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Show BROKER GUARDS STOPHOLDUPS NEW YORK, riec r3 Holdup in the financial district of this city which lart year were of costly fre queace, are reported by surely companies com-panies to be decreasing This is partly because brokers have hired ex policemen and firemen to convoy ninners and messengers carrying valuable securities much as soldier laden transports were protected b) destroyers in war days. Also it is attributed to unrelenting prosecution of dishonest employes and mes-eii-g.-is by surety concerns which bore heavy losses during the orgy of rob- erics and embezzlements. In assigning these reasons for the 'fewer holdups. William A. tiriftin vice-president of the National Buretj company- said his concern and slmi- 'lar ones had spent several hundred thousand dollars in ferreting out and prosecuting men connected with the dishonest practices. I At police headquarters It was said the services of reining patrolmtn and firemen have been at a premium prem-ium since the surety companies ad ',,-i-i bnk rs to 1. r- iheru S. i.,l hundred of these ex service men have Wen employed in the financial j district. Some of the former patrolmen and iremcn . . i..-d as guards awd 'watchmen inside offices of financial concerns and others accompany mes-, mes-, sengera. Usually two of them pre-,1 pre-,1 the mi -' tigers and two lollow 'behind as thc go irnm banker to broker carry in? bonds, flocks and other BSCUllttea Financial or commercial com-erns which arc using this method of guarding their proper!) vhll U 'transit through the streets declare that it Is a vast improvement over the employment as mec.., ngers of UnreUahle youths about whom they know nothing. Some of thee young men have proved to be in conspiracy wi'h gangs ot hold-up mn and have notified them ot the opportunity to ;iage a rubbery that would hid a big haul ftft |