The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02

cure ~ if IN q vauit-Tre Money Truck.
man Who Does the Ifusiness- 0stunes
In Q Bank Messengers Pocket ny's
Bond Btarer and iiis Fortunatus Bae
just insid the railing OF the Mills Building
down in Bread street and only few yarrs
away from where tie thr, ng 81 out.ite
'rokerr jostle and shout 10 the roadway
anes slate with a Pencil ATTACHED by q
tIing Once in While a clerk will lurr,
% the corner take lock around. and then.
+ not fnfing the Ierst n e seeks. will scrib-
lie someti ing on Ills slate.
At Intervals q zig, iea,y man ,;rolls over
nd tskes a OH at II. II there Is anything
ritten upon II be will pirbaby give an
rCer to tie cTi, OF q q two-hOrse truck
Aii,h q. ~. q fer meet I tie cay at tie
corn.r. tie blankets will ~ taken "a tie
UoTs,s and nHn ard true Il y IL tet N down
lie ttirt ,bti u.ly n business intent
ltu are q cay to mtat tfi- or Il Mar
'rucL- ith tie name & thu zane owner
uIsn q EN- two rr tkree times In the @ ur q
Il a Cav Ia and aO' vt Wal .t tet. So a..
three tic truck contains a lev boXts or
Larrcls, no Itfeprt at casual g.Rnce
from any otlcr tovcs or ba-reDs. or mayt?
there viii he Ups II IL number IS blocks ~
" re metal. IN appearance rot unlike
a,hcr.
! Tn either case there are likely to i,e two
or thee roughly a., So d men stated with
tie ivel or on tii.. rear % tl.e truck and
! 'eo or dire move better clad men, whom
| anN body rid Ia the ways Of the financial
/ die, lot will know at once for bank cleilts
OF bank M ". rscIs. swinging their legs
! from ,he ,i.iieoaid or walking bsside the
| yehic's.
There is nothing about the outfit likely
/ TO attract particular atcntiont from any
! body. A cIo#e oixfrver may s- that tiie.
BOND or isss aFos,r onsly ironed. locked
, and sealed, and l.e may wonde: that mature
/ were inclined 20 fii,o.ity. have time TO
splIe for ride OH truck which p'oneeds
. ~ bare ws.l'iing paO, or even sower.
/ But the usual ,ase 10y will never bes,ow
| q SECOND glance upon the craving vehicle
Il dc, ant look different from q truck
car wing any Old Kind Of freight. but for
! all thar the load 1t carIbs rs Often worth
more than q e eat many Of the buildings
II passse. That load would set up scoro
Of ordinary man with fortunes large enough
to keep tlUu III luxury without doing q
, airoke Of work for the rest OF their lives.
Tie bar'e's contain bars Of solid gold:
the boxes are stuffed full Of gold coin,
and the white metal is bullion silver Goin g
from safe deposit vault TO Sub-lIea-uiy.
or. IL the load Is gold coin, from bank TO
bank. TIE truck is Rarhlcy's, the money
truchman's. the siate hung on the fvi.ce is
Barhleys Office. and the big man who
. Scnsul's from time to time and might
be r,,hod policeman or a well-to-do grocer.
1. BMaley himself
AllWaliSucet i.nows this and knows what
| the tILca cont aims when II passes with It's
load BIT " all Street Ii not intel ested.
1t Is * sht W old tia; II has Lecome COM
! NOM, laos In the fact that shabby old
truck it'll a million or two upon II crs% Is
safely through the most crowded streets
. In the city with only a guard Of tn O or three
t,l,y = md n 1 nj "a n
over II, mol oy sess anything out OF the or
| dinaiy.
That news Of the shipment Is written on
| slate which ham on fence In reach Of
every rasserby is no lees matter OF course
Gold has cen u ansferred safely In thai Way
, for yea and there 10 no reason why II
shonlu not alw avs he.
Az matter of fact il would be harder TO
! steal that gold than anything else In the
city In the first place. tbsGe Is a guard
In the second place. the gold u usually In
bars weighing fom ten TO twenty-five
| pounds az iece and Is packed IN kegs locked
and sealed, nth T. ON thres TO dozen La 8
In kes, The gold coin Is in strong boxes
Ths silver. which r. carried bare In the
bottom Of the truck. k In lngots and SIN
gle ingot " ould be good load for power
ful man.
Then the transfer usually takes place In
CROW ded streets and In the O. OVID there Ii
safety. II " ould Le older gang OF crooks
than ever held up train that would ever
, try TO rob the only truck.
AZ to the rest Of It, Fred BArkley. the
money trlckmen. has been In the business
oil his life. He has a monopoly Of the
had II before him for more years than any
body now In Wall Street remembers.
He IL a conservative person. IA his
father tNd business, 40 does he Nothing
ever went wrong with either, and the
banks. and the people whose business
methods Of both with perfect satisfaction.
They are now a part Of the daily routine
and the Street sees nothing wonderful
Why said the shipping clerk Of ono
OF the largest exchange houses In Wall
Information about gold trsnsfers; you
can't write nything about that. It's the most
ordinary everyday transaction down hero.
You just pack up the gold and seal Il
and send for Barkley and h. carts y away
10 wherever Il has 10 60. There Isn't any
ihirg else to Il.
Nothing ever goes wrong and there
really isn't anything interesting about IT,
II there, nowf'
The reporter thought there was. But
the money truokman was OF the sanlo opin-
Ion ms the money exchange clerk; Bald he;
Things have been printed In the papers
years ago about this business. but father
didn't hold with them or give the infern,a-
ton the papers got. And | won't. There
amt anything about It TO make story
about anyway. We Just move the stun.
Nothing ever happens to II.
The money tr,ickman IL BIG feet tall
nj least--and as broad and solid as he Ia
tall His face Is as set and firm as his frame
Is solid
II a man could look Tx @ a stone wall
that man would be- Barley. Anybody
who looked at him twice would trust him
with a million II wouldn't trouble him.
He would Just si ON the million till tho
owner came back 10 claim II and before that
nobody could get him to forget his watch
on IL any morr than anybody could induce
a good bulldog to drop particularly juicy
bone.
He wss sup"rintending the transfer OF a
trickload ~ liver when THE SUN man tried
70 find out things about the bull carrying
from him He checked on each tngot four
times, not as II he was doubtful about the
total, but a. n matter OF duty
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