The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-05-11

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the matter
Mr. BARLOW. mentioned above - Be
In connected with The cashiers oElce /
IN the post Office department. has :
great many appl Ications Tor assistance (
IN getting rnutilated cnrrency re-
deemed, and - he prepares the All
davis for the parties he makes him
self thoroughly acquainted With the
circumstances ~ each. and can narrate Z
some interesting cases An old man
living ont IN this county came IN one
day heaFtbroken over the loss d sev-
eraI Thousand dollars which he had
placed under the hearth far safe-keeps
ing. and which mice bad almost totally
destroyed II took some correspond 4
encc. but be finally rot new bills for
the old ones Another man had twist
ed mp wad Of papek without looking
81 Il and lighted his cigar. when he
found that his new cigar-iighter was 4
ten-i1oliar bill An interesting case was
that Of an old negro from down In one
Of the adjoining counties. who was At
the Union depot about year ago
buying ticket HOME He Rad a roll
Of bills In his hands and
couple Of 81 Louis toughs jumped
on him and tried 70 rob him
III the scramble that ensued the bills
were torn 70 shFeds and the pieces
strewn over the door, but tho old ne
gro held onto most of his wealth, while
the thieves failing in their attempt
made their escape. The Africans
walls over his misfortune bronght the
suggestion from some ono that maybe
the treasury officials would help hlm.
aud he went mp 70 Inquire. few
ahidnvits and little time brought him
an entirely new lot of bills In exchange
for the pieces Mary Davis, an elderly
negro woman living over on Morgan
street, came TO Mr. Barlow some
months ego ina peek u trouble" She
had twenty-dollar bill. which she
was treasnring as the apple of her eye,
and~being about TO make n visit one
Sunday afternoon She thought tho best
/ place for her fortune would be In the
oven Of her stove. where she carefully
placed IL Returning late In the even
ing she built FIRE without thinking
Of her treasure. and II was some time
afterwards that she attracted the At
tentfon Of the household and her
neighbors by dashinR water over the
hot stove and screaming at the top Of
her voice. The charred remains Of the
bill were nearly destroyed by the
water. but enough was saved to sat
isfy the government rs 70 the truth Of
the story. and Mary got a brand new
twenty-dollar bill
Perhaps the most interesting case
that has come up before the depart
ment Id St Louis was the one Of young
Miss H., which was taken before Mr..
Barlow for an affidavit some months
ago Her father. who lives out on Dor
cas- street. and Is an employe In one Of
the wholesale drug houses, had made
her presents Of little sums till she had
sixty-fiye Or seventy dollars saved
up. Her pet dog one day got hold OF
| Il. and when his young mistress came
In II was all torn to pieces and most Of
1t chewed into pulp. She was in terri
/ Bile distress. and not wishing her papa
70 know OF her loss, she. at the sug-
gestion Of friend. applied to the sub
treasury Part Of the pieces were
large enough to come within the three
flfths rule, and so about one-third Of
| the amount was cashed at once. The
rest had to 20 through the process Of
| satisfactory proof, but in due time she
received draft from Washington for
the full amount.
Instances like the foregoing could be
t given In great numbers, though the In
stances In which the losers pocket"
| their losses, to use an old but common
expression. are much more numerous
The amounts range all the way from
one dollar bill lover which sum one
man Of some means spent two months
Of correspondence year or so agoI up
4 to packages containing thousands Of
dollars. Perhaps the largest amount
4 ever redeemed at St Louis after total
destruction was the instance which oc-
4 CURED about four months ago The
treasury at Washington had shipped
by express to the sub-treasury at that
point package Of currency amounting
to forty thousand dollars The express
car with all its contents was burned.
and the express company was RESPONSE
BILE for the loss OF the forty thousand
dollars under Its contract Realizing
! this, the company took Chief Clerk
Kicker of the 'sub-treasury and
had him present when the safe was
u opened very carefully, and the charred
remains Of the money examined The
packages could be plainly seen and
identified as to the amounts, as paper
when burned win sometimes retain its
! lettering, and so these bundles Of
burned paper were carefully shipped to
Washington, from which point forty
thousand dollars in crisp new bills
came back.
When we realize the immense amount
Of money that is lost or destroyed every
year. and never found or made good,
we can appreciate what sum Uncle
Sam has constantly accommodating for
the right side of his profit and loss &C
count Of course many losses occur
! which are total and cannot be made
good, because il would be practically
impessible,in some Of the cases to sat
isfy the United States Treasurer to such
an extent as to preclude the posi-
bility Of fraud, Bat there are also
many losses Of none, occurring all the
time which could easily be made good
j, 1 70 ~ ~ rfias $3.50 ~. n. I.