The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-07
COIN HARVEY WANTS GOLD.
Gets It From a Chicago Bank for an
Object Lesson.
TFrom the Chicago Tribune.l

W. H. Harvey, composer ana pub
Usher Of Coins Financial School, drew
out 81, 500 which he had on deposit with
the Metropolitan National bank yester-
day-drew it out in gold; in fact, he
demanded gold-and locked it up in an
iron box in the First National bank
safe deposit vaults, out of the reach of
free silver panics and financial disas-
ter.
1t took just one hour for Mr. Harvey,
who is a regular depositor of the Met
rOpoHtan National, to induce the pay
ing teller of the bank to hand out the
gold, and the demand of the author of
coin finally had to be backed up by
an order from Cashier Hitchcock of
the bank.
Mr.. Harvey went into the bank with
his private secretary, Miss Josie Hix.
and a canvas sack for his money. He
made out a check for $500 at one of
the desks, and after handing the sack
to his secretary, stepped to the window.
The paying teller took the check and
looked to see if it were fndorsed.
Il want the whole amount in gold,
if you please said Mr.. Harvey.
The paying teller leaned against the
screen and gave evidence of fainting.
Gold, did you say, Mr.. Harvey?
Gold? What on earth do you want
with gold? Why, we can't let you have
Sz,0OU worm OF gold. we arGn paying
out gold on checks now
20, only wanted to use it as an OBJ
ject lesson said NTr. Harvey.
Wen, that's just what we want to
keep it for replied the teller.
Mr.. Harvey spent about thirty min
utes arguing with the paying teller.
while a number of the banks patrons
watched the ''object lesson from the
corridors of the bank, or went home to
think about it.
Finally, the man who wrote Coin"
appealed to Cashier Hitchcock. He
wanted to put the money in a safe de-
posit box, he said, but only as another
object lesson to the people. After
long talk in the private Office of the
cashier, Mr. Harvey was seen to pre-
sent an order to the teller to pay the
amount in gold.
Two minutes later he and his private
secretary were hurrying from the Met
ropolitan National bank in La Sale
street to the First National bank in
Dearborn street. and soon after the
gold was locked up in Mr.. Harvey's
strong box in the safe deposit depart
ment.
Then the man who wrote Coin went
home, feeling that a part at least of
the money he has made from his book
was safe against a possible panic.
Mr.. Harvey could not be found last
night, but his private secretary, Miss
Xix, said the money was drawn out so
it could be shown to the people.
You see," she said, Mr.. Harvey is
expecting to go out on a long tour, and
he wants to take the money with him
as an object lesson. I think he intends
to prove with the money that all the
gold in the world would make cube
not over twenty-five feet square, as he
states in his School
II went with Mr.. Harvey to the First
National bank safety deposit vaults,
where he left it for safe keeping. He
had an awful time getting the money
from the Metropolitan National bank,
and it finally required a special order
from Mr.. Hitchcock and a promise
to bring it all back before election
day"
When Miss Xix was asked if Mr..
Harvey was not running considerable
risk carrying so much gold around with
him, she said she presumed he in
tended to ship it from town to town.
He would have to carry it to and
from the lecture however