The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-08-20
UNCLE SANS GOLD COIN
Carried From the Train Through
New York's Crowded Streets,
MORE MONEY IN ONE LUMP SUI
Than Ever Travelled Before in the His.
tory of the World.

New York, Aug. 9.-Precisely al
10:46 o'clock this morning the spe-
cial mail train which left San Fran.
cisco at $50 o'clock last Thursday
evening carrying $20,000000 in
United States gold coin, came to a
standstill in the annex of the Grand
Central station. There was moth
in the appearance of the train to
attract attention. 1t was made up
of special passenger coach, two
railway mail cars, baggage car and
an express car. The side doors OF
the express and mail cars had been
thrown open, and clustered at each
was a group of men with big Colt re-
volvers stuck in their belts or held
carelessly in their hands They
looked more like tramps with their
SCOT begrimed faces and old clothes
than faithful guardians of Uncle
Sans wealth.
A tall man with long linen dus-
ter jumped from the first train and
shook hands with another man who
had been been anxiously pacing up
and down in the yard waiting for the
trains arrival. The first man WAS
Captain James f White, General
Superintendent Of the Railway Mail
Service who brought the train
through, and the man he greeted
was Second Assistant Postmaster, j.
Lowrie Bell, who came on from Wash
ington last Saturday to see to the
safe arrival Of the train with its pre-
cious freight.
THE LARGEST SHIPMENT SINCE ADAM.
Never before has so large a single
shipment Of gold crossed this contin-
ent, nor, in fact has any such sum
ever been transported such a distance
in the history of the world. Ar
rangements had been made to trans.
fer the gold to the Sub-Treasury in
the regular United States mail wag
ons, and Is Of them were waiting in
line at Madison avenue and Forty
Sixth street, under the charge of
transfer clerk j. w. Tiebout. There
was not a moments delay in getting
the gold out of the cars. The big
mail wagons backed right up to the
car doors, and dozen yardmen un
der the charge of Station Master
Henderson were mustered into ser
vice to lift the boxes of gold coin into
the wagons.
Each of the stout wooden boxes,
which had been built especially to
carry this shipment, contained $40
600 in gold coin and weighed $50
pounds. Each was a registered mail
package, which had been duly num-
bered in the regular order by the
postmaster at San Francisco. Sunk
in the top of the box in two places
was the seal of the United States
Assistant Treasurer at San Fran
cisco,
GLAD TO BE RID OF THE FABULOUS SUM
The -four vans arrived at the sub
Treasury building at 12:40 o'clock.
They approached the building on the
Pine street side and the first wagon
backed up to the sidewalk to un-
load.
"Well, l am glad it is all over
WITH said Mr.. Bell, as the last box
came out of the wagon. When the
gold left San Francisco each box was
registered, and Mr.. Bell gave re-
ceipt for 500 boxes, 'said to contain
$20,000,000 in gold" When the
money was turned over to Assistant
Treasurer Ellis II. Roberts he gave a
similar receipt and notified the Secre-
tary of the Treasury that he had re-
ceived $20,000,000 subject to count.
The counting of the gold will not
done for several days. The method
is to count one bag full and then get
its exact weight. After that the
other bags are weighed, the first be-
ing used as a standard If there
should be the slightest discrepancy
in the weight of any bag the con
tents of that one would be counted
separately.
A fact that all mon with oray and