, 1898-03-26

eut Fuller. They were all, long ago, intro
duced and identified Nevept lie ,ess, on every
occasion they must present their credentials
with the duplicate Of the invoice.
The gold is contained in strong canvas
bags, the openings to which are bound and
clamped and securely fastened. The bags
contain from 81, 900 TO $4,000 each. Those
TINT | saw We're filled with twenty-dollar
pieces. The bags look more like horses feed
bags than anything else.
The treasure comes with the ordinary
mail matter and is dumped from the trains
into the ordinary mail wagons. But il is
not to be supposed that it is left to The ordi.
nary guard. Tie men who accompany the
driver have about them the meaus t. put u
fnnl estoppel upon the career Of any would
be thief.
Arrived at the Post Office. stalwart por-
ters seize the bags and carry them t" Super.
intendcnt Fuller's department. There tie
bank messengers await them with their own
canvas receptables of a similar make.
Almost every bank in the city has been
getting gold in this way since Friday. The
confidential clerks do the counting and hand
the receipt to the Registry Superintendent.
Counting the Gold.
In the big room are large tables, around
which The Post Office employees and the bank
clerks gather. The name of a certain bank is
called and its messenger responds. The bags
are lifted, the opening unlocked, and out
rolls the golden stream. The pieces g%Iittered
in the sunlight yesterday and the cllnk Of
the metal was music.
Like lightning deft fingers seized the coins
by fyes and by tens and swept them of the
table into the banks bugs. Tn less time
than it takes to tell it 81 600 was counted
and the bag dumped careIessly by the side
Of the tabIe. 1t seemed like .sacrilege to see
the way the treasure was kicked around.
Bags Of five and ten thousand were disposed
Of with equal CELEBRITY.
Those bags containing dollar pieces were
considered a nuisance. Just think Of it
two or five thousand dollars a nuisance !,
Why? Simply because it fook a few seconds
longer to get hold of the "prsky little
things and count them, as one clerk
phrased it.
Not n Single Mistake.
Another wonderful feature, one which i'm
pressed me as much as the glitteIing sight
and the vast amount. was The fact that not
"a single mistake had been made in the con
sigumeuts OF S285, 900. Nor was it necessary
to make a recount in any single instance. |
was Informed that in the receipt Of the
500, 900 not two days preceding like accuracy
was found and observed
Everything being checked off, the duty Of
the Post Office officials was ended, and the
greater responsibility of tile bank messengers
begun. olalwart men, employees Of the
banks-and l need not say they were all we'll
armed, but eecretly-were called to carry The
bags to vehicles waiting in Mail street.
Those banks which had the larger oonsign.
ment had wagons because Of the great weight
Of the metal those with smaller amount
used cabs. Off they numbered or ratified to
their various destinations The gold had
been received at the Post Office about half
past twelve o'clock in the afternoon, but
long before three o'clock it was distributed
and peacefully resting in tn" vaults Of The
banks.-N. Y. Herald, 10th March,.