protection than the regular police can give them, and whose
interest it is that the criminal shall not only be driven out
of town, but run down (wherever he may be), captured, and put
out of the way for as long a time as possible.

The work done for private individuals is no less important
and effective, but it is secondary to the other. The great
value of the "agency" to the victim of a theft is the speed
with which it can disseminate its information--something
quite impossible so far as the individual citizen is
concerned. Let me give an illustration or two.

Between 10.30 P.M. Saturday, February 25, 1911, and 9.30 A.M.
Sunday, February 26, 1911, one hundred and thirty thousand
dollars worth of pearls belonging to Mrs. Maldwin Drummond
were stolen from a stateroom on the steamship 'Amerika' of
the Hamburg-American line. The London underwriters cabled
five thousand dollars reward and retained to investigate the
case a well-known American agency, which before the 'Amerika'
had reached Plymouth on her return trip had their
notifications in the hands of all the jewelers and police
officials of Europe and the United States, and had covered
every avenue of disposal in North and South America. In
addition, this agency investigated every human being on the
Amerika from first cabin to forecastle.

Within a year or so an aged stock-broker, named Bancroft, was
robbed on the street of one hundred thousand dollars in
securities. Inside of fifty-five minutes after he had
reported his loss a detective agency had notified all banks,