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Show fTimr TrT TTT yr "TP A PFPI A TTO XT I THE WEB IS PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OP TIIE NATIONAL DT- j Jf,iniT- ; r ft M A fLl KJi V nLiJ I IVJIN rectors op the a.mkrican protective league, a vast, EMERSON HOUGH V. i M V - H f f T"?n T T A mT TmTnT 1 SILENT VOLUNTEER ARMY, ORGANIZED WITH THE APPROVAL i copyright by I, 0 fi J y vv X N J M $ IN PATRIOTISM OPERATED UNDER THE DIRECTION OP THE UNITED STATES The r& A lo Co. !; JLa. -L -11. -L-f V XW3 -- XXI 1 X I DEPARTMENT OP JUSTICE, BUREAU OP INVESTIGATION. j Cbio j CHAPTER IV. ; TIIE STORY OF NEWARK. Big Division of Northern New Jersey Hotbed of Spydom and Anarchy Cases From the Files Guarding the Gate to the Sea. Northern New Jersey was recognized as one of the riskiest regions of the United States. Time out of mind, American Ameri-can readers have noted, with the shortlived short-lived American anger, the many newspaper news-paper lales of Pat ers on and anarchy, of Now Jersey and New ThoiiKht. of poeiah.stic ranters hailing from tills or that semi-foreign community, in one of the oldest states in the American union, whose battlefields In our first war for freedom are spread on many Glorious pr.ges of our countrv's history. The battlefields bat-tlefields of JerHftv are different now, and are not so glorious. t-tid, a few men, fts patriotic as those in Revolutionary da vs. have done their best during this war to keep their country safe. The work of the northern New Jersey divi-; divi-; ston. which has been in charge of Mr. V. I). McDermid, as state Inspector, is reassuring. , , It Is proper to point out that the northern New Jersey division, beina: one of the first of the A. P. L. to be organized, organ-ized, operated on lines different from those of almost any other territory. Its district covers one-half of the state, including in-cluding the vitally important port of embarkation. em-barkation. Under a single central office, ir combined over K0 municipalities, most of which would ordinarily have had a separate headquarters organization, but which for local reasons had ail been consolidated In one division. There was abundance to do. and there were plentv to be watched. There could, for example, be furnished several hundred hun-dred instances of sabotage in this manufacturing manu-facturing district of northern New Jersey sabotage either detected In advance, or Thoroughly investigated afterwards. This was so common in the hundreds of plants In that district that it became for the northern division, for the most part, a matter of routine. A great deal of the work of this character ultimately was handled by the plant protection division of the war department. Tn upper New Jersey, as in the state of New York, the governmental departments depart-ments reached out and rather overshadowed, overshad-owed, in glory at least, the patient and less known efforts of the A. P. L. Newark New-ark frankly complains that quite often sufficiently vigorous action was not to be had by the officers of the department of lustice, even after full evidence had been handed to it by the A. P. L. Some "D T man even en sn far 99 to clG-l m is the story of a program of action, thoughtful'ly conceived, carefully and efficiently ef-ficiently executed, and successful beyond all expectations. Mr. Weibley says in his report: "A splendid esprit de corps was maintained, main-tained, as the organization in Pittsburg was limited to the least possible number num-ber in membership, and all members were kept busy. Great care was used in the selection of the men enrolled, and eacjn applicant was subjected to a rigid investigation. inves-tigation. If he did not meet the requirements, require-ments, his application was rejected or placed on file to provide material for future replacements when urgency demanded de-manded it. As a result, the highest interest in-terest in the work was maintained throughout the war 'period. "The Pittsburg district being the most important manufacturing, munition, fuel and chemical center in the country, was largely dependent for its labor upon foreigners, for-eigners, many of whom came from countries coun-tries at war with us. It therefore was imperative that many of our operatives should be of diverse nationalities and able to speak many tongues. As an illustration, illustra-tion, it was estimated that at the beginning be-ginning of the war fully 50 per cent of the Austrians in the United States were at work in vital coal mines, coke works, steel mills and other industrial plants within a radius of fifty miles of Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. This naturally made the alien menace a grave one, but so intensive was the organization of the league that not an important industrial operation in the great district was without one or more of the league agents as active employees. em-ployees. In fact. intimate connection was maintained with every alien gathering gath-ering or meeting place, and nothing of moment was planned that the league officials were not soon familiar with. In fact, in one of the largest industrial concerns, con-cerns, the principal, official was chief of a league unit, and many of his trusted employees were his active associates. "Pittsburg: industrial concerns, vitally interested in meeting the government's demands for constantly increasing output out-put of war material, quickly sojved the question of finances, and the league had ample funds to meet every requirement. This made possible a highly efficient office organization and a suit of offices on the fourth floor of the St. Nicholas building, which permitted the department depart-ment of justice and army and navy intelligence in-telligence bureaus also to locate quarters quar-ters ther4, giving a compact working organization or-ganization reaching every branch of the service and promoting that intimate contact con-tact and close co-operation which assured as-sured success. Th's reciprocal arrangement arrange-ment was especially effective in the case of the department of justice; which, under un-der the operation of .i r. Judge, rendered and was rendered assistance on all occasions. oc-casions. " I. i rector C'harlf s P. Pritchard of the Pit! sburg department of public safely, recognized the possibilities of effective co-operation at the beginning, and there was not a moment when the patrolmen and municipal detectives did not do everything every-thing possible to promote the sii'sh of the k-ague's activities. This spirit of patriotic co-operation on the part of the municipal authorities was constantly ma in taiiied through the f riendltnes.- and enthusiasm of Robert J. Alderdioe, superintendent super-intendent of police; Magistrate Walter J. Uloyd and Commissioners of Police Dye, Kane. Johnson and 'aihoun. Pittsburg certainly was well policed. In nil, the lea -me maintained const a nil v throughout ErVjle strategy secured his arrest and his return to Pittsburg at the point of a revolver. re-volver. Although he condemned war as organized murder, he carried a loaded revolver re-volver and blackjack for emergencies The details of his escape and flight reaa like a thrilling story of Sherlock Holmes As an instance of his resourcefulness ana quick wit, lie related that when lie arrived ar-rived at the depot in Chicago, be picked up a newspaper to learn quickly the ia of the land. In flaming headlines he discovered dis-covered that Chicago police that morning were making wholesale arrests ot an voung men without registration arcid. Ho bad none. He espied a woman with a babe and a large traveling case, and po-litelv po-litelv offered to assist her by carrying the valise. When he was approached by an officer and requested to show his card, he quickly retorted, "Oh, you are too late. You can see that this is my wile and child." He was allowed to leave the depot and go unmolested. He went Into hiding until the scare was over. Hirscti-berg Hirscti-berg was sent by a court-martial at Camp Lee to the Atlanta prison for twenty years." . "Pittsburg had some amusing Incidents," Inci-dents," savs the chief who has been so freely quoted, and he has included several of them In his report: There was little bootlegging, as liquor dealers endeavored to comply with the law forbidding the sale of intoxicants to soldiers In uniform or within restricted areas adjacent to army camps. One negro was suspected, and upon being approached by an operative, readily agreed to sell a quart of "cold tea" for $y. The operative opera-tive bought and then arrested the negro. When the "cold tea" was tested sit was found to be just what the negro ftaid it was cold tea! An enemy alien refused to register and was taken to the league headquarters for intensive examination. The operative was called to the telephone on an urgent message mes-sage just as he entered headquarters. He hastened to the telephone, leaving his prisoner where he could not escape. W hen he had finished, he discovered his prisoner pris-oner missing. It transpired that another operative had come into headquarters, and the prisoner had asked him where aliens registered. The' operative asked "Why?" and when he was informed that the man wished to register, he obligingly agreed to accompany iiirn to the United States marshal's office. He was chagrined to find that he had deprived his fellow operative of a case. A peculiar case came under the notice of the league. A -Russian of draft age, whose father and brothers and sisters were naturalized, claimed exemption on the ground that the father had not taken out his citizenship papers until after lie. the subject, had passed bis majority, and be had never lost his Russian citizenship. The objector was sent to jail, but the decision de-cision was rendered that his point was well taken and he was released. The league did wonderful work in re-cons re-cons true ting fa milies, returning wayward way-ward sons to sorrowing mothers, and in rehabilitating young men whose patriotism patriot-ism and fidelity to duty wre lukewarm. In correcting and preventing trouble the American Protective league performed a splendid service to the government. CI J A PTER VI. THE STORY OF POSTON. Massachusetts Somewhat Mixed In Safety M easures Farly Embarrassment Embarrass-ment of Riches Brief History of A. P. P. Organization and Its Success Stories-'of the Trail. in the German army. They had a daughter daugh-ter who was engaged to an American, but the latter broke off the engagement on account of the pro-Germanism of the H family. Tne social ostracism ready amounted to isolation, so that it was impossible to hear of any disloyal utterances ut-terances which would warrant governmental govern-mental action, nor indeed any utterances at all. The town was through with them. Northern New Jersey probably has the laziest slacker in the world. His name is M , and at one time he resided in New York. He had an emergency fleet classification card, but worked only two or three days out of the 'week and spent most of his time at home in bed. He thought he would rather go south where the climate was better. He was rated as so lazy that he was shifted from one government gov-ernment job to another and that certainly certain-ly is going some, in view of what is some times done in government service. He was so lazy that he used to go to bed with his shoes on, and would leave his light burning all night because he was too tired to put it out. This champion cham-pion rester carried a registration card, but he had been given limited service on account of calloused feet. From the de- scriptlon of him, it is difficult to see how his feet got calloused; but at least that Is what the report says. New Jersey had a "very blood-curdling citizen who dwelt in Newark under the name of H. B . He carried an American name, although he was born in Italy about forty-two years ago. He came to America thirty years ago, when he was a small bov, in "order to escape punishment for having killed a priest. He never dared to return to Italy, but remained re-mained an alien in this country and an enemy to about everything going. He was a very ardent I. W. v man, and declared that there were enough I. W. W. men in the army and outside to blow up the country if thev liked a verv good example of the flourishing Bolshevik element ele-ment in America. Mr. B claimed that he had stabbed a detective in Providence, Provi-dence, R. I., a year or so ago during an I. W. W. celebration : hence he did not like to visit Providence either. He told how in another place he had cut out a man's intestines, and when asked if the man died, remarked: "What in hell do you suppose I am here for'." This pleasant pleas-ant gentleman often went to Paterson and New York to attend I. W. W. meet- , ings there. He hoped that "every soldier the United States sent over would he blown up bv submarines and drowned like rats, nnd that if any did get across, he hoped the Germans would choke or shoot them to death." He said he would like to get his fineers on President Presi-dent Wilson's throat. It was his pleasant practice to tear American flags from the j coats of persons wearing them. His home 1 was searched, and some clock-works were found without any dials and hands, su'h as ha ve bee n U now 1 1 to lie u sed w 1 1 h bombs. It seems that nothing was done with the blood t hirst v M r. B after all, and he is still at large. In so complex an office as that of the Northern N e w Je rs e y division, w h i c h much resembles that of New York City, Ncwa rk alone cleared over fjni;i ruses, of which L'5 per rent were for the war department. 45 per cent for the department depart-ment of justice, other divisions of A. P. 1j work 15 per cent, and original cases with New Jersey A. I'. I,, la per cent. .Most of this work was for D. J., but there was much co-operation with officers offi-cers from naval and military Intelligence, not to men i ion t ho local boards. This grea t division has a tangible, record of !a3 cases of the second class, Ihoye ha Tidied end ire'y in local units, making a total o! 13.o7'i cases hu ( f icjent !y definite defi-nite in character to warrant a record. As to the actual investigations, r"i"id-ed r"i"id-ed anrl unrecorded, the would without question bring tip the, total of northern New Jersey oasts a hove ann)tj. They wiTfi from rv-ry point of the mmpa;.s and of every color of the rainbow. to talk. The operative speaks a perfect German, and has a German look. The two got on handsomely. The operative was surprised to find that K talked so freely to a stranger. Another member of the league. C-i;!TS, a..so of German parentage, went with C-S91 a few days later to visit K again. That gentle man was more bitter than ever against America. He said, among other things, that if he heard that President Wilson had been shot he would be so glad tiiat he woild celebrate it by getting loo drunk to see. And there was very much more talk of that nature. A few days later K had cause to regret his disposition tp talk. He was brought before a United States commissioner commis-sioner on a warrant and scent a good night In jail before he could find bail. The next day, being a man of means, he engaged a lawyer. The armistice ended these activities, as it did so many others. The hearing was held on the morning of November 7 the first new a of the armistice, later confirmed. Since that time A. P. L. of northern New-Jersey New-Jersey has heard nothing about Mr. K . With a couple of million others, lie has been allowed to sink back to our citizenship just as poisonous, just as unregenerate, just as little fit to remain in this country. It was understood that H. J. laid down a rule that testimony secured se-cured in conversations such as the foregoing fore-going was not a basis of prosecution. Perhaps it would have been better to wait until Mr. K . had really shot somebody or blown up a ship or so. Of active sympathizers with the enemy, northern New Jersey did not lack. A thousand cases could be given. One will serve. In July, 19 IS, the office learned of suspicious activities on the part of some of these sympathizers. A Mr. E was told by Miss G , a young woman of foreign birth, that the peonie she lived with had active connections connec-tions with the enemy. Especially was this true in the case of one S , who had Central and South American relations. rela-tions. This latter man was found to be of American birth and German parentage parent-age which, in a good many cases, would leave him German. He had been a traveler, trav-eler, and a son of his had been born in Kingston. Jamaica, although this son was at present in the United States arm v." I This concern which had sent him to Jamaica Ja-maica to get the release there of a man jailed by the Knglish authorities for alleged al-leged implication in the coaling of tier-man tier-man raiders at sea. That did not look any too good for Mr. S of itself. He aiso had in his employ a stenographer whose husband, a Mr. W , had been employed em-ployed in an alleged poisoning of the reservoir at Kingston, Jamaica. These things led up to the case of the subject, who will be called P . This man had lived with S for a time. P came to this country from Ger many in 1907, and applied for his first naturalization papers please note the date August 1, 1914. He was 3". years of age, well educated, unmarried, and without with-out dependents. lie had served in the German army, but was not a reservist. In his alien enemy questionnaire he left out the name of one of his previous employers, em-ployers, which was found to have been an importing concern with a German name, with connections in Kingston, Jamaica, Ja-maica, doing business In Central and South America.' This German concern had many different names. , home ot its personnel per-sonnel were interned at Panama. A member mem-ber of the concern had been interned In the United Slates for alleged provisioning provision-ing of German raiders at sea. -This made the stage set for a rather interesting investigation. in-vestigation. Operatives discovered that Pie principal men of this concern were at large, and were doing business under yet another name. Thev also discovered that thin Mr. S was affiliated with the work in a Uowntow n offu e building in New York City. During KM 2, or earlier. Mr. P had Introduced Mr. P to the president of an iron and steel concern, who took him into employ as treasurer and gave hhn a block of shares. The al ien cnemv P seemed to get along prettv well for a time, but go t in w ron it with the firm through a tra nsact ion wiijrh they did not approve. The seer-eta rv of t lie firm was very friendly to the alien cnemv P . This se.-retary was fur.d to be connected bv marriace with one of the foremost electrical inventors of the n ge. who had been verv active in the development devel-opment of devles for our srmy and navv. Observe that this man was a pari in'nr confidant of tb unnaturalized German P . formerlv of the German annv, The original Mr. . who had aj. red is a voucher for 1 . had stated that l e rould L-ef mnv to The enemy, termini' the war department. fi:s father had fdo.'k in a concern which v as taken over bv our alien enemy custodian. The not verv mysterious Mr. 7' - removed durinir '.tune. 1'H. paving Nw York without notifying the chief of police, ns Is required. re-quired. Ife was located doing bu-!nes. in downtown New York Citv as a broker, although hK name was not l!,fei jn t'i t e!enhone ire dory. (e was a par-en t ; -, trading under the nn tne of I,. I', ft Vi. The ,. p, i,. mH found that hi mother Is living fn Germany and N rei"rferj to be v.e;,!thy. ' has pretended that he ws a traveling y inn. u hi!i ):; was n.r t- endeavored to avoid n eel. In;' people v'iom lie knew while residing in another fltwto. a watchman's badge, and who spoke with a noticeable German accent. This man stopped the operative, who, upon being asked where he was going, replied that he was going off the boat. The watchman watch-man told him to get off in a hurry. He was still carrying his United States mail sack, which he replaced on the pile where he had got it. After that, he strolled out of the street again, satisfied that the guard around the Ue via than might have been a trifie more airtight. As a matter of fact, whiie the sailing dates of the Leviathan were jealously guurded, bets were made by the Germans Ger-mans on her sailing time out and back. Word came to an A. I'. K. man that the Leviathan was going to sail at 12:15 the next day. As this came from German sources, it seemed a useful thing to have the government alter the sailing hour. The operative In this case strolled around in the vicinity of the Leviathan's pier and talked with sailors, who freely told 1dm the sailing hour. Then, in order to mystify tiie government officers, the operative op-erative called up a certain department and said over the telephone that he was an intelligence official of the imperial German navy, and wanted to know if it was true that the Leviathan was to sail at 12:15 the next day. This caused some excitement. The operative then told who he was, explaining that he had got that knowledge himself the previous evening. eve-ning. ' As a result, the sailing hour was changed several hours, and the Leviathan got off safely. Again, there were a great many rumors regarding the numbers of troops carried by this big transport. YVe .did not want Germany to know how many men we reaily were shipping, and we rather thought that no one ever could know. An A. P. L. operative was able to make a very close guess under rather singular circumstances. Since he could have done so, perhaps a German spy might have done as much had he an equally sharp wit. This Instance really started in a practical prac-tical joke. The jokers suggested to a certain young husband, who had to sit up late several nights with a crying baby, that he might pass the time counting the cars of troop trains which passed in front of his house. Tn all seriousness, the young man did do this, checking each car by the bumps it made on the railroad rail-road frogs. He really counted in this way with very fair accuracy the number num-ber of cars carrying troops for the Leviathan's Le-viathan's sailing. As everyone knew about how many troops were in t each car, this operative figured that there would be about 11. COO troops. This was reported to the government, but was never checked out, so that A. P. L. still wann to know whether they were good detectives or not. There was a member of the division who sold automobile tires. A naval officer of-ficer came to him to buy a tire, and wanted to know if the tire could not get to the boat that afternoon. This salesman sales-man suggested the next morning at noon. The officer innocently said that he would have sailed by thar time. He also named his boat, the Leciathan. Tiiis salesman asked how H Would do to have the tire ready when the ship came back, and asked how long it would be. The officer said sixteen and a half days which tallied tal-lied with the former Leviathan record of seventeen days. The salesman also learned that the stop at Bordeaux was from forty to seventy-two hours. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, he also learned that tiie boat carried 12,000 troops, had 300 officers and a crew of 1500. This figure of 12.0n0 troops checks Perfectly Per-fectly with the A. P. L- estimate 'made by the baby-carrying member. This tire-hunting tire-hunting officer of the boat also told a great many tilings which he ouzht not to have told anyone. He told tne means used to protect the Jeviathan againf t U-boats, saying that the ship depended mostly on her speed. He said the ship drew "only forty feet of water, so it bad not been nevessary to dredge trie channel at Bordeaux. The operative then asked the officer how late he could receive 'he tire, and was told about two hours before sailing. "You can refer to your local newspapers and figure on f i fteen minutes min-utes after the tide begins to go out," he said. Thifl, of course, was so that tne boat could get the benefit of the ebb tide in warping out. From these facts, both the military and naval intelligence were able to stop such leaks of information, and stiffened tip the guarding of ships and cargo, besides giving, in many ways, a farnreater degree de-gree of protection to the :.-k of embarkation. em-barkation. It is thought that the league investigations caused recommendation to be made regarding more secrecy in regard re-gard to embarkation. The armistice cut off these matters. Sufficient has been shown here, however, to indicate how an enemy misrht sometimes get informaMon. There Tiid not seem to be much to start with in this case which originated in northern New Jersey, nor indeed wa.s there much le't of 'he case by the time It was finished. Yet the case iiseif had the makings of quite a big affair. A report re-port 'ame in that Otto H -. Ftarter for the X. Y. Z. Trans; : com pa ny. was pro-German. Su'-h repor's came in ail the time, so that there were usually ffPy or sixty cas-e.s in the zone. Two days lat er came in more facts from opera t i ve C-r::i. Ho had gotten pretty thb-k with Herr P : by saying that Germnnv seemed 'o be gaining, and that this upwr 1 would please his wi fe, v. ho w a.s Germn n hers'-lf. Herr P. wa(; mn'h ! :i' I to leam t'"i, and went on to unbosom himself. Several s'icil meotln ena'.iieo! C-12T; to learn pretty much everything he de-lred. Washington would not be able to tell the dii'ierence between this organization and any other, so far as loyalty and efficiency effi-ciency were concerned, although sensible of tiie Washington leeling that Massachusetts Massachu-setts was starting a year iate and might be suspected of lack in co-operation. Ail concei ntd having tnus been satisfied, satis-fied, Massachusetts began A. P. L. work a trifie iate in tiie game, but none the less proceeded to show tlia.t it nouTd produce pro-duce as effective an organization as any other in the country. Assistant Chief H. K. Trumbull makes his report on the regulation A. P. L. blanks and letterheads, letter-heads, and adds the following data as to the latter organization of A. p. L.: "Mr. Samuel Wolcoit was appointed chief, and we took two offices at 45 Milk street, in the same building with tiie department de-partment of justice. Mr. Trumbull, then a volunteer operative with the department proper, consented to help with the new organization, and Mr. John P.. Hanrahan was appointed by the department of justice jus-tice as a special agent to oversee the work of the new organization. "A few weeks later we found that the work was too great to handle in such small quarters, and about the first of May contracted for half of the eighth floor of the building, the department of justice taking the other half. At this time Mr. Trumbull wasappointed assistant assist-ant chief. "As a nucleus of the state organization, organiza-tion, we took the names of the men who had been doing volunteer work for tiie United States attorney's office, and we proceeded to send out to these men the work that came in their territory, and. 1 as they proved satisfactory, appointed them as inspectors of a certain district and gave them directions whereby they organized. "About July 1 the league took over from tiie department tiie handling of all draft matters, the department loaning to tiie league two special agents to supervise and the league furnishing all tne men for the actual work. "We think the strongest recommendation recommenda-tion we can give our loyalty and interest is the approximate number of cases handled han-dled from April 1, l&l. to February , lf! ft, which number amounts to about oOQO, with about 4j''0 draft cases under tiie selective service act. "On or about October 1, Mr. Wolcott resigned ,fnr the purnose of taking up active duties with the army, and Mr. John W. Hannigan was appointed chief in his place. "Tiie relations of the league with the department have been of the closest, and there has never been any friction. Special Agent Kelleher has stated that if it had not been for the activities of the league it would have been absolutely impossible for his office to handle the great volume of work." Once in its swing, Boston division proceeded pro-ceeded to do as Boston always loes. aiid to v.-ork in thorough and efficient fashion. A detailed statement of the work for department de-partment of ju.-riee covers 5C5 case? of alien enemy activities. cases under the . espionage act, one ca -e of treason, seven of sabotage, eleven of interference with the draft, LS cases of propaganda, twenty cases of radicals and socialists seven naturalization cases, ;.nd other investigations in-vestigations amounting to 44. Por reasons above ouihn-j, '-.e div;-sion div;-sion did little in food and fuel, and f' . ra was not much to do for tiie naw. There were seventy-fceven cases cf character and loyr.lty investigations, :;:: passrrt cases, and 2r: caes that had to "do v.;;h war insurance and like matters. A. P. L. was, as usui, of great v.se to tne war department. The division conducted con-ducted 514 investigations for local boad examined 40- slacker raid cases, as weil as fifteen gentlemen who did rmt k- nw whether lo work vr ficht. There v.w, applicants for overseas service wi o w-ere investlgatrd. as we" as ;.M aprii-cants aprii-cants for com missing;; T'e division' rj1-serves rj1-serves compl ; rr.c-n-s for its sieadv and .tel.nrenr administration o: t '- e w'-o'e range ' of t he comrhv? rei problerr iu---1 ro-r- o-jt f the war situation. There were a! I tor's of curious cases which came up in Boston, ps in other cities, which show a'b-n an !'-ss:;c s or s 'acker si;bterf'j2----s much as the-.- a: 'r elsewhere, as weil as a certain oca-K!on:i1 oca-K!on:i1 in:':r-!it- in regard to the eb-se;ance eb-se;ance o) -ne ornmarv civ; "-v Y j instance, one dr,c-s n.-t recall the name c' Louara BurKhart s one of the c-c.m-r:mts of the Mayflower on iu a.-v;,,. nether d-es M- Burkhn se-m , q been fuiiy poscssvd of Punrnn r-"-v V cs. lor it wa a leged that he had been j flisnonorabiy d 's-h.i i from the I" S navy, was d.shonorab:y i:vj:.e W;th "oniar. who was iu't his wi;'. and J-r-d aishonorabiy fa;'--d M register r,-r the draft. As Mr. Burkhart wa hin -c Cr-somewhere, Cr-somewhere, an A. P. L. operative" w put on his trail. He went to the h.n;e wh.rre B it-khan was living a:,d to'd"'re v.oir.an in the case that he was d-i-g wront- ,-ov.M-., p llp .h -whore r-N.u;: of Burkhart. He added ;;..it j,t, : r---ev.-d the man was in the -.oUse er would c.-m had said. Tnt was at s o'clk in the afternoon, and the or.-..::xo cor.ohmol to sn in the house nnd wpf: f- .- it wou'd happen, ail exits being cuardei'bv oilier on..r.Kives. Xotfvn.g d.d hannen umu :::. that n ch.t. although the ) e- e was s.-aivh.-d. At last, vm m t10 ; a stral blind space w as found wl.ne . the elect r-c hchi wires went no to The reof. A flashlight here illuminated ''? nark n.ier:.r and disclosed p-;rk-i.irt reMirg rather li;K-omr"ert,-,h;y" on 'the ivoslvatrs. where ho had boon 'since !- v th:.: .i ftermv:j .-me: h:-.g 0f spartan, if not much of a Bunt i" It was ion nd that he was :'." vonrs of pee IV T ;V- l' I''icd'that he had fro o.:,s'fi.-it:e" ard ivK-tcnr to anchor man. whereupon 'no was VuvWd cf failure t- r bs cues; er.na:o ou Peeeniber ;;o h was b-eucht befe-e V- grand jurv. found pnvv and sentenced I ) P:i-t Omhrtdge ,a;l." Another ton: Ionia :i, Kalrh P when be fined out los ouosuonmv.'-e' swore that he was a marr-ed ,rill Md a wile and chdd d-pendom urn him. It was d:scoored that tiie wo-ri was not his wife. The in eots-'-t tho partner of the .. P. 1 . ' j n s'vV'oV the two being members of iho v;;v,o 1 iw f -mi in prefe.-sionai capaei; ' Hero tberrfere. was a miration of cihie Involving In-volving the privilege of a e.vfesVn m.-uie to an atl.-rnov ;.r.d njso t ' taken to the .V. B. 1.. The two law y ir' - net-, cahed m Vr. K and izavo k m seed ad vice aboUt u ortnio of perm -v As the man did what he ce-;hi to on'ire up matters, u v :iS decided t-- let ' t'vtt part of bis case drop. H0 was not ent to nrN'Mi. Herbert C hnd an nmbhion 10 cro aere.s as a member of the Amera-m Ked t'rovs ;,lul had toed roe -umeno-. -P'r. A. B. 1, . hewexer d -o v-cd that ho was :n nlWed dope fiord U did not ; with the Bed Bross. Beter i; t ot t,,n 0t ton. while a v ul lye with two men V,o;t the war. m oio a few such , a 1 v ite- meiltN j-..; "To be't x ,? , :'o,vtx' l.",', - 'To he'l with Thrift sla-unV 'The ov- ernment i no li ," .;i , M lev tk-s eeun;r." "1 will noi lvnis;,-',- "'I am i;emi: baok to niv own eevntM-Pu--'a." and "The w boio 1 u ted Males ''"or.enl be damned " Tl:x xx.a It. uv.ht heioro live a-'Manf B-i;e.1 N'.itet. d.: -not attorney l:om ,-o'r. o court but tke iHtotr.ev de, bned to p;oM-euto p;oM-euto Vd said that Bet or x is . ful He d'd not thi'oK tK,t a' it;'h ivial could be n:-,-d m a I. ,V; , ,,,, Hen Mot ev.-e l.nf ,n oU.;v ,. ,'v Mdrit ilni Kioeth. and the letter lkt Hivolh i'.le' A Mr B Mwne -e kid a w(e and oMM dependent en hhn ,,rd m bo ou-:kt not to be ;Uo,. ,i to it:m P i found out th.'l he bad s, ,vlt ten Ihou-. -nd d dl n-i the e;o p,u , . t kal h w I'ai her i:,o o bun all ho w Klied tk.-M he w,s B.-ston c'.ubM-M,. th( wa-. no uted M auv luod-etSe le- duMvv Ho d to tt,o maud niM in 1. Hi."!-, noi ..el! bad V la in b 1 be name of 1 w , o- po, tod on o ember m to l, u, ' ,e o o dp-l.M al and p, o i;,., ... ,;, , ,,. , , ,t ck'v ht or, tin ee aM d .xi;- u o ko. j bo a ?. a n t d ;.!tn t at: ,., ca-..- the aliotnex i u I i lu (0111.111110- on l'olUnvni Tno) A. that D. J. would not only crab an act. but claim a glory'- Our state inspector voices this in occasional comment: "Jn particular reference to two cases of ours, it is a source of great disappointment disap-pointment and a greet deal of harsh criti- ! cism that the department of justice has seen fit to take the position toward our evidence that it has. Their indifference has led us to secure a number of clean-cut clean-cut convictions in state courts under I local laws. These, of course, have not I the scope of federal laws, under which ' these cases might very much better have been prosecuted. "We feel that in com- I mon justice to the worlc of the A. P. L... some such comment as this should be made." . There was abundant fire behind some of these New Jersey smokes, be sure of that, and manv rumors of the class commonly com-monly pooh-poohed at by M. I. I. and T J were made good. Three actual Fampiea of powdered glass in food were i found- two actual cases of Red Cros3 "bandages containing deleterious sub- ' stances also "were found; there was one ' Instance of insidious printed propaganda distributed bv means of knitted work: and there was a very distinct trail of Sinn Feiners working in conjunction with the enemy. To these may be added such instances of investigation as are given below. v Mr. X.. a minister of the gospel, was vpi-v offensive in his pacifism. He refused permission for the display of an American flag in his church, or even a service flag and would not allow the church ,to be used for Red Cross work. He was forced to resign, his particular brand of piptv not seeming to tr?ck with the creed of his congregation. The quality of tils pacifism may be judged from the fact ' tat he excused the Germans for their i ! atrocities, saving that if France and Be!-; Be!-; gium had not resisted, there never would have been anv atrocities' This man applied ap-plied for a position to go to France in ! government war work. IBs application I was refused. : It is, of course, well known that the '. Vnited States troops in large part sailed from the vieinitv of the citv of New York, or upper New Jersey. Of coure, a'.so. nil the preparations for this war. all of th expense of it. all the time and trouble of it. focused exactly on the number of troops we actually could get on the way. I The utmosf secrecy was maintained by i our' government as to th1 number of ! troons. the ships that carried them, and i the time and place of sailine. The mother ! of a bov on his way to France did not know he had saibd until a curt card from the other aide of the water toid 1 her that he was in France. Practlcaby i all the people of the United States, bow-ever, bow-ever, accepted this secrecy as a neoH-' neoH-' parv war measure that being enviously and permanently necessarv In th!s war. where the risks of tiie a, included the danzer of the German submarine; Naturally, also, the German Spts on this side of the water would do everything every-thing in their power to learn precisely the facts which our government sought to ' conical the number of troons going over the times of saihnsrs of the transports, trans-ports, and so forth. Naturally a'so. our svs'.em of es'donas-e t'e d'vis'.ons of military intellie-erK-e, naval in tedium '-p. department of j up 'ice. ;vd the an:-: iliary work of the American Protective ieastue would do ad thev could to prevent German Ger-man espionage from attaining i's own purpose in regard to this knowledge. When the government seized the port of embarkation at HaV'kn. much interest inter-est was shown In the former Hamburg-a Hamburg-a -v-i-o-t t-i flernan T .lovd line the trying period over 2X active opera-tivri. opera-tivri. "The effectiveness of this far-reaching organization was r'-vcaled in the complete absence of those disturbances which bad been feared. At the outbreak of war. troops bad been located at bridges and important public work., but the thorough mannt-r In which the league ferreted out thgse who were willing to foment trouble, .-non rendered unnecessary the guarding of industrial plants bv soldiers or police. There w-re no in i errup' inns to the enormous enor-mous output of munitions and manufactured manufac-tured mat'-nat. nor were there any accident--, explosions or labor troubles" traced to an-'t;ts of the enemy. In tif- J'lllshuigl division alune, over Z'-S c.-,,.s were in- ! vest:i;ated, and rv-ry person upon whom He- hast suspicion had been east was S'.on l end.-rod po crle.-s to do hat m. Kvrrv effort was made to (hiiiin.Ue trouble;; bv prevent ing a hen s in p:: I li : .-ers .-ers fiom p.-rf.-eiine their plan-. No n.'-et-inns wh.to incndlary talk -..). f,,s-t.-i-d wo- permitted to continue, ;ind it wa.s not long b. fore thoFe who bad troubb-in troubb-in in I ml realiod that to cuhiiuio liiur pnrp"s woihd only lead to tivir own downfall and ulno that of their followers. The reeord of lb'- leacue tH :t tribute to th" wisdom of thtt preventive poijry. "It Willi f. a red lh.lt beo.iuso "of the larL-o tuoport ion of forein.-rs in th" Pittsburg district, th wide divervitv of !ai'fit.ii,-..s .pok-'M. and the Crat i 1 lit .r:i - ftttionc eerl.'iiu of tl,e natlonalitifs, il-..TO ..utd be yieat. lilfficulty in .securing proj' T oher a n--e of the deetlve reiris-tranon reiris-tranon rep -la t mn. Uuiitii: the il war. t here bid b- en s.-rlous dra ft rim. in 1'ittshurc, wh.m the p.-reentaire of for.-um-ers and of hlitoraev ntuch h-.t. ' hn A lliorici II Pro! eet I ve !en u'lie. m eo-oji.-rri- tion with Mr. Jiidre. i:ae tin uid. si pub-liolty pub-liolty in every pe-l! wav to the piar.s f'T tbo r-nitration and the p.m.i!tv ( failure to eonipu. TIip result nf" this wnrk of prepatation was that the registration regis-tration was ffeet-'d witn.oit disorder, and tlo rw werr no rteo.Tdons for wbolesab' arr..-ts to bring evaders or p...ib1e evari-ers evari-ers to ju-:le. In fact, fie leairue'f .oioy w ei to preent Ir.niI'lM by adviirc lho-e in-'iii'd to fi's.-nt th" gn ernmeiit 's e-ilf, ami to make rm torrest s until other means fa i ;,! . t wii s oniy nirii.u y t er an1 A mer lea n Protect ive ranue on..ra iv, (o t apt" if in open court n one occasion. i "I. W. YV. tl-opyTanda WaB never pcr-mllted pcr-mllted lo tako r-l Work lo eliminate , tlila menaee oe"iipi.d a latter amount of! the league's Mention. A well orcrinir.ed s heme of the Seoi.ilists to evade the selective, se-lective, F-'rvlco law was broken up uMru a t-t ' on inent radical and anarchist . rlnrjrad.-r tn the innviMtfill, w as t ken fnun a nieeilng l,e wilt about (o address and comp- l d in rcni"ter. The farts that the plans of th" tceme were NO well know n to t lui league eooicd the ardor of the mriloonletif 'Th divl.-loii had considerable trouble with a Jewish famllv which ued every aitllioo to IU-'teot a lad of Neleetlve N'-rv-co ace Ulld p'evenl bis belmc taken Into the arm'. They flnallv mi,-, l,M In spiriting him hw.iv. but he wa m oonioed of eioling the draft, ami bv pressure on his family, who wen. placed under bond 10 return him. be w a n brought back to I 'i 1 1 ? bun:, s"nt to JaU for sl monlhs and linn Inducted Inlo the nriuv. "A mnnb-r of llalians, I hrouicb nno nf their unci,. lien, conceived a plan to make rmtiipy by filling In nest ion r,:i I res to enable en-able evasion of R'lo'livd ftv Ice, Two ringleaders were arrested, Mild tbn chief of tbn r-oolety afterward rendered the leni:ue valunbl" .ervl.e In preventlnu labor dlfdurbances. The league nlun un-roered un-roered a Si be ntn of a f e w unscrupulous law y. i s to etorl monev iioni men on the ground t ha t their nd vli-e would penult them to evade the law. Aire-. is were not lieocsfiarv. as Iho warullii; of the leacue of the oonse.pienees oT nnv coi 1 1 1 n nil nee ol I hi- t-rae! ce was sufl Icb-nt . "The IimkH" wa.'; able to break tin backbone back-bone of a. damp-ions plan of Corn, an propair.tnda IhroiiKh an International nr-r nr-r a n I .a I ion known as the i buie va n s seels thill, Wtioae member Well' pilnetpallv alien enemle.i The offlreis wer, aire -led and placed under bond for trial, lino verv daiir.einnM draft evador mid COIO'cleMl I.OIS Objector WHS Sl fesled Slid eourl marl le led : Per cnnls-b'i-ablr t, mi -ble. He wa-i Waller l.. llitsohlM.rK. a t nd rn t n t the 1 " 1 1 1 er d v of I'M! sbu re Me rerjslee, for N-'leotle service. left u'olo and netil to b m ilr.ill board his deokirsUnn of rlebl-..' im he eWod (hem. and I ivi I n t a I ped such mm attilude of do I i a in'" biwa l d the i:o el'iliuenl that It wan deolded l.i lu e-l h;a(e Mm. In flu meantime be d Ins i 'pea red and was traced to New York, where lie was pi: d iludir ob-:ei atlnn Mo was detained hi II looked -",.ni In a hotel until s 1 1 i'lT b-n I , Idenee ciMihl 1 blslned nr. 'In l bin,, but was so elnewd and nn-i'liil Ibal be mil rvltled b! i caploi., mid made hl.t ,,,,,,, 11 wan imii ( d thai he had none ,, Cblciiuo. mid it Pftl'diiilK one'atl went them lo find bliu, The use id" commend After A. P. 1. began to reach out into a wide development by reason of tiie hard I work of the national directors at Washington, Wash-ington, D. J. in thut town began to cry for more. Jt pent out to all its special aeents and local office? a circular explaining ex-plaining tiie great asi;tan.ce which the league was capable of rendering the government, gov-ernment, and asked pie assignment of a s-pO"ia I arrent as an A . P. P. detail in ! each hureau locality. This circular went o"t on February C, lJv and Ko.-ton re-, re-, ceived a copy duly, as well as the re-pi-st ! of the provost marshal general to the I governor of Massachusetts for aid in se- leotlve service mat t ers. At tiiat t'me there wa no division cf A. P. P. organized organ-ized i:i poston. A f ew days later" t e Massachusetts committee of ; ubiic safe'.v. whi-'h had been organ:z-d and active cv, r fince the beginning of the war. v.us asked to interest itself lo t':ie extent of ba ing some p:'od nan start a poston dlvis-on of A. P. L. The latter matter was slow-In slow-In dovvlnnment because of tiie extent and t Ii'tom chness nf tie earl ier sta.t e nrjra!' i -.at ion. Tiie latter had been takinc care of tiie fool, fuel and other adrn mist r t ne work in assistance to the povenriu :it. Tie- feepng was that it m'srht bo bett.-r to ctilHri:e the committee of public sifey t!;an to start anv new hodv which n-h-.ht be a souice of tnisundertiandiiig and friction. fric-tion. The department of justice w.rk in prv. t"n during tKe oarK- dnys of o war b.ad net been ea : isfietory. poston. so far f-om be in if all Puritan, has in ren'it - one of the most mixed populations in the country. coun-try. There was sonic fee mi: against I '. .e department of jnMice in pos'.on. arid some feeling ni-o against nnv new bodv which, proposed to I nk up closely w'th that arm cf the covernment P. ,P had been h.i'i-nlinc h.i'i-nlinc for itself tiie alien onniv, nmi-mi,!ary nmi-mi,!ary an I propa a nd i -w orU. e crv enrlv In tho can,. 1". J. was overworked in pesion, as it had bon in evpry nt'-er creat city in Ame-ica. and it rc:iHv v, ed help. There were a treat manv tivk-Im,- men who belie ed that it oou id bo much relieved by tiie well-orrranirefl sun-pe-t of the banking. -cit estate i?nb:s' :-ial and rnnuneri--al actt-;tioA of t''e off v, n bsd been the case all over the Ih-it d Slate-- w here A. P. P. divisions had been ereated. St i'l a not her em ha rrasmen t. however, wed up P " earl activities of A. i 1 ,' In Hoston. That citv -;iinu- In ' t ponu-bition ponu-bition maiv, Krench ''anadians. Irish, and so forth, of the Patbolic faith, had de-'loi'r,l de-'loi'r,l a so- t of ohm vh nreb'em. and t Itere bsd become somevvha t active the (ir--s nir. 1 1 ion known as the . A -whose init'sls Hie somewhat close to those nf A. P P. Manv (homiM that confusion confu-sion between the two or II 17. a t ions would roMiit . Tii ere bad been moreover, in j th's state of independent thought, a threat I tna nv ot her "lea cues" of this, that and I (he other sort; mi that main- felt that I poston b?w1 about enough leagues as mat- t ers 1 hen st ood. ! At about this timrt Mr. V. Uodman r.vtbodv of the ,'iv,ui d ( f co of public sa-'etv : point ed out to Wa siilm: t on t ! te efficient jinsnni'i In wliic Mr. Kndloott bad orcan-l-ed tlia committee t h i om: bout the state There w:i a lo-a I com mi t : ee of ss 'e t v in ; e-erv lew n. and also h state-w Ido ma-1 ma-1 cltine eri:a ni.'ng the hanklm;. real es'ate and other Important business activities ! Me unvested thai t-tstea.l of n dMshni , of A. P. P. there, ought to be a suborr a n -I "a t ion "on:a nied by the commit tee of j pu'-'b- f-a tel v at the re-iuest of tiie do-partinent do-partinent of fustlce." H was understood that Ibis minor orn nU: t ion should bae the reneral feiitures ,,f V. IV P. and 'should sot aM the M : s -s chose 1 1 s t-.rin.-l of A. PP. I, st of ,;ood ininies was sti--es.-il of persons mHah;o for the or-r.s or-r.s "l7.a t ion as thus outlined. Mr Pllietr of Iho nnMonal director; boe-er. made the point Pot an sr-rsneeuient sr-rsneeuient or Ibis kind would Pa e a lendencv (o db'eredlt or to d K p, l ,.,-,,( e the lear.ue In olher eit'es -ppo altornev reneral at--o was opposed to anv on-ani. alien which did not show the exact t i f -us of a puolv oblnteer bodv. as bad I..'-,., done In all other pa l ts of the Pnitod M.iloi. Mr. Pcabolv .slip wanted the commit tee of public SSlelv to appe,,- a- the pnrent or con I rol ! in,; bodv. and lo( ,, alm,ble lime was waited o or Pits twee. d'e ib-e ai -.Ulnenl. compromise fe. fed. an,l on prlt 1 ., PK f'.o , llonsl dlreclors bs. adb e Co, I the M ,'. N I'duiset Is o, n in--.it !ot w M-. hi, i,.,. fb es, find :"umrd thai the work bid be. tun and Pn-il Uo'ton wouM cop,- ., ,; P.-ar! a. i no -idle the foi ,,, of letferhe'o' v.- rd 1m- . P. I . . rullltu: Pie ,,..,., e-. o'" 1, e national d'teoto-s on t'e !eM d side and .-ubvlpitllne (he w.e.u 'r,o-to, 'r,o-to, -live I.M.1III- " Pndenie-iM, b VH ,,, snuear Hi" hm,en,l. "t ir .-a n I . ed lo tlu-1s tlu-1s Ma.'buiicl l-i public s-if. ; ,-ouiM He,, un.'er Ibe dlteotlon of the 1 nlte.i Stale, deps rl ment of lust Ier. but e i u of ln et. nation," 5oaton expuve-.-d Ibe hoi of that f'MA PT MR V. ' TIM-; FT-ilt V f'l- PITTSPPP;. ! An'-tiiT ritorrn -'en' er b-eat est 'ouoenlratloii of War W ork in the rrii'.M State.; - The T"w-r of PahM iiihI Mow- Ir Was Heid Safe No P W . W. Need Apple T ' it t.- burg also ,t s - pec ted to be an nli-'ii jjtorm center when the P'ntied S'ates deelnred war ition (Jerm.inv. Tbi.-uneasiees Tbi.-uneasiees was r ,-tnnil and to be expected. expect-ed. M'.sr of our irri-at iron and sNe plant:-1 w-re located there, and mnn'T-r.us mnn'T-r.us d! her imjiori ant in dust ries as well. T hest iiianla were vital to our succe; s in th) war. us v. ere the j;reat ena! niin.-i in t ho a d ia cei i r. districts, it was f e' t on ev-j-; sfrie Hiat the enemy would strike here f be strink at all. Put tin- main cau-:e for apprehension lav In the (act that I '1 1 1 sbu rg bad an enormous foreign P'U'ulat i-m. -mr'oiHlv from countries of Him central altb-s. and the presence- of tins element in its Industries was feared a 'l s- mi rce. of 1 1 vim in 1 1 e, sabol a tre and labor troubles. The fa.-t. that Pittsburg and western pennsvlvania throughout tbej war rema l ped pract a-a u free from htli-T d i -1 urhanoes and war munition destrue-t destrue-t ion, '-o t ro 1 1 ' ib-sorne in other seot ions, was. due to the sph-ndld I n t -i I nji-nr,. ser- I Vice reiuered bv the A Hi r e;i u Plote.-t-le I ; t; n in cloe en-operation with the l.'ni'cd Strite'i Ht part nif-nt of justice ami p a val a nd m i 1 i t i y i n t elPoneo buren ir-. The Suiol.v citv sends iu a verv clean report. Pittsburg operated (be blrbef percentage percent-age on wa r work of nnv d i - i riot In the Pulfcd State.:. t filled over (T. per rent of nP the st eel coy r ra s jMnced bv t be ordnanco rl ep.i r t m en t , In add'liou (, Mie t remcn'I'ojH mil put of muni t Ion" and olh-r war i i a I ' r al n (t the entente al-Me::. al-Me::. M was .'"Muiateri ti;,t the district was runmnc fi-fin fin to 7" per cent on wrir work at tl,e tliiu- "f the arnnstlce. that at bast r.'ici plnnts. n,nv of lln-m ma mmol h in st-,e, u ei i filling t;over n -rnent ord'-rs, and over our mldlon etn-Iiofes etn-Iiofes w-re encageij in lar" part tn helping win the war. Puring the latter part of Imsf Hide.., the dailv labor sborf-ne sborf-ne whs 'fiver Pi.iihO. P was vllal to the Pulled State-: and to the entente allies that the Plt's'-uig district sbmild be per-mitled per-mitled lo conduct uimmiestrd its ereat ludintrles of the vr, and tlinf this was jior-sihle w;ih duo in a larg" measure to the American Prot eel I ve lea gun. A few das afi-"" Mm war wan declared, .rob n V. Wnitile v, n. wel1 -k nnwn Pit l ."-burg ."-burg Vaisiiiess uian, was asked to onrantr.e a, 1 1 i v I a inn of 'be American Pro t e,t I ve e;u:iie in the I will v- se veu oounlles of western I'e 1 1 1 is v I a It la , eo in J t r is 1 1 1 g the Pnit'-d States w'cMern judl.dnl district. Mr. Weil. lev eonlerred with Robert S. .Pldge. special agent ill cbame Of the bureau bu-reau of Investigation, 'b pa rt u,ent of Jus -lice, i barn II the coveriitui'itt waa In need of Filch an nrga n i.M I hm . ' When na-raired na-raired that It was. Mr. Weiblev bepa n Ibe foruiatlofi of a branch for tbla district. dis-trict. Rrpi esental i eq of fbe railroads and ot h'-r Imporl a lit for porn Hons were en lied Into cfu i fere i ice. and we rn asked to co - 0 pern t e, and w ll b ! n an a run 7. 1 ng rbort time I,m American Proleetlve b-ajrue bio) n c I i vn a tcn l a In every con n I v. t o wn-b I p, ( ell v. town and vilhir. In I be ro district. dis-trict. In the case of Piii."bur(r. the operating op-erating h"aibijn rt era, thin plan of ort-an-i.ation was woelo"! out so nilnulelv that an actlvn nrent representing I lie league. and b nstant com n i u u lea I t u with II. was located In every voting pre, ) no t . and When hero wee i 'Oliee 1 1 1 la I Ions of t lie Pil'i'lfm elemeril llti-i.ii ntientM were to be found lii pniclicall everv cllv hloek. Mr. Wr-lbh-V p. I-:onallv per fecled n lid inn I ills I in-d from I'll t shun: Ibis net work 1 li roiij: lion t the dlMrlel. Ralph M. ,Moi,t-Ki.lliet ,Moi,t-Ki.lliet v illreclcd I he Work III PHI shin K. each ward beaig placed In cbaiKe of a caplalii v bo report ed lo hhn. nud, each captain having his separate lieutenants Willi agents in r-verv ele.-t ..n precinct. Ra vino Hd II. A ll'-n, assisted l,v Wlllla m S. Masl.-u, dliecled lb" operation of Iho Intelligence Jietlvlt lea In I lie oill lylllg Pre-iuent mcfllnn of ward osplnlin and fll'.trlet I bll I e , ,a n I s we,-e held fo I bear Miic.KosMmin fn-m reprorau , t a I I v.-s of the U.' ernmeiit . Thev were Mius liepl familiar with the lalesl 1 1 a p pe n 1 1 1 i"i and knew wltsl i.r"oauMona to take to nuikn I heir Wii U i ffeof i vn. Tin- i lor of the I'itlsbnrg dlvlrdoti. an It. la related these Jiage;, by lla chief, s Th's case a iso sbo wq bow m U"h rnio-tinier rnio-tinier ni.iv Y-n. fliscovere, (,.. w;i v of a tangled s !' f i n, even if no one iq phot n t sunrise. M. S was vis'ferl at hit office an A. P. P. man. who did n-d make himself known. IP v.ns verv much exercised over the fact tiiat the place of his b'isi ik sr; was known. I fe rerj uet e tiiat hi" pTMnna 1 aiel huqjneqq r"la lif im should not be Puked up fnafther. Mr. P is still fn huslnes hi w York. no doubt waiting for 1 h n next. war. Norlberi New Jerqey wan tbe field for many reports of rnyptfrtnu sirnal lights along the sea cna M . Most of lliom nf oidc. bad siTiall fourifln f ion, hut at b-n.t one of the?e would have eomo to something had not the armistice r,,f nff t he Invc-d Iria -tlon. Iu tiiis ease, opera Inrr. wer" sonic-t sonic-t i rrteq nut. for hours w a t h iri g for the flashlights, ard orn-e a sfpind of mllltarv r'-HTves !;-- 'Hi w:it.e, practicallv nil niL'bt around a strmeot's house. Thev riiseov-ererl riiseov-ererl night fignallng with a f-farehUcht and ea hi u m-li gi t at different p'acrs ovr thf nfirPiaslern part of pertren county, and there S'meJ to be evidepe. of a svstein of fiynallncr extending from the Hudson river in New Jernfv in-rnsii Tleriren count- up Into fbe Rnrnapo inountalnq a nd t iie ' Ire en wood la ke d i:d rlct In New Vork. Tbe otrser-ers used qiirvevlng trans! t for PpoMIng tbe Ibrhts, and by means of this 1 nst r 1 1 men I. wern alile to obtain the ancleH of fh llrht'j. These antrleq were (hen plotted, and the Intersection Inter-section polnP-4 Ka'.'O apriroxi ma t el y the location lo-cation fif lie 1 i "h t . Tim w ork renul t ed In the location 'if three i ml i vidua Is. but at about this time the nrniM or, ended the qlfna In arid the a ppa rnn t r ieeessl t y ff,r wJifehinr them. There bad been discovered, dis-covered, howevrr, Home real foundation for a signal light pen re In this district, Pldfj-cwood bad another si range t:yi- n 'b-rman who claimed lo In- so sic( that fie could nol live long- v ho v snl.-d to go back home. In order o die In the dear old , fatherland. .Medi'-ai , K a n, I na.l ion showed that In- prnbnbp.' v-riu!d d'e omel I rue, bul the A. P. P. examination led lo fhe refusal re-fusal of bis psr-porls, It .eng le-deved ttial bf ndi'lil carrv somelhlng ffi (Jer-in.mv (Jer-in.mv besldpq fa I a I dh'ea !.. N'ewfirk, llie cardial of rmrlberti ,w .'TH"".' divb Ion. had n verv baffling prn-' prn-' ierman ea-e w he r It was difficult (o f nil anvthlng Oil udib-h a b-al ra-oseou-t inn could be brongbl. The facts were, uucb n:i reunited M tbe foeal o-u r-o-piui of the fa md v. r.n Ibal t heb- d i "lova 1 1 v, fitter all, bad a certain punishment, nP Ibourb H did not bll the crime. If-and If-and hl vlfi- were ui"niherK of a Presbyter Presby-ter I n n eh ore!), and we m. no openly p t o -i ',i-r ma n that ver' vti"d cea tn-i tn ha ve anything to do with them. Al a luncheon gp-en at Ibe I - bon-'iliold Ihe fa vol i db-tr Ibuted tfr a d-zi-n Indies coitsde,! nf l, h o iJcluie- of Kaiser Wllhelm. ( me of tin- guf-ilq then N'lgger.t, thai It Would be n nb-e 'him' to Ming t'tn j'tar Ki-h nrled I'.armer, hi- b did ' .lea.-e Mr. II -al all The head of tills hound,, .'d was j edm a'ed In ' Icrmany and marrb d a fin- ! man v,om:in wdioi'o rHatfwM weic b'ui Herr H wanted to do something i for the fatherland- and the kaif-r. n wa s H'l re he could do pome! h i ng if he hyd pome he'p. Tiie one dancer was that. In talking ' o almort anybody, M f ; r r B might be talking, not to a representative repre-sentative of the kaiser, but to tom'-'-nc who would report, him to the I "n !fed States secret service. perative f'-PJ'l agreed with hlrn as lo th is, a nd grave-;v told him be ought to be very careful. Hut he sn id he k new a. man that, could he trusted, ' a nd he would bring him around po that thev could talk P. over, and perhaps the two nf them could do Hornet hing for the ka iser. The name of this new man wan S'-huItTi. Ife had been In Mexico organizing the T'jiited .States fj-ermans who had fl'-d to Mevp-o. He had been a member of the T'aritzig firagoona, and had traveied ail through Germany, and Ids experience in I the army there. Iia.fl go'ten him hiia place I ;ia G':rnii n propa tran'l 1st of Mexico. He was a member of t.he. Imperial German espion;ige system and he had hh W'il-helrns'ra W'il-helrns'ra f-'-:e ca rd to kIiow it. He a 1-wavM 1-wavM carried It pinner to his under-Horning. under-Horning. It Wim a. grer.it day for Gtto. the triiin dispatcher. At last he had fome trust -d fellow Germans In whom he. could confide! He and . hubz talked ' bf.mbH and tiiat. sort of thing until mid- I night. Herr P. t"ld Schultz: "Vou lean deperifl on nie T am the real stuff ! T ca n get. a I h on-and men back of me. I niri' e J know I have got. a. man from the G'-rma n govern ment here." 1 Ta iks bet wee n f be - e three gen I lenjen j were golttg on In fine Khape at the time I t be arifiis.f ice wa nign'-d. A:- a. mailer ,: faf-t, fpto F; - is Mil fbtgging trains at tbe old rnilroad crossing, and. (the league is recommending1 bis proseeii-t proseeii-t ;on iin'l the revuoa t inn of bis el t i,-n -..;,)! because H certainly bad tirof r.f Us' unfit nes to live In the Pnitf-d States. P ha rd'v seems n'-eesaarv to add t ha ( "?--iir." y-;o: an A. P. f'. operative ;,!,, U'r-t "' i 'Iid la wre madn In t i.e I 'nb ed rt a ' es ;. ia n'd In f lerrna n v, havir.f he,, copied from I 'w. 'a.plured ut. a. real a ger, of the Pai-.-er. TiLfce vas another near-ca::e, onn wbbh , a ' u,'ed be' a in - a re.; i i on ", In nor I hern ' .fe,(ev division, which, al the first, ! ,:' HW, .-, ,,re that bad pi'" e-b-d P and zi'ores t;,,,t follow 4 It. P bad to do w!tM one K . u-;,'.rP'l rahid rii'iilnsl , i A:i"'r!';i, ;i'thoui;h emp.'ivcd In doini' ,Ji - i j -ential ko .'-r u-eent y-,rk 'I ids rolglll j .i.a-'e bee,, -,(),, e . Id . or a. 'i f of f'- I u.aP's m;oe We w, t ,,to the v,u.r, i or l,n morn f.o.-drdy ou.ethlng R.ibJ ff.-e ibe, amended enplonage a'-t, was! r,,,s e,. Mi, i. 'r, men . i,er (' w-nt I eii on 'he fane lo oe,. y!lilt he could find ou a, bout l Tbe latter h:,d a fa- tFV t :-r WT,, ar.'l wb fi found r , to divpoKfd steamers loea ted there. There were rni-rnerous rni-rnerous rumors that these boats were to be blown up by the Germans. of these, the largest was the Vaterland, which was r ec b r ! s t e n e d r v i a t h ;i n . All this section, along the Jersey T'al-iades. T'al-iades. near Tlohoken, is rong in pym-pathv pym-pathv for Gerrna ny. Nee rly all of t be population Is from German- or of German Ger-man paren'ace. and here wis this steamer, the higzept of a!l the boats, and long the pride of the Germans. If. was rot to be exp'-eted that the New Jersey Germa na wou'nl feel pleasa n t about its precnt status. Tbese lo'al Germans boas'ed that they vl been through these boats a'tf-r o-;r rover n rnent tonk them over. Thev told stories of what tiie government gov-ernment was doing wl'h tnern anil what tbev were Efoinz to rlo themselves, rt that the boat", v.ould never sail or never yp Hcror.H. Tbe hiftnrv of other ships w h ic'n took fir- In rn; docr-ari. or vere V up bv concealed --n oslves. Is re- f(-d to eisewhe-;. t al7-a"H was suf-f.i'.f-r.l to reake fb- (.'filing fjf anv trfi.r.3-; trfi.r.3-; f.rt ,- rnr-'ter of cr"nt uneasiness. A t A. P. j operative win'"' t.o know ;; f tiife G'-rrians were doing rcnrd-'-.g the ",.: pi f ba n. if ourse, t be r.r, f sippor-'l to be absolutely (ftjarded tt ;i;n:-'t -riry ry .ny .it i i n-er. Thiv man. :i'.v.-'-"'T, vent to th c;.)e :md ;''.' r thie cr, u, rr.i nda n t hv ri ! n:i roe. T'e g:ard M iv.'.'-'l : e frm-.f i,e a friend of the commandant, because of bh- fam'P jn-ufV. and naive1 jet him 'brr.u-b. T'n'; ooerr.'ive talked Hp find d'em the pier : v,'.nde':r.j bo v be f',n'.' get fm ho::rd. f'.r v.a'a p-'-- o: ra'l bri,"-: on He-. dvv. p', tie ;,':' i'.'e f)V '.' T Ih.'it Wa V, rn-'i ; I J:i'k ml thr'-w if t,: I I i 'J n-dd- v.'e:i r t he ,'.''! ng-va v lii"n' va s ""an 'yy "P '' ''" '" I'- ap-I ap-I if.r'.ej-.ed, ti - - pa ; a t "d . and be went Ife ::, n ''n--"-'l I ri ov,;;in ;(.,d .ad on a le.-,y bat. ,-j I ;.-. e , .' r ' v-i-vx to be mu -plclom: fa ! v. T:. o-.e;n'ive wae on up tbe ganjfr.Pink .j,;M,,(,,',-, and roamed oil over ih I ' U'rn tor- i'i bottom, rd II can vliu' t ;, il bag I fvlnc don- v, ha ' a 'i V Ger-' Ger-' , ,lU d have fP-rr" in th' Pam'- mr- : f wa a:opp"J bv a. irm who wore I j ' THE WEB (Continued from Prcccdins Page.) the men had a clean-cut case against . i him. tiiere was 110 need to prosecute hmi if he had been warned. Indeed, why annoy an alien? Boston is well known in the matter of tea parties. An A. P. L. officer was taking tea with a navy officer on board ship in Boston harbor, and the lat ler cjmplained that his men were getting too much cold tea on their shore leave. A. P. j. took it up with the naval intelligence in-telligence and within a week a man was taken in custody for selling such beverages bev-erages to men in uniform. Mr. Charles D. Milkowicz, or some such name, was alleged to dance in happiness at the report of any German victory. It was his custom to fire any employee in the factory where he was foreman, if the employee showed any pro-American ten-deri'des. ten-deri'des. Once j'c said regarding the United States flag. "Get that damned fiag out of the way." He used to wear an iron cross stickpin up to April 6; 1017. He was a member of the German club, and used to buy silver nails for the Hindenburg statue, which they maintained at that club, such nails retailing tor a dollar a throw, all. for the good of the kaiser. A. P. I- started an Investigation Investiga-tion which showed that this man seemed to be uncertain whether he came from Russia or Germany, and was equally indefinite in-definite as to his age. He was not registered reg-istered as an alien enemy, nnd was charged with falsifying his questionrnvre as well- as violating section 3 of the Espionage act. The assistant I nited States attorney handling alien enemy matters in Massachusetts refused to act in this case. So far as known, the attorney attor-ney is stiH in office, and Mr. Milkowicz Is still in Boston. Mr. Hans D . a German waiter In Boston, belonged to a German club where considerable advance news of German operations circulated. Mr. D said he s-nt money to Germany; said that Germany Ger-many would win the war: drank to the health of the kaiser on hearing that an American ship hail been torpedoed. In short. Mr. D ran quite true to form in all wavs. A photograph was found which looked like him in a German uniformhe uni-formhe must have been a German officer, of-ficer, because they found In his possession posses-sion a half dozen spoons which he had stolen m ""New England, in default of better opportunity in Belgium. At least he was prosecuted for iareeny and was fined $1.V Kater his reputation was found to be ?o bad as a propagandist that he was interned on a presidential warrant. war-rant. It occurred to the fertile brain of Mr. Julius Botmraber that a varied spelling of his name might prove useful to him in times of draft. Sometimes ho wrote his name as Graber. sometimes as Von Graber, and sometimes as Julius V. Gabcr. His classification card named h'.m as G. A'. Gaber. When interrogated as to all t hese matters, he admitted t hat the initial "G" ought to have been "Y." because thai was the way Yulius was pronounced, anyhow, in his country. At the same time ho left a can I over Ins door signed J. Y. Gaber. He declared that he was a German, also an Austrian, Aus-trian, a'so a neutral, but had sympathies sympa-thies with Russia. To others he said that his name was Yon Gaber; that ho was. an alien, but would go where he liked. He had taken out first citizenship citi-zenship papers, , but had registered for return with the Austro-Hungarian consul.. con-sul.. A. P. H. got this multifold party on the carpet, but on his statement that he, Intended to go to New York, the prosecution prose-cution seems to have been dropped, although al-though tiie dossier wilh torwaided to New York after him. There was a draft evader in Boston by tiie name of li , who did not file his questionnaire. He was found at his homo by an agent of A. V. .. and agreed to accompany the. kilter. It was tiie intention inten-tion of the operative to turn over his man to a policeman, but policemen seemed to be rare in Boston, for In two miles not one 'was sighted. The draft evader then evaded yet more, and was not found for several days thereafter. The man's mother, moth-er, however, was found, and averred she j had not seen her son for two months. A j plain patriotic talk was made to her, with the result that after a while she found the said son and turned him over to the' authorities for service In the army. 1 Boston division in on.; case revoked the 1 credent lals which it had issued to an operative. The man's name was Oscar ! y , and tho position seemed to go to his head. He took to borrowing money right and left, once get tin as high as ' $.hi on a touch of one of the special agents. He admitted that he was probably prob-ably the bt-st secret service agent in the country, and told people tie was getting $;'.iUu a year and expenses. After that , he usually touched his listener for ?a. Oscar was doing well until they let him out. His name ended in "ski." j Boston, being near the northern seaboard, sea-board, heard of a good many cases of myst erious light signals. One opera t Ive 1 In the Lynn district was sure ho had 1 seen dots and dashes coming across the bay at night In the approved fashion of mysterious night signals. They put a telegrapher on the case, but he could not make out the message. At 1 o'clock in the morning four tried men and true of the A. P. K rowed out with muffled , oars to an anchored yacht which seemed to be the place from which the light signals sig-nals appeared. They found five pairs of feet pointing to the zenith. Calling upon tho feet to surrender, they boa rded the yacht and explanations followed. It 11 p-peared p-peared that the five yachtsmen had had a hard day's sail and had decided to remain re-main on board shin over uisrht. The flashes of light which had co aroused the A. P. Iv. men were nothing more nor less t han the reflection of a shore light on the glass of a porthole ,1 s the boat rolled and swayed in the ripples of the bay. .Next to mysterious signal lights, wireless wire-less stations have produced as many flivvers fliv-vers for the A. P. B. as anything else. Inspector T insisted that there wap a house in his district which omrlit to be searched, because he was satisfied it had a wireless plant. As ho had no proof, he could not obtain a search warrant. war-rant. Mr. End 1 cot t, at t he office of the food admlnist rat ion, gajvo him a sunn r warrant, stating that that would let him into the hou.se, and that he might get some information. Inspector T went , to the house with a club in one hand and the warrant in the other; searched the house from garret to hasement. but found no wireless. While poking around in one of the corners, however, ho did discover eighty pounds of simar, winch, being overweight, ho promptly confis- , cared. i Soon after the forming of the A. P. E. i In Boston, i man came in with a car-, r 'n r p i g e on w h t e h he was sure was a mysterious messenger of some sort. It 1 was a beautiful white bird that had dark" 1 idots and dashes all over the inside of both wings. The chief was all wrought up about this and regretted that he had not been taught the Morse code In early life. He therefore took- the man and the bird over to the office of the military Intelligence, where they unravel; decipher and decode all sorts of things. The major in command was very cordial, cor-dial, and he also examined ihd bin! carefully. care-fully. In Ills belief the dots and dashes on the wings were of Importance, but he could not quite read them all. He sent for the code expert of the signal corns. Who shall say that A. P. i,. cannoi run down any sort of clew? The code expert of the signal corps also examined the bird carefully, but at first could not make it out. Then lie touched one of Iho dots with the point of his pencil-It pencil-It turned out to be a perfectly good cootie, which still possessed powers of locomotion. Throughout the war. New England was, always, one of the nerve centers of the I'nitcd States. A great many munition factories were at work there day and night. The atmosphere was tense all the time; war was in the eyes and ears of the people. But let no man believe New England anyt hing but Am erica 11. Whatever her population today, her leadership- is A me r! can and only American, and always will be such. Boston and her em irons, the entire state of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, the entire section of Xew England, went into the war from tho (ir.-t word. No part of America is saner or safer; no part was belter guided and guarded by local aaenei.-s of defense. A. P. E. was accepted as one of these, certainly not to the regret of any man concerned. V |