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SAID THAT THE
TEXAS RANGERS
Would Have Stopped the
Corbett=Fitzsimmons
Prize Fight
FIGHTING IS THEIR TRADE
They Are the Sworn E<u:?.y of the
Bad Cowboy—How They Are
Organized—What They
Do—Their History
It is well understood 111 Dallas that
had the legislature failed to pass the law
making a prize tight in the state a felony
it >as the intention of (Jovernor Culber
son to call out the Texas Kangeis, locate
them there and stop tho fight at all haz
ards. With thirty or forty thousand men
on hand to sco the light, including all the
turbulent characters of the Btate, such as
professional - 'bad men," cowboys and
gamblers, many people thought tbat the
Hangers would be unable to carry out
the governor's intentions against such
terrilic odds.
Thosa who talk in this way cannot
THE FORTRESS
OF OUR RICHES
How the Many Millions
of the Sub=Treasury
Are Protected
CRACKSMEN HAVE NOCHANCE
Every Window and Room Can B; Turned
■nto a Fort on Short Notice.
Tbe Arsenal Is Kept
Strictly Up to Date
Many a fine cracksman has taken a sur
reptitious trip into the Wall street dis
trict and gazed with jealous but admir
ing eyes upon the wbite stone building
of the subtreasury, v/here hundreds upon
hundreds of millions of good dollars are
stored all the time.
What pleasant dresms mu«t have drifted
through the mind of the gentleman
cracksman as ho thought of all these
tilings, riow nice it would be on a dark,
rainy night to wallow in this ocean of
.sold, silver and bank notes! How
greedily packages of hundred and thous
and dollar bank notes would be stuffed
nto capacious pockets. He would walk
in a poor man and walk out a millionaire.
know tho Texas Ranger. They certainly
have never met him lace to face wben a
light was imminent. The Texas Rangeis
have for yearo Held a record for bravery
and efficiency which cannot be equalled
by a like body of men in tbe world. The
Rangers arer.ll fighters. They aie superb
borsementn, splendid shots, dextrous in
the use ot six-shooters and carbines, and
are always ready and e»en anxious to try
conclusions with those to whom they are
opposed.
Here is the official report of what tbe
Rangers accomplished during the yea/
1879: Miles ridden. 49,861; scouts made,
451; arrests, 320. The arrests were all for
grave offenses, such as murder, horse and
cattle stealing, train and stage robbing,
bigbway robberies and other crimes of
violence. Most of these arrests were
brought to terms at the businoss end of a
revolver. In addition to the a'rests, tho
Rangers by their activity, made it im
possible for cattle and borso thieves to
ply tbeir trade successfully.
Tlmre are at present about 200 rangers
in Texas. They are separated into com
panies and are kept on the border for
the most part. They live in the open
air the year round. Nearly every night
in tbo year, rain or shine, they have
only the sky for a rool and tne bare
ground for ii bed. Iheir pillows are the
saddles.
They live the ha'dest, roughest of lives
and danger is their deilgbt. They are
all young men—too young to count the
cost, where duty is to be done and odds
faced. They are made op of the flower
of Texas manhood. A wild, yelling,
cursing cowboy is looked upon with con
tempt by them. They depend upon their
six shooters and carbines, their coolness
and marksmanship, the known courage
of their comrades and the fact tbat they
are backed by the law of tho state, unci
opposition Co their will is a thing to lie
Henceforth he would be one of the kings
of Wall street.
A happy vision; a golden myth. And
(he gentleman cricksman Knew it. Be
hind those walls, within a few yards of
him, he know thcie was enough money
to make a thousand men rich. Hut be
also knew that there was no power with
in him that could bring these riches with
in touching distance. Like all other
cracksmen, skilled in his business, he
knew something about the defenses of
tbe subtreasury and with tbis knowledge
he concluded that he might just as easily
try to capture the rock of Gibraltar
singlebanded.
It is a boast of tbe subtreasury people
that half a dozen uf tho finest cracksmen
on earth could work undisturbed all night
on the building, with tho most improved
burglar tools known to the craft and they
would ba no nearer their goal in the
morning than they were the evening oe
fore. But the treasury officials do .lot
depend upon the architectural strength
of the building for defending the riches
it holds. The subtreasury is really a
great fortress. It could hold at bay a
mob of L'o,ooo people and if they came
near enough, blow them into atoms.
A tour of this building is an interesting
work and when it is over tbe visitor
realize! the uttc. hopelessness of any
attempt to rob or mob it.
JTift» years ago work on the building
was commenced and not a stick of wood
was lut into the structure. To set fire to
it is a., nupossibility. The architect was
J. Erazee, and the building was the pride
of his life. He used to go down town
two or three times a week, a few years
ago, and gaze at it witn admiration. If
anyone complimented the old man upon
the work, his delight was beautiful to see.
It would make Dim talk too, and be
would tell how each of the great Corin
thian columns was laooriously drawn
down Broadway behind v dozen oxen and
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MOBOTtfCr, OCTOBER 20, 1805.
put down at all nazarus with au iron
hand.
The governor of Texas is the chief offi
cer ef the rangers. What he says ia law
to tbem. The sheriff, the police, the
aov. CULBERSON
milit'a must not stand in their way if tbe
rangers hnve orders from the governor.
The rangers hold individually ns much
power as any sheriff in Texas. They hold
more. They are not bounded by county
linos. They may summon a posse at
any time to'assist them in making ar
rests. That they seldo.n or never do sura-
followed by half tbe population of the
city. The walls are of granite, eight feet
thick. The doors aro of inarblo and steel:
the interior walls are of iron and stone;
the arches and ceiling are of solid ma
sonry. The window casings are irnn
sbeuthed; the stairways are of iron and
the roof is of granite; so solid and deli
cately curved that a projectile from one
of tbe huge twelve-inch guns in the mod
ern battlo ship would strike it and bound
away in some other direction. The build
ing was erected when the implements of
warfare were very crude compared witn
those of today; yet it could withstand a
modern assault with more success than
perhaps any other building, not except
ing the treasury at Washington, whose
weakness has more tban once been crit
icized.
Some years ago an Er.lgish writer had
this to say about tbo sub-treasury build
ing: "The olticials of the sub-treasury
seem to havo lively apprehensions tbat
some day outcast New York may rise in
its rage and misery on tho remaining
fourth of opulence and ease. Their
bastile of wealth is always ready to resist
assault by a forlorn hope. Its bullet
proof doors, band grenades and Uatiing
guns are regarded as matters of course.
Such precautions are common at every
store house of riches in the city. Not
only can the safe deposit cellars be.llooded
in the event of lire, but every passage of
them can be tilled at a moment's notice
wtih scalding steam to lepel a mob."
The water and steam aro a pleasant
fancy of tbo English writer. They do
not exist there, at least in the way de
scribed. No mob coulu get near enough
to the treasury to make water and steam
of any use. Tbeße are the reasons: The
granite roof is studded with armored tur
rets, strong enough to withstand a bail
storm of bullets nnd built like tbe tur
rets on the monitors of the navy. Port
holes pirece the walls of the turrets.
Some are just large enough to hold tbe
muzzle of a rifie, aud give tbe marks
man space to draw a sight on tho sur
rounding objects, while others are large
enough for tbe nose ot the Uathng and
Maxim rapid fire guns.
men posses is alone dv» t<» tneir reliance
on their own efficiency. They ore proud
of the great name which they and their
predecessors have made in Texas. They
are selected with the greatest care and
the standard is i high one. Every mem
ber of tho force must so deport himself
as to reflect credit upon the service; to
compel that reipcct which is due from
the people to every conservator of the
peace Any conduct prejudical to tbe
service not tolerated.
The section vhich the rangers pole is
larger in area than all of New England
and it is of siub a character that were il.
not for their york it would be given over
to lawlessuessand disorder. Tbe rangers
are sent to thtse sparsley settled regions
of the country where opportunity for es
cape from the regular peace officers is
afforded.
Whenever asberiff is nnable to cope
witb lawlcssntss be calls on tbe governor
and tho rang;rs are sent to take charge.
Many times ii the past bas tbe governor
of Texas ordecd the rangers to go to
counties wberi the sheriff was in sym
pathy witb tie lawless element and in
such cases th y have acted independent
ly and withod regard to the wisbes of
tbe sheriff orjther officers.
The Texas nngers put an end in ISTfi
to tne cattle soling which had cursed tbe
lower Rio Grmde border for many years.
With forty nun Captain h, H. McNelly,
perhaps tbe nost famous of all the range
i captains, swwped down on the border
and with han riding and harder fighting
i did what thoisands of Uncle Sam's
troops had ben unable to do—put an end
to tbe raids c Mexican cattle thieves in
Texas.
In the lattir part of the same year
the Rangers under Sergeant John B.
Armstrong rj McNclly's company, raided
the stronghid ot Kingfisher, and bis
great band o horse and cattlo theivos in
Texas near jagle I'ass, arrested members
of the ban wherever found, killed a
number of tern in lights and made the
Up in thethird story, through numer
ous halls ad iron doors and up iron
winding surways, is the arsenal. An old
colored maiwho fought in the navy and
on land is he king of this room. He is
g\E OF THE DEFENSES.
a sbrci, intelligent fellow and has
picke.l i a wonderful knowledge of fire
arms, c follows all the new inventions
country what it had never before been,
safe for peaceable settlers- The following
year Laptam Jesse L. Hall, who sue-
ceeded to the command of the company
upon the death of McNelly, stopped the
terrible laylor-button feud in UeWitt
comity,a feud which had raged for twen
ty years, and wnich had resulted in hun
dreds ot murders, and Hall had but
eighteen men for this work, as Arm
strong nad bntS twenty-live for his. Tbe
Rangers have "fought against odds for
years. They fought against overpower
ing odds when, immediately alter the
carefully, and if they are worthy induces
the officials to introduce tnem into his
arsenal, in this wav the defensive and
offensive equipments are kept strictly up
to date. He spends most of his time
cleaning and oiling the 1)0 48-caliber
jepeating rifles; the 100 45-callber revolv
ers and the rapid-fire guns and keeping
the ammunition nicely greased. He also
inspects the hand grenades,some of them
three-pounders and others live-pounders.
This old colored man is confident that
the subtreasury could stand off a mob of
100,000 men. The work is a matter of
perpetual excitement to him and he goes
about it as if he expected a fearful attack
within a quarter of an hour. It is safe
to say that If the emergency arises,
where the use of arms will he necessary,
those in the subtreasury will lie found to
he in hue working order. Fifteen hun
dred hand grenades are scattered about
various parts of the building und it
would only take one of them to wreck a
good-sized structure.
Eacn one of ths many narrow windows
can be used as a miniature fortress.
They all have recesses three teet deep,
and are fitted with shutters of one-quar
ter inch boiler iron. The windows are
abont four feet square, large enough to
accommodate two marksmen, who can
war, as state police under Davis, they
brouebt order to the Lone Star slate in
tbe most turbulent times of the recon
struction days. Tbe 200 men who fougnt
and died at the Alamo, who checked tne
advance of Santa Ana's army of 10,000
A RANGER LOOKING FOR TROU3LE
men, so tnat General Sam Houston could
gather his forces together, were made up
in part of Texas rangers.
There is, I will venture to say', not a
member of the Texas Hangers today who
would not go merrily to certain death to
uphold tbo ancient glory of the name he
hours.
sit in the recess and do great execution
with tbeir rifles through tiie portholes.
Every other window is lilted with a bon
net attachment. Hy detaching a pin
tho bonnet swings outward so that it ex
tends Beevral foet outsido the sill. Two
men can sit inside and either shcot with
rifles through ttie portholes or drop hand
grenades through a hole in the bottom
upon any belligerent individuals who
may gather bciow.
ln tbe roofs above tbe porches on the
Wall street and line street sides of tbe
building are dozens of holes about eight
inches in diameter. They look harmless
enough when you glance up at tbem from
the stone steps below, but each one of
those holes is the center of a feafrul
arsenal. Grouped about they are boxes
holding dozens of pear-shapea grenades.
Should any riotous mob strive to ascend
the granite steps lending to the entrance
doors, one grenade loaded with its five
pounds of bullets, dropped through one
of the holes, would scatter the assailants
in little pieces towards all points of the
compass.
Every precaution possible is taken to
keep tbo mob at a distnnce from tbe
building, but should all these prov« in
effectual ami an entrance be gained, tbo
real struggle would take place inside tho
building. There are scores of small rooms
each parit'.oned off from the outer wails
by nails of stone and steel. In event of
necessity each one of tvs rooms could be
made a fon,idabln fortress.
Long, deep apertures, so narrow that
a fat man would lind some dilticulty in
working his way through, lead t" the
money vaults. Should an army of burg
lasr try to force tbeir way in, they could
enly pass through one at. a time,and they
could be picked off so easily by a single
mark-man on the other side that the pas
sage way would be choked un in no tme.
There are four doors to each vault, and
all fastened by time locks.
Sixteen immense steel bolts hold each
door, and it would easily be a day's job
for a skilled burglar to out tbrouah one
of these bolts. It would be caßicr for a
thief v cut his way through tbe eight
The Rangers are paid $40 a month and
their rations and arms and ammunition
are furnished by the state. They pro
vide tbeir own horses, the statu paving
for them if they are killed. Tbey are
unencumbered with baggage, x'hey will
take the saddle at a minute's notice'to go
on a scout of a month's duration. Tbey
bave no uniform. They have no mili
tary discipline, as discipline is generally
understood, but they obey tbeir officers
ami will go witn them to certain death
without a murmur.
All of these things are well known to
Texans. to tho cowboys better, perhaps,
than to tbe inhabitants of the cities, and
it is extremely unlikely that any consid
erable number of Texans will care, under
any circumstances, to try conclusions
with the Texas Hangers when the latter
are out for business. Much as the people
of Dallas wanted the "big light" to
come off in that city, tbey would not
have tried to bring it off if the governor
bad sent the Rangers there to prevent it,
even if there had beeen no legislative
action prohibiting tbe fight.
Dallas wanted tne light and the money
would bave brought more than the peo
ple of the north who have never been
here can possibly understand. Dallas bad
a "boom" a number of years ago, and at
thai time two-thirds of the real estate in
the city was mortgaged to half its (then)
value. The bottom dropped out of the
boom and tbe value of real estate fell.
Then tbe citizens awoke to tbe fict tbat
the city was practically mortgaged almost
to its full value. Tbe mortgages were
held in the east or in England, and tbey
bore interest at the rate of 10 per cent a
year. Only in tbe fall is money at all
plenty here. During all the rest of tbe
year it is very scarce.
When the Hangers start in to have law
and order tbey : will get it, if they have
to kill every man witoin range to main
tain it, and there is one rnle which bas
ever obtained in all Hanger companies,
namely, "Don't wait for the other man
to shoot first." N. A. JENNI-NGS.
feet of granite wall trom tbe outside
than to go to wort on the doors.
In fact all the danger from robbing lies
among those employed in the building
and they are chosen with such extreme
care and are so vigorously watched tbat
there is little danger from that source.
Tbe sums bandied are so immense that,
of course, Ihe temptation is great, but
no robbery has yet occurred in tne sub
treasury, although there havo been many
in the treasury in Washington. All the
employees are taught to look upon money
as so much merchandise—like ory goods,
groceries and proivsions. The buying
capacty of the stuff probably never enters
the bead of the handler. If it does and
he gives any signs of it, he is discharged
without delay. Whatever money is taken
from the vaults, two men go in together
as a check upon each other and to guard
against mistakes. At night, rive men
patrol the building and every hour each
one. of them sends an "all "right" to a
near-by point. Should this "all right"
be two minutes late a squad of police
would be on the scene in no time. It is
difficult to imagine how this system could
be improved upon.
Loans Checks at Weddings
A new and original mode of making
money has been hit upon by an enter
prising capitalist of tbe metropolis.
Weddings have been numerous, and as
tho habit of making numerous presents,
as well as wedding breakfast giving, is
dying out the bold adventurer has started
1 ivish present loans. His method is
tbis: He lends a $1000 note to the father
or other important relative of tbe bride,
which note is exhibited among the girta
of the fair one to intimidate or cheer
others into following the good example.
A detective is kept on the premises to
keep a wary eye on the valuable tropby,
which, when its work of encouragement
is done, is returned to its original own'
er, plus a handsome comraision for the
use thereof. This, after all, is very little
worse than hiring dancing young men
for evening parties, which, it is wbis>
perea, does take place when mothers art
distressed and bantlings numersm.
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