Morris tribune., 1895-03-20
CHAPTER XVIIL-CoNTINUED.
EoPYncas, 1894. ]

From ten. WaterSon'S account we
learned that there were about fifty
people in the building and they were
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 guard placed over them, after
which the invaders had the building to
themselves Everything was done with
the utmost expedition and the incest
pelvision, and at two o'clock the regi-
ment was in possession of two million
dollars in com. 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 TN 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. It 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 choked
with people. But Gen. Waterson
handled his men with admirable skill
lnd 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 ti-st wave of intelligence, the regi-
uent was at the foot of CORTLAND
street. It had marched through that
usually cholked thoroughfare with
tactical adaptation to circumstances
that was amazing. 1t marched in force
through the two ferry gates: took pos
session of two boats; put every body off
bus the pilots, and the vessels started
just rs the first division of the reserves
marched into West street, three blocks
away.
Al this point the state line, which
was 20 embarrassment to the soldiers,
intcrposed 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 calculation of time
was again shown here. His agents ar
rived in Jersey City with fifteen min
utes margin. and that was enough to
enable them to take possession of
train off ten ca.s on the Pennsylvania
road aud get IL motion before the or
der had arrived to hold all trains.
On the ferryboat Gen. Waterson and |
his officers encountered a number of |
passengers with large portmanteaus.
They were there by Encouragement |
and brought the change of garments
with them. When the boat arrived at
the New Jersey dock the officers were
in different apparel and were protest
ing nest bitterly against the impu- !
dence and insolence of the soldiers.
The general and two of his aides are
known to have got back to New York /
on a returning boat. AT least one hun
dred men had gone out of their uni
forms while on the water. This was
easily enough accomplished, seeing that |
they had but to take off shirt, trousers
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were weighted with their arms, tied
to the empty and open knapsacks
and flung into the Hudson. On the ar
rival of the boat they followed the
troops with the crowd and were unob-
served. Half an hour later when they
were looked for they had disappeared,
most of them returning to New York
by yariol1s routes
Gen. Waterson, we know by his own f
account, put up at an obscure down
town hotel where be registered as
john Fielding, of Newark, and that
ssme night reached an uptown rem
devious where he freed himself from
the gold and then gave himself with
curious rest to watching the course of
events and of public opinion in the
u3ty
CHAPTER XIX.
The regiment left Jersey City at half
past three with eight hundred and
men on board. 1t had not
srossed the Jersey flats when the en-
gsneer was locked up in closet and
khe engine taken in charge by one OF
"a. urauayn1tn own men The first act