| Show FOK WALL STREET AND BIG BUILDINGS CLOSELY GUARDED why men of doubtful and questionable appearance are prohibited from delae inside of new yorks recognized money center the equitable building is one of the largest general office buildings in the world its actual floor space is about square feet equal in extent to eight or ten city blocks it is a busy bustling city in itself and is occupied by nearly tenants A special police force of seven men are constantly on duty in the halls and corridors they are under the command of ex detective sergeant dusenbury who for nearly thirty years was on the detective force of this city and was oae of the best known and most successful of inspector barnea staff there aro few men who have a wider acquaintance with the outlaws of society he has been the guardian ever since the arcade was opened and it is owing to the vigilance displayed by him and his subordinates that EO little annoyance has been suffered by the tenants and the general public it is thoroughly understood by the lawless element and by professional criminals that they are not allowed below john street inspector byrnes long ago issued an order to his down town detectives to arrest any known thief burglar confidence man or others of that class who intruded upon that section of the city broad way nassau wall and broad streets are constantly patrolled by the sharpest and keenest officers in the inspectors command professional criminals aware of the sharp lookout as a usual thing give the financial center of the city a wide berth but in edite of the vigilance occasional visits are made by the more daring or by those who they aro not personally known to the detectives but they are so soon spotted and so closely watched that no serious case of depredation has been known for a number of years when these people do venture down town they invariably visit the equitable building WATCHING CHECK BEATERS jn the cafe another special detective is employed to look after the undesirable customers in that favorite resort of down town business men theodore wandell who was for a long time one of Pinker tona agents looks out for this special comer in the busy city he too keeps a bright lookout that no professional fess ional rogues enter the place and rub elbows with their honest neighbors but with dusenbury and his force keeping general guard over the whole building he is seldom called upon to exercise his authority over the more serious characters and his duties are generally confined to looking after check beaters check beaters are our special annoyance here said mr wandell to a reporter you would be surprised to see how many men attempt to beat the bar and the lunch counter their method is a very simple one and nearly the same in cases comes in steps up to abo bar and calls for a drink and receives his check ha then goes to the inich counter orders a more or less elaborate lunch which he eats leisurely and receives another check then he visits the cigar counter selects a cheap cigar and gets another check and finally walks to the cashiers desk throws down bis cigar check and the change and walks on with the other two checks in his pocket they may be successful for a few times but eventually we discover their game and then we take conr innings we are very careful not to make a mistake in following up gentlemen of this ilk we sometimes allow them to go through their operations several times in succession until we are absolutely certain that it is their intention to cheat the place we quietly inform them that they are discovered and tell them to make restitution for the checks they had not formerly paid for of course these men are never allowed in the place again A BIG CHANCE FOR THIEVES there is one roving class of people that even the sharp eyed detectives are not always able to discover their ostensible business is honorable enough and there are sometimes honest men among them they are the fakiri fakirs fa kirs peddlers and agents there is an army of them in this city and they circulate freely wherever men gather generally they are cheeky plausible and voluble an innocent looking parcel such as any business man might carry often contains their stock in trade more often they carry their entire stock in their pockets it is these people that invade offices and stores under tho guise of legitimate business but too of ten are nothing more or less than sneak thieves on the lookout for every opportunity to fineal the reason regulations as to the wall street district are obvious to the casual visitor to that section every day men and boys may be seen going from office to office and from bank to bank with bags of coin on their shoulders or packages of bills in their bands messengers are scurrying hither and thither with stocks and bonds for delivery sometimes in largo amounts clerks and porters with boxes and sach els containing securities of great maluff are constantly coming and going to and from the different safe deposit vaults express wagons with gold and bills are on the streets at all boura even trucks loaded h silver bricks are seen daily in front the assay office or the bullion broker there is no place in the world portable wealth is handled apparent carelessness and yet ali e is probably no place a a suc cesil robbery could be less easily affected New york world the preside of france who is of course the official of the republic salary oi a year to which added for house bold expenses id for traveling A sense of small the buzzard wonderful sense of smell i ia a curious that has often been discussed of the matter having resulted resul tem a general uniformity of opinion amcy scientists that they locate their foci by their sense of smell alone C L ajkins the noted biologist says that he hi noticed that in florida they never live the roots where the night is on damp foggy mornings the moisture has been dried by the sn they then move slowly across the hii until a scent is struck when they rove 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