, 1872-12-09
THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY DECEMBER . i8z2

0 soft inward smile. How little does the Pres
8 cent dream of the crushing bundle of Savanna
motes 9.t3 no" impending over his doomed bank
! put On, Mr. Clark finally replies to Mr. Presj
t dents inquiry:
doIlarg." 'AN~o s11ooosan
saas Strange to Mr. Clark, the President neye
WINGED With look of some surprise, he said
Ihat is very extraordinary sum Of ou
notes Tor even broker to have. How came yo1
IN possession Of such m amount Of Savanna]
notes, Mr. Clark ?"
IL don't know that I need to make any OK
planatlon, Sir. ALI ask is the Specie"
- nope, Mr.. Clark, that this docs not cove
any malicious attempt to injure our bank"
repeat, Mr- President, ! came for the speci,
Tor ,,a these M notes, and would be obliged if yo1
~Oh. certainly. Cashier!''
me Cashier presents himself, pen on ear
''1hls gentleman says he has $173 900 of ou1
notes, Tor which he WANTS the SPECIE Please count
however, you will prefer drafts for most Of this
", Mr. CLARK? How will you have them,-on New
| York or Philadelphia or are you wanting to
place funds in New Orleans ?"
~ want the specie.''
.".Very WE'LL Drafts on New York will be spo-
Gle to you, of course. What amount Of draft
will you have, and how much specie?"
~ want no drafts at al, only specie, SIR"
But 80 much specie Will cost you Yerv
large sum for insurance aud TRANSPORTATION u
Ihat is my lookout, air."
him the specie, Nj Cashiesr.' 49, p'@'0''1' 'l''
Smilngly the polite cashier receives AIr.
Glarks pile OF notes,-counts them,-announces
the amount correct, and, returning to the back
room, calls one or two clerks to the vaults, and
attacks the specie kegs. Andnow theyroll out
the memorandum clerk calling out in clear voice,
=, ~ Five thousand" ten thousand"- fifteen
Cn44f9t
thousand" yet steadily the kegs rolled ont.
and the clerk called aloud the accumu1ating
specie.
At first, 11r: Clark, broker from New York, ad-
nlreo the cool and easy way in which the Presi-
Clark was sure it Was sheer bluff There could
not be fifteen thousand dollars specie in that
bank, by any possibility. And so, when the
fresldent, after his directions to the cashier,
commenced social chat on general topica. Mr.
CLARK responded. No sign was made by either,
which indicated the real thoughts of each.
Clark was sure he had AIr. President FOUL
mr.; President k'1eso Mr.. Clark Was hopelessly his
victim.
Twenty-Five thousand" called the memo
randum clerk.
h1r. Clark talked-but he vas greatly surpris-
ed, inwardly.
"Forty-fve thousand!"
Mr. Clark's talk Was not 70 easv. Ha ,raa
ahttle-or, rather, a good deal-disturbed. Per-
maps those kegs did not hold specie. He didn't
believe they did It was ruso Of some kind. |
gut there "as an astonishing air of matter-of-
a 1act business in the way those kegs rolled out,
y Slxty-ive thousand" And it was provoking
to see the sweet aerenit which sat upon the face
OF the chatty President. He paid no more at
tentlon to those kegs than Us If they had been
paving g-stonoB.
"Se,v;enty-fiye Thousand l -" eighty thou
stream OF crushing kegs was still rolling out.
C|lark, broker Ok from New York, could hold in mol
tonger. Ion Those kegs might not contain specie,
put then they might-and he wanted to break |
nc . bank71ot specie: And the kegs looked and |
Eolod and behaved just as fhoug gh they werexI
loncst kegs. Il
''Ninety-fye thousand" land there ia an
q AIr. President, CLARK broke in unon tbatat
,fhclars opinion OF the probable cotton crop.-;I
On the whole, don't know but that might aa;I
7e4 take draft on New York" il
dventure. F-
Sc Not now, Mr. Clark. I offered you DRIFTS.
no you declined them. The fact is, / am very l.
n1ch Obliged to you for taking SO much time /:
nd spending SO much money IS you must have +
one, to bring all those notes down here for tho
pecie. It is just what wanted, and you have
Dme Just IN the nick OF time to pay tor tho risk
6a no. insurance 4n nee OF getting THAT specie to New
here want it. You will have specie. and ri
ant the notes. The bank is greatly obliged to:
~, NJ. Clark; and will be to you, or any of4|
our friends, hereafter, when you feel inc1ined9t
help us in tho same way" 4
:. Ono hundred and twenty-fye thousandnn
i'd the voice. And so Clark, the New YorlR.i !
:oker, SO brave an hour before, now went ali to
eces. He just begged for terms, and thea
resident, retaining only "a much specie as ho:i
anted, giving Clark just as much in drafts az i
pleased. sent that defeated hnancier of With
8 {; heavy kegs, and scarcely less heavy heart il
It is believed that no further efforts woreU
aae 70 pfehk the United States Bank in ikesl
anner after the return Of Clark from Sayau-
II, and that he never boasted over TINT trin i
en- to his employers in the dirty work.