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Show chief, has Just passed his forty ninth birthday. He got his si.art as a newspaper news-paper man on the Chicago Tribune, where he roe fiom tne ranks to city editor and commercial editor. His life has been one of activity nnJ has talen him to all parts of the globe. He went to London and engaged in the banking and steamship business, hut returned to the United Sta'os n J S0G to resume re-sume his work for the Chicago newspapers. news-papers. Upon hi? return he mde a specialty of crlmipal Investigation and in 1S9S was selected by Secretary tJage for chief or the secret service. During the Spanish American was ne organized a supplemental emergency j force of men to checkmate Soanlsh I spies and succeeded Jn driving fn.ra j the country the chief Spanisa emis-' saries and arresting th-Mr spies. Ills success at the head of the United States secret uervice h::s been roott unusual and a preit aid to the Unitvd States government Jn many departments. depart-ments. General Bingham has just passed the half-century mark In years and is an authority on engineering subj?ct3. His work as polire couiinlsslo.ivr of Jcv York has made him thoroughly familiar famil-iar with the secret service work over the country. He was graduated from West Point in 1S79-::S second lic-.tcn-nnt of engineers The legree of A. M. was subsequently conferred uron him by Yale unlvelvlty. For four years he was military attache at lhe United States legation at Berlin and Rome. Upon his return from he diplomatic dip-lomatic service abroid he was made custodian of the . pubU". bui:il:igs and grounds at WashlngUn. In 1S!)1 ho was raised to the rnnu of colonel and later was placed in charge of the engineering en-gineering district of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. In 1901 he was i etl rol as brigadier general for disability and was made police commissioner of New York City. NEW YORK POLICE CHIEF AND I UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE I New" York, June 3. The much-dis- I cussed secret service department of the United States Is repo-ted to be undergoing un-dergoing a marked change crd among other changes Mill be the hrad of tho department. Ueneral Theodore A. Bingham, who during recent years lia3 so ably served as police commissioner of New York City, It Is reported may succeed John E. Wllkio as chief of the United States secret se-vlce. Thin report can no: be officially confirmed at the present time but it is generally conceded to bo authentic. j John Elbert Wilkie, tho present |