Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-10
s2O,ooG,OOO IN GOLD.

| Trainload Of Uncle SANS Spare Casl
Reaches the Grand Central station
Forty.fve Men With Winchestel
! Rifles Guard It-It Comes All thu
| Way From San Francisco without
an Accident Another Shipment
Probable.
NEW York, Aug. 9.-The special train
which has brought $50, 600, 900 in gold coin
from the United States sub-tressury at
San Francisco ran into the west train shed
O'Clock this morning drawn by locomotive
S76. As soon as 4he train had come to q
standstill yard engine hooked on to the
rear car and ran 1t over to the west side of
the yard at Forty sixth street, where eight
big two horse mail vans and three express
wagons were waiting to transfer the gold
to the sub-treasury at Wall and Nassau
streets. AS soon as the cars reached For
ty-sixth street tho work of unloading was
commenced. A number of postal clerks
were on hand and rapidly carried out the
boxes containing the bullion and placed
them in the waiting wagons.
The amount far exceeds any previous
shipment of gold across the continent.
The train left San Francisco on the even
ing of August and has been running on
regular passenger time, although it has
had the right of way all along ~ route
1t came over the Central Pacific road to
Ogden, then over the Union Pacific to
Omaha, and from that point to Chicago
over the Burlington route. Then it
was switched on the Lake Shore
from Buffalo east it has come over
the New York Central and Hudson River
road. It attracted lots of attention all
along the line, and crowds would come out
at the various stopping places and stare
with curiosity at the outside of the cars
which contained such an amount of treas-
ure. The bulk of the gold was carried on
the two Union Pacific cars, which are built
of wrought steel and supposed to be bullet
and bomb proof, and were constructed es-
pecially for the purpose of transporting
specie. The train was in charge of gov
eminent officers, General Superintendent
James E. White of tho railway mail ser
vice being in command, with Louis Troy,
superintendent of the western division of
the railway mail service, and Superintend-
ent Pepper of the eastern division of the
service as assistants.
Altogether there were fffy-one persons
on the train, of whom forty-fve were armed |
guards. Three or four guards. with Win |
chesters across their knees, sat at either |
end of each car on the platform whenever |
the train made stop and worried away all |
intruders and curious persons who wanted |
to get closer view of the treasure cars.
The transfer of the gold was ordered by |
Secretary Foster on account of the large |
of specie at the SanFrancisco |
The supply there exceeded |
all probable requireme nts by more than |
sec, 900, 900 and the exhaustion of the sup
ply in NewYork was caused by the increas-
ing shipments of gold to Europe.
Secretary Foster signed the transfer
check for $40, 900, 900 about three weeks
ago. Every effort was made to keep the |
transfer secret on account of |
the danger that might be run from train
wreckers and robbers, but somehow or
other the facts leaked out several days in
advance of the date for leaving San Fran
cisco. AS it happened, however, nothing
occurred on the route which would sug-
gest the possibility of any desperate plot
on the part of robbers to hold up the train
and get their clutches on the golden treas
ure.
The coin is packed in 500 small boxes,
dollar gold pieces. Each box is registered |
mail package, and the whole shipment is |
to be delivered direct to the sub-treasury.
The boxes are ali locked upin United States |
mail pouches. 1t required ten days for
the entire force at the San Francisco sub
treasury to count this enormous sum of |
and when it had all been boxed
and was ready for shipment it was go
bulky that it could not be placed in the
big vaults over night, 80 special watchmen,
reinforced by mail agents, had to guard
it, the assistant treasurer himself sitting |
up all night long and keeping watch over
the $40, 900, 600 pile.
1t is said that another shipment east of |
similar amount. and perhaps two more,
will be made from San Francisco before |
long, for they have at least SAC, 900, 900 in !
specie out on the Pacific coast that they |
can easily spare, and Assistant Treasurer |
Ellis 81. Roberts at the New York sub |
treasury wants all the gold he can lay his |
hands on. He and his assistants will be |
kept busy for the next week or so count |
ing over the coin that has just arrived |
from the west.