The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-11-02
CHAPTER XvIIL-CoNr1NUEp.
COPYRIGHT, 1894. ]

CHAPTER XvIIL-CoNTINUED
From Gen. Waterson's account we
learned that there were about fifty
people in the building and they We're
taken completely by surprise, but SO
admirably pre-arranged was the plan |
that they had no opportunity to give |
alarm and were all shut up in one room |
and a guard placed over them, after
which the invaders had the building to
themselves. Every thing was done with
the utmost expedition and the incest
pervision, and at two o'clock the regi-
ment was in possession of two million
dollars in coin. 1t was ten minutes
past two when the column was set in
motion, and at that time there was the
most confused notion in official circles
as to what was going on. The idea
that an armed regiment had taken pos
session of the United States deposits
in the heart of the city in the middle of
the day appeared to be too incredible
at first to be alarming. 1t was there
fore two-thirty o'clock before the first
attempt was made at police head
quarters to take summary action and
call upon the reserves The rumors
spread like wildfire through Wall street
and Printing House square, and when
the regiment moved, Wall street, Mas
sau street and Broadway were cholled
with people. But Gen. Waterson
handled his men with admirable skill
and the solid column was not likely to
suffer any serious interruption from
merely angry or suspicious crowds. By
the time the newspaper bulletins got
the first wave of intelligence, the regi-
ment was at the foot of CORTLAND
street 1t had marched through that
usually choked thoroughfare with a
tactical adaptation to circumstances
that was amazing. 1t marched in force
through the two ferry gates; took pos
session of two boats; put everybody off
but the pilots, and the vessels started
Just as the first division of the reserves
marched into West street. three blocks
away.
At this point the state line. which
was no embarrassment to the soldiers,
interposed an invisible barrier to the
authorities.
New York stared across the river in
bewildered establishment and then re,
sorted to the telegraph and the utterly
futile police boat.
hendricks CLOSE CdlCuldtlOu VI tAiue
was again shown here. His agents ar
rived in Jersey City with fifteen min
utes margin. and that was enough te
enable them to take possession OF 6
train of ten cars on the Pennsylvania
road and get in motion before the or
der had arrived to hold all trains.
On the ferryb boat Gen. Waterson ant
his officers encountered a number O.
passengers with large portmanteaus
They were there by prearrangemen
and brought the change of garment
with them. When the boat arrived q
the New Jersey dock the officers wer'
in different apparel and were protest
ing most bitterly against the impu
dence and insolence of the soldiers
The general and two of his aides ar
known to have got back to New Iorl
on a returning boat. At least one hun
dred men had gone out of their uni
forms while on the water. This wa
easily enough accomplished, seeing tina
they had but to take off shirt, trouser
and hat. These articles of clothing
were weighted with their arms, tie
to the empty and open knapsack
and flung into the Hudson. On the al
rival of the boat they followed tn
troops with the crowd and were unot
served. Half an hour later when the
were looked for they had disappeared
most of them returning to New Yor
by various routes.
Gen. Waterson, we know by his ow
account, put up at an obscure dowr
town hotel where he registered a
John Fielding, of Newark, and tina
same night reached an uptown reI
devious where he freed himself froI
the gold and then gave himself wit
curious zest to watching the course {
events and of public opinion in tn
city.
CHAPTER XIX
The regiment left Jersey City at hal
past three with eight hundred an
seventy-five men on board. 1t had NJ
crossed the Jersey flats when tho Ell
gineer was locked up in a closet an
the engine taken in charge by one I
the generals own men. The first a.
was to cut the telegraph wires whe
ten miles out at q secluded spot, ar
here twenty-five more men wei
dropped. The train was then run wit
view to land the men at the be
point and to keep ahead of the speci
that it was believed would be on
heels. Gen. Waterson's report leav
us in no doubt as to how his plan di
posed of the forces. Fifty got off at,
near Newark. Twenty-Five we
dropped at Waverly and twenty-five
Elizabeth. Fifty were disposed OF
Railway and one hundred before reac
ing New Brunswick. Between Deal
and Monmouth Junction another On