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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

powerlng strength and masslveness OF
the structure. He has passed through
doorway of solid granite blocks six
feet in depth. guarded by an outer
door of huge iron bars, an inner door
of heavy steel plates and frame door
the projecting rivets in the surface of
which bears testimony that it is metal
sheathed.
On either side of the entrance is q
room of comfortable proportions.
That on the left, or Nassau street side,
bears the words over the door, Gas
sistant Treasurer" while to the right
are the quarters of the Cashier and
Acting Assistant Treasurer. The one
is occupied by Conrad N. Jordan, the
other by Maurice L. Muhleman, one
of the most popular, painstaking and
thoroughly efficient Government en-
ployes in the country. The entire
executive work of the Sub-Treasury-
and it is vast and multitudinous in de-
tails transacted within these two
rooms.
The interior arrangement of the
Sub-Treasury is peculiar to the date of
its construction. The ceiling of the
main room rises in the form of dome
to the extreme height of the building,
and is supported by granite columns,
forming rotunda. Four galleries
afford n means of communication be-
tween the rooms situated at either
angle of the building on the second
floor, from which can be obtained q
bird 's-eye view of the clerks at work in
three departments on the floor below
the cashiers, receiving and paying.
These, situated on the main floor, are
separated by bank counters of wood
and partitions of iron, pierced here
and there by the familiar pigeonholes
of bank. In fact, the entire appear
ance of the main room of the Sub
Treasury suggests the arrangements of
large bank as they existed two score
years ago.
The departments of the Sub-Treas-
ury are the cashiers, receiving and
paying, which is sub-tiivided into cash
paying and check paying; coin, divided
into paying and receiving; minor coin,
bond, coupon, authorities, accounting
and experimenting. The names of fthese
in most instances amply describe in Il
general way the nature of the work
performed. The duties of the authori-
ties department, however, are pc
culiar. In it are kept the lists of cor
porations having business relations
with the Government and the names of
the officials of each who are authorized
to sign and receipt for checks. In the
accounting department are kept, in
addition to the general accounts of the
Sub-Trcasury, the account of the Post
Office Department, always maintained
separately, and the accounts OF the
disbursing officers of the United States
Army and Navy, etc.
At the present time the daily bal
ance in the Sub-Treasury averages
about s125, 900, 900. 1t runs, how
ever. at times as high as 1925, 600, 600,
sum of money of which the ordinary
mind can form no conception. Nat
urally enough every safeguard is taken
for the protection of this immense
treasure, The casual observer of the
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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06
In Northern Alaska.

Juneau is the most northerly stop
ping place on the regular Alaska ex-
cursion route, and while it is not sutfi-
ciently near the pole to meet the mid
night sun, there is time at this season
of the year for a good deal of light
work.
What most troubles strangers is to
know when to go to bed. The sun is
apparently unwilling to pass and leaves
its halo behind.
Twilight waits for dawn, or if there
is an interval between l have not dis
covered it. 1t is not difficult to read
ordinary print at IL o'clock, and sit
ting on the deck at midnight (the ship
keeps San Francisco time) watching
the shadows cast upon the smooth
water, and the snow-capped peaks at u
few miles distance is not uncomfort.
able with an oyercoat. San Francisco
Bulletin
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06
A Pest of Western Farms.

TO the order of animals known as,
Rodentia, or gnawers, belongs the
ground squirrel, or gopher, one of the
farmer has to contend. These pests,
says the New York World, have be-
come so destructive that many schemes
have been suggested for their EXTERN
ination. The latest report of the Wy
oming Agricultural Station details the
experiments undertaken to destroy the
various orders of gophers
The ground squirrels attack root
crops and seeds of all kinds as soon as
planted, though they do the greatest
damage after the plants have COM
menced to grow and are through the
ground. Their burrowing habits are
source of annoyance to the farmer,
and greatly injure the land. In this
respect gophers resemble the prairie
dogs, their burrows being close to-
gether SO as to form towns.
While the gophers are fond Of seeds
and have particular weakness for
carrots, sugar beets and roots of all
kinds, they also attack fruit trees.
The latter suffer so much from their
depredations thai California or
chardist suggests tying newspaper
around the trunks of the trees in such
a way that when the squirrels attempt
to pass over the paper its rattling will
frighten them away.
The plan of drowning these pests
out of their burrows has also been
tried. But this is tedious method
and water is not always procurable.
Strychnine or some other poison mixed
with grain has been used with consid-
erable success. But the danger at
tendant on this method is great, as
stock, poultry and wild birds are as
liable to eat the poisoned grain as the
sdnirrels.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

believed that it would attain an impor-
tant place among the nations of the
earth, but never, it is safe to assume,
did his mind picture the transforma-
tions that have come to pass over the
site of the old colonial hall within the
brief space which separates his gener-
alton from the present.
Then the country was emerging
front the effects of devastating war
and was without n revenue or public
credit. Now its resources are bound
less, and its credit, unshaken by n
financial storm, stands pre-eminent
among the nations of the earth, On
the site where in 1889 the infant Re
public was launched forth upon an un-
known and untraversed sea, without n
penny in its Golfers, stands its treasure
house in which is stored wealth be-
yond the dreams of avarice or the
combined fortunes of Cresus of old or
Monte Cristo of modern times.
Within the gray granite walls of the
New York bTreasury are transacted
two-thirds of the entire financial oper-
ations of the United States Govern
ment. In 1892 its receipts were ST.
$50, 730, 591. 80 and its disbursements
were 81, ,279, $40, 904.24. This would
have shown deficit but for the fact
that the SubTreasury had small bal
ance of $13s, 072, 240 63 left over from
the year before, and hence year ago
last June, when the balance was struck,
the Government found that it had
stored in its New York treasure house
the neat sum of $11S, ,222, ,977.69 to be-
gin the work of the fiscal year of 1898.
1t is difficult to conceive of one hun
drcd and eighteen million and odd
hundred thousands of dollars in coin
and bills, and yet at the Sub-Treasury
this is n trifiing amount, and has fire.
quently been exceeded by hundred
or two millions more.
The building fairly groans under the
weight of gold and silver and heaps of
copper and nickel and huge stacks of
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

with wealth. The very dir seems inn
pregnated with an odor of riches. In
one instance this amounts to an en-
barrassment, for in the case of the sill
yer dollars, forty millions of which
are stored in series of vaults in the
basement, the heavy iron lattice work
and huge steel bars are bulging out of
place under the enormous pressure of
l2o0 tons of silver, for $1,000, 0oo of
silver weighs thirty tons, and Sl0,-
600, 600 is the burden of the vault.
Under ordinary circumstances the
Sub-Treasury handles very little coin.
The metal lays stored away in the
vaults in neat canvas bags, $4,000 in
each one containing gold and $1,000 in
each bag of silver. At the present
time, however, all this is changed. The
Government has suspended the issue
of gold certificates against deposits of
that metal, the free silver dollars are
exhausted, and only those secured by
silver certificates remain in the vaults !;
the Clearing House balances are settled
in actual coin, gold is coming in and
going out, is weighed and counted,
and the passer by in Nassau street at
the corner of Pine hears all day long
the clink and clatter of metal.
At any time n visit to the Sub
Treasury is interesting, but it is
particularly so now. Walk up the
long flight of stone steps leading from
Wall street to the main entrance of
the building any morning after 10
o'clock, pass by the guardian statue of
Washington and between the huge
granite columns which support the
projecting roof, and you enter cool,
lofty counting room.
Standing at the main entrance be-
tween two supporting granite columns
similar to those outside, the view is
unobstructed to the Pine street, or
rear, entrance of the building. Be-
fore another step is taken the visitor
becomes at once aware Of the over
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

walls, hugo columns and severely
classic style of Grecian architecture.
Half way up the long flight of stone
steps which communicates with the
main entrance in Wall street stands a
bronze statue of Washington of heroic
size, keeping watch and ward, as it
were, over the vast treasure within
Upon the same site in 1889 and for
score of years later was Federal Hall,
standing upon the balcony of which
the Father of His Country took the
oath of office as tho first President of
the United States. The building,
therefore, rests upon historic ground,
which lends to it double charm and
connects the present with the past.
Washington no doubt had an abiding
faith in the destiny of his country, and
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Sub Treasury building knows full well
its massive exterior. Its full strength,
however, Is not apparent until after
careful scrutiny of tho interior. Tho
building itself was constructed for the
purposes of tho Custom House in 1882
and usel as such until 1862.
Strong as il was originally it was, in
remodelling, made absolutely impreg-
nable. A board of United States army
officers were intrusted with the work,
and as it stands to-day it contains
many features of fortress. The walls
in the basement are eight feet thick
and are built of solid granite blocks.
No part of the walls anywhere are less
than four feet through All the par
titions between the rooms are of
masonry. The ceilings are concrete,
all the floors are of stone or metal and
the various doors are of steel plate.
The treasure is stored in five princi-
pal vaults, three of which hold the
greater proportion. These are the
gold vanlt, the note vault and the
vault in which is stored the silver dol
lars. The first two are on the main or
rotunda floor, while the other is huge
cavern in the cellar of the building.
The vaults on the main floor nre
bombproof and burglar proof and
proof against everything else short of
general cataclysm. That in the
cellar is equally SO. The walls of the
building forming the sides of the
vaults are eight feet thick, and masonry.
encases them on all sides, saving
where the entrance doors pierce
through. The ceilings of the upper
vaults are about twelve feet in height
and the dimensions perhaps twelve by
fourteen feet.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Running is the great beautifier of
fguro and movement. 1t gives muscu-
lar development, strong heart action
and free lung play. The muscle comes
where it ought to be, the shoulders go
back, the loins hold the trunk well
balanced, and the feet take their cor
rect positions. 1t was running which
made the Greek figure. The more ac-
tive tribes of American Indians have
been runners from time immemorial,
and from the chest to the heels they
are much more beautifully built than
the average of white men, Running
people have usually the firm but elias
tic texture which is the beauty of
flesh.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

AS the result of q number of expert
ments, the station advises the use of
bi-sulphide of carbon. The method of
applying it is to take ball of cotton
about the size of an egg, thoroughly
saturate it with qi-sulphide of carbon,
throw it into the burrow and close the
opening with some earth. The BIZ
sulphide of carbon evaporates rapidly,
and being heavier than the air, soon
fills the burrow and smothers the
squirrels A pint of the fluid is suf-
ficient to treat twenty burrows.
Bi-sulphide of carbon is good also
for prairie dogs, rats, ants and any
kind of vermin. A caution in its use
is, however, necessary. The liquid is
highly infammable, and should never
be brought near fire or any kind of
light for fear of an explosion.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

. Further testimony concerning the
physical charms of the japanese wo-
men, a matter on which Sir Edwin Ar
mold and Clement Scott, the dramatic
critic, are violently at odds, is fur
nishod by Mrs. Louis Pagan, Travelled
English woman. Mrs, Pagan knows
the Mikado's land well and she AYERS
that, though the japanese women are
not beautiful, had Providence given
them good looks in proportion to their
other attractions, western women would
in time become extinct, for men would
go en- masse to Japan for their wives
and sweethearts.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Here is q new story of the Father of
his Country. Washington's head gar
dener was a man from some European
kingdom, where he had worked in the
royal grounds. But coming to Amer
ica, he left his wife behind. Home
sickness for his "gude" woman's face
soon began to prey on him, and Wash
ington noticed the anxious eye and
dropping spirits of his servant Final
ly the man went down to the river and
declared his intention of shipping to
the old country, when who should
come mp and lean over the side of n
newl y-arrived vessel but his wife. The
klnd-hearted General had secretly sent
Tor the woman, and she unfortunately
surprised her loving husband in one
OF ms 'r hts Of dependency. y.-Philadel-
phia Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

California people have subscribed
S4O0, 900 for the support of the Cali
fornia Midwinter International Fair.
The Fair Structures will be placed in
Golden Gate Park, large plot of re-
served land west of San Francisco be-
tween the city and the Pacific Coast
line. The buildings will be Moorish,
Aztec and early Spanish Mission in
design. Commissioners of Foreign
Governments at Chicago have been in
formed of the Fair and invited to aid
in securing exhibits for it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Reports from the recruiting station
of the United States Army in Boston
and from the recruiting station of the
Marine Corps in the same city show
that at both stations an unusually
large number of men have presented
themselves the present summer as re
cruits. 1t is suspected by the New
York Tribune that the closing of mills
in New England and the discharge of
thousands of workingmen have led to
the enlistments. The recruits also are
of better class than usually present
themselves.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Til : commercial and industrial fail
ures in the panic of 1873 numbered
51S3, with total liabilities of 1928, :
499, 800. Until 1878 these failures
steadily increased in number though
not IN volume of liabilities save in
1878, when 1O,47s failures covered
liabilities to the amount of S284,3S3.
900. This, however, was the veor
prior to that in which the bankruptcy
law was to cease, and very many shaky
concerns and individuals in business
desired to advantage by passage into
bankruptcy, In 1874 the number of
names recorded in business in the
United States and Canada, as the New
Yor., Evening Post presents it, was
594, lS9, while in 1898 the number has
more than doubled. The failures of
1892 are shown to be 1O,344, with IL
abilities of $l14, ,044, 167. For the first
six months of the current year the
number of failures is 6401, with liabil-
ties of $16S, 92O, S39. The compari-
son makes decidedly in favor of the
present situation" adds the Post.
"nn many factors warrant the as
sertion that present disaster does not
comnnre with the disaster wrought in
1872, and leads to the hope that re-
coyery will be much quicker"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Some experiments in military bal
looming have just been made in France.
Five balloons were released from the
Esplanade des Invalides in Paris; the
aeronauts in charge having been
previously instructed to pass over a
radius of twenty miles of country sup
posed to be held by an enemy, and
then to descend as closely as possible
TO Combs la Vile. One of the balloons
descended within a mile of the desired
place, and two others at point some-
what more distant from it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06
The farmers of Saratoga County

The farmers of Saratoga County
New York, regard the golden rod as a
nuisance, exceeded only by the
Canada thistle. 1t fills the meadows,
chokes out the grass and ruins the
pasturing. That the "pesky stuff
had value was unknown until man
recently arrived from New York and
arranged with several agriculturists
for the purchase and shipment of the
flowers He is to furnish boxes
specially made to preserve the golden
rods freshness during its seven hours
journey cityward, and hopes to reap a
profit from sales on the street and al
the florists stands.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

The American Agriculturist OBJ.
serves: 'In nearly every county one
or more fairs are held each autumn.
Farmers and their families should en-.
deavor to spend one or more days at
these annual gatherings. There is Ger.
tain to be something of great interest
and benefit to every branch of farm.
ing. In fruit or vegetables, if any
thing of merit is observed, find out
the name and price, test it for next
season. Follow the same with grain
or other products of the fields. Talk
with the producer, if possible, and OBJ
tain valuable points or hints that will
aid In future labors. Look over the
improved breeds of stock, and decide
whether thoroughbred animal could
be used in your neighborhood with
profit. The machinery and imple-
ments will receive their share of atten-
tion. You will usually meet many of
your friends, and make new ones, and
thus add another link to the evidence
of why you should attend the fairs,
both local and State. Take something
with you to exhibit, and whether you
obtain n premium or not, you have
aided in the display and success of the
exhibition, and in the future, by this
course, be more deeply interested,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

The wool crop of California for 1892
is given by Thomas Denigan, Son &
Company, at 80, 521 900 pounds. The
heaviest yield during the past decade
was in 1883, when it reached 40, 94S,
600 pounds. The crop has not since
that date fallen below the yield of last
year, except in 1891, when it was but
29,O13, 476 pounds. The crop of the
present year is expected to exceed that
of 1892 by some millions of pounds.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Officers and soldiers of the French
army will henceforth have a metallic
plate fastened to their collars foi
Identification. A similar scheme is
being considered for the benefit Of
miners.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

The New York Recorder AYERS that
Kansas farmers have reaped more
wealth off the earth's surface in grain
than has been dug out of its interior
in precious metals in the same time il
all the States and Territories west o.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

New York City has $16, 900, 900 in,
vested in school sites and buildings.
The educational budget of Spain last
year was $5, 800, 900; of Italy, IS, 0OJ, :
600; of France, $25, 900, OOO of Great
Britain, s35, 900, 900, and of Germany,
$40, 900, 900.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

By irrigation 25, 5,000,0 900 acres are
made fruitful in India alone. In Egypt
there are about 5000, 900 acres, and
in Europe about 100000. The
United States have just begun the
work of improving waste area, and
have already about 1000, 900 acres of
irrigated land.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

1t is a fact worth noticing that
twenty-five per cent. of accident in
surance policy holders who notify
companies of an injury never make
claim for benefits
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

According to ancient custom the
Queen of England has forwarded to
the Lord Mayor four fat bucks from
Buskey Park and to the City Sheriffs
three bucks. This usage had its origin
in the times in which the city had
rights of hunting in the royal forests
and parks Similar presents are made
in due season in January of each year.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06
minute.

The National Bank of Italy, like the
Bank of England, manages the finances
of the Government. 1t is practical
monopoly and has branches in every
large city.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

/. Joseph Hessel, the Austrian, who is
said to have invented the marine
screw propeller, died in abject poverty.
But a monument was erected to his
memory in Vienna the other day.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

According to the method which is
now adopted for reckoning leap years
in England, December, January and
February will be the summer months
about 40. 900 years hence.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06
A TREASURE HOUSE.
THE UNITED STATES SUB
TREASURY IN NEW YORK.
Two-Thirds of the Financial Opera
Hons of the Government Arc
Transacted There-Hov
Its Business is Done.

WRITER in the
New York Herald
says: Uncle Sam S
strong box is situ-
ated at Wall, Mas
sau and Pine streets
and is officially
known rs the New
York Sub Treas :
ury. The average
in divid u a | W h O
passes it by on
either of the three
thoroughfares is
III oroug 6 hly ac-
quainted with its
massive Qranite C
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

There seems to be no lack Of open
ings for female medical practitioners
in this country, notes the Courier
Journal, for the Indian Bureau an
nounces seventeen vacancies for wo-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

In the production of iron ore
Michigan ranks first. Her product is
nearly one-half of the total of the en-.
tire country.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

! In an essay on Egypt, recently pub
lished, Dr. Philip Schaff estimates that
no less than 731, 100000 mummies
have been buried in its soil.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Some of the richest gold and silver
mines in the world are in Japan.
From them ore to the value of $780,
900, 900 has been extracted.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

Gattling has succeeded in adding ON
electric appliance to the gun which
bears his name, which makes it pos
sible to fire that weapon 5000 times q
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

bills. Stored neatly in little steel
cubby holes, inside huge vaults, them
selves incased in metal and granite, or
scattered around on desks or counters,
undergoing the process of weighing
and counting, the building fairly reeks
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

The United States have for each 100
miles of railway twenty locomotives,
seventeen passenger cars and TIA
freight cars.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-06

+ Americans and Englishmen nre said
to be investigating in large tracts of
land adapted to coffee, tobacco and
cocoa in Mexico.