Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-02-21

sub-treasury and invited Mr.. Zlmmer-
mann to leave the building.
Later MIR. Zimmerman told the re-
porters that it was his fixed belief that
"Mr. Jordan is damned ass damned
ass, sir"
1t all took place IN the afternoon. All
day the money brokers and their patrons
had been turning in greenbacks to get
gold and then turning in the gold to pay
for bonds. At one clerks window you
turn in the greenbacks; he holds fast
to them, but gives you in return draft
on the gold vault for the amount of the
greenbacks Then you hand this draft
to Mr.. Male or some other enterprisng
and obliging sub-treasury Official. The
gold coin in stout canvas bags Is then
counted out and is usually run out on
hand trucks to the Pine street entrance
of the sub-treasurv and carted away to
the money brokers' Office by John Bark
ley, the official gold truckman for the
sub-treasury and the downtown banks.
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mess, who conducted it for fifty years
Yesterday, however, there was an in
noyation. Mr.. Zimmerman thought he
could get along without the services of
Truckman Barley. He had many
patrons to serve. He hustled about the
rotunda with many of his clients beside
him. He turned in the greenbacks by
the bushel. The gold coin was run out
to him on The hand trucks from the gold
vault. With list of the allotment of
bonds to his patrons in hand, he checked
OIL the gold and ordered it back into the
gold vault, at the same time handing in
to the government bond clerk a certif-
cate of deposit announcing that so much
gold had been deposited by him to pay
for Mr.. So and Sos bonds.
This went on some time. At last Mr.
Jordan appeared in the refunds. He
quite overshadowed Mr.. Zimmerman
when he declared:
II won't allow this Office to be made
brokers' office. object to receiving the
SOlu lIOul y Ou III lHlS way.
MIR, Zimmerman is short, but lively,
and isn't afraid to talk back. Peering
up at Mr.. Jordan, he replied:
you took $4,000 from Whitehouse e
Co. in tins way and now you won't take
it in this way from other parties. You
favor one and not the other"
IL object to the delivery of gold on the
floor of this building" was all that Mr..
Jordan said in reply.
II consider this favoritism," replied
Mr.. Zimmerman, pugnaciously, land
appeal to all present, newspaper men and
all. to say if this is not fayoritism.'
"lf you have any statements of that
kind to make" responded Mr.. Jordan,
"vou must go outside and make them"
MIR. Zimmerman accepted this to mean
that he must leave the building, and he
did. Afterward he said:
"Al this is humbug. It's humbug.
Mr.. Jordan is damned ass; damned
ass. He must be friendly to John Bark
ley, for it's too ridiculous to think of,
beng compelled to take the gold around
the corner to my Office on one of John
Barkley's trucks only to turn back again
after paying the extra carriage and dump
it back into the sub-treasury. It's mud
die, muddle, middle. Just like every
thing this administration undertakes.
"Jordan's a fine man, he is. He took
the S55, 900 gold coin on the floor from
Whitehouse & Co., and S250,000 in gold
coin for Julian ID. Fairchild, president
of the Kings County Trust company, IN
the same way. Yet he refused to take
in the same way 100000 divided be-
tween IL. p. Goldschmldt & Co., Russak
Brothers q Herzog, and Hoffman Broth
ers. Its all damned favortism. That's
what it is
Mr.. Jordan explained that he wasn't
aware that the gold for WhitehOuse 4
Co. and for the Kings County Trust
company had been re-deposited in the
sub-treasury directly from the gold
trucks and fresh from the gold vault
lie insisted that the rotunda of the sub
treasury should not be made "A money
brokers' office.
just For Fun.