mniTi jW.WSJT "MS THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. "WMI111 I I I SECOND PART. v PAGES 9 TO 12. NO DIM TICK, Judge White Delivers Numerous Lectures to Southside Saioonists on THE PRACTICE OF TRUSTING He Also Talks About the Want of fiood Eestaurants Over There. SMALL IKCREASE ON THE WEEK. Only Eixty-Five Cases Were Heard by the Court Yesterday. MAI FIKISH P1TISBUEG OX HOKDAI Although there -were great expectations that work in License Court would be pushed more rapidly this week than last, the showing on the total is only an increase of seven. Last week 360 applicants were heard, and this week 367 applicants passed before the bar, making a total of 727 cases. It started out well on Monday, and all pre vious records for a day's work were broken, the Judges hearing 79 cases. On Tuesday it dropped to 75 and on Wednesday and Thursday 74 esses were heard, though on Thursday work continued until 5:30. Yes terday was the poorest day of the week.only 65 applicants having been examined. The work has gone into the Twenty-ninth ward, seven cases having been heard in that ward yesterday. Beginning with the eighth case on Monday work will be pushed with all possible speed. The Thirty-sixth ward will be reached Monday, thoughit may not be finished before Tuesday morning. Alle gheny will be taken up Tuesday as soon as the Pittsburg wards are finished. Judge White had lots of fun with the Southside people yesterday, as he had two little matters to pull them up on. One was the trusting business, and nearly every saloon keeper on that side of the river Had to acknowledge that he keeps a slate, or did until very recently. The Dills, according vto the statements of the saioonists, run from SI "every pay," or every two weeks, up to $4 or $5. Judge "While is very severe on lsthis sort ot viglaters, and his little lecture iwas Kept going nearly ail day. Another matter ib the slimness or their restaurants. The majority of the places furnish meals "when called for," but Judge "White says that's not a restaurant, and in timates that to be a restaurant people must est if you are compelled to stand at the door and pull them in. THE MORNING WORK Was Slow and. Uninteresting and Only Twenty-Six Cases Were Heard Too Much Trusting on the Southside Ex cuses for Re&taurnnts. The first man called yesterday morning was Jacob Aulenbacher, Jr., who is the first man in the Twenty-sixth ward. He has been refused two years in succession for the same place, 108 South eighteenth street Anton Artman now has a restaurant at 54 South Eighteenth street and would like to add liquors. Frederick Buehler, who has been refused twice, applies for 1927 Carson street. Edward Cowen, is licensed at 2022 Jane street. Fred W. Drewes is licensed at 1311 Carson street Charles B. Deitz is a wholesaler and wants a retail license at 1919 Jane street Judge "White Why do you want to quit the wholesale? Applicant It's not legitimate. Judge White Oh, yes it is. Applicant People are against the jug business, all the same. Binehardt Differ, now licensed at 140 South Eighteenth street, had no trouble. Jnlianna Engel is a new applicant for 2021 Josephine street Frederick Hoffman, new applicant for 127 South Nineteenth street; George Jung, new man for 113 South Nine teenth street; George Kunkel, now licensed at 1800 Josephine street; Henry Lins, new applicant for 137 Sonth Nineteenth street; Jacob Locffler, new man for 157 South Nineteenth street, had no trouble. Trusting on the Southside. Joseph McCarthy, now licensed at 53 South Seventeenth street, heard that trust ing was contrary to law, but did not visit a lawyer and did not know it to be a fact Judge White You heard it was wrong and you didn't learn the truth? In going on vou willlully violated the law. Christopher Plannkuch, new man for 121 South Eighteenth street; J. W. Rublandt, sow licensed at 1832 Carson street; Joseph Babenstein, new applicant for 145 South Eighteenth street; Charles Rnhlandt, now licensed at 117 and 119 South Eighteenth street, and John Budolf, now licensed at 1827 and 1829 Sarah street, got oil with com parative ease. John Schwartz now has a wholesale license at 129 South Seventeenth street, and this year he applies lor a retail at the same place. His sales amounted to nearly $20,000, and he is the second man who said there was no mbney in wholesaling. He sold in buckets. Henry M. Sell has a restaurant at 182 South Twentieth street, and has been refused three times in succession. The Cause ot Bis Knock Out Judge White Why were you re'used ? Applicant Because I sold beer in buckets to minors. John Satter, 64 South Nineteenth street, was refused twice, and thinks he ouzht to have a license now because he is unable to work. Henry W. Viehman is a new applicant for 1319 Carson street, now occupied by a cigar store. He was refused twice. Con stantine Will is a new man for 143 South Eighteenth street This closed up the Twenty-sixth ward. Louis Abel was the first man called from the Twenty-seventh ward. He is an appli cant for a fresh saloon at the corner of Monestery and the Birmingham and Browns ville road. Judge While What is there now? Applicant My mother-in-law keeps a grocery there. Jude "White Are you married? Oh, ot course you are, if you've got a mother-in-law. John Better now runs an ice wagon, but wants to run a saloon at 2422 Carson street Wendel Daub, corner ot Sharon avenue and Mt Oliver street, was the last applicant heard betore noon. Twenty-six cases were heard. AFTERNOON HEARINGS. The Seventh Avonuo Hotel Proprietor Tells Hi Story One Man Who Didn't Know the Meaning of Intemperance Cases Good and Bad. At the opening of the afternoon session the first case heard was that of li. C. Wilson, proprietor of the Seventh Avenue Hotel, who was unable to appear when the Third ward applications were heard. He was fol lowed by John Embs, a new applicant for 149 Pius street, who was refused last year. Sebastian Fluhr, 225 Washington avenue is now licensed and has had no trouble. J GustaveFriedel, now licensed at 180 Arling ton avenue, hopes to continue. Frederick Hambach wants a license for 643 Browns ville avenue , now occupied as a wholesale liquor store. Louts Hoer, No. 10 Pius street, no w a book store, where he sells "school books and brain books." Jacob darner was refused two years in succession, and as he can't work any more he thinks he ought to occupy 1501 Pius street as a saloon. It is now a cigar store and pool room. George Lehrman, who applies for a license at 157 Birmingham and Brownsville roads, is a carpenter. His attorney argued that the house was necessary to accommodate the people who want to stop there on the way to the Monastery to attend mass. Valentine Pfeuffer never applied for a license before, but has built a house he thinks would be a good place for a saloon at 126 Pius street He is now a paper carrier. Louis Rathleder, No. 167 Pius street, is a glassworker who wants to open a saloon. Close to the Cemetery. John C. Threnhauser keeps boarders on the Birmingham and Brownsville road. Judge White What do you keep in your store now? Applicant Pies and cakes for the ceme tery. Judge White Anything else? Applicant No, sir. Judge White Any beer? Applicant Some for myself and the boarders get some. Theodore Youngman, now licensed at 38 Mt Oliver street, has an idea that he ought to continue. It was hard to make him un derstand the question: "Do any drnnken men live in your neighborhood?'' Judge White You're just like a good many others who come here to answer set questions and can't comprehend any others. John Bercher was the first applicant from the Twenty-eighth ward. He now has a saloon there, having purchased the transfer from Mrs. Kauffield for $1,250. August Bodenbagen has a saloon at 1401 Carson street, where he now lives with his father, but the latter is going to move out. Judge White Don't you want to root the old man out? Applicant He is going to move into his own house. Jndge White He is getting old and crippled and can't attend to business. I suppose you supplanted him. Applicant No, he just wanted to retire. Judge White I have information as grounds for the questions. Applicant The change was amicable. Be Needs a Dictionary. Jacob Breiding is now licensed at 1206 Carson street and had very little trouble the past year. He said minors sometimes come in, but he doesn't sell to them. His receipts are ?30 or $35 per day. Judge White They are all posted and all take in about 530 or $35 daily. Do anv in temperate men ever go into your place? No answer. Judge White Do you know the meaning of intemperate? Applicant No, sir. Judge White Well, it's a man who drinks too mucb. Do any drunken men live in your neighborhood? Applicant No, sir. Judge White Didyou ever see a drunken man? Applicant Yes, sir. Judge White And you mean to say that none live ia your neighborhood. That's a good place. John Callahan is now licensed at 498 Fifteenth street, and it is his desire to con tinue. Judge White Do you sell to minors? Applicant No, sir. Some come in and I refused. Judge White Your neighbors say dif ferent. Do you sell to intemperate men? Applicant No, sir; as soon as a "temper ance man" comes in I refuse to sell to him. linns Ber Husband's Saloon. Louisa Douahoe appears for a license at 1605 Carson street, where her husband se cured a license last year. Her husband is now in the hospital and she runs the busi ness. James Donahue is now a wholesaler at 1413 Carson street and wants it to be retail this year. His receipts wers about $12,000, two-thirds of which was for beer. He sold in bottles and jugs. Judge White Was there any drinking on the premises? Applicant Yes, for three or four months. I didn't know it was a violation. Judge White Did you have any trouble? Applicant Yes, I was arrested for selling without a license. Two officers came in and bought a jug of beer and I gave them each a drink of whisky. They made informa tion against me. Judge White When you were prosecuted you pleaded guilty. Applicant No, sir, I did not Frederick Deitz, Bedford square and Bingham street, is a new applicant The "Last Chance" club occupies the same house in which he now lives, 1311 Sarah street. He says the club drinks beer and plays cards on Sunday. His nephew.George J. Deitz, applies for 1311 Sarah street, but did not answer. John Fisher is now licensed at 128 South Seventeenth street Would Bather Be a Retailer. M. Keller it one of the wholesale firm of Keller & Wilson, and wants to secure a re tail license at 67 and 69 South Seventeenth street. During the past year their sales amounted to $35 or $40 a day. They al lowed people to drink on the premises, but profited by the experience of those arrested for it and quit several months ago. He says they sold mostlv bv the qnart Edward S. Kennedy, No. 1321 Carson street, is now licensed. F. M. Kipben, No. 1204 Sarah street, is a chunky little German, who looks like a house had fallen on him and "drove him into himself." He has had no license for three years and has done nothing. Judge White Can you afford to do noth ing? Applicant I could, but can't now any more. Attorney M. Hunter I think he has been kept out of a license long enough. He'll have to go to the poorbouse. Applicant I don't want to go to the poor house. Andrew Murphy got a transfer for 1405 Carson street and applies this year for 1407. Bernard McGlade is a bartender, and runs a restaurant at 12 South Diamond. He would like a license added. John Nusser has the grip. Edward M. Segner applies for 62 South Sixteenth street He has been ten years a bartender. Drinks a Little for Bealth. John Schnetz is an applicant for 16 South Thirteenth street He is 65 years old. Judge White There has been some liquor sold there? Applicant No, sir. Judge White How much do you get for your own use? Applicant Two'eighths a week. John Trenhauser has a license at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Diamond square. Judge White You've had a license two years? Applicant Forever, Your Honor. Judge White Oh, no, not forever. Applicant Well, for the past 11 rears. William J. TJdick is licensed at 145 South Twelfth street He bought the property and secured a transfer from Jacob Muller. Patrick Wilson, who was associated with M. Keller as wholesalers the past year, ap plies tor a retail license at 1209 Carson street Edward Williams got a transfer last vear for 1221 Carson street, applies for a renewal. He Has formerly a bartender. His busi ness amounts to $40 daily. Judge White It don't follow because a man buys another's license that he'll get a renewal. There's too much trafficking in licenses. I'd much rather Brant anew man. Margaretha Wasserman wants a license for . 1210 Sarah street, where her husband, now dead, applied last year. The Twenty-Ninth Ward. Jacob Aichele, first applicant from the Twenty-ninth ward, has been refused three years. He has a restaurant at 22 South Diamond square. Judge White You sold drinks In 1889. Applicant No sir. Judge White Oh, you forget Attorney Kobh It's a long time for him to remember, Your Honor. Judge Magee It's a long time between drinks, to be sure. Mary Bender applies for a retail license for 801 Carson street. She has been refused twice. Joseph Berkmuller, now licensed at 913 Carson ttreet, had no trouble. Joseph A. Burkley, No. 47 and 49 South Tenth street, has two dining rooms, one for 25-cent meals and the other for 15 cents. He has a license. George Boerner is a new applicant for 1111 Sarah street. Thomas Fitzpatrlck is licensed at 727 Carson street Conrad P. Freund applies for 109 South Eleventh street A license was refused Mrs. Fromm, nis auni, wno applied lor them last year. This was the last case heard for the day, 65 cases having been called. OLD MAIDS are useful according to Bes sie Bramble. Interesting letter for THE DISPATCB to-morrow. All the news; twenty pages. BLESSED BY POPE LEO. Be Sends Big Apostolical Benediction to the "World's Fair Managers. Chicago, March 27. His Holiness, Pope Leo XILL, is out with an apostolical bene diction upon the World's Fair and the plan to erect a beautiful stone monument in honor of Christopher Columbus, at Buenos Ayres. He says: It u proper, as well as useful, to render horn age to men who have merited so well ot Chris tian faith and human society. Columbus, In accomplishing by his genius and perseverance such great deeds, has been the fountain in both hemispheres of so great influence upon man kind that few men can be compared with him. Hoping that the honors bestowed upon htm will benefit the World's Fair at Chicago, we Rive to your project the praise that It merits, and at the same time, as a token ot fraternal love, we give the apostolical benediction. , Pope Leo HI. The Art Directorship of the World's Fair, it is said, has been tendered to Prof. Halsey C. Ives, Director of the St. Louis School o'f Fine Arts. The professor is well and widely known in art circles both in this conn trv and Europe. A NEW WESTERN TBTJSfc Sash, Door and Blind Manufacturers Com bining at Chi en go. Chicago, March 27. A meeting of sasb, door and blind manufacturers for the pur pose of forming a general organization, con vened here to-day. Delegates are present from the principal cities of the West and Northwest It is denied by those in attend-ance-that there is any intention of forming a trust, though it is admitted that the object of the meeting is to establish a uniform scale of prices. From another source it is learned that a trust or combination is in contemplation. Competition of late, has it is said, become so sharp that the factories are barely making ex penses. For some time the Chicago manu facturers have been working the matter up, and have found that most of the principal factories in the West were willing to go into some kind of protective organization. ROCHESTER CLOTHING BOYCOTTED. The Knights of labor Serve Notice on All theBetalt Dealers. Rochester. N. Y., March 27. The Journal of the Knights of Labor this week publishes a boycott over the names of James Hughes, District Master Workman, and "Walter R. Westbrook, District Recording Secretary, in which they say: "Brothers See that yon appoint com mittees at once to call on every retail cloth ing dealer in your locality. Tell them they must countermand all orders for Rochester made clothing. Give all retail dealers to understand that they must not buy clothing from any Rochester manutacturer till the tyrants who are in the Rochester combine meet organized labor and treat us with justice as freemen, and not as slaves. Do not delay, but push this work in your neieh borhood." fr A FAMILY P0IS0HIHO PLOT. It Results in the Death of a Bousefreeper, Who Bulned the Borne. Omaha, March 27. What is suspected to be an attempted poisoning of the family of J. S. Hascall, a prominent politician, was brought to light to-day. Last Tuesday, while Hascall was awav from home, live members of his household were taken sud denly ill after dinner, and next morning Emma Anderson, his housekeeper, died. The others are recovering. The family kept the matter quiet until to-day, but the probabilities now are that the housekeeper's body, which was buried at St Edwards, Neb., will be exhumed and an inquest be held. Hascall is divorced from his wife, and it is alleged that the An derson woman was the cause of the separa tion. It is claimed that threats had been made that she would not die a natural death. WATTING FOB HIS RELEASE. Will Become Chancollor as Soon as Present Ties Are Dissolved. Dr. W. J. Holland will take the Chancel lorship of the AVestern University as' soon as he can sever his connection with the Bellefield Presbyterian Church. He will also take the chair of Mental Philosophy in the University. He is a specialist in that branch, and previously taught it in the Andover Academy, in Massachusetts. Dr. Holland is now at the "Keumawr," suffering from the grip, but will secure his release trom his present pastorate as soon as possible. His new stone residence at Belle field is just about completed, and it is un derstood the new Chancellor will not reside in Allegheny. TWO C0HSTITUTI01TAL AMENDMENTS. The People of Massachusetts May Tote Upon Important Changes Next Fall. Boston, March 27. The amendment to the Constitution abolishing the property qualification for candidates for the Gover norship was passed in the House yesterday without debate. The Senate passed the resolution provid ing for resubmission to the people of an amendment to the Constitution abolishing the poll-tax qualification for voters. B.4E, Beautiful styles in misses' surah hats for Easter. 65:, 51, U 25 to ?5 each. Money to be saved. Boggs & Bum Two Hundred and pipit pieces best moquette carpets in Hartford and Smith's makes at a price, at Welty's, 120 Federal street, 65, 67, 69 and 71 Park way. its Where to meet your friends lunch at Kennedy's. B.&B. 4-button real kid 51 a pair modes, tans, grays, brown, black. Boggs & Buhl. REAL ESTATE SAVINGS BANK, U3L 01 Smltlifield Street, Cor. Fourth Avenue. Capital, 5100.000. Surplus, 569,000. Deposits of 51 and upward received and interest allowed at 4 per cent, sexs PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1891i CAREER OF HEMESSY A Complete History of His Dealings With the Dreaded Mafia. ESPOSITO, THE ESCAPED BANDIT, Was too Man Whose Deeds of Blood in Italy Began the Trouble, CONTINUED BY TOE MAFIA'S CRIMES rCORRSSPOXDEXCS OT THE DISPATCH.! New Orleans, March 23. The night of October 15, 1890, will ever be a memorable one in the criminal annals of New Orleans. It was a Wednesday night, gloomy, driz zling and sloppy. The Board of Police Commissioners were holding their weekly session, and, as was customary. Chief Hen- nessy and myself were present. A few minutes before the Board adjourned the Chief came to where I was sitting, and, lean ing over me, whispered that he was going to the office, and if anything of importance transpired to let him know. Then he went out, and I never spoke to him again. When the Board adjourned I walked down St. Charles street with Commissioner Bean ham, and we stepped into Leon Lamothe's restaurant for oysters. From there we walked to the corner of Canal and Baronne, where we separated. The Fatal Shots Beard. I went home, out Canal, turning up Robertson to Common, as I lived on Com mon, near Claiborne. It was then nearly 11:30. 1 had put out the light and was sitting on the edge of the bed, when I heard two loud explosions, and sprang off the bed to the front door. Just at that moment the Olutseppe Etposllo, Alias Eaddozo. car passed, and the mule kicked the dash board, and I concluded that that was what I bad heard previously. I had hardly gotten into bed when the first precinct patrol wagon drove up and called for me. I was told by the driver that the chief had been shot by Italians. I went to the Charity Hospital, where I saw my chief and friend under the influence of opiates, and being operated upon by the surgeons. It was necessary for quick actions and active measures to be taken at once. In company with Mayor Shakespeare, I drove to the Central station, issued some orders, and hurried to the scene of the assassination, Girod and Basin streets. The investigation showed that D. C. Hennessv, Superintendent of Police, had left his office, at the corner of Basin and Common streets, in company with Captain Conners of the Boylan Agency, and going up Rampart parted at the corner of Rampart and Girod. The Attack Upon the Chief of Police. Hennessy struck out at a rapid pace for home, a block and a quarter away. As he hurried on a boy ran by him, whistled and disappeared. Then from the Peterson shed and shanty, 270 Girod street, poured the murderous volley of slugs, bullets and shot. The brave chief of police was riddled. Bleeding, wonnded to death, he drew his revolver and fought them back. One bolder than the rest jumped into the street, fired and ran. As Hennessy endeavored to reach the corner they followed along the opposite sidewalk, firing at him with their sawed-otf guns. Fortunately, though mortally wounded, he was on his feet battling for life against terrible odds. The time thus occu pied was providential, for it brought specta tors to the scene. Windows were hoisted, doors thrown open, excited people were rushing to the spot from all directions. God had sent witnesses to view the most atro cious crime of the century. Who was Hennessy; what was the motive for the crime; and what the characteristics of the band of assassins? are the principal problems of this murder. D. C. Hennessy was a native of this city, the son of David Hennessy, a heroic soldier and officer of the Union army, and afterward a member of the police foice of this city. The First Bennessy Assassination. One day in the year 1871 he was invited by Arthur Guerin, a notorious character, to take a drink. They went into a little bar room known as the "Court" on St Ann, be tween Chartres and Royal. As Hennessy was taking his drink, Guerin, without a word of warning, shot him down. This was the first assassination in the Hennessy fam ily, all of the prominent members of which have suffered the same fate. It was then that Mrs. Hennessy took her boy, Dave, to General A. S. Badger, who was Chief of Police, and asked him to give the youth em ployment He was made messenger to the Chief. He had fallen by fate into the pro fession of his natural adaptability. Such was his activity, intelligence and attention to duty that bis promotion was out of pro portion to his years. He was Boon a detec tive, then aid to the Chief. The investiga tion of all important cases fell to him, and he finally became the best posted man in his section of the country as to local and visiting criminals. During his career he had studied the Italian habits and knew many of that class intimately. He was better acquainted with their ways, their crimes, their personal his tories than any other American iu the United States. In the early part of July, 1881, Dave Hennessy, then an aid to Chief ot Police Thomas H. Boylan, arrested at the Decatur street entrance of Jackson sqasrethe celebrated Italian banditEspostto. A notorious Italian Bandit He was a notorious murderer and black mailer from Palermo. He was a terror from b lyhood and matured into a mountat a robber. He was finally captured after a desperate battle in which his band was destroyed but managed to escape from the soldiers and sought refuge in this country. The press published his horrible deeds through out the world and Dave Hennessy set to work to discover his whereabonts. He lo cated him in the Italian colony here de voted to the oyster trade. Esposito owned a lugger which he had the audacity to name the Leone, in honor of the generalissimo of the robbers. Hennessy, by arduous work, traced him to his lair, and at last was rewarded by positive identification, and then arrested hip. It was a sensation. The Italians, big and little, flocked to his rescue. Hennessy was approached and of fered 530,000, then $50,000, then told to name his figure, to swear that Raddozo was not Esposito. The temptation was spurned with con tempt It was the first blow that these bold brigands bad received the first time that a man had been brave and honest enough to stand up for what was right in the face of their dangerous opposition. This was the beginning of the end. This man of courage, snap and dash had aroused the enmity of J those whose resource is the most dangerous factor in modern civilization that of con spiracy. Backed by the Power of the alalia. Esposito had a tremendous influence, and was backed up by the Mafia that terrible association of oath-bound assassins. Esposito had a hold on his Sicilian friends here and they came to the fronbin his behalf without delay, but Hennessy out-generaled them and got his man off to New York in charge of the United States marshals. On the 24th day of August, 1881, before a United States Commissioner of this city, Salvator Can nino, a tailor; NIcolo Taranhino, John Caruso, Salvador Milano, Angelo Cusi mano, P. Salamoni and several others en gaged in thefruit business, swore that they knew Antonino Costanzo, known in New York as Vincenzo Ribello; that they had done business with him nnrl hnri lrnnwn him here since 1878. This man Costanzo was Es posito. Then, either In person or by deposition, before United States Commissioner John A. Osborn, in New York, in the matter of ex tradition, John Watson, second steward of the steamship City of New Orleans, testified that he knew the prisoner three or four years in New Orleans as Dago John; Antonio Angelo, commission merchant; Antonio Pallegrina, in the fruit business; Giuseppe Provenzano, in the fruit business; Rocco Gerachi, longshoreman; Messina Salvatore, seaman on river boats, testified that they saw and knew the prisoner in New Orleans as a fruit vender as early as May or June, 1878, and that his name was Constanso. The Prisoner Positively Identified. As a proof of his identity the prosecution introduced the description given by Nicolas Nicolosi, a photograph certified to by Gus tavo Randeri, chief of the prison guard at Palermo; Luigi Maron, lieutenant of the guards in the great prison at Palermo, who said it was a good likeness of Esposito; E. TWllnA- "1.4.-.. e .t. ! 1 - Bimjw vjueiuuu, ui lue prison uaru u. Palermo, Rosario Gnaruaschelli.Vice Chan cellor of the Court of Appeals, "Varenzo Lorenzo, local police agent, also testified that it was an excellent likeness. De Pietro Zopito, a police guard, and Giuseppe Dora, a carabineer, identified him positively. Hennessy had proved his case, established his reputation and brought upon himself we insatiable hatred ot the Mafia. After he became Superintendent of Police the body of a Sicilian was discovered Jan uary 24, 1889, in the Sixteenth street canal near the lake shore. The man's throat had been cut. With his usual intrepidity Hen nessy rushed forward the investigation. He brought to light the fact that it was the body of Vincenzo Uttomvo, who had lived at the corner of Liberty and Perdido; that the victim had been invited to a card party, and while seated at the table one of the par ties in the room quietly came behind him, and, with a razor, almost severed his head from bis neck. The blood was stanched by a towel held in readiness for that purpose, the body thrown into a wagon, driven out to the canal and sunk by means of bricks. A Horrible Discovery In a Store. Antoni Dunna and Antoni Corso were ar rested, charged with the crime, but Mary, the witness of the deed, suddenly disap peared as if the ground had swallowed her. Then on February 27, 1889, a horrible dis covery was made iu the little store at the corner of Derblgny and Bienville. Here lived John Mattaine, his wife, Pepme, and his children. The place had been locked for two days, and Mattaine's little girl, a child of about 5 years, was left in the yard by herself and told someone that ber father was dead. The police found an entrance, and on going upstairs into the attic found a sickening sight The floor waB covered, and the pillow and mattrcss of the bed saturated, with blood. The child said that Mr. Charley, a Dago who came to see her father, had killed him with an ax and then burnt his body. Her mother looked on at the butchery. Charles Terressa, alias Carlo, was searched for in vain, but Hennessy himself arrested Mrs. Mattaine, on the description furnished. while she was wandering around the city. carrying her baby in her arms. The burnt and mutilated body was found in a little closet next to the fatal room. The woman told the same yarn as the girl, but whether it was Mrs. Mattaine or Carlo who com mitted the murder was never ascertained. The next incident that followed was a shoot ing match between John Caruso and Joe Provenzano. Determined to Quell the Vendetta. As soon as Hennessy heard of the case he hurried to the scene in company with Cor poral Boyard and myself. Several arrests were made. It was after this that the cele brated meeting at the Red Light Club took place. Hennessv was a man who never de layed action. He was a police Napoleon. He foresaw that serious trouble was brewing between the two local factions ot the Mafia the Matrangas, Carusos and Joe Macheca on one side, the Provenzanos on the other. He at once called them together and said: "This must stop. I prefer that you make up; but it you do not I shall know no friend ship; I, will prosecute you all. This ven detta business must stop. As to the Mafia, leave that to me. I am fully able and de termined to break it up." They shook hands and promised to behave themselves. In less than two months, that is on the night of the 5th of May, 1890, the Matranca party was waylaid and fired into at the corner of Claiborne and Esplanade streets. With his usual alacrity Hennessy was on hand, and by daylight all the suspects were in jail. In the trial that followed, Hennessy and his men furnished all the testimony that came into their possession. He said all he conld as far as legitimate testimony went, but positively refused to have anything 'to do with D. C. O'Malley, who was employed by the Matrangas to as sist in the prosecution. Condemned to Death by the Mafia, The accused were convicted on the first trial, but were granted a new trial by Judge Baker. It was then that Hennessy declared his intention of going on the witness stand and telling all that he knew. He threat ened exposure of the vendetta and the Mafia. He had penetrated their secrets and dared to perforate them. Then it was that this dread organization sat in death council on him. They held their meeting, distributed the blood money and foully slew him. Captain Journee was placed iu command by the Mayor. The Mayor at once sent men to shadow the Matranga party, who were at the theater that night This was a great stroke and led to important discoveries. Captain Journee nod myself held a con sultation next day and fully plotted out the plan to be pursued. D. S. Gaster, the present superintendent, was then a detective and was placed in full charge of the secret service branch of the work. It was a stu pendous undertaking to discover witnesses who would voluntarily tell what they knew and then protect them from the vengeance of the Mafia and the corrupt influence of the secret agents of the accused assassins. They were threatened in all manner of ways. Journee and Gaster labored day and night, ably assisted by 'their force and Dennis Cor coran, who was the commissary of the Foydras market How well the police did their work was evidenced in the trial, where the testimony was the most complete and positive ever pro duced in an assassination case. Then on Saturday, March 14, 1891, arose the aveng ers indignant, outraged, resolute Ameri cansand O'Malley disappeared, and the Mafia went down in the same deluge. George W. Van Dervoet. BAW sugar contains microscopic insects which are responsible for the "Grocer Itch." Many tons of this sugar will be landed in America next Wednesday. See to-morrow's DISPATCB for details. B.&B. , chance for a bargain in corset', woven corset, white and drab, 51 -price to close the lot, 50c a pair. Boggs Ss Buhl. Your misses' quality- Twenty thousand shades at a price at Welty's, 120 federal street, 65, 07, b9 and 71 Park wa THE MERIT SYSTEM Defended by Roosevelt, of tno Ci?il Service Commission. A THOROUGHLY AMERICAN PLAN. Its Adoption Would Eeform tbs Entire World of Politics. THE BIG DIFFERENCE IN INTEEEST iwntrnuf fob ini dibpjltch.i By reform in the civil service, we mean the introduction of the merit system of making appointments in the public service, as op posed to the old spoils or patronage -system. The essential difference between the two systems can be summed up by saying that the merit system is that which eliminates favoritism, whether political or personal, in making appointments, and aims to fill all the subordinate offices of the Government solely with reference to the capacity of the applicants to perform tha special duties of the places which they seek; while the spoils, or patronage theory ot making appointments, on the other hand, implies that a man's fit ness for the place to which he is appointed is purely a secondary consideration, and that the first consideration is his fealty to the party in power, or to some influential politi cal chief. The merit system is thoroughly American, thoroughly democratic and republican. The spoils, or patronage system is thoroughly nn-American, thoroughly undemocratic ana unrepublican. The spoils system fosters the growth of a special privileged class, that is, the class of political workers. The merit system or system of civil service reform pre vents the growth of this class and fills the public service with people who are really the servants of the whole public, not the servants of any particular individual or par ticular party, and who keep their offices only solongas they serve the public faithfully and well, withont regard to the influence of their party backers or the fate of their party friends. The spoils system inevitably pro duces a caste or class of men who get into politics for a livelihood, and who make the business of office-getting their only aim. These men care little for the questions which really make up political life. They are only subordinately interested in protection or free trade, bimetallism or monometallism; what they care for is the offices. A Matter of Bread and Bntter. It is a matter of bread and butter with them to manage the primaries and control the elections, and as they have an active personal interest in the matter the chances are always in their favor, as against the mass of honest non-officeholding citizens. Accordingly under the spoils system the great caste of officeholders exercises a most noxious influence on politics. Probably there is no other one influence in American life, not even the influence of the rum shops, which has produced so much degradation in our political life as the system of spoils ap pointments, the theory that to the victors in a political contest belong the spoils,, for which the whole people pay. I hold that the radical introduction of the reform system of making appointments would measurably improve the public serv ice and would immeasurably improve pub lic life. It would sound the death knell ot a host of the cheaper and viler politicians; and they naturally regard it with peculiar hatted and abhorrence. There are of course misguided men of honesty and ability who are opposed to the reform, and there are a great many good people who are indifferent or hostile to it tnrougn sneer ignorance. But nineteen-twentieths of its active oppon ents, whether in Congress or elsewhere, are .sure tpbe menjrhose.jnerajKesence in our political life is a curse to the country; men ot narrow minas ana aeiective cpnsciences, who feel a natural and sour hatred toward any system that means good government and honesty. The immense horde of office seekers and of officeholders under the patron age system furnishes these base political leaders with a mercenary army, compact and well disciplined. Their opposition to the reform is strenuous and bitter because they realize tint it strikes at their power. The Difference In Interest On the other hand, the average good citi zen has but a general interest in its success. He has no special interest or concern in the matter. His interest is simply that of all other good citizens, and hence is less effective than is the concrete and selfish hostility of the spoilsmen. It is this which accounts for the comparatively slow progress of the reform. It is noteworthy that the opponent of the reform never under any circumstances speaks the truth in opposing it or advances a single argument against it worth refuting; his weapons are merely slander and misrep resentation. He has no case, and he knows it, and therefore takes refuge in mendacity. One of his cheapest falsehoods persistently indulged io, although continually exposed, is to the effect that the examinations for entry into civil service are unpractical. The" man who asserts this either as serts what he knows to be false, or else he is so ignorant of the subject that he has no right to speak about it. Our exam inations are absolutely practical, and the questions we ask are absolutely relevant to the duties the various candidates are ex pected to peiform. Nine-tenths of our posi tions are filled from examinations for clerk, copyist, letter carrier and the like. A clerk or copyist we examine in spelling, penman ship, copying, letter writing and simple arithmetic. These are precisely the sub jects in which a man has to possess pro ficiency if he wishes to be a good copyist or clerk. " Similarly, a stenographer is ex amined in stenography,a typewriter in type writing. A railway mail clerk is tested in his knowledge of the railway mail systems of his division and of the geography of the United States. A letter carrier is tested as to his skill and speed in reading addresses and his knowledge of the local delivery of his city. A Defense of the Questions. All our questions are absolutely relevant. and experience has shown that they test in the best possible manner the capacity of the candidates. The offices wherein the civil service law Is best observed are precisely the offices in which the public is best served and the interests of the community receive most prompt and intelligent attention. The best postoffices in the country, to take a few examples out of many, those like the post offices at Boston, under Mr. Corse; at Brook lyn, under Mr. Hendricks; at Philadelphia, under Mr. Field; at Indianapolis, under Mr. Wallace; at Chicago, under Mr. Sax ton, where the civil service law has been ob served in spirit and letter. The law is long past its experimental stajre. It has been tried faithfully for seven years, and wherever it has had a fair chance it has worked admirably, and has produced the greatest improvement over the old sys tem. At present about a fourth of the offices of the country are under the law that is, are in the classified service, as it is called. Thus nearly 32,000 places are with drawn from the degrading and demoralizing effects of the spoils system. It is earnestly to be wished that this system may in the end be extended so as to cover the entire public service of the Government, excepting the few positions where the duties are really political. The thorough elimination of politics from the civil service under the United States Government, would be of all reforms the most beneficial, and would pro duce the best and most lasting results -in purifying politics throughout the country. Tiieodork Roosevelt. Washington, March 23. BECIi NXE will answer some of his corre spondents. In THE DISPATCB to-morrow, and Boward Pleldlng will write about freaks In fashion. The best humorists now writing, Grotesque yes, that is the word for the gathering. ' An ogre cannot always enjoy the regal society of a King; nor can it be said that the features of Hodge are usually to be seen glancing, with grinning condescension, upon a grave Prime Minister. There were other anomalies, too numerous to mention, in the room; for this was one of the work shops of the curious Kingdom ot Make Believe, of which, at the present time, if we may except the aforesaid company, John Parley was the solitary occupant. John Farley, nicknamed "Daubs," was scene-painter of the Comedy Theater, Porchester, and this was the room whence proceeded those marvelous designs that stirred the gallery to enthusiastic applause, the boxes to derisive laughter. It was the season of pantomime. The cur tain had been rung down upon the "grand phantasmagorical, allegorical and whimsi corical" legend of "King Pippin." and the denizens of ; that monarch's court or, rather, tneir laces were resting peacefully from their labors on the wall. John Farley, too, was presumably resting from his labors, for he was sitting upon a wooden stool, smoking I vigorously, and gazing, with a far-away glance, into the region of nowhere. It was not a satisfied exDression. this nf .Tnfcn Fr. ley's no, decidedly not. It appeared to have a quarrel with the world, but did not seem to know precisely at which quarter of it to commence hostilities. Truth to tell, he was a disappointed man. He had started life, as many another, with high aims and ambitions, and they had brought him no better fruit than scene painter to the Porch'ester Theater, with, in stead ofacademicjdiplomas and honors, the unflattering title of "Danbs!" Do you won der, then, that sitting there, a man verging upon the "thirties," he looked upon life with little love, and upon the constituents of its big constituency with little admira tion? John had a private grievance as well as a public. He lived in a flat of a block of houses situate in Seymour street, about a quarter of an hour's walk from the theater. For some days past he had determined on making another bid for fame and fortune by painting a grand picture. He had commenced various designs for this "masterpiece,,' but none of them had proved entirely satisfactory. And now, as though to frustrate all his hopes, a new source of disturbance had arisen. John possessed one of those mer curial, nervous temperaments, born princi pally of a morbid, solitary life, which de manded absolute quiet for any profitable employment of the intellect. For this rea son he detested the atmosphere of a theater, and for this reason he yet more detested the fate that had cast his fortunes in its midst In the apartments where he lived, mean as they were, he usually found tranquility. He could at least think, smoke, sketch, or write, as the fit took him, without disturb ance. But now, just at the time when he moat desired and needed.quiet, the bugbear he fled had attacked him in his very strong hold. In the rooms beneath those he occupied lived a poor widow with her two children, a boy and girl. John knew this much from the landlady. He knew, too, that the boy was employed at the Comedy Theater. Further than this hehad not cared to inquire. Usually they were as quiet as the proverbial mouse, but latterly John's ears had been af flicted with groans and cries of pain, pro ceeding from the widow's apartments, and kept up with aggravating regularity throughout the night. They were the crios of a child and a child in great suffering. A person less centered in his own projects than John might have at least felt some sympathy with the sufferer, but John had evidently lost kinship with the deeper emo tions, and instead of sympathy he experi enced only a feeling of annoyance and keen resentment against the widow and "her brats" as he styled them. Thus it was that, think as he would, the subject of this grand picture which was to take the world by storm and out-Raphael Raphael, persisted in evading him; and thus it is we find him, in a more cynical mood than usual, at the Comedy Theater, in no haste to return to the scene of his failures. "What is the use of striving?" mused John, as be slowly puffed his pipe. "One might as well throw up the sponge. Fate is too much for me. He follows at my elbow everywhere. His usual running ground is not enough for him. Now he follows me home, and gives me a solo of his own peculiar music through one of his imps." A timid knock 'sounded upon the door. John was busy with his thoughts, and did not hear it " "Tnat theory of Longfellow's is correct art is long. In what sphere could you find a longer? Supportable might this be, but cold indifference to a poor devil aching for a gleam of sympathy is insupportable." The knock at the door was repeated, hut with the same effect as before, "The grinning public jnst tickleits side: that is all it needs. He who caters most to its stupidity in life is he who gains the proud distinction of a public mausoleum at his death. I have not got qnite into the way, but still I see in perspective a monu ment dedicated to 'Daubs.' " A sound, light as a gossamer wing, was heard iu the room, John Farley turned J C ffijSL his head. Then he stared; then he rubbed his eyes; then he stared again. Well he might. Was this an offspring of the im mortal whom he had jnst been apostro phizing? It wa3 decidedly an imp at least it had the apparel ot one. It was clothed in scarlet; dependent from its haunches was a tail; on its head a satanic cowL But there was melancholy rather than mischief in its eye, and it was of a restful, confiding brown rather than an unrestful, flashing black. John again inserted his knuckles in his eyes, and waved oil the smoke from his pipe. And then he recognized his uncanny visitor. It was the little son of the widow who lived under his flat. He was one of the imps of King Pippin's kingdom in the pan tomime, and doomed for a small pittance to indulge his apish tiicks nightly with the gnomes and fairies of that fanciful realm. "Daubsl" said the imp. ' Yes, only that was necessary to incite John's wrath. A nickname that was sup portable from the actors and scene shifters was insupportable from a child. "Daubs" therefore turned sharply upon the boy "Are vou referring to me?" "Yes, sir." John wason the point of brusqely inform ing the lad that he was not acquainted with a gentleman of the name of Daubs, and peremptorily showing him the door. A glance from the honest brown eyes, however, restrained him. It told him that what be had at first assumed to be impudence was really the result of ignorance that, and only that. "I woald like to know you, Mr. Daubs. You don't mind knowing a little boy do you?" John opened his eyes in astonishment "What a curious impl "John W3S not aware that anybody had any particular desire for his society; in fact, the reverse had hitherto seemed the case. He was usually regarded as an unsociable being. "I have not the least objection to making your acquaintance," said he, unreluctautly, it must be confessed. "Oh, thank you," said the little fellow, drawing nearer, and putting his hand con fidingly in John's, and looking up at him with bright, happy eyes. "Then perhaps I may may I?" What "may I" meant was a gentle pres sure of the lips upon the smoky Cheek of John. If John had been astonished before he was still more astonished now so much that the pipe he was smoking fell from his fingers, and was broken into fragments on the noor. W bat had he, a grumpy Bachelor, to do with kissing? Twenty years had passed since his cheek had felt the pressure ol lips, and then they were the death-cold lips of a younger brother surely about the size of this strange imrj who had left him with that dnmb farewell forever. "What is your name, my lad?" seid he, softlv. "Willie Maxwell. Mother calls me 'her Willie." Dodo that is my sister, you know when she is well" (here the little fellow sighed) "says that I'm her pet But at tha theater I'm only known as Fourth Imp. Mr. Billings" Mr. Billings was the stage manager of the Comedy "has promised that, if I'm a good boy, I shall some day be first Imp." "That will be a rise in the world, and no mistake," remarked John. "Well, Mr. Daubs, it will be a little more money for mother threepence extra a night but I shouldn't like to push out Teddy Morris. You know Teddy?" John was obliged to confess that he had not the honor of that young gentleman's acquaintance. He' never troubled himself with anything or anybody outside his own department. "Teddy Morris is irst imp. He doesn t like'me, you know, because he thinks I'm what do you call it, Mr. Daubs?" "Ambitions?" "Yes. 'bitious, that's the word." John's crusty humor was gradually melt ing, and he smiled first, at anyone dis liking this frank, affectionate boy; next, at the rivalry of the imps. "All the world," thought he, "is indeed a stage, and the struggle for a position on it extends to strange quarters." "But I'm not 'bitious, Mr. Daubs' here Willie paused, and deliberately climbed on John's knee "no, I really ain't, 'cept of youl" John started at this bold confession. He was on the point of exploding into lond laughter, bnt the brown eyes were looking earnestly into his, and with these searching witnesses before him John thought that such an ebullition of mirth would belittle short of profanation. "Ob, you're ambitious of me, are you? Well, my little man, if it's your intention co supplant me as scene painter to the Comedy Tneater, I'm exceedingly grateful to you for giving me due notice of the fact Only let me Know when you think I ought to resign my position, won't yon?" "Yes," assented Willie, with childish naivette; and then, putting his head nearer to John's, as though to take him into still closer confidence "Do you know, I've olten seen you, and wanted to speak to yon, but somehow I've not liked to. I've watched you when you weren't looking, and you've always seemed to look like yott don't mind a little boy saying it, Mr. Daubs like that" Willie pointed to a mask of one of the ogres. John did not think th Nl i A 1 I J 3 y.
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