The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-05


without Head Because He is in
Jaii---The Story of Bardsley's Pecu-
lations.
PHILADELPHIA, June 4.-who is the
next man marked for iail2 What firm
will be the next to go to smash? How
many names will the day see added to
the list Of politically and financially
dead ducks?
Day after day these questions have
been asked in Philadelphia for more
than q month, when public clamor un.
covered the wickedness OF Honest
John Bardsley as City Treasurer and be-
gan the work Of sending him to Jail;
when banks and business houses began
to totter and fall, and bank presidents
10 run away and fnanciers to go to
Europe.
There was another failure yesterday;
two or three moro are expected by to-
morrow. There was another arrest yes
terday, and more are sure to follow.
Ra5slr ksact It'll
special agents Of the Treasury Depart
nient as shadows at their heels, A City
Treasurer who for years absolutely DOM
mated legislation in the town was car
ried yesterday from a prison hospital 70
prison cell, like an ordinary felon.
Men who have made Presidents and
Governors and United States Senators,
are shaking in their boots, AL that Is
left OF one bank which has somehow
weathered the storm, are few thou
sands Of dollars Of deposits where there
was million.
Y.M. O. A, HAS NO PRESIDENT.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
4 ton Is without a president or a vice
president, the one being in Jail and the
other blasted in reputation and kicked
out Of a position Of trust, not being
allowed to enter the hall where for
years he sang and prayed under the
cloak OF religion. There is a feeling OF
financial distrust like that which fol
lowed the great Jay Cooke panic in rs,
and there IS an impending political
revolution like that which. followed the
nomination of Delamater for Governor
Of this State Just year ago;
These are only few things which
have followed Us the direct result OF
1Honest John'sp crookedness, dupliclty
and innocence. Men are going to Jail
every day. There have already been
failures in three States, and there are
ruined regulations enough to satisfy all
the social and political weekfies oil New
, York for year.
As to the magnitude of this thing,
measured in dollars, these figures beat
imagination out of sight:
WHAT IT AMOUNTS TO.
The public money lost or imperIled
throueh John Bardaley will 6e.....,...s 100000
The depositorS' money lost through the a.. ~.
looted Keystone Bank will be...:..:. 2rOVOIOO0
Tie So ssse spag sSadszn SanE viii 10000
The iepositors money lost through the
assigned and looted Penn Trust Com ~, ~,
rs Sn5 @ % q isSisies; in excess Of ~
assets Of thetwelve firms and corpoF-
ations IN Pennsylvania and New Jer.
soy which Thav0 80 fur failed VIII
probably reach SoVV'VV9
Total lost or stolen. $780, 600
Here are figures before which the
Bank OF America rottenness plles into
insigniicance, and 1t is not all Much
is being concealed. Political influence
is at work The fact that the Attorney
General OF the United States interteredi
to delay the prosecutions in the looted
keystone Bank has been open scandal
here for month. So notorious were
the elements which contributed to the
flight OF Marsh that the Citizens Com
mfttee OF Fifty, an organization similar
TO the famous old Committee OF One
Hundred, yesterday sent to President
Harrison, Secretary Foster and Attor-
ney General Miller q telegram demand
ING that the Government find and bring
back the fugitive Marsh. Marsh is
gone; money was put up TO aid his
flight, and so long as he is absent the
thieves who are still under cover may
feel reasonably safe.
Enough has leaked out about the in
side history OF this shameful business
OF Bardsley and the banks to show that
Bardsley was first and always knave,
but for q certain period dupe.
TOWN OF sYNDIcATEs.
This has always been town of syndi7
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Gates. There was the Reading syndicate,
which transferred from tho pockets of
those ON the outside to those on the in
side several million dollars. There was
the old gas works syndicate, which
Bardsley cot 100000 shares OF Traction
bonds for endeavoring to engineer
through. There was the water works
syndicate and the United Gas Improve
niert Company syndicate, and seaside
resort and street railway syndicates
galore. Bardsley began to 50 into them;
He wanted to get rich. His greed and
selfshness had been proverhial. He
began to loan the city money to the
banks. Even Drexels gave him bride
Of 8 per cent. So did the bank OF which
Gov Pattison was president.
An evidence OF his rapOcity IS here
given for the first time. The City Treas
Sirer Is the collector OF mercantile taxes
due 10 the State. Thousands OF small
merchants never pay. Certain magis:
rates are designated to bring snit and
Ii possible collect. The suits are
brought, the State pays the costs, and
itisa fat thing. When Bardsley went
"a ne was expected to appoint four mag
istrates to do this Instead he desig:
mated nine. People couldn't understand
this until to-day, when II leaked that he
had exacted as price for the appoint
ment $3.50 from each magistrate.
Barlsley really had no friends. lie
q. ,<, daine, thinCa Ike this