The Sunday Oregonian., February 09, 1908, Magazine Section, Page 10, Image 52

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 9, 1008.
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Captain James I. Donaghy. chief
of the detective bureau of Philadel
phia, is a fine type of the level-headed
investigators of crime of the present
day. lie has been In the department
for 30 years; he never wore a dis
guise of any kind In his life; he
Knows every rule of the game, and
has occupied every separate position
In the service from that of mtb-poHee-man
up to the responsible pest which
he now fills with signal miccess. Ho
was the conspicuous figure In the.
famous White murder case, although
he modestly disclaims the, credit, saying-
that the glory belongs to the
entire police force of the' Quaker City.
The story, outp.de of Its own Interest,
is Important as a fair illustration of
the unromantlc and businesslike meth
od now generally used in the de
tection of criminals in the iarge
cities of the United Slates.
ON tin: night of May 19, 1900, Pro
fessor Roy Wilson White, a fel
low of the law school of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvahia, and a lecturer
on Roman law at the famous seat of
learning, was mysteriously and brutal
ly murdered.
Professor White, although a man of
loss than 30 years of ace. had already
won an international reputation in hia
special branch of study. He was quiet
and unassuming in manner, and en
Joyed the reputation of being- the most
jmpular instructor at the university. So
far as known, he did not have an ene
my In the world, and the news of his
murder came as a terrible shock, not
only to his family and friends, but also
to the thousands of students with
whom ho had come into personal con
tact during the period of his tutorship.
On the day of the murder all of his
movements were accounted for from
the time, be said good-by at his home
In the morning- until the moment he
. left the classroom for the night. Dur
ing the afternoon h had a long talk
with one of his associates concerning
a work In which the two men were
mutually interested. He took dinner
alone at a small hotel near the uni
versity, and after that lectured to the
law class under his charge. He was
confident and enthusiastic, and never
appeared to belter advantage. About
10 o'clock at night he left for his home
In Germantown. a. suburb of Philadel
phia. He started in the direction of the
J'owelton-ftvcnue station of the Penn
sylvania railroad with the purpose of
boarding the 10:16 train.
Less than an hour later a policeman
vnlklng along Thirty-second 1 street,
adjolirlng the rallroao tracks, stumbled
against a body on the sidewalk. It
was quite dark in that section In fact
it was afterwards declared to be the
darkest spot In all of Philadelphia. The
officer flashed his lantern on thelnert
mass before him, and was shocked to
liud a man, mangled and bleeding. His
bead was crushed and he was uncon
scious. The pockets of the white vest
were turned inside out and his gold
watch was missing. The little green
bag that he always carried by his side
was snattered with his life blood. It
contained among other things a text
Tiook on "Pleading" a book from
which Professor White had been lec
turing that evening. Some notes on
sheets of paper which he had utilized
in his "Quiz" class were also in the
toag. A pocketbook contained a lite In
surance policy, an invitation to a class
reunion in another state and a sum of
money In greenbacks. A few yards
away, imbedded in the soft earth, was
an iron bar, quite thick, and about IS
Inches long. Jt was such a thing as is
used on the platforms of freight cars.
The disfigured body was removed
to the university hospital, and the best
medical and surgical aid summoned.
But it was too late; -the vital spark
had fied. a:id all that the professors
and students had left to them was the
memory of Hoy Wilson White's gra
cious life.
The shocking nature of the crime
seems to have aroused the authorities
Into instant and universal activity. Su
rerlntcndent of Police Quirk and Chief
of Detectives Miller held a consulta
tion to determine what should be done.
The Bicycle
Bicycles are coming In again. There
may be no doubt about it. This time they
are coming with a sane, nealthy revival
of an exercise and sport and a vehicle
of general utility. Manufacturers and
dealers in the two-wheeled, silent steed
supply rational reasons for the state
ment. For example: An Arch-street concern
that hiis been selling bicycles for more
than 20 years sums up the situation In
this manner. In 190J, from January to
January, It sold 435 new wheels. Thus far
this year, with seven weeits. Including
the Christmas season yet to come, it has
sold 1175 new bicycles, and these all of
one make.
Old Wheels Being Rebuilt.
Proportionate increase in trado is re
ported by other dealers and several of
the department stores who handle blcy
cles. The manager of one asserted that
even this increase might not be taken
as a fair indication of the 3egrcc of the
revival of interest in the bicycle.
Sal.l he:
"Thousands of wheels are being dug up
from haymows, cellars, attics and other
obscure places for storage to which the
wheel, in its sudden slump from great
popularity into general disuse some seven
years ago, was consigned iguominiously,
and are being brought to us for repairs
and rejuvenation. There are so many
of thetie wheels still In fairly good con
dition that a few dollars will make as
good as new. that the revival of wheeling
will have to be well advanced before
the trade in new wheels will even begin
to renew its former proportions.
"There may yet be no adequate ex
planation for tho swiftness and complete
ness in the slump of the bicycling trade.
The automobile had something to do
with it, but the percentage of automobiles
now In use Is very small in proportion
to the enormous number of bicycles when
nearly every person in the country
owned and rode one.
Bicycle Aid to Health.
"The wheel lost none of its value for
tho making of health. xIts importance -in
turning the American people from indoor
amusements to outdoor diversions may
never be overestimated. It Is the opin
ion of physicians that the one best form
of exercise for health is walking. But
our people, unlike the Knglish in this
respect, do not like to walk. It is too
slow. Tho roads are too poor a great
deal of the time for walking out Into the
country.
"The argument of bad roads does not
weigh with so much effect against bicycle
riding as it does against walking. The
speed of the wheel will get jone into the
country and back to home and business
In a reasonable time, at least. There is
a large proportion of physicians who
place the value of wheeling as an ex
ercise above walking.
"Agitation for good roads begun by the
Whiie they were talking, James A.
Donaghy, a member of the detective
staff, passed the open door of the outer
office." Quirk espied him.
"Hello. Jim," he cried.
It had been raining "cats and dogs"
all the afternoon. Donaghy enterei the
office watersoaked from head to foot.
"Whit's the matter with you?" said
Miller.
'you ought to know," was the re
Joinder. "Ycu sent me down to Media
to get a pickpocket."
"Did you get him?"
"Sure," was the rejoinder, "and got
soused in the bargain."
"Well," said Miller, "we've got some
thing bigger than a pickpocket to look
after now; listen."
Donaghy listened. And the more he
heard the more absorbed he became.
He forgot all about his wet clothes.
He forgot everything but a desire to
get on the irack of the man or men
who had so foully murdered an inoffen
sive gentleman. While, they talked a
newcomer Joined the group. It was
Robert J. McKenty, another member of
the detective staff, afterwards marked
out to be a member of the Mayor's
cabinet.
Donaghy, as a result of the confer
ence, Immediately started for the scene
of the murder. It has since been said
that the White tragedy was "his case."
He protests against this distinction. "It
was a case of team work," he says.
"Thirty detectives and over 2000 po
licemen -were engaged on - the White
case, and they made good." At any
rate, Donaghy made good because less
than an hour had elapsed before he was
in conversation with a youth named
Ralph Hartman, who testified that be
had seen two colored men near the
scene of the murder shortly after 11
o'clock, and had talked to one of them.
Pest of all, young Hartman, who had
intelligence beyond his years, was arfTe
to give a vivid description of the two
men. Hartman was employed as a mes
senger in the Powelton-A venue Station
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and knew
every foot of the. ground in that neigh
borhood. Donaghy felt instinctively that
the knowledge possessed by this boy
would prove to be the foundation on
which they would build their case.
He hastened back to the City Hall.
The doors of the little private office were
closed ' and for a long while Donaghy,
McKenty and Quirk had their heads to
gether. As a result of their delibera
tions a most singular order was tele
graphed to every police station in the
city of Philadelphia.
It was to arrest every colored man
found in or' near any railroad station,
ferry house, or freight yard within tho
the city limits. It was the biggest drag
net ever spread by the department. Don
aghy, in the meantime, continued his in
vestigations near the scene of the mur
der. Several conclusions were forced upon
him. One was that the murder was com
mitted for money and that the murderers
were startled and ran away before they
secured all of their booty. The foot
prints in the soft claylarge, . clumsy,
heavy-looking footprints Indicated that
more than one man had fled across the
road leading to the railroad tracks. The
dreadful manner In which they had mu
tilated the body proved that they were
brutes. Besides this Donaghy was con
vinced that they were men totally devoid
of education. He deducted this from the
fact that they had evidently not even
bestowed so much as a passing glance on
the books in Professor White's green
bag. It is a known fact that a man of
education or refinement Is irresistibly
attracted by a book. If a volume is ly
ing on a table even in ther house of a
stranger, ho can no more resist picking
ti up ana going mrougn tne pages than
a moth can avoid the: flame. The mur
derers evidently had not the slightest
curiosity toward the little work in the
green bag.
The detective's summary, therefore,
was that the crime had been committed
hy two or three men; that they were
negroes: that they were brutal and un
educated, and that the. motive was
money. How near he was correct shall
presently be seen.
The murder occurred on Saturday night.
Between that time and -Sunday morning
the 30 detectives and 2000 policemen
and Donaghy had been industrious. As
the church bells were calling the people
to worship the officers began to bring In
colored men from all parts of the city.
Is Returning
bicycle has been continued by the auto
mobile. The result Is thousands of miles
of Improved roadways in all parts of the
country, and these invite a return to the
wheel. Many men, among them Chaun
cey Depew, in advocating the automobile,
said that the American people want to go
fast, but they don't want to work in
doing it. That Is probably true to a
great extent, but it must be remembered
that nearly one-half of the work in
wheeling was dismissed by the invention
of the coaster brake. The great diffi
culty with that device was that It was
not invented until nearly everybody had
bought his wheel, and It was at first
an expensive attachment.
"If the coasting brake had been In
vented two years before It was there
would never have been the slump In the
bicycle there was. It might have come,
but it is certain It would have come
with far less suddenness. Nearly all the
wheels are now made with the coaster
brake,, and it may be attached to old
wheels for the Insignificant sum of 55."
Bicycle Popular In Europe.
In Europe the use of the bicycle never
became the abuse that brought that ve
hicle to its downfall in America. its
growth was not so sudden and Its use,
save for the absence of thousands of
cycling American tourists, has virtually
never declined. Trade statistics show this
fact. Referring to this phasu of the trade,
an Amerlcon observer recently returned
from Europe says:
"1 have seen more bicycles during
the last few months than I ever
dreamed were in all the world. From
tho tme I landed at Liverpool, till I
took ship for home at Cherbourg-, It
seems to me that I have been seeing
nothing but bicycles.- The roads are
black with them on week-days, and
they fairly clog the highways Sundays
and holidays.
"The remarkable feature is the uni
versal manner In which they are em
ployed commercially. The bicycle
abioad Is a commercial proposition
llrst, and a pleasure vehicle afterward.
At that there, are many more wheels
ridden for sport over there than there
are here; it hardly needs the evidence
of a holiday afternoon to prove that.
"It Is safe to say that all business
houses who3e product can be so deliv
ered, and 9) per cent of all other busi
ness Is, use the bicycle in some form,
or its first cousin, the tri-car. It does
not make any difference whether the
firm can afford to own automobile de
liveries or not; it will have trl-cars
and bicycles also. I. happen to know
one house of outntters for women
which not only has automobiles, horse
drawn vehicles and tri-cars, but two
or three safety bicycles as well. The
trl-cars are ready for an office boy to
use in a hurry, and the bicycles seem
to be kept for the use of all-hands.
"in England, even the banks have an
equipment of bicycles for use or the
IX. Captain Donaghy and the
They came from north and south, from
east and west. They came singly, they
came in pairs, they came in squads, and
when the Chief finally counted his pris
oners he found that he had 135 colored
men all suspected of the murder of Pro
fessor White. What if they were all
minnows, and the big fish had slipped
through the net? ,
Ralph Hartman, the youth, was on
hand to assist in the identification. He
was In a separate room and did not see
the prisoners as they were brought In
the City Hall. The authorities were
keyed up to a "high pitch. Everything
depended on the experiment they were
about ,to make. If it failed they would
be all at sea, and the ends of Justice de
feated. When the last of the prisoners had been
to Popularity
clerks and messengers, and they are
kept up in the same sort of style that
an English house -would care for its
horses. The wheels are Important fac
tors in everyday business life abroad.
Some day our commercial houses will
learn how valuable every minute of a
business day can be made, and we will
see bicycles and trl-cars in every store.
Staid old England is showing us the
way to hustle. .
"English-made wheels cost more
than oura, even without the extra that
the English rider wants and is willing
to pay for. For' Instance, one of tho
well-known British makers of bicycles,
but not regarded as a very high-priced
one, sends out a price list on which the
cheapest wheel is listed at $29.88 in
American money. This is without any
extras, and in the matter of construc
tion with ono ex'ecption is well
worth the money. The exception lies
In the tires,. which usually are much
poorer than we put on a moderately
priced wheel over here.
"Who buys the European wheel?
Well, every class that we have that
uses a bicycle linds Its counterpart on
the other side, and. in addition, there
are other classes that buy wheels by
the thousands where hero they are
bought by the hundreds. For instance,
bicycles are used by working men to
an extent that Is almost beyond belief.
At a German factory I saw a large,
shed built to house the bicycles of the
workers. Of more than 400 workers
employed 60 per cent came awheel."
Motor Cycles In Demand.
There is a rapid development of the
motor cycle trade also. These fully
meet the .American objection to the
work of self-propulsion. There are
several firms making motor cycles, and
they have been brought into a state
closely approaching perfection. The
mechanism has been made extremely
simple, with the chances of Its getting
out of order reduced to a minimum.
The cost also has been greatly reduced.
Such a machine of IS horsepower that
can travel more than 20 miles an hour
for a day at a time will weigh tout
little more than 100 pounds, and may
toe bought for $150, or less than . an
average road horse. For $200 a- fine
domestic machine that will travel 35
miles an hour may be had, and for
$240 one may buy an imported motor
wheel of three horsepower and great
Etrength. ,
Motor wheels of great speed aryi du
rability weighing only 75 pounds also
are on the market, but they are made
abroad and the duty of 43 per cent is
added to the European catalogue price.
One of the surest Indications of the
Increase in the ordinary bicycle de
mand Is to be found in the increase of
prices. A good, serviceable wheel may
be bought for $20, but tho better qual
ity of wheels have advanced in price
during the last year from $30 and $40
brought In the work of elimination began.
Donaghv and McKenty were intrusted
with this delicate task. Sdme of the
suspects were obviously out of the ques
tion. For instance, mulattoes were set
aside. So were several one-eyed persons.
So was a lame man. And the work kept
on until the list of possibilities was re
duced to 16.
These 16 were lined up with their hats
on and young Hartman was brought
into the room. It was a motley gather
ing. Probably 16 uglier men had never
been assembled before. They looked bru
tal and all of them seefned capable of
murder. Could the boy tell one from the
other? Could he Identify the man who
had spoken to him the night before?
Would he be confused? Would the
crowd puzzle him? ,
to $50 and $60. The highest-class
wheels that fell from $130 to $75 have
advanced to $130 In price.
Should the demand set In next Sum
mer, as Is now anticipated, it is quite
likely that It will bring a still further
Increase in prices. In any event, the
popularity of the wheel has so far in
creased that it is no longer unfashion
able to be seen riding one, and it would
not be surprising to see a return of the
old-time craze for bicycle riding, but
without the abuse of endurance and
sanity developed by the- mania for
speed and riding long distances, among
the greatest contributing causes to the
downfall from which the bicycle is now
recovering.
Fairy street.
Baltimore Sun.
Over the, length -of the land it lies.
Wide an'd beautiful 'neath the skies;
From morn to morn and rose to rose.
Over the hill and dale It joes:
A woodbine lane through woodlands green.
Where never a living soul Is seen.
But only shadows of rapture wild.
With lips of laughter of Little Child!
Over tha length of the land, ah, me,
The beautiful Fairy street t see.
Where tripping one and tripping two
The fireflies go In the Summer dew.
With little ladder to ellnih'and light
The lamps that stretch on left and rtght.
With glowworm globes that shine an hour
On the eerie dial of the while moonflower.
Over the length of the land it creeps
Between two twillgh-ts and two sleeps.
And no one knows that it Is there
Except my children of the air,
Who see what grown folks never see
When they go out to walk with me.
And we go down to Fairy street
All in the moonlight soft and sweet!
It Is smooth paved with velvet blooms.
And all its length the little rooms
Of fairy houses can be seen
Filled with the vine and berry green,
Policeman Plnchbug sternly stands
Beside the curb with folded hands,
Until Miss Ladybug comes by.
And then to help her o'er he'll fly!
All dfcy the Fairy street Is still
Just a green meadow and a hill,
A woodland border and a lane
Where robin pours his heart's refrain;
But in the twilight's saffron dusk.
Ah, then, the dandles, sweet with musk
Of lily and magnolia, come
To make the fairy city hum!
Over the length of the land it wends.
And no one knows Just where it ends;
For when the .firefly lamps are lit
And by the gleamin- hearth we sit,'
First near and clear, then far away
We hear the fairy trumpets play.
And soon the green street . seems to creep
Just miles and miles away In sleep!
The Runaway. .
Sam S. Slinson in Uncle Remus' Magazine.
I runned away fo go an' fight
The redfekin Injuns, jlst fer solte.
An' Gee! 1 corned an awful way.
I wonder what will mother say.
I bet sho misses me. all rlsht.
I -sorter miss her. too. tonight.
She's awful cross, but still I might
Forgive her say 'twas Jist in fun
I runned away.
Gee! Aint It dark! There's something white!
I ain't a-skeered that is. not quite;
But still 1 wish 'at It was day;
I'd hike fer home, an' there I'd stay.
I guess it sorter served me right
I runned away.'
White Case
"Ralphj" said Donaghy, "point out
the man who spoke to you on Thirty-second
street last night."
The boy looked over the row of negroes
fearlessly. His glance lighted on one and I
then another. Kverybody in the room
felt the strain. He was silent silent for
what seemed to be many minutes, but
what, in reality, was only seconds. Pres
ently he went over and touched a burly
negro on the shoulder.
"That's the man."
The fellow indicated gave a shudderand
rolled his eyes. All of the others in the
line heaved a sigh of relief. The marked
man began to protest.
" 'Deed, I aint done nuthin'."
"Who said you did anything?" asked the
detective sharply.
The man proved to be Henry Ivory. He
English Show
Tlt.Bits.
It Is a pathetic fact that there are
several men in the United Kingdom
who would consider themselves on the
brink of bankruptcy if they were re
duced, by any evil stroke of fate, to a
mere pittance of 1000 a week who
would find it simply impossible to "rub
along anyhow" on the income of a
simple millionaire, which would be
barely sufficient-in some cases to pay
the expenses of the lordly pleasure
houses which they have inherited from
their ancestors.
The Duke of Devonshire, for example,
has no fewer than seven of these stately
homes six in England and one in Ire
landeach of them fit for the reception
of a King, and not one of which, as he
confessed the other day, he has yet
lived In long enough to explore thor
oughly. Probably he himself does not
know within 1000 how much these pa
latial homes cost yearly to maintain,
but the annual cost has been said to
make a very big hole In 100,000.
In Wentworth Wood house, which is
only one of his four palaces, Lord Fitz
william owns the largest private, house
In England. It has a frontage of 600
feet, it hall is so enormous that four
suburban villas could be built Inside
It. and its owner could live in a differ
ent room every day for six weeks and
still leave several rooms unseen. The
Duke of Portland owns five regal homes
in England and Scotland, the value of
which runs into millions, and which,
with the attached gardens and estates,
keep hundreds of servants employed.
At Welbeck he has over 30 acres of
kitchen gardens alone; in the gla?s
houses and garden proper he employs
about 70 men and boys, and his horti
cultural bill for this one house is said
to exceed 6000 a year.
Blenheim Palace, tho Duke of Marl
borough's Oxford seat. Is so colossal
that the late Duke used to declare he
spent 800 a year on putty alone for his
window-panes. It actually cost 300,
000 to build In days when money was
more valuable than It is today; It is 348
feet long, has 15 staircases, and when
it was repaired some time ago hia
grace found It necessary to sell his
pictures and books to pay the cost,
which amounted to over 300,000. The
Duke of Northumberland owns live
stately seats, at one alone of which
Syon House. . Brentford a staff of 30
or 40 men is kept busy, largely in the
magnificent kitchen garden and fruit
houses. And yet the Duke spends only
a small portion of the year in this
princely home, the rental value of
which probably exceeds the Lord
Chancellor's official income.
The Marquis of Bute has five seats in
England, Scotland and Wales, and one
of them, Mountstuart, Rothesay, covers
an acre of ground, has do0 rooms and
has actually cost over 2,000.000. repre
senting, even at a modest 4 per cent.
1 '
had been arrested- at daylight on "the rail
road near Gerniantown Junction. He was
subjected -o a severe cross-examination,
and finally admitted being near the
Powelton-Avenue station the night before
and even acknowledged speaking to
Hartman, but protested vehemently that
he had nothing to do with the murder of
Professor White.
Ivory w-as short In stature, with skin as
black as anthracite coal, and very repul
sive features. Criminologists pronounced
him to be the lowest type of the un
educated negro. The detectives resorted
to every device known to the profession
to force a confesion from the man.
Finally, after an hour of the "sweating"
he blurted out:
'Well, I done told you I was there.
but it wasn't me that struck the blow."
He was put In a cell and Donagtiy and
his associates started out for more evi
dence.- They obtained a description of
the watch that had been stolen from
Professor White. The number of the
case was 39.875, and that of the movement
915,938. These numbers were telegraphed
to every pawn broker and every watch
maker in the city.
The response came much sooner than
was anticipated. A negro named "Buddy"
Brown was arrested while trying to
pledge the watch with a pawnbroker In
West Philadelphia. Brown said the
watch was not his, but belonged to a man
who had a room in his mother's house.
He had only lived there a few days and
had given "Buddy" the watch to pawn
for him.
The strange negro was promptly lo
cated and arrested. He proved to be
William Perry of Georgia. Perry was
not -very communicative at tirst, but final
ly admitted that he was in the neighbor
hood of Thirty-second street on the night
of the murder. He said that a third
man had been In his company. These
admissions, while Important, were not
conclusive. There were still links to bo
fitted in the chain.
At this period of the investigation a
new character came on the scene In
the person of John Deary, an employe
of the city water works. He had been
reading a great deal about the murder,
and he felt Impelled to step forward and
give his own experience on the night of
the murder. He had quit work at mid
night and was crossing the Glrard-avenuo
bridge when he met two colored men.
They stopped, and one of them asked
him for a match. One of these men an
swered the description of Ivory. Perry
he did not recognize.
While the authorities were browsing
over the evidence they had on hand,
they received .word that a number of
suspicious-looking negroes who had been
picked up on the railroad near Trenton
were now In the Mercer county work
house. Donaghy and McKenty determin
ed to go to tho New Jersey capital and
look at the men. They took young Hart
man and Leary with them for purposes
of identification. The colored men were
lined up in the workhouse Just as they
had been in the city hall In Philadelphia.
One of the negroes was a tall, shambling
fellow. He was stoop-shouldered and
knock-kneed, and otherwise lacking in
symmetrical beauty. Both Hartman and
Deary Immediately picked him out as one
of tho men they had met on the night
of the tragedy. He had given tho Tren
ton authorities the name of William
Fields, but afterwards admitted that his
right name was Amos Stirling.
' Stirling was taken from the line and
brought into a private room. Here he
was stripped, and it was found that li is
underclothes were covered with human
blood. When his attention was- called to
this damaging fact, he said unconcern
edly: "Oh, that's nothing; my nose was
bleeding."
Stirling was not in the state where
the crime was committed. Ilenco legal
formalities were necessary before ho
could be taken to Philadelphia. Don
aghy made an attempt to break the
record in the matter of requisitions.
He took a special train to, Harrlsburg,
went to the executive mansion and
roused Governor Ftone from a sound
sleep in order to get his signature on
the papers. From Harrlsburg ho has
tened back to Trenton, only to find
that some over-willing lawyer had
filed an objection to the removal of
the prisoner. Although trivial, it took
several hours to overcome. But In
spite of all the obstacles. Donaghy
"complied with all the formalities and
Places Burden
a value of 80,000 a year. One can eas
ily understand that his lordship's in
come of 230,000 a year .is not a penny
too much for the demands on it. Of
Lord Londonderry's four seats, Wyn
yard Park (Stockton-on-Tees) is 100
yards long, and boasts a sculpture gal
lery 100 feet long and 58 feet high;
while Goodwood, one of the Duke of
Richmond's four mansions, measures,
with its two wings, 378 feet, and re
quires about 60 domestics to keep It in
order.
Castle Howard, the splendid Yorkshire
seat of Lord Carlisle, has 125 rooms:
Raby Castlo stands on two acres; Staf
ford House, the town residence of the
Duke of Sutherland, gives employment
to some 60 servants, and co-ts about
.20,000 a year to keep going, and Eaton
Hall cost over il.OCO.OOO to build.
Such are but few of the "stately homes
of England." sonic of which are not.
seen by their lordly owners for more than
a few weeks, if at all. In a year, although
each of them costs many thousands a
year to maintain.
i It is said tiiat there are at least 60
, country homes in the United Kingdom
wnicn require a siaii. til liuiii i-j
servants, and Involve an annual bill for
wages ranging up to 20,000. and in many
of them the gardens alone account for
more than 5000 a year. How large are
the numbers of servants employed In
connection with these houses and estates
Is shown by the following example that
of a relatively modest establishment In
Suffolk: The total number of servants
employed is 173, and of these tho home
farm and stables require 54 and the
gardens 40; Indoor servants number 17,
keepers and night, men, 16; the parks
and lakes employ ten; tho brick kiins
nine, while there are seven carpenters,
four bricklayers, four warreners, three
lodsekeepers, three, painters and half a
dozen engineers, blacksmiths and wheel
wrights. This, it should be. remembered, is but a
second-class establishment, although its
wages bill reaches 8000 a year. Of still
smaller establishments there are about
600 in the United Kingdom, employing
between 50 and 100 servants, with wages
bills averaging at least 4000..
Expensive as country seats are to main
tain, vith a few exceptions such as those
mentioned, they are little more costly
than town houses. For a tiny house in
Park lane, such as would be procurable
in a London suburb for 60 a year, a
rental of 3000 is asked; while some of
the larger houses command a rent run
ning into five figures. In Grosvenor
square the rents range from 1000 to
0000 a year; in St. James' square you
may pay as much as an annual 10,000:
00,000 has been, paid for a house in Carl
ton House Terrace, and Lord Burton
game 150,000 for a house in South Audley
street.
And town and country houses are but
a part of the expenditure of the weallhy
class we are considering. A steam yacht
had his prisoner in the Philadelphia
city hall in Just 32 hours.
Three prisoners were now In cus
tody. Could they be proven guilty?
Two were silent. Stirling loudly pro
tested his innocence. Ho said that If
he were free he could prove an alibi.
"I'm free," rejoined Donaghy. "and
if you'll give mo the names of your
witnesse, I'll work it out for you. If
it's any good, I'll be the first to admit
it."
The negro finally said that a certain
lady of color, named Dolly Gray, who
lived In Harrlsburg, could prove Hiat he
was at the state capitol on the night of
the murder. Donaghy patiently traveled
up the state In search of Miss Gray. By
a certain humorous and yet grotesque co
incidence, the hajid-organs at that time
wore grinding out "Dolly Gray" by the
ream, and as Donaghy came to the little
street where the Dolly Gray of another
color lived, two street pianos, on either
end of the thoroughfare, struck up
"Goodby, Dolly Gray, I'm going to leave
you," with a vehemence that threatened
to turn an unusually affecting tragedy
into a roaring farce. Dolly, however, who
, weighed 300 pounds, calmly washed her
hands of Stirling and declined to assist
in proving his alibi.
On the very day of Ivory's arrest Don
aghy had taken him to the scene of the
murder. The, street where the body was
found was a little-traveled thoroughfare
and the footprints where the men had
escaped by leaping the little Iron fence
were still visible in the soft earth. The
right shoe was removed from Ivory's foot
and the. heel and too fitted to a nicety
into tho footprints in the railroad yard.
Tho marks were there as clearly as
though they had been stenciled.
In' the meantime evidence was piling
up In other directions. Mrs. Mary Boyle,
who was employed as a waitress in a
restaurant near Thirty-second and Mar
ket streets, testified that she had served
all three of the men on the day of the
crime. This was Important as establish
ing the fact that they were together. But
this was not all. A gardener, named
Lutz, said that earlier in the evening all
three of the negroes had surrounded him
at a point five or six blocks from where
the White crime was committed. They
did not use violence toward him. simply,
as he put is, "simply acted suspiciously."
He managed to elude them, however, and
thought no more of tho incident until he
read of the arrest of the negroes in con
nection with the murder ot Professor
White.
Within three weeks after the murder
Ivorv broke down and confessed every
thing. Ho said-that Perry, Stirling and
himself had met at the Buffalo Bill show
that afternoon and. comparing notes, had
resolved to get money at any cost. They
crossed tho Girard-avenue bridge and
went along the river drive until they
came to Thirty-second street. They had
Intended assaulting Dutz, the gardener,
but when he ran away they were too
Indolent to follow him. They little
dreamed that the man had nearly a
thousand dollars in his possession, or he
might have been the victim Instead of
the unfortunate professor. Finally Stir
ling picked up the Iron bar near the Pow-elton-avenue
station. They resolved that
he should assault the first prosperous
looking roan they met. Several persons
were permitted to pass unmolested. At ,
last Professor White w-as seen coming
along the dark street. Stirling turned to
the others:
"There's a guy looks as if he had
money."
Thev agreed with him, and 'the three
black-hearted scoundrels followed the
unsuspecting teacher. At a favorable op
portunity Stirling let the iron bar come
down with a crash on the skull of Roy
Wilson White. The man sank to the
sidewalk with a groan. The big brute
continued using tho iron bar until the
face of the victim was unrecognizable.
Then they went through his clothes and
got a few dollars in money, a ring and a
gold watch. The assassins went to a
nearby lot and divided the things. The
-watch was Perry's share of the. loot.
Perry corroborated the confession of
every "detail. Stirling denied It until the
last, but weakened within the shadow of
the scaffold. All three were tried, con
victed and hanged.
Their arrest and conviction was a big
accomplishment. Most people gave the
credit to James I. Donaghy. He smile?,
shakes his head and says It was simply
good "team work" on the part of the po
lice. to the Owners
may easily run away with 5000 a year;
a similar sum Is by no means uncommon
for a grouse moor and a deer forest; a
London season, witli its costly entertain
ments, may equally easily account for
10,000 and so on through the long list '
ot items which figure In the annual
balance sheet of the rich, and which are
considered as necessary to them as his
tobacco to a poor man. It is thus not
difficult to see how an income of even
100.000 or 200.000 may be dissipated, and
how aghast many a man would be if
he were suddenly brought face to face
with tho necessity of cutting down hia
expenditure to a pitiful 50.000 a year.
How to Get Poor Quick.
Success Magazine.
Do not try to save your loose change.
It is too small an amount to put in the
savings bank. It would not amount to
much, anyway, and there Is great com
fort in spending It. Just wait until you
get sufficient worth while before you de
posit it.
Do not try to economize. It is an In
fernal nuisance to always try to save a
few cents here and there. Besides, you
will get the reputation of being mean and
Btingy. You want everybody to think
you are generous.
Just look out for today. Have a good
time as you go along. Just use your
money yourself. Don't deprive yourself
for the sake of laying up something for
other people to tight over. Besides, you
are sure of today. You, might not be
alive tomorrow.
The Foray.
Baltimore Sun.
Oh. gallop, my heart, to the music of morn
ing. Swing to the sweep and the sweet of the
fray;
The hills are awake with the dawnlight'l
adorning
Away, o my heart, and away, and away!
Somewhere a love in it? prison is waiting;
Spur to the rowels, and over and on:
Down with the gates, and the bars, and
the grating.
UltliH-k tho shut love to the joy of the
dawn!
Oh, gallop, my heart, to the hillside and
ovr.
Past the green valley and ui from the
stream.
Breath of the wind bringing breath of the
clover.
Love in the . meadows of song, and of
dream i
On to the foray! The bugles arc blowing1.
On to the prison and set the love free
To walk in the lanes where the roses arg
growing
And brcezeK bring breath of the blossoms
to thee!
Away to the foray! The banners of beauty
Are stretching on the mountain and bright
on the held!
Oh, gallop, my heart, to thy love-laden duty.
Armed with the saber and flashing the
shield!
On to the prison where young love is wall
ing. Down with the bastions and over the
wall!
Awing and away on the wines ot loves
mating.
The dawn s on the hill and tho blooin
buglvs ca.il!