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Uncle Sam's m m
& m Secret Service
Work of Government Detective Bureau, Which Is Bone o'
Contention Between Congress and the President.
Sketch of John E. Wilkie, Chief of Sleuths.
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By JAMES A. EDGERTON.
HERE is no government depart
ment concerning which less is
known than the secret service.
At the same time there Li none
about which there la greater public
curiosity, which Is Just now
ed by the row between the
and the congress.
The secret service la Undo Sum's
Sherlock Holmes. It catches counter
feiters and now and then bags a con
gressman or senator who has not boon
content with making laws, but has
started to breaking them also, thus
working both ends of the line. It was
this feat of getting a few legislators
into jail that caused nil the trouble
between Mr. Roosevelt and the present
Besslon. Congressmen do not like to
be Imprisoned, for which we can
scarcely blame them, considering the
other inflictions they have to bear,
such as associating with each other
and listening to each other's oratory.
President Roosevelt charges In ef
fect that it was because the secret
service had exposed Senator Mitchell
and an Oregon representative in the
land fraud cases that congress cut
down the appropriation for the secret
service nnd prohibited Its uso outside
of the treasury department, whereat
certain members of the house, dignified
senators and others not so dignified
regard themselves as grossly insulted.
Come to think of it, there Is something
in the nature of a personal insult in
sending a man to Jail or even In inti
mating that ho ought to bo there,
though most men do not base their
objection to imprisonment on this
ground. Now, the president did not
say that all members of congress
should go to Jail, but only that the law
they had passed helped nobody but
criminals, and the chief argument In
its favor was that It keeps members of
tho two houses from being Investigated
and prosecuted.
He went further and Intimated that
All of these things nud r.ov.o ether
made congress forbjd t'u- further lend
tag out of HuwUslinws. There arc
Stories and cartoons to the elret t lint
a governmental spy system In-; jrrewu
up In Washington. This the ud.uhiis
tratlon denies, but at any rate there
Will be an Investigation.
Willrie Started as lijportor.
The head of the secret sorvi'-e start
ed life as a reporter. He lsj John K.
Wilkie of Chicago, son of n famous
newspaper man in his day who was
Wilbur V. Storey's chief editorial writ
er on the Chicago Times. Young Wil
kie started as n file and police report
er and was so Intensely Iir earnest In
tho role that ho bought n fireman's
helmet and out lit and went to all the
fires to help out, receiving much chair
ing therefor both from tho real fire
men and the other reporters. Ale show
ed the same spirit in his pence report
ing nnd in nt least one instalice sue
ceeded in unearthing a sensational
crime. A store burned In a manner to
show that It was fired by Incendiaries
The proprietor was out of town nt the
time, but came in on a train soon aft
er. In rummaging about through the
ashes Wilkie came upon a charred
photograph, evidently taken of the
owner of tho store when a much
younger man, but on the back of
Which was a Philadelphia address and
a name different from that by which
the merchant was then known. On
being confronted" with this witness
from tho past the man supposed the
Jig was up, broke down and confessed
that he had set fire to his own store,
using a time fuse flint would allow
him to get out of town. This was not
the only piece of BlierlocUholmeslng
done by the young police reporter.
Every available moment be was loung
ing around detective headquarters
picking up Ideas.
Some time later the elder Wilkie was
placed In charge of the London bu-
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TttAr; four niuntba, 9U tiuldbyatl TtownciA)orK
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if thpy lmd records that would not
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they might exempt themselves by a
ppeelal provision, but uhonld not crip
ple the wliolo detective agency of the
government. That is talking some,
even for Roosevelt. Congress waited
n few days, und then tho senate passed
some mild mannered resolutions, adopt
ed amid oratory not so mild and ac
companied by thoughts positively un
speakable, directing the committee on
appropriations to lnvestlgato the secret
service, the message and everything
else with n handle on that looked as if
it could be used to cause trouble. Tho
house merely asked hliu for the facts
on which tho president based his state
ments, evidently wanting hlin to show
his hand before it did any blulllng.
Tho head-on collisions tho house has
had with Roosevelt on former occa
sions have apparently taught it cau
tion. Hunted Down land Frauds.
The secret servleo proper belongs to
the treasury department, mid its chief
duty Is to catch counterfeiters. For
twenty years, however, it has been the
habit of the chief of the servleo to
end his men to other departments
wherever needed. Among those so
borrowing Uncle Sam's sleuths was the
secretary of tho interior, who used
them In hunting down land frauds. In
which they gathered In the Untied
States senator and congressman fore
mentioned. It Is also whispered 1 lint
the secretary of the navy used one of
the detectives In hunting down an lib
Rent naval official, and tho place where
he was found laid the basis for a di
vorce suit. That caused another row.
reau of the Chicago limes, ana tne
son accompanied him, each of them
sending several columns of cables and
letters every woe!;. One day Storey
fired the eii-c' V."i!: I by cable, nnd
tho sou went to the head of an Ameri
can commercial agency in London,
where he remained almost two years.
Returning to Chicago, ho re-entered
tho newspaper Held and soon became
city editor of tho Tribune. Frank E.
Vanderllp was llnaiulal editor of the
paper at tho same time, and the two
became chums. When Lynmn J. Gage
was made secretary of tho treasury
he took Vanderllp along as private sec
retary und in n short time made him
assistant secretary of the treasury.
Vanderllp remembered his friend Wil
kie, tried hi m out on some work for
tho government and succeeded In get
ting him appointed chief of the secret
service. This is the story of John E.
Wilkle's rise ns I have it from tho lips
of n newspaper man who used to work
with him as a police reporter. While
n:ion of It lias seen the light, I think
it has never been printed before In all
its details.
"Secret Service" True to Name.
In olllce Mr. Wilkie Is one of the
most democratic and easily accessible
of all government employees. There
nro two rooms in the treasury building
with the legend "Secret Service" over
tho door. Anybody can walk right In
nnd will usually find Chief Wilkie in
his shirt sleeves going over reports or
considering some knotty case. In the
same room is bis assistant, V. II. Mo
ran, and In the adjoining room nro a
number of clerks. Nothing mysterious
about all this, but the most prosaic
mid matter of fact routine of every
day. Yet the visitor will make a mis
take If ho jumps at conclusions. Let
him try to lind ourwho are the detcc
:ivos employed by the bureau and he
rt'ill begin to understand that the word
"secret" Is not u false label. Nobody
outside of Wilkio, Moran and possibly
one or two others knows the names of
these men, what they do or even how
many of them there are. They go
about as ordinary citizens, never dis
closing their connection with the de
partment, except to police ollicials, dis
trict attorneys or others who may help
them. As they are shifted around the
country and passed fihiu department
to department, the criminal element is
thus left in JJJo dark ns to the identity
of the men with whom they have to
cope. There are thirty-seven branch
secret service offices throughout the
nation and probably a couple of hun
dred men empWyed. Not only coun
terfeiting cases, but violations of the
internal revenue laws, of the anti-trust
luws, of tho land laws, of the postof
fice regulations and of the thousand
nnd one details of governmental rules,
may come In for investigation at their
hands. Rather they might havo done
so before congress Interfered. Now
the service Is handicapped, nnd there
is Joy among the crooks In conse
quence. The secret service man of fact and
tho secret service man of fiction are
about as much alike ns a real estate
agent's description is like the dirt he
sells you. The detective of romance
is wonderfully made, with a brain like
a machine and a personality that to
tho average American boy looms big
ger than that of the president. The
real detective But why shatter an
ideal? I never knew anybody the
worse for believing in Santa Glaus,
and the popular conception of the aver
age sleuth not only delights the ju
Tenlle heart nnd some hearts that are
not Juvenile but possibly scares some
would be criminals into being decent.
Sleuths' Strenuous lives.
Fairy tules aside, there are spots in
the lives of most secret service men
that are sufficiently exciting for "inel
lerdrammer." It Is a wise one among
thein who knows what his next as
signment will be, whether to run down
a gang of counterfeiters, look for
moonshiners in the Carolina moun
tains, trace land steals among the cat
tlemen or lumbermen of the west or
break into world politics by spying on
a foreign government or shadowing
the spies of a foreign government here.
One of Chief Wilkle's uotublo achieve
ments was in breaking up the spy sys
tem maintained by the Spanish gov
ernment In America during the late
war. No; the life or Uncle Sam s de
tectives is not without adventure nnd
movement. For example, one of their
many duties is tpguard the president
of the United States and accompany
him every time ho sets foot outside
the White House. With the cross
country gallops aud tramps through
blizzards nnd rainstorms Indulged in
by the present chief executive, this is
not the mildest of occupations. The
strain on those detailed for the leg
racking duty will prollubly ease down
after March 4. Now their lives seem
like one long dream of looping the
loops and bumping the bumps.
In their ordinary work of detecting
crime the secret service men are divid
ed Into two classes, "shadows" and
"ropers." A shadow follows a suspect
In nil his comings and goings. It is
not nn easy task for the reason that
the shadowed one must never have the
faintest hint that nny one Is on his
trail. Roping is still more difficult.
Here tho detective becomes a boon
companion of the criminals, learns
their secrets and collects sufficient evi
dence to convict them. In doing this
ho must havo no scrap about his per
son that would reveal his identity.
The old idea of disguises has largely
passed out. Indeed, It never had ex
istence among real detectives outside
the lids of novels. Change of garb
and the perfection with which a de
tective lives up to the character as
sumed furnish all the disguise neces
sary. That Is the beauty of a service
made up of members unknown to the
criminal element. Few of Chief Wil
kle's men were originally detective's.
Many of them enme from the claims
departments of railroads and express
companies. They are from all walks
of life Indeed, chosen after the most
rigid scrutiny Into their characters and
fitness for (he work. One of the most
famous of their number Is William J.
Burns, concerned In the land fraud
investigations nnd now in the Snn
Francisco graft Inquiry. Burns is not
now in the secret service, having re
signed to help Ileney fight Schmitz and
Ruef.
Vast, Complicated System.
Mr. Wilkie assigns these men much
ns he assigned reporters when on the
city desk of a newspaper. The prin
ciple Is the same, although the sys
tem Is in finitely more vast and com
plicated. The men work under tho di
rect supervision of the various depart
ments to which they are assigned or
under tho subordinate secret servleo
bureau In whose territory they hap
pen to bo placed, although tho Wash
ington bureau keeps track of them all.
In this way the head of the system has
a more thorough Inside view of the
workings of the entire nation than
nny other one unin outside of the pres
ident nnd his cabinet ndvlsers.
What will be the upshot of the pres
ent Investigation no man can tell. The
most probable outcome, certainly the
most sensible one. would involve a
consolidation of nil tho detective agen
cies of the government under tho de
partment of Justice. It would do nway
with the fiction of shifting men from
department to department, would save
time and avoid confusion nud would
make It Impossible In future to crip
ple this most Important governmental
agency through congressional interference.
ELIOT'S JIG 'TRIP.
Wonderfully Strenuous Program
For Harvard's Aged President.
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TRAVEL AND MANY SPEECHES
Tour of Two- Months Through tho
Southwest and South of the United
States Guest at Several Harvard
Club Dinners To Bo Accompanied
by His Wife.
On Feb. 7 President Charles W. Eliot
of Harvard university, nho is seventy-four,
leaves Cambridge, Mass.,
for two mouths on a trip through the
southwest and south. Mrs. Eliot will
accompany hlin.
On Feb. 8 he attends a dinner of the
Harvard club of Buffalo at Buffalo,
ne proceeds the next day to Chicago,
where he speaks on the evening of
the 10th before the Religious Educa
tional association on "The Ethics of
Industrialism." The next evening he
attends the dinner, of the Harvard
club of Chicago. On the 12th of Feb
ruary he journeys by day to Minne
apolis and spends tho 13th and the
11th in the Twin Cities, Upon the
evening of the 13th he will be pres
ent at the annual dinner of the Har
vard club of Minnesota. He intends
also to visit the University of Minne
sota nud Ilamllne university. He
reaches Chicago again on the morn
ing of the 15th and leaves that even
ing for Nashville, where he will he
the guest of Chancellor Kirkland of
Vanderbllt university until the even
ing of the 17th. He then takes a night
Journey to Memphis, where he breaks
tho long trip from Nashville to Dallas
by spending the night of the 18th at
Memphis, -and reaches Dallas on the
evening of the 20th.
At Dallas he spends two days and
on the 23d proceeds to College Station
to spend twenty-four hours at the
Agricultural aud Mechanical College
of Texas. On the 24th he journeys via
Hearne from College Station to Aus
tin, where he spends the whole of the
25th. While there he will spend some
time at the University of Texas as a
guest of Tresident Mezes, '00, Til. D.,
'03. He ruus down from Austin to
Snn Antonio early in the morning of
the 2Gth to be present at the dinner of
the Association of Northern and East
ern College Men In the Southwest on
that evening. He leaves San Antonio
about noon on the next day and reach
es Houston late in the afternoon. That
city will be his headquarters for the
next three days, one of which he will
undoubtedly spend in Galveston. On
the 3d of March he journeys by day to
New Orleans.
In New Orleans he attends th(; diu
ner of the Harvard Club of Louisiana
on the 4th of March, visits the State
university at Baton Rouge on the 5th,
delivers the founders' day address at
the Tulaue University of Louisiana at
2 p. m. on the flth and attends the an
nual Tulane dinner on the same even
ing. The next day he spends in travel
lug to Montgomery, where he remains
for the next twenty-four hours. The
week of the 0th to the 10th, both in
clusive, ho will pass nt Birmingham,
Tuscaloosa (where the University of
Alabama Is situated), Atlanta, Athens
(at the University of Georgia) and on
the road to Charleston. The 17th and
18th he remains In Charleston and pro
ceeds on the 101 h to Columbia (Univer
sity of South Carolina) for the night.
Leaving Columbia early on the morn
ing of the 20th, he stops a few hours
at Spartanburg (Wofford college) and
finally arrives nt Asheville, N. C, late
that evening. s
During the 21st and 22d he remains
ut Asheville nud leaves there early the
morning of the 23d to spend that uight
at Greensboro. Early on tho morning
of the 24th he makes a short trip to
Guilford college nnd then goes on to
Durham that afternoon. He stays at
Durham until the 27th, visiting Trinity
college at that place and the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
near by. On tho 27th ho proceeds to
Richmond, where lie stays over Sun
day aud Monday, March 28 and 29. On
the 30th he goes on to Washington,
where he attends the dinner of the
Harvard club of Washington on fhat
evening. From Washington the next
day ho goes to Baltimore, where he
speaks. at the dinner of tho Harvard
Club of Maryland. On April 1 he pro
ceeds to Mfirristown, N. J., where he
visits the Morristown school and at
tends the dinner of tho Harvard Club
of NelN Jersey. On April 2 he ad
dresses the Friday Evening club of
Morristown. He reaches Cambridge
the following day, April 3.
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