The Red Cloud chief., 1884-04-04
Freighted with Tons or Gold.

IClSukC WIN luis vi NuOfus
Trucks loaded with well-dressed men
rolled up West street ut intervals on
Saturday morning, and disappeared on
the covered pier of the Cunard Steam
ship Company at the foot of Clarksor
street. Besides the men the trucks car
ried small kegs and iron bound boxes,
which Were unloaded on the pier along
side of the steamship Servis. which
sailed in the afternoon. The men care.
fully carried the kegs and boxes to the
after part of the vessel, where they
were locked in an iron chamber. The
kegs and boxes held 81, l5O.0U0 worth
of gold, which was going to Europe.
On the steamship Baltic S2,35O.OuO in
gold was shipped.
The gold was in the form of bars and
double eagles. and was the largest
amount shipped on Il single day for sew
eral years. The gold bars were OBJ
tanned in exchange for gold certificates
at the Assay Office. and the double
eagles came from the vaults of the Sub
Treasury. where gold certificates were
deposited in their stead. The double
cdOiC WttC uttiNCltu III
each holding 5000. The bars. which
are worth anywhere between $4,000 and
$4,000 each. We're packed in sawdust
in wooden boxes. They were carried
on trucks to the offices OF the firms that
had bought them. and werr then boxed
and barrelled and carried off to the
steamship piers under heavy guard.
The little kegs ana iron-bound boxes
stored in the ''treasure-room' on the
Serbia were forty all told. and were
counted by the pur>er and all the Off
GERS before the large iron door wa
closed and locked. The purser has the
money in his especial care. The storing
of so null wealth in the Servia created
no particular stir.
.slt is not unusual for us to receive
on board large amounts of gold" said
Il clerk at the wharf. 1--WE carry
or less on every trip
What precautions are taken against
robbery"
In the first place, the treasure room
is of iron. and is as strong as any bank
safe. 1t has complicated locks. and no
crackSmen. no matter how clever they
we're. could get into it inside OF a
week"
us it especially guarded during the
trip"
:.Yes. it is thoroughly looked after.
The purser and officers thoroughly in
spect it three times a day, and three
times at night"
..Was the Servia's treasure chamber
broken intO":'
'.Never; and no one ever tried to
break into it. Anyway. if thieves did
get in. they could not very well carry
away the gold. for it is too heavy. The
gold in these forty kegs and boxes
weighs close to 25.GO0 pounds"
A weather-beateE man with 4 drOop-
ing eyelid, who had been listening,
tapped the reporter on the shoulder as
he was leaving the wharf.
Young man. he said. lever heerd
of Cap'n Kidd? Well. his plumber
warn't a rope yarn to a six-inch hawser
alongside this here wealth in the Servia.
Eff Kidd was around these days them
millions wouldn't never get across the
pond. Wot a pity for him he's dead"
TIE superintendent of an importing
house which is constantly sending out
large amounts of gold said yesterday
that the house insures it. The firm get
the money from the Sub-Trea> ury OF
Assay Office, prepare it for shipping.
and then lodge it in the vessel. There
their trouble ends.
'.Do you send any n along to watch
it on the way?''
INC; it would do no good. The
money is perfectly safe in the vessel.
and in the extremely improbable event
of a piratical attack our man might get
killed"
..Why do you send out sold?"
because it is impossible to bay COM
mprcial bills. There are not any in the
market ~. j. Sun.