"CHIEF" BURNS

Anyone who goes to the Union tonight expecting to see the traditional knight of the gum-shoe will be sadly disappointed in W. J. Burns. He has all the uncanny genius of a Sherlock Holmes, but he combines it with the calm, every-day matter-of-factness of the average American business executive. As organizer of one of the greatest detective bureaus of the world, he has probably contributed more to the science of detecting crime than anyone living; but it is for his achievements single-handed in his pooneer days that he is most famous. Mr. Burns has crowded into the sixty-two years of his life enough sheer adventure to satisfy the authors of twenty mystery-thrillers. His name is one to conjure with all over the world as a detective who has never missed his man. He may speak tonight of hunting spies as head of the Secret Service, or he may tell of the capture of those two Professor Moriartys of crime,--the MacNamaras; but whatever page of his career he decides to turn to, will be as interesting as the best of Conan Doyle come true.