Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-06

ing. and which mice bad simosz totally |
DESTROYED 10 took some correspond |
ence, but he finally got new bills fer |
the old oneA Another man had twist
Ell up wzd Of paper without looking |
zt il and lighted his cigar. when he |
found that his new eigar-light was a |
ten-doIlar bill An interesting case was |
that Of an old negro from down 10 one
of the adjoining counties, who was at
the Union depot about . year ago
buying ticket home. he had roll
OF bills in his hands and q
eoupis Of -. Louis toughs jumped
on him and tried 10 rob him.
In the scramble that ersued the bills
were torn 10 shreds and the pieces
strewn over the door. bat the old ne
gro held onto most of his wealth, while
the thieves falling in their attempt
made their escape The Africans
walls over his misfortune brought the
suggestion from some one that maybe
the treasury officials would help him,
and he went up 10 inquire. A few
affidavits and little time brought him
an entirely new lot of bills in exchange
for the pieces Mary Davis, an elderly
negro woman living over Morgan
street, came to Mr.. Barlow some
months ago in peek o. trouble" She
had q twenty-dollAr bill, which she
was treasuring as the apple of her eye,
and being about To make n visit one
Sunday afternoon she thought the best
place for her fortune would be in the
n - f.xlf
placed it. Returning late in the even
ing she built fire without thinking
of her treasure, and il was some time
afterwards that she attracted the at
tention of the household and her
neighbors by dashing water over the
hot stove and screaming at the top OF
her voice. The chsrred remains Of the
bill were nearly destroyed by the
water. but enough was saved to sat
isfy the government Is TO the truth of
the story. and Mary got brand new
twenty-dollar bill
Perhaps the most interesting case
that has come up before the depart
ment in 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 employee in one of
the Wholesale drug houses, had made
her presents OF little sums till she had
sixty-fve or seventy dollars saved
up. Her pet dog one day got hold of
il. and when his young mistress came
Ia it was all torn to pieces and most of
il chewed into pulp. She was in terri
BILE distress. and not wishing her papa
10 know of her loss, she, at the sug-
gestion of a friend, applied to the SUBJ
treasury. Part of . the pieces were
largo enough TO como within the three
fifths rule. and SO about one-third Of
the amount was cashed at once. The
rest had to go 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
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 a
one dollar bill tower which sum one
| man of some means spent two months
| of correspondence a year or so sgo) UP
to packages containing thousands OF
dollars. Perhaps the largest amount
| ever redeemed at St Louis after total
destruction was the instance which &C.
Cured about four months ago. The
treasury at Washington had shipped
by express to the sub-treasury at tina,
point package of currency amounting
to forty thousand dollars The express
car with all it's 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 tsub-.reasury and
had him present when the safe was
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 will sometimes retain It's
lettering, and SO these bundles OF
burned paper were carefully shipped tc
Washington. from which point forty
thousand dollars in crisp new bills
came back.
When we realize the immense amount
of money that is host or destroyed every
year, and never found or made good
we can appreciate what sum Uncle
Sam has constantly accommodating 70,
the right side of his profit aud loss &C
count OF course many losses occur
which are total and cannot be made
good. because it would be practically
impossible in some of the cases to sat
isfy the United States treasurer to such
an extent as to preclude the posi-
bility of fraud But there are also
many losses Of money occurring all the
time which could easily be made COCO
IL the parties were aware of the law
and the methods of procedure. The
grand total Of these losses, which are
clear profit to the government. runs uE
into the millions Globe Democrat
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for such events. Hot coffee. oysters
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See Kramer's great offer on paste
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