Show SCOTLAND YARD A little grimy archway on the left hand side as you walk from trafalgar square towards the abbey on the street ilat that governs england is the entrance to scotland yard against the pillars lean evermore two or three indifferently dressed men whose function it is to eye the passing public suspiciously THE SECRET SERVICE up to 1877 the london detective police was a close corporation on irresponsible and independent managed entirely from within in that year occurred the great detective scandal in which three members of the force were proven beyond all doubt to be in regular partnership with an organized gang of swindlers lers the usual remedy for all the ills that civilization is heir to was applied a royal commission namely and the present system is the outcome of the work done then by mr howard vincent plain clothes men were first put on the force in 1842 they rhey were formerly attached to each station now they are under the central control there are in sum mer time and in wl winter anter ter ranks being filled from the U for formed ni ed force still th these es ese e do make the body which is usually berred to as scotland yard T are a chosen cor corps ps of about ea eight men of whom each has the rank inspector about equivalent to tx lieutenant of chicago police ce th form a division by themselves eally the C 0 11 and are under the laj mediate command of the commissioner commissi of police of the ho hoich office their general duty is ia col CO fined to the metropolitan a area 4 I 1 they are constantly at work k on for the government I 1 a for foreign governments about twenty of the men are am e aloyed on political matters 80 sole and of these ten have made a 8 ty of irish affairs both in I 1 ire and america the political tec tives have the best beat of it T are in trusted with the sped spending ng the secret service moneys monea sa much of it of course is elpe without vouchers or acea accorn ou sometimes they receive h agne presents resents from foreign gove bolm a one london detective was fa 2000 in 1886 for information dished the russian minister 1 will wb is said to have saved th the e caara x j the secret service fund is a if one indeed it is as large ad aa home 0 office afi ce in may R y at a any ny t time itne mand in the years 1881 82 88 85 when dynamite activity y its ite worst bills for reaching were on several ve paid according to the ments of the Off officers leers the smaller sums from jelfo to are paid out freely to smaller i formers i THE MEN AND THE WORK the pay of the scotland d 1 men proper averages 23 or a a month a large salary london where five shillings a to is considered fair wages and expert nj clerks and salesmen are make 10 a mouth month B beside e W salary there is always a li libell traveling allowance and AU all x benses incurred in the line 0 of dui are paid without question vou are seldom asked for not even I 1 ditoto aed mccou accounts ats sometimes times them theae q expense bills are heavy especial when there are ocean voyages toe made the ordinary travel traveling lUX pend iture is about za 2 a day vt As the secret service Is political one function of 8 c 0 yard is the foreign corres correspondent poi a which is carried on invariably the language of the country to i from which the letters are am di direct As En glands relations cover whole world this part of the w is exceedingly interesting be alot translators who know w tongue under the sun are cons constad at work turning russian hi stani persian and chinese police english and there are also employed cryptologists who able to unravel the b bundee andesk ew ciphers and it is a fart that the of the english experts haab more than once called in baisl by russia and germany in this n we the cipher used by i f fifo ft itself fisele is the old movable keyword abe key generally being the name of the place to which the message is sent in 1883 a mail bag belonging to Ue british embassy was captured and a number of cipher messages taken some of which were afterwards printed in LeP le Varo in paris ad d copied into irish and english papers pe re one of these cryptograms to r show the system was as follows aaa a boa leaon euit bwee suddye p ngu baad mallu inu it is altogether probable that the words in this have been divided wrongly and those who have put in some time upon the of the letter believe that the letter cfall a l is a significant non signi fi cant which has been put in only for the purpose of confusing the improper inquirer rune the common police cipher used between the central office and the lower grade of off officers leers constables and the like in england and ireland ie simplicity itself it consists of a simple transposition of 1 letters for instance h for ack as ff and k for ch h 31 and so through the alphabet this code to is changed the first of each month sod nd a new key sent out from the central offices in london and dublin almost as soon as it is issued it foils alb into the hands of the national league langue people who also alao have their decipherers and for any security the cipher ciche ir gives after af ter the third or fourth of the month police ea might as well be written in ordinary english in cb cabling ling a code cipher is used which of course defies I 1 inspection A specimen of this received in new york runs thus ane able desert ocean chicago eawy silver ireland pv Bc etense topse abet of the english detective work jn in america is done through V fc but there are always three or four scotland yard amman the country chicago tri une |