Arizona republican., 1899-07-05
LOADED DOWN WITH MONEY.
PrGcss on That Daily WeEds Its Way
 Across Broadway in New York

Three hundred thousand dollars
 walks across broadway nsar Cedar
 street twice every day, morning and 1 evening. It is a 1nanua1 pilgrimage
 "a stream os gold, silver and bank
 notes-which stops cable cars, trunks,
 automobiles and hundreds Of pades-
 trians, while the caravan stalks,
 camel-like, across the greatest thor
 oughfare n the western hemisphere.
 For two months this curious spectacle 1 has been seen, and for the next year,
 twice each day, at exactly the same 1 hours t will be seen. It is the diurnal
 hegira of the funds, accounts and pa pe1s from the temporary office n the Boreel building. to the vaulys of the Mercantile Safety Deposit company on the ground floor of the Equitable building. The banks old home, at the northeast corner of Cedar and Broad
 way, has been torn down to make way for a model structure which will not be completed for a year. Meanwhile the bank is occupying the second floor of the Boreel building. There are no vaults in the BoreeI building suffi- Gently strong and fireproof and burg Ilr proof for the hundreds of thou- sands, running up into the millions, of the cash and securities of the bank. So it's officers arranged to have them placed each afternoon in vaults of the deposit company across the street
 At 4:10 o'clock the appearance at the entrance of the Boreel building of tall, gaunt old man wearing a black hat and long black, sagging sack coat, is the signal for the policeman on the crossing to stop all traffic.
 The old man is AfcDougan, for forty years the banks detective, and for many years before that ''hy cop' at police headquarters. The policeman On the crossing is six foot four AIcDar- mott Of the Broadway squad. who pi- lots across the street or tucks safely away on the cable cars each one of the many pretty tyP5writers that come tripping out of the Equitable brtIding each afteTnOOn-being rewarded With their smiles
 When the cable cars have stopped and truck horses are resting on their launches, the gTipnen and drivers motEonlesS, the pedestrians I-ras-f1g on either side Of the improv:sed lane, l the occupants of the cable cars cranfng the-r necks ito see what is going on then comes a s:nuOUs line Of seven clerks, hea ded by &he patr:archal Me | DouSall, each carrying in either hand an iron strong box fifteen inches by tw7en ly-fCur. A rope of red leather. ! c0ncealing a steel chain an inch in l diameter, runs along the line on eith- 1 CT side, coupling the boxes. The clerks l atagger Undisr the burden. the weigit | of the gold and silver bearing the | boxes down so they bump against the 1 paving stones.
 There follow dozen other clerks | with all kinds of bags and boxes filled i with lesser valuablss, and two b,g. | strong watchmen, armed, alert bring i up the rear. It would be a hardy. | bold, desperate man who would at tempt to grab one of these bags Of i gold and run, with the muscular Me | Derm0tt ready for sprint after him | and tussle, and the vigilant armed | me1. in the bank windows watching, | ready to shoot. Three times the pro ccssion crosses the stree. between 4:10 i and 4:20 o'clock. for every coin and | every p3per must be s1fely housed il i the vaults before the i1iIa locks snap the bolts into place at exactly 4:30. h | the morning q. S:30 tha procession | passes three Aas frccn vaults to bank quart New York World.