needed--as such for the bank cashiers as for the clerks, if the records of the past few years in Pittsburg's finance are to count for anything. The. 2500 bank clerks in Pittsburg have held various indignation meet- jogs, large and small. But the banks THE DAILY | 7 2, " Lnirorrse arrangements, and one large instioge tion has made it a rule that every employee shall make monthly affidavit as to all his actions and to his positive knowledge that no other erh- ployee has, during the month com- mitted any act that may be in the least suspicious. If there was one bank officer who would have surrendered his complete control of millions rather than submit to being. "mugged" by the police, it was William Montgomery, cashier of the Allegheny National, under arrest in connection with the disappearance of $839,000 of deposits and the entire $500,000 worth of capital stock He was the intimate friend and con- fidant of Senator Quay, the man who placed Quay's bets during the Harri- son campaign, when (hn won $502,000, and the trusted handler of the moneys of the political machine in that section of the state. as | down When the Allegheny Nationdl went or up--the state was backing with $532,000 of deposits and the city of Pittsburg with § Private depositors were they let it have littl Lime and a with no detective | it that intent in mind than the | ambition to photograph an important personage who w the right bower of the famous Quay, kodakers, news paper photraphe and other artists of the slate and film endeavored to secure a picture of Montgomery. The attempt invariably 'met with the wrath of a czar menaced with a dynam bomb; anything approaching success meant assault and batter When the crash came, ra Serie of speculations in stocks, poli reported-the discovery-of no photo- graph of Montgomery, even during the investigations of the suddenly acquired fortune of a Pittsburg widow whose wealth leaped, in eight years, from $10.000 to $333,000, and of other m cities, whose real investments had increased with remarkable facility rs, women estate have had no very urgent need of photograph; and, holding on to him--for the United St ment took .charge of the prosecytion under the national banking regulations they stated, recently, that they stand ir chance of securing complete 4 iis es restitution \ State and city's moneys, flyinguhe re there and everywhere during the years when the cashier juggled them, inves ted him with the right to demand 'that his polotical allies come to his aid Under Pittsburg's uniquely faci flipping of its coins, the powerful embezzlement, can compel the flow of gold back to his emptied bank vaults ak 'secretly and #s smoothly as he | could start it pouring forth. | While the fate of the Allegheny National's money still hung in. the { balance, pending 1 decision of the | Montgomery's allies as to restitution | of the million that had, gone; a man returned to Pittsburg who, for nearly | three years, had lc ft the police bitterly | regretful that the Bertillon system was not compulsory there before the Enterprise, National, of Allegheny, collapsed in October, 1905. He was Thomas W. Harvey, teller of the Enterprise, who, in vain hope | | while Grace Laughrey, the handsome So they are serving their sentences, ny f remarked. the Judge--and the two | prisoners grinned. Be a TY ¥ WHIG, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1908. " mt EE | girl who shared Wray's stolen riches and stuck te him as. faithfully as a i wife when he fled to Toronto, waits | the ten years that will elapse before TN) -- ~ / Toad Bwsett are still insistently pursuing 'their jof eseaping the penalty fof his share more | Pittsburg and neighboring The authorities, having Montgom- | govern-|| | politician, even when under arrest for | | | | | { { | | | Wio: in the crime, had given up his identity and his home to wander amid agonies of dread until his fearful spirit could no longer bear the strain. He surrendered himself to the fede- ral authorities and, on the same day, was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary----and that with no more {notoriety than if he were a purse snatcher, Pittsburg was learning to |svash its dirty lmen with necatness, {silence -and dispatch. | Yet the Enterprise embezzlements {were among the most sensational ever {known in the state of Pernsylvania | The losses. amountdd to" $1,500,000. {It was a political bank, lke: the | Allegheny National, and hundreds of | thousands of its deposits had gone out | to politicians on notes which, an- { secured at best, had disappeared when {thie cashier, T. Lee Clark, both poison {ed and shot himself to make sure of i death 3 Still, while the Allegheny National's malodorous record hung heavy on the { Pittsburg air, the dead hand of Cashier Clark exercised its influence from the grave. 'As quickly as Pittsburg could, { with the gaze of the fmancial world xed upon its new ambition' to retain | some of her bank deposits for the who owned them, she indicted ; 13, Frank T. Thompson and rer as two of a gang of card people A F.B. 1 & sharps who, durt have marked the citys took from her bankers clerks $1,000,000. of that drew harpies thither as to cast Crooked poker, "brace" faro, "fixed" roulette--the whole range of gambling tricks that should not have .deluded the veriest tyro in the "sporfing life" --had been used on the avid Pittshorg- wntil the themselves almost ashamed of taking their Clark, befére he kifled hi them swindle him out the four year$ that 's spoliation, and sy the ea money ers blacklegs were f money. | self, let $100,000. The gamblers with their share of $1,000,000 out of the loot, were only | the inevitable attendants upon t general . tyro of speculation {clerks had the shining e their cashiers. to emulate And they \ ne nples did emulate, with women as well as with the cards, The | women sometimes--only sometimes-- stood by yn when the penalty wis to be pai When - thé Union Trust Company, of Pittsburg, discovered its 1 f'$385,000 in 1906, almost on the anniversary of the ! Enterprise rum, I the thieves proved to be a couple of mild young persons, Clinton B. Wray, the teller, and .C. S. Hixton, the indivi- dual bookkeeper. The gambling erooks simply took tit away from those childlike thieves in chunks--one of the chunks having | been $7000, raked in by the blacklegs {en a single hand where Wray held a royal flush. The rules of poker say | that hand can't be beaten, but a pair of sixes beat it.when it was held in {the neryeless grasp of futile a | gambler as Wray Their poor little $60 a month and the tyrbid' low of the wealth of Pitts- burg s millionaires had set their clerk- ly. wits in the striving for swift riches, They evélved a new schdgue, as un- expected by the local exper s it was obvious to any one who. gave genuine attention to the inadequate safeguards with which Pittsburg "protected" its deposits. ! Wray, as teller, forged a deposit slip on the name of some former depositor whode account had lapsed He pased it on to Hixton, who-entered it into the individnal aceount book Wray then frirged a check for the sum near the anwunt of the fraudulent deposit, cashed it and left it to Hixton to destroy the check. "Would not an examination of the counter book," Judge Young asked Gleffler, treasurep of the company, dt the trial of the: young thieves, "have revealed the discrepgnc "We didn't think, it necessary to ex- oss of SO | simple over wildeat curb adventures bank | the | the pair are set free again. : While the gamblers were enjoying the Union Trust Company's cash, the bucket-shops were getting during the year between March, 1907, and March of this year $520,000 taken froin the Farmers Deposit National Bank by Henry Reiber, the paying teller, and John Young, the auditor. / They proved themselves fools as as the beys of tie Utiion Trust did over crooked cards, For ten years those two présumably experienced financiers had been stealing $1,105,000 from the Farmers' Deposit Bank, and flo one, among other officers or-direc- tors, had suspected them, They, too, have been sentenced to ten years each by the same judge, whose ruling in the cases of men who stole $385,000 and of others who stole i $1,105,000 would seem 'to prove that, lin 'Pittsburg, you might as well steal a million while you are about it. Pittsburg's éxample has given the | state of Pennsylvania a record that | puts the dashing depredations of bank { robbers in the Southwest, with their | masks and their revolvers, to the blush tof poignant shame, ' In six months, with all their recklessness of hold-ups burglaries and: safe-blowing, the bank bandits 'of Kansas, Missouri, and 1 Oklahoma, between November 30, 11907, Sand. 'April' 21, 1908, . scouring three states and a dozen banks, ob- I tained only $56,000. A Pittshurg bank !eferk woul ces . In Chicago where money used to be supposed tg lie around waiting for d' not take them as apprent- | financiers to lift it, there has been only | one large looting in recent years-- | that of the ( ta its president, John R. Walsh, and of the Home Savings Bank and the Equitable Trust Company, which he | | had tied up with it, That was a $3,000,000 shortage, and | Walsh got five years for his convic [ tiong on fifty-four counts of the long- | est indictment tiie Chicago courts ever looked at. Nevertheless, it was a pro moter's steal, made with some chances of advantage to the banks along the debatable ground of finance, instead | of being plain bank tobbery, such as | prevails in Pittsburg. : Aud the Walsh doings isolated, with no train of imitators | spreading through Illinois, as Pitts- burg's inspiration' has -started widen- ing waves of lafceny in Pennsylvania, | with their highest losses, of a, million or two, nearest the centre of the em- bezzling propaganda." 'The wrecking of the Farmers' and Drovers' National Bank, in Waynesburg, with its cash ier, J. B. F. Rhinehart, charged with forgery, showed all the earmarks of the Pittsburg plans of larceny; from the valueless notes of graft-claiming politicians to the most barefaced jugg- ling of accounts It has such remained been easy money in | Pittsburg, from the money of the marrying millionaires to the money of the card-playing little clerks, that only the drastic Bertillon system of identi fication, it. se¢ems, can suffice to dis- courage future embezzlement. 3ut nobody is certain yet whether even' that will clip the wings that grow, in' Pittsburg, on the American double eagles. Most of the work in disclosing the recent remarkable chain of Pittsburg bank robberies was done by National Bank Examiner William L. Folds And a most interesting chapter was added to the story only the other day, wheh it was announced that Mr. Folds had been transferred, at his request, from the Treasury Department to th Department of Justice. " It other words, Mr. Folds has be- come a secret service offical, devoting himself to detective work to ferret out and bring to punishment the men faving connection, no matter how remote, with recent bank robberies. So far as known, it is the first time that a bank examiner has had himself transferred to Uncle Sam's detective force, amd most .interesting develop- ments 'are expected from the work of Mr. Folds. | BRAZIL TO GO TO WAR. "hicago National charged | errand Bank Exam rege "Ww L Folds { Uruguay, whose particular port. ig praeti- | cally commanded by Argentina. Apart from the envy with which Argentina {regarded Uruguay, the northwest fron tier of the latter country is freely used | for the passing of contraband into Bra- zil. It is probable that unless an amic ible agreement can pe reached over Uruguay it will cause war, which cannot be long delayed. 1 Satna? IDENTIFIED BY NECKTIEL. { Chinamer Will Be Deported From United States. Ogdensburg, N. Y., Au ten chinamen were arf ¢ before United States Commissioner Kellog charged with baving entered the Unite states unlawfully from Canada by way of Rouse's Point last January, an at- | tendpt was matle by the defence, to. show | thar all of the celestials had relatives here. © The Chinamen arranged thém- | selyes in groups of two, and it was ob- | served that each.pair wore neckties of | identically the same pattern and color. | Five other Chinamen in the room. im 15--~When 4 | fied each group ef prisoners and elaim- | ed to be related to them. The self serted relatives had - appareatly care- fully noted the style of meckties worh | by the men they picked out, and the | withorities came to the conclusion that the. neckties were used as identification marks. Commissioner Kellogg ordered the ten Chinamen deported. | CAUGHT FAST AUTOISTS. | Reckless Drivers Fined and Made . to Pay $200 Damages. ! Hamilton, Ont, Aug. 15 our resi dents of Columbus, Ohio, riding from | Toronto in a touring car, ran. into | James Steven's rig near Stony Creck. The vehicle was smashed but the aute- | ists sped on for Niagara, without wait- | ing to make amends. Constable Spring- | stead telephoned to Winona and the | gun. They cach. paid a fine and Jeft $200 for the awner of the rig. The Lesser Evil. Trouble Lies With the Buffer State | of Uruguay. Said London, Aug. 15--The Chronicle publishes an interview with a. gentle man well versed with all matters per- ! taining to South America, particularly the government and finances of Brazil, { where he resided and carried on busi- | ness "for years. He expressed surprise | that there should be any doubt of Bra- 2il's intentions of embarking upon the | costly venture of warships, and added: | {amine that," the treasurer responded. "l think you will in the future," time," He proceeded to explain that the trouble Jay with the buffer state of | got off with ten bob." ! thing went wrong with the machinery, "It means war, a war that we in Brazil { was to go inte Blank and Co's plate have known to be imevitable for a long {glass window, which would 'have cost Jones had an extremely resourceful chauffer. The other day while they were going down a city street some- and after sundry twistings to and fro the motor ran into an apple stall and stopped. Half a sovereign settled the matter. "Well," Said Jotes to, the chauffeur, "We have got pretty easily out of the scrape anyhow. It € to me though as if vaw rather me to 'rum nto that apple stall." "So did" sir," replied the chauffeur with pride. "You see the only alternative you twenty pounds; as it is, we have {tume, trimmed | Plew, of mediately stepped forward and identi- | ° i airly well. men were held up at the point of the | ford. Pircovern ed Lrg Ceraicarrond NOTES FROM FLINTON, the Week Gathered Correspondent. | Aug. L12.--Married, atl Flinton, by the Rev, R. W. Irwin, at the home of the groom's father, Char- {les Juby Thomas, his som, to | Miss Edith Sagar, .of Bancroite The | pretty bride was attived in a blue cos with lace and 'white | ribbon. bride was by {Miss Erushie, the gropm--was--supported-by--his brother; Tennet. At the Roman Aug. 10th, 'hy Charles Brushey Bridgewater. ment was given hy the bride's rents on the of the Dancing appears to be all the as rio less than four have been given of an *evenine in different nlaces and all were well gtténded. On Friday, the 1Tth inst., there as a heavy clap of thunder with the sun shining brightly, and no clouds, 'x rather peculiar incident. "The feport was af loud as a cannon. A pine tree was struck hy' lightning ang torn to: pieces. Marsh hay cutting is the order of the day. The weath- er is warm and all that can be: de gired for the work. Othet crope lock Apples and blackberries are very plentiinl. Joseph Allaire is renewing. old ac- quaintanees at the heme of his ehild- hood. The residence of Frank Clarke, a few miles 'from Flinton, struck by lightnirte, but members of the family esepped. ; Mesers. Alfred Keech and M. Kim- merly, of Deseronto, are spending a few davs with R. W. Kimmerly. J. Prown and W Harrison spent a few days at the howe of Jamés Ban- News of By Flinton, second Fhe Florence assisted while church, on Father Shallon, married to Miss An entertain- pas event. rag, Cathelie Rev, was occasion was Prof. -C. Deslslets, of Pennsylvania, «| from his 77 0. and A E. Deslslets, of Montreal, are viriting relatives around here. : F. Mcbonald, of Sudbury, arrived home this week, to visit his parents, My. and Mrs. James McDonald, Rev. T. Wallace and family arrived home last week, after a three. weeks' visit with friends at Kast Smithfield, I'a. His many friends will he pleased té know that he ix to be with them another year. Miss Anna B. Beatty is spending a few days with friends in Tweed. Misses Mabel Scott and Violet Loyst aml Messrs. John Kirkpatrick and An- deew Loyst spent the 12th of August af Arden Miss Lizzie Grant arrived home on Wednesday night, after a short "visit with friends in Madoc. Miss- Rackel Countryman, of Tweed, spent a few days here this week, vis- iting her uncle, William Beatty, Mrs, James "Juby, Master Kenneth aml Miss Clara, are visiting their mgny friends in and around Flinton. The many friends of John Rath, of Tweed, were sorry to hear of his death on the 12th mst. - Mrs. M. Pringle, of New York, is spending a few weeks with her son, John D. | Pringle. | Schpol opened at the Old Road, on | Monday, 10th, under the .mhnagement tof-Migs Maude Saul, of Camden East. Miss "Jessie Smith, of Actinolite, is {spending a few days with her sister, | Mrs. C, F. Frost. . TRYING TO FREE BROWN. Friends Are Circulating Petition For Reprieve. Hamilton, Ont., Aug. 15.--Banking circles are quite ggitated over an of- fort that is being made to secure the release of Hillhouse Brown, the bank manager who is serving a seven-year wntence for defalcationsg . saéid to. amount to about $150,000, although the bank never made public the exact Brown was manager of one of the Bank of Hamilton's local branches, and his aprest less than three vears ago caused a great sensa- tion. Pfominent mn have heen mak- mg a quiet canvass with petitions, to which they are trying to secuve names of large business anil financial | interests those asked to fsign have refused, although personal- ly they would like to see the ex-bank manager released, The Bankers' As sociation will oppose the petition, be- cause of the effect the granting of it might have. Banking men feel a re- duction of the sentence would not be in the interest of, justice or financial security. Brown, during his stay at Kingston, has devoted himself to music, and is a proficient organist. amount, many Some of Had A Good Picnie. Island, Aug. 15.--~John Pyke, of the island, has taken unto himself a wile, a young lady of Brockville They passed through here on, Wednes- day on their honeymoon trip te tho west. The picnic in Staley's groe, on Monday, was a success, In a recent game of baseball between th: twa in- land teams the foot boys showed the villagers that they had a lot to learn yet before they could play wich them, Phe score was 32 to 14 in favor of the foot. Miss Ness Spoor, Toronto, is home visiting her parents. W. F. 0' Connor, Toronto, at E. Briceland's. William Russell and D. Larush are home from Buffalo, where they have been sailing. Mrs. Robert White, Ro- ehester, N.Y, is visiting at Miss Mol- lie Moran's. D. McGlynn and J. S, Briceland has completed a job of painting on. the interior of No. 1 school. James Duffy has been in the Hotel Dieu, having a cancer removed s. Mrs. Jerome and daugh- ter, Maridn, Cape Vincent, are visiting' frienas at the village. Miss Sleemun, teacher of Ridge school, "as returned to take her position. Miss MeAvcy, Brownville, N.Y., is a guest of Miss Ola Hinckley. The dance on Friday, night, conducted. by Allen Mclaren, was well attended. Messrs. Crosby and O'Connor's orchestra was in at- tendance and a good programme was rendeted. Quite a number from "here intend taking in the Cape fair the iddle of next week. Fred. White- marsh has left for Arden to teach. D. Cattanach, of - the American side, is visiting his parents®in the village. Wolfe Fun In The Press. Pentver Republlkan. It may be wise to hunt, afar, a breeze And at a summer boarding table eat, {But a hammock, swung beneath one's backyard trees, Is hard to beat. ¥ may be wise to seek the ocean's foam Or go "Where fhountfin lireezes sven Tike wine" But just. the same, a rocking chair at ome Seems migh ty fine. It may bo Wise to camp, at fancy price Or lie where city nuisds pay beach 10 GENTS PER. PACKAGE. But Bone, Sweat Howe, whose never i the foe. 2