Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 40, 21 December 1911 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1911.

SHOPLIFTERS PEST OF THEJERCHAIITS Many, Including Women, Steal Presents Which They Give Friends.

Merchants will lose several thousand dollars to shop lifters during the Christmas shopping season. Tho loss will not be any great

er than last year or the season pre

PICTURESQUE ARE BUILDERS OF SKYSCRAPERS

Men Who Scale Modern Steel Heights Heroes of Industrialism. A Fit Subject for the Pen of Kipling or Jack London.

the practice is growing. Already many merchants have felt the activities of the shop li;ter and the accom panying louses. Private detectives and the police are at work to give

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. The heroes of the air. This does not necessarily mean the aeroplaniets. It might refer to the structural iron and steel workerhefird so much of during the McNamara affair. In the making of those modern

vlous although it is the opinion that towers known as "sky-scrapers" there

are as picturesque figures as ever scaled the heights of the cathedrals of the middle ages which now ornament the continental landscape.

Building taller than the Campanile

aid If possible, and in a few cases they j recently re-constructed from its ruins

have been successful in forcing the j civic aesthetes deplore the irregureturn of the good stolen. j lar sky-lines of our cities, pointing to

Shop lifting, which is always espe- Paris whose eaves match one

dally prevalent during the holiday j other. cason, is one of the most curious' But jn this very irregularity lies an types of crimes, which the atuhorities I pffe(.tiveneH8 impossible to an equilihave to combat. Any police official br,um of Une Tne ,atter indeeci, refill say this, and he has a whole list BU,ta ,n a cer(ain monotony. Of reasons to back up his assertion, j Tho approacn by steamer to New Past experience in this sort of thiev- i York ,8 gjvfn a vivacity unmatched, ing has taught both the police and : by the towers an,i pinnacles of its the merchants this sort of shop lifting j businesB Sf.ction which punctuate and Is largely done by women, not gangs! ,,. tne horizon.

.of professional crooks, but women who cannot withstand the temptations existing In the great thriving, prosperous appearing store at Christmas time. iOf course, there are often to be found (professional shop lifter, both men and jxvomen operating in the holiday crowds, but with this type of thievllng the police has little to do. , On the contrary, shop lifting in this jcity in recent years has been due largely to the former type of thieves, rt'sually the guilty party has but limjlted means. A woman sometimes pteals attractive articles because she has not the money to purchase them. "Several have been detected more than (once stealing goods, which they subsequently admitted they intended to igive to others.

Doth the merchants and members

Little does the average person, carelessly observing, know of the heorism which goes to their construction. Not only in those who go up but those who go beneath the surface to make a foundation for these herculean structures. In an interesting article called "Going Down" in a recent number of the Harper's Weekly, Robert Sloss gives a fascinating account of the workers of the International Compres3ed-Air Workers of America. "Down they go," says Mrs. Sloss, "working first in one atmosphere, then in two, then in three and there they stop, for forty-five pounds to the square inch is about the limit of human endurance. "That was reached in the foundation work for the new Municipal

lof the police department could talk Building at New York, where caissons

for hours of their experiences with different thefts of this kind. But, do 'they do this? Indeed, they do not. Merchants and police would rather talk of anything else than shop lifters pnd their operations, especially if any names are mentioned. The store owners and sometimes the authorities, too, have many reasons for their silence. Possibly the most common excuse of jtho merchants for their silence is that !the women detected in the thefts are often good customers, of the stores. Borne times prominent families would be Involved if the facts of the robberlies would be made public, and on other occasions the thefts are kept secret for no other reason than that

were sunk to the greatest depth yet at

tained for a building, namely 112 feet below water-level, or 145 feet below the curb. "There in the narrow workingchambers, in which half a dozen men would crowd one another, stooping to their tasks in the six-foot head room, sand-hogs (as they are termed) with good sound hearts could dig for forty minutes. "Then they would have to spend

three quarters of an hour in the air-1

the store keepers and police expect to locate the guilty parties by quiet investigations. Although cases this year have been no more frequent than in past seasons downtown store keepers are losing systematically through tho workings of shoplifters. While the loss at least fn some cases, is small, the practice .continues, nevertheless. According to the statement of several floorwalkers and proprietors the thieving Is confined largely to wo

men and girls. As a general rule 'small articles only are molested and much is taken generally from the ; counters generously filled with displays of Christmas goods, This being the case, it is of course natural that

son of the year than any other. This Is partly explained in the fact that the stores are well crowded with hol-

Iday shoppers which makes petty

thieving comparatively easy.

In the principal stores each clarck foias some feet of counter to wait upon fnd it is almost impossible to watch Uhe movements of everyone stopping Sto look at the goods she is employed ito sell.

lock while the pressure was slowly reduced to atmosphere. "After a good rest they could repeat this just once, and then they were done until the next day, when they could earn another $4.50 in the same way so long as they were not carried off with that dread caisson disease, 'the bends.' " One hundr?d and fifty to five hundred men wi; employed in this man ner each twenty-fou" hours cn (he New York Municipal building for a year and "that they earned their

share of the million and a half dollars

that the foundation cos'' i the opm-j ion of Mr. Sloss. ) Work of this character is as expert j in its way as that in some phases of j the arts and calls for the admiration

of the layman. j But no more so than those figvres swinging high in the air and at the ends of seemingly slender iron arms; skirting iron precipices; sure-footed-ly maintaining their equilibrium on dizzy elevations; treading iron paths the breadth, seen at great distance, of a rope or rail; safely clambering up and down apparently inaccessible skeletons of walls, scaling iron moun-

the 1 tain-peaks.

And yet some pasty-faced clerk at six dollars a week, immaculate in a suit of hand-me-downs and carefully polished shoes, will sneer at the "laboring-man." Vacuous women in electric broughms, silkenly clad and haughtily deporting themselves, avert their eyes and draw aside their skirts lest they come in contact with a "common workman." These men are the knight erranta of the industrial' world. They risk their lives daily for the advancement of modern civilization. They do unconscious deeds of heroism every

hour. They blithely, bravely, nonchalantly take a chance of death every minute. And they are frequently patterned on the model of a Greek god. Picturesque, bold, daring, confident and yet careless in bearing, they appeal to the imagination. Rudyard Kipling might once have made them the theme of one of his "ripping" poems. "Once!" sad word! Kipling, if one is to judge by some of his recent output, is written out. That is the Kipling that the world loved. No doubt he has untapped reservoirs to draw upon. But they are stagnant waters. The fresh and gushing springs that were the sources of his literary being no longer run. Never was anything more delightful written than "Plain Tales From the Hills," and "Barrack Room Ballads,"

Kipling's literary initiate. In subject insular, in treatment universal. And of all the rabid, sardonic but absolutely accurate photographs of this country by a foreigner, "American Notes" stands at the top.

Kipling's ritualistic church training

Telling him how it ought to be done? The average prayer is the most preposterous creation of man. One of Emerson's heresies consisted in his refusal to pray in public. And if you will listen carefully and analyze the prayers put up in the churches of the sects and in the average prayer meeting, nothing more extraordinary could be conceived of in the way of linguistic contortion. Most prayers of this description are manufactured before-hand. They are merely sermons, or sermonettes, delivered with the eyes closed. And at times so ludicious, so amaz

ing, so altogether chaotic and mean

ingless as to be laughable beyond J

words. At one time in the writer's history, much wearied and compulsory time was spent in attendance on church services of a certain class. Failing to hypnotize oneself into that exalted state supposedly attendant upon presence in the synagogue, and unable to induce a soporific condition, the attention fastened on the technique of the procedure so to speak. And from the vaporings that arose not a foot higher than the heads of most of the utterers, the conclusion was logically and clearly forced that the ritualistic churches were in the right when they convened assemblag

es of the elect and formulated prayers for their religious constituency. Or however, the prayer-book was evolved. Ready-made prayers, like readymade clothes, are cut to fit a certain set of sizes. They may have to be trimmed and cut here and there, shortened or lengthened "as the case may be," and otherwise adjusted to the occasion, but in the end the thing that should be said, is said, and said in the

only way it could be said. In the finality the world will come to it. For the average individualist must have his religion administered as are his civics. He doesn't want to be bothered with the details of government. Neither does he want to be bothered with the

details of his alleged spiritual duties. His attempt to execute on the latter was what amused Kipling and provoked his sarcastic risibilities. And this brings us back, or rather doesn't bring us back or anywhere else

in particular, to the epic of the skyscraper. From this vantage, the task should be turned over to some poetic Jack London or refined Robert Service whose Kiplingesque poses in verse were referred to here at length some days ago. For so far as daring and picttiresqueness go no "knights of old" exceeded the builders of the sky-craper, nor

in heroism, nor in magic achievement.

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and affiliations were offended by the mongrel services of the sects. Perhaps nothing funnier was ever penned than Kipling's description of his visit

to a certain Presbyterian church in Chicago, of which this lingers tenaciously in the memory "The preacher seemed on very good terms with God." Is that not descriptive of many of the non-ritualistic clergy? Have you not seen and heard them more times than you can count, familiarly apostrophizing the Almighty?

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Court Cards. At the French court the card rooms from the time of Charles VI. to that of Louis XVI. were luxuriously furnished. The counters used were mother of-pearl or some other valuable sub stance. Tbe cards were embroidered with silver on white satin, and some were tbe work of tbe most famous miniature painters.

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