St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-06-07

assortment naturally brought all kind
of prices from ten cents to several thou
sand of dollars. AS usual, too, it wa
the little simple contrivances that com
manded the highest figures while fly
ing machines and new tangled steam
engines went begging at dollar or so
some such trifle as door spring or al
egg beater wonld become the subject o
spirited competition and would tinall.
be knocked down at price to rejoic'
the heart of its fortunate protector.
One of the results of the recent in
PRODUCTION of silver dollars and silve
change has been to turn into the sub
treasury here tremendous and stead,
stream of copper and nickel coins TO
redemption in the more valuable metal
To show how enormous the influx is
will specify some of the reported figures
For instance, three of the city railwa.
companies send in on an average 81 ,2Ot
per day in this little stuff. One banf
sends in 81 900 week and two OF thu
large ferry companies about 1000
Many city brokers receive and TRANSMIT
considerable quantities and from out O.
town comes probably not less thar
$4,000 per week additional. All to-
gether l suppose the receipts of this
''petty cash" amounts at present to no
less than $4,000 week.
Of course all this has to be counted
and examined for counterfeits, mutilateC
pieces, etc., and when one reflects that
this $4,000 is made up of from half &
million to one million coins, the amount
of work thereby imposed upon the sub
Treasury may be imagined. So ac-
curately and Systematically is this labor
performed, however, that the mistakes
made are astonishingly small. In one
case $4,000 in small change was count
ed with discrepancy of So.
Out of these Accommodations, the sub
Treasury supplies all the local demands
for these coins and the surplus is ship
ped on to the Philadelphia Mint, there
to be held or to be gradually returned
to circulation according to the needs of
general trade. At the time that the
above statistics were obtained there
were lying in the sub-Treasury vaults
almost 100000 of copper and nickel,
packed in bags, that would by sheer
weight protect themselves from would
be thieves, quite independent of thick
walls and triple doors.
While his physicians and friends hope
for the best, it seems probable that be-
fore this letter is in print William Cullen
Bryant, the poet and journalist, will
have passed away. While attending
the ceremonies in Central Park on the
occasion of unwilling the bust of MAJ
zini, the Italian patriot, he stood with
uncovered head under a hot sun. At
the close of his address he appeared to
be suffering slightly, although he made
no complaint at the time. Later in the
day as he was ascending the steps of a
friends house, he fell heavily upon the
stone platform and was taken up un-
conscious. He was removed to his own
residence where, as am writing, he
lies in a critical condition.
Born at CummingtOn, Mass, Nov. 3,
1894, Mr.. Bryant has witnessed changes
in this city which to majority of the
present generation would read like a
romance.
He lived here when what is now its
business centre was considered ont of
town, and as few men have been privi-
legged, has watched the growth of New
York from boundary to boundary as in
creasing prosperity threw out its greedy
fingers for new territory. To any one
at all familiar with this city this growth
can be brought to mind when it is re-
membered that the famous CRYSTAL
Palace in which Horace Greeley was
interested failed, because it was too far
up town, and yet it was situated mt the
point known as Reservoir Square, below
Add street. Now days if a man live
anywhere below 125th street he feels as
though he ought te go home to lunch.
At the age of l3 Mr.. Bryant wrote
''The Embargo" a political satire in
verse. He was graduated from VIII
liams College and admitted to the bal
in 1916. During the following year he
published "ThanatOpsis,n which is prob
ably the poem by which he is best
known. In 1896 he became editor OF
the Evening Post, advocating free trade
Mr.. Bryant is probably the ablest ex-
pOnent of this theory among New York
journalists, and many and bitter were
the battles he fought with Greeley
through their respective journals. 1t is
stated that the latter once used the re-
mark ''You lie, you villain, you lie,n as
a gentle hint to Mr.. Bryant that his
ideas on the subject of free trade were
not agreeable. In 1869 Mr.. Bryant
published his translation of Had. The
present is his first illness since boy
and | trust that this sketch of his life
may turn out to be passing tribute t.
the man whom the Evening Press calls
"New YOrk's first CITIZEN" rather thar
that it should bear mourning to those
who, from his spotless character anG
eminent abilities count themselves his
friends and admirers. RADIx.