Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-04-09
DOLLARS TRAVELS.
History of Coin from the Time It LEFT a
Bracelet Till Its Return.


History of "a Coin from the Time II LET a
Bracelet Till Its Return.
There is a young lady living in Lambert
vile, a few miles from Trenton, n j., who
according to a correspondent of the Indian
apolis Journal, has a gold dollar with his
tory The adventures Of the coin are as
unique as they are interesting The gold
dollar was given her over a year and half
ago by friend and had her monogram on
the back. 1t was attached by chain to her
bracelet One evening in February Of last
year the maiden went sleigh-riding and the
next morning missed the gold dollar. The
broken chain showed how it had disap-
peared. Search was made in vain and final
ly an advertisement of the loss was inserted
in the local papers The advertisement
caught the eye of a corner loafer. He went
to the young ladys house and stated that
he found the coin in the bottom of the
sleigh while it was standing outside the
stable the morning after the coin was
missed. He spent it for drink of whisky
at one of the saloons.
Knowing how much the LambertvilIe lady
priced the coin, several of her friends deter
mined to trace 1t and get it back if possible.
The salOon-keeper remembered the odd
coin, because Of the loafer's unwillingness
to exchange it for a solitary drink, but he
paid it over to a butcher. The butcher rec
objected giving it to a drover here in Tren-
ton day or two later. The address of the
drover was obtained and he was written re-
specting it. From the drover came the
reply that he had purchased ticket to
Philadelphia with it the day he got it from
the Lambertville butcher. The clew seemed
to have vanished, but the ticket agent was
seen at a venture. He remembered the coin
yVpl1 fppi m bS
ticed the monogram and wondered whether
it made the dollar valueless. He found
from the Trenton cashier that it was good,
and so he forwarded it to Philadelphia along
with his cash the next day. 1t went to the
general Office Of the railroad company in the
Quaker City.
Philadelphia was next visited, as the scent |
was becoming interesting. The receiver of
the New Jersey receipts in the railroad
Office had noticed the initials on the coin, |
but took no particular interest in the matter |
He recollected, however, that he deposited |
the dollar along with other sums in the bank |
He referred the searchers to the Philadel- !
phia bank cashier. The cashier was next |
interviewed. His attention. he said, had |
been called to the initials on the back of the |
coin by one of the clerks, and he ordered it
laid aside for few weeks, as it looked like
a souvenir. Unfortunately, in the absence
OF the clerk, gentleman desiring several
hundred dollars in gold, preparatory to
trip to California, had been paid the amount
and the monogram dollar got mixed in with
the sum and consequently had started west
ward. The name of the gentleman was
given, as he was the well-known represen-
tative of Philadelphia house, for which he
Travelled all over the country.
The search was not abandoned even then
This was year ago, or nearly year ago.
The travellers name was obtained from his
employers and a letter was sent him to Cali
fornia Nothing was heard of the man until
about two weeks ago. Then there came a
letter from Detroit to the gentleman in
Lambertville who wrote to the traveller last
April. The Philadelphan said that he was
taken i'll in California soon after his arrival
last spring, and instead of returning home
when he expected, he spent last fall and the
early part of this winter at Colorado
Springs. The letter about the coin had been
delayed and had been resting for him all !
these months in Chicago, where he got it
early in February.
The letter then went on to state that he
had the monogram dollar in his possession
Ind would send it to Lambertville lmmedi- {
ately on his arrival in Philadelphia He was
about to spend the dollar one day in San l
Francisco, when he noticed the monogram I
that the initials were the same
as a lady friend of his in Baltimore, he kept =
The coin, thinking possibly he might have r
taken it away by mistake the last time he
called on her. Even after he had written to
Baltimore and found that his friend there
never had charm of that description, he
concluded to keep it as pocket piece. The I
gentleman reached Philadelphia the other 9
Day and the long-lost dollar got back to I
Lambertville.> 1t has been frightened up
and is once more dangling from the original q
oWner's bracelet.