The Sunday Oregonian., October 25, 1908, Magazine Section, Page 10, Image 54

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tional police forre for th rapture of
hi criminals and that day Is not far
d:xta-it.
Already the police net of the great
nation p. interlot-kinic, reach around the
world and the headquarters for most of
this inn tea te nd fascinating Interna
tional activity is New York.
Within a fw weeks the American me
tropolis will have hi operation the most
modern and important police headquarters
In existent , the logical center for this
remarkable world-wioV movement toward
co-op" ra live suppression of crime.
If this building had been designed for
tli control of the police work of the
nrld it could not have been better fitted
for the purpose, and. in fart. It Is plain
that the growth of international work has
not ben lost sight of in Its planning.
The loral force has already taken first
plac for efficiency In the capture of
criminals escaped from foreign shores,
so that New York has come to be t he
best place in th world for the big crooks
to keep away from, and metropolitan de
ttives are constantly traveling between
this and foreign countries, transferring
wrongdoers and studying methods. Very
c ro-operation already exists between
the various forces.
The greatest headiiuarters abroad is
Kngtand's famous Scotland Yard, a group
of buildings which together are larger
than New York's new building and which
have record of having handled loo.ono
prisoners and ticket-ot-leave men. But
all of Tendon's pidtce work centers in
Scotland Yard, whereas in New York
each borough, has a sub-headquarters of
Il own. Combining the American head
Quarters with th central stations of
Virooklyn. Bronx. Queens and Richmond
you have an aggregate unequalled in size
a the Manhattan headquarters is un
equalled in efficiency.
The cosmopolitan character of New
York's population has had much to do
with maklnir an international police cen
ter. With its rrimlnals from practically
every country in the world It has been
forced to employ men speaking practically
as manv languages and many more dia
lects and some members of the force are
kpt constantly at some school of lan
guages to equip them for special work
among the foreigners.
This alone has linked the department
. very closely to those of most of the for
eicit l nils. Within one hour after the
nuvpects in the murder of Father Kaener
Uemembrred as the trunk mystery) were
known to the New York detective bu
reau, the world had been circled by cable
with their full description. Within 24
liours they had been traced and they
were arrested t!te following week: one in
Marseilles, another in Constantinople and
a tinrd in Algiers.
International police co-operation has
a too gone far in the fight on the Black
Hand fiunchkist. Mafia, and other for
eign organizations of criminals. Several
Kuropean governments have sent- their
detectives to America and put them at
the service of the American officials in
thia work. This has already resulted in
the practical extermination of the Ar
menian Hunchkists. whwe outrages re
cently stirred the machinery of justice
to effective work.
Many a foreign criminal has rejoiced at
hi first glimpse of America only to find
on his arrival that his record had pre
ceded him. and Lieutenant Petrosinl or
one of hit staff is on hand at Quarantine
to apprehend and hold him, an operation
that lias been very effective in excluding
a vicious criminal clement from the
country.
"Tli cosmopolitan growth of our city,"
said Police Commissioner Bineham.
through his secretary, "has been so rapid
within the last few years that I hope
the day is not far distant when we
alia 11 have an international police con
gress, with representatives from every
country. We get many of the Kuropean
crooks here and soon every police chief
In the wxirld will be represented here.
"Une of the best results of sending po
ce officials abroad was the importation
of the police dogs from Belgium. The
animals have already done good work in
the outlying districts."
New York's new police headquarters la
St'S feet long, SO feet wide at one end and
i feet wide at the other. The architec
tural scheme Is the Georgian style of the
JSth century; a hairdsome building radi
cally different from that usually asso
ciated with police work. On the central
dome Is a wireless telegraph apparatus,
so that the police may be in communica
tion with .incoming and outging ocean
steamers. It Is also to be used In the
very unlikely event of the structure being
beseiget by a mob and the telegraph
wires rut.
The two top stories will be used as an
armory and drill room for the force, and
in cae of emergency a thousand men
sn be concentrated there, and If neces
sary kept over night and fed from the
Ivg kitchen ranges downstairs. In the
atinory proper will be ail the weapons
necessary in the defense of the city
against a not. even to galling guns.
In the sub-bsement. '& feet below the
street level, are two modern Army
shooting ranges, each 75 feet long and
fully equipped with markers. Here are
also located the magazine rooms, lockers
, and a large assembly room for the men.
The young recruits who are to be trained
to police work here practice flying shots
a: an automatic dog or fleeing burglar.
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of the New York policeman s woki
points, but it need be no longer.
In the basement arc a number of cells
for male and femalo prisoners and sev
eral lanne steel eapes to be used as "as-6-
mbly" cells. Here also is one of those
novel features of which there are a num
ber In this buildins.
.
A driveway has been constructed
from the Broomc-street end of the
building between the curb arid porte
cochere, large enough to permit two or
three wagon loads of prisoners to be
taken directly to the cellroom without
coming In contact with anyone other
than the officer in charge. After the
prisoner has been turned over to the
turnkey, he may be taken to the Com
missioner's room or to the head of the
detective bureau or to the pltotograph
ers in fact, anywhere In the building
through a labyrinth of secret corri
dors and never be seen nor see any
except the guards. . There U also a
large storeroom and several safes for
the use of the property cleric in this
part of the building, where a carload
of merchandise may be stored. At the
southern end of the buildins is a
lounging-room for detectivrs attached
to which are shower baths, lockers,
dresslng-roonw and a dormitory for
the men on night duty.
On the ground level In the main sec
tion will be the entrance for the public.
Above the pillars that crown this main
entrance will be figures representing
the five boroughs, the colossal figure
of Manhattan being the centerpiece,
directly over the doorway. The new
rogues- gallery will be on this floor,
with the photographs and records of
tens of thousands of crooks, and In the
adjoining rooms, the museum of crimi
nal cariosities, the bureau of records
and. Identification, with the appliances
for the Bertillon system and thumb
Identification. This Is the room In
which the dreaded third degree comes
to those suspected of concealing the
truth to save themselves or some "pal."
The police library, the only one In the
world, will be located here. This room
is to contain books of criminal law,
histories of police and crooks from the
four corners of the earth.
But the real heart of the police ac
tivities Is on the second floor, where
Commissioner Bingham and his staff
will have their offices. General Bing
ham's room la an Imposing chamber In
the Georgian style, and Is reached with
the offices of the Deputy Commission
ers. Chief Inspector. Chief Clerk, rec
ord and filing department and the
bureau of maintenance and repairs.
Of special interest will be the office
of the Kourth Deputy Commissioner,
Arthur H. Woods, who has charge of
the detectives of all the boroughs. His
room adjoin a large assembly room,
where a prisoner Is put on exhibition
before the "sleuths." who are masked.
Just to the rear of the desk has been
arranged a secret booth, large enough
to accommodate two persons. The side
of the booth facing the prisoner la
built directly Into the wall, and the
svreen through which he Is observed Ib
hidden by an Ingenious arrangement
of lights and reflectors. Back of the
screen and inside the booth a telephone
has been placed In direct communica
tion with the officer at the desk,, and
through this the observer may recfuest
that the prisoner may be turned or as
sume any other position to Insure Iden
tification. From this room, and leading
directly to the cells In the basement
Is a private stairway, down which the
prisoner can be taken without being
exposed to visitors in the hallways and ,
corridors. '
An underground passage connects
headquarters with a apeoial spur of the
Subway, built to carry prisoners to and
from the Tombs, free from observation
of the crowds.
"These details of construction," said
Mr. Hoppin, the architect, " we bor
rowed from foreign police systems. The
officials complained that there is too
much publicity given to a prisoner
here. He has too many chances to be
In the open. In Europe, from the time
he Is arrested until released, he does
not see the outside world. He passes
through byways and passages forbidden
to the free man. The patrols which
bring the prisoners In here now will
deposit them inside the building, and
they will be washed, photographed, ex
amined and confined In their cells with
out being seen by the public.
"Everv effort has been made to Im
press both the officer and prisoner with
the majesty of the law. For Instance,
the police trial room will be as Imposing
as those of the higher courts. There will
be a friese around the ceiling represent
ing the old night watch of Colonial times,
and the fittings will be in keeping."
An innovation In the new police head
quarters, though not a foreign idea, will
be the map room whereby a series of
large maps and diagrams of every pre
cinct of the city will be shown with their
streets and Important buildings drawn
. 0io -Rv a. svstem of small moveable
flags the Commissioner will know the
exact place where the patrolman on posi
should be at any time during the day or
night.
Publicitv of criminal cases has been
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prevent this the reporters assigned to
"cover neanquanera uvo
with a large room wherein the available
police news of the hour will .be bulle
tined. . , .
Two complete telegraph and telephone
svstems have been installed so that
should one of these become disabled the
other can be used in the emergency.
One of the most interesting depart
ments of the Detective Bureau te the
Rogues' Gallery, which contains the rec
ords and pictures of from 30.000 to 40,
000 criminals. It is only within recent
years that the police have begun to real
lie the importance of this department of
the sen-ice. Not only do they photo
graph and take measurements of all
criminals, but since the days of Sergeant
Thomas Adams, they preserve clippings
from all newspapers which In any way
throw light upon the career of criminals
and preserve them for reference.
Two specialists police lieutenants are
on hand at every hour of the day assist
ing the men of the department in giv
ing clews, as well as collecting records
of beginners in crime. Frequently these
records are loaned to the judges of the
Criminal Courts before sentence Is
passed on old offenders, so that they may
be informed of their ca,reer in crime.
This branch of the Bureau is about 30
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years old and Is of immense importance
to the Department.
The curiosities of crime, to be shown
In the Museum of Criminal Curiosities,
are most Interesting. , These consist of
dark lanterns, jimmies galore, ancient
and modern jimmies, knives, dirks, ra
zors, pistols, guns, gold bricks, burglary
tools, skeleton keys and several hundred
other devices used by criminals.
The Bertillon system of identification
of criminals, so long in use In this coun-
try and Europe, is now being discarded.
The new way of identifying criminals Is
by the thumb print and measurement.
This system is being adopted in all civil
ized countries. Those who have made a
study of the system say that only two
EARRINGS IN FASHION ONCE MORE
They Will Be Screwed On and Are Expected to Make Their Appearance in New York Next Month.
AGAIN the earring is received in
the highest social circles of thia
country as well as of Europe.
Ten years ago, after a decade or so
of steadily waning popularity, it dis
appeared from the jewel box of the
smart New York woman and girls con
gratulated themselves because having
one' ears pierced was no longer a
fashionable necessity.
Nowadays it is possible to wear ear
rings without being obliged first to
mutilate the ear. Most of the new ear
riniri ure finished with a screw back.
which clasps the lobe of the ear so
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away if it tried.
"Screw the thing until it hurts," a
jeweler said, "and there Is little or
no danger of the ornament slipping
from its place. Women who object to
enduring pains for hours at a stretch
even in so worthy and becoming a
cause have the choice of course of
having their ears bored or going with
out earrings."
Curiously enough, leading Jewelers
disclaim all responsibility for the re
turn of the earring. They could not
prevent its decline in fashion and Its
return to popularity has been a mat
ter of growth, first among the women
of Europe, and then among their Amer
ican sisters. Now the earring seems
to be here to stay.
From the specialist In precious stones
of a famous New York jewelry estab
lishment the Impression was gained
that the opening of the opera season
thi Autumn will mean the opening of
an exhibit of ear ornaments, including
rare varieties of pearls, diamonds and
other precious stones, made up in flex
ible drop designs from one to one and
one-half inches long when diamonds
alone or diamonds in conjunction with
other stones are used, and in round
designs, worn close against the lobe of
the ear, when large pearls with an
inconspicuous diamonds setting or no
setting at all are used.
Thus far there has been no attempt
to revive the once popular large soli
taire diamond earring. At present the
pear-shaped pearl and the pear-shaped
diamond are easily the most admired
stones for the drop design, both black
and gray pearls being tremendously
popular with women who have long
purses, for the reason perhaps that
they are uncommonly rare.
To find a pair of perfectly matched
pear'-shaped black pearls is anything
but easy, the expert said.
"Occasionally," he went on, "after
getting one of the required shape and
price we wait several months before
we can match it. Some days ago I
read a fashion note, copied from a
London paper, which stated that there
was a craze for blacK pearls an ut
terly Impossible state of things, for the
reason that there never can be a craze
for anything that is so very scarce.
"I know of one very fashionable
woman who wears a black pearl in one
ear and a white pearl In the other ear
because It was her luck to secure one
very beautiful black pearl which at the
moment had no mate. Sooner or later
in all probability the owner will want
a second black pearl. Another customer
of-ours wears one black and one white
pearl simply in order to appear odd."
A pair of round gray pearls of high
luster, framed with one row of tiny
diamonds and fitting close to the lobe
of the ear, are the earrings ordered
by a New York woman just back from
Europe. The cost of this pair was
J3000, a sum not extravagant, when
compared with the $10,000 asked for a
pair of black pear-shaped pearls per
haps a trifle more than a third of an
inch long, depending from a tiny bow-
knot of very small diamonds topped
with a small solitaire. The -length was
about one and one-half inches.
A rare pair of smailer black pear
shaped pearls pendent from an open
work design of small diamonds cost
$5000. As an instance of the price some
women are willing to pay for perfectly
matched white pearl earrings the jew
eler showed a pair measuring nearly
half an inch in diameter and of ex
quisite luster which were valued at
$20,000.
The market value of a single half
inch American pearl found in a West
ern river and almost perfect in sheen
and shape is $36,000. The jeweler added
that It Is not improbable that a cer
tain ' very rich American may ask to
have this pearl matched for earrings.
Two pea-sized pearls connected with
a slightly smaller diamond set in a
fine mesh of diamonds was indicated
as a design favored by young women.
The price was $800, and none but a
connoisseur would know that the com
paratively moderate price meant that
the pearls are not of the best quality
or discover why two other similar de
signs, valued at $1500 and $1800, were
not included in the flawless specimens.
Luckily for women not of unlimited
means the smallest flaw in the shape
or the color of a pearl drops its price
several hundred dollars. An Illustra
tion of this was a beautiful pair of
pear-shaped pearls, more egg-shaped
than pear-shaped, though, and a trifle
irregular at that, pendent from a flex
ible chain design of very small dia
monds, the price of which was only
$875, whereas perfect pear-shaped
pearls of equal size and luster would
fetch at least $8000.
Aside from the pendent designs in
pearl earrings, the many varieties
made of baroque pearls are perhaps one
of the most interesting features of the
earring collections, even in high-class
stores.
thumbs in every 64,000,000 are the sama
Recently the Commissioner sent a detec
tive sergeant to London and France to
study It more fully so that it may super
sede the Bertillon system altogether In
New York.
Belonging to the genuine pearl fam
ily, the baroque, failing to develop
symmetrically or to acquire a certain
standard of polish, is disqualified from
entering the upper class of pearldom.
Its surface is usually irregular, some
times bumpy. It is not uniform in
color and seldom has the eheen or
the tint associated with the finer
pearls. There are bronzes and pinks
and other tints among the baroques in
size, to suit the most extreme taste.
"We can't get them big enough o
suIL some young women," a Jeweler
said in speaking of the vogue of this
style of earring, the most popular de
signs of 'Which vary in size fromthree
eighths to three-quarters of an inch in
diameter and are mounted on platinum,
with or witnout one small diamond at ,
the top, and cost from $35 to $253 a
pair. Platinum is the preferred mount
ing for all the new earrings, and when,
as happens in nearly every pendent
design, small stones are used, mil
grain setting, in which the stones are
sunk flush with the edge of the plati
num. Is the most stylish.
Anything more beautiful in the ear
ring line than some of the pendent dia
mond examples can hardly be imagined.
For one thing they are as flexible as a
piece of lace, every stone, however small,
being articulated. There are no claws
or projections to catch on neckwear or
the coiffure.
Pear-shaped briolct cut diamonds from
a third to half an inch long are a no
ticeable feature In these. In one exam
ple the narrow end of the pear was fit
ted into a cap of smal ldiamonds and
the pear was suspended from a fancy
design of small brilliants, pert.aps 200 to
the carat, above which, next to the ear.
was a small solitaire. The earring was
about one and a quarter inches long.
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And halts amid the cheers.
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His words are far from plain:
And then the engine hoarsrly shrieks
And drag, aay the train.