A half year back they went to considerable expense to have a finely equipped trolley, twice the size of the ordinary cars, constructed to carry funeral parties to the cemetery on the mainland. At the expiration of the six months they found the car a dead loss.
Work was started at once to make it a paying proposition. It is being dismantled and will be transformed into a “tango car.” The conveyance will have the central seats removed, a fine maple floor will be put down and waxed. Then it will be put in special service to carry gay parties to the country clubs on the mainland. They can tango their way over and back again; in fact, never stop tangoing from the time the car starts out from its station.
“There’s more than one way of making ends meet,” declare the officials.
Woman Buys a Large Dairy.
Mrs. Elsie Rothery, a Memphis woman, has bought and assumed active management of a large dairy farm near Natchez, Miss. She purchased the 300-acre farm on which the Natchez Creamery is located, together with a number of fine milk cows and the dairy equipment.
She intends to conduct a modern dairy on an extensive scale.
Noted Woman Detective, Mrs. M. E. Holland, Dies.
Mrs. M. E. Holland, who was called “America’s greatest woman detective,” died recently at her home in Chicago. She was forty-eight years old and had been ill for two weeks. She was recovering from an operation when pneumonia set in.
Mrs. Holland was editor of The Detective, official organ of the police authorities and sheriffs of the country. She was internationally known as a finger-print expert and had figured in some of the most important cases in the country. A number of years ago she was hired by the government to install in the secret-service bureau the finger-print system of identification.
She was a native of Galena, Ill., but had lived in Chicago many years. She had the largest private rogues’ gallery in the world, and, with her former husband, was joint partner in a large police-equipment house. She owned personally a special make of handcuff and the patent right of the Oregon boot, an affair which superseded the ball-and-chain device, and was the patentee of a folding stretcher that has been adopted universally in police circles. Mrs. Holland was the only woman in the country holding honorary memberships in the associations of police chiefs and detective-bureau chiefs throughout the United States, and was a familiar figure at their conventions.