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the Agency is interested, the reports of these informants are invaluable, as they enable the Agency to determine whether the crime was done by anyone belonging to the yegg brotherhood among which its informants circulate.
The Agency does very little criminal work outside of what operations it gets from the four organizations previously mentioned, and the bulk of this business is handled by the New York and Chicago offices. However, the institution has over eighteen branches, and all these branch offices sail the sea of prosperity under the same flag as the Chicago and New York offices. It is therefore of interest to figure out as nearly as possible how much money a branch office makes from criminal work. The Denver Agency is one of the most prosperous branches in the country, and we shall take that office as an example.
The following financial tables, as applied to the Denver office, ARE APPROXIMATELY CORRECT, and demonstrate the financial workings of the Agency very clearly.
A week's expense in rimning the Denver office of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency :
Salary of Manager Western Division $ 45.00
Salary of Superintendent 35-00
Salanes of Four Asst Supt's 11500
Salary of Chief Qerk 1900
Salary of Bookkeeper 18.00