Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-03

About $4,000, Goo has been sent abroad
since the ..h of this month by thrifty
persons to the folks at home through
the P"stof1iCe department. The fig
ures have been compiled by Acting
Postmaster Morgan and Joseph Elliott,
superint. ndent OF the money order de-
pi.rtrnent New York city.
On the 9TH the Cedric carried $500
Al. England getting $125,073 and
Sweden $4,000. In round numbers. the
sums Of sj3,v0c. $4,000 $4,000 and slS,-
900 went to Austria, Germany, Russia
and Norway. There was Il total of
$3.50 orders. averaging Sl2 to SIS.
Lii TcIraine, on the Sth. Carried
$oG4,42S On the 10Th Etrura carried
500? l5l.ll.
The Kaiser Wilhelm I. on the 18TH
carried s41:'.702 in IL 400 orders.
The Gee: nic. which sailed on the lith.
carried $329 ,4tb.
The Lorraine. sailing on the 18TH
carried s:G,,uv, nearly all OF which went
to Italy.
The New York. which sailed on the
18th, carried $6So.63S.
The total number of money orders
sent abroad since December was 217.-
AIS, representing $2.911 1904. In addi-
ton to the original order made out for
the buyer, n duplicate order must be
sent to the office on which the order is
drawn. The total due each country is
figured up and the amount due the
United States from orders caSlIed for
that country since the. last sailing de-
Quoted.
The superintendent goes into the
money market and purchases the
money of that particular country 10 be
deposited to his credit in the foreign
fiscal agency OF the United States. y
check drawn to the order of caci, col:n-
Try fer the balance completes the
trHnS3 CtiOn.
These figures do not include the
amounts sent 70 Japan and Chiii, and
other -lsi;,tic countries. as that money
goes by thu. Pacific. 1t is said that
when tie record is completed it will be
found that Japan received an unusual
IL large amount this year.
The much-v:.un,ed jiuj;tsu." or
th'tt mysterious system Of attack or de-
fms" With which the japanese are said
10 over an ttuN HIS Uttll
received in this country with in
cr-1ulity. 1t happens. however, to BE-
all that has been claimed. \ police
captain in New York directed, the
strongest OF the Broadway squad Of
giants. who is also IL wrestler of skill,
to alnuse himself with Il little soft
muScled wrestler from japan. The re-
suit was astounding. BY simple
twist of the pOliceman's arm the brown
man put that giant on his back. and
by Il little pressure on the throat he
hid the strong man inscnsible. The
police captain is OF the opinion that
should the criminals master this art
the police would be useless unless they
should devise 4 means of defense.
The new Grand Central depo, he plans
FOR which have heen made public Ivy the
the show buildings of New York City
The plans involve the us,: OF area III
NOR than nineteen city blocks. bctwecn
F"rty-sccond and F'iity-seven,h streets,
Madison ana Lexington avenues. The
suburban sui t; trains will be on Z lower level
.c.nncourse will provide for nine cracks.
The express concorrSc will be slightly de-
pressed below the street level. and viii
privide tor twenty-five passenger t.ai,
ti:ckS ana eigh: express tracks. making
f"rty-threc tracks in all. The main en-
trance to the station is on Forty-second
street..
The architt ctural composition is three
massive arches. each arch being 81 feet
vide and /" ieot high. Beyond these archc-
one enters an enormous ticket lobby %'x
800 feet. This ticket lobby is on the level
With the street. On the right OF this lob
by and practically L part thereof. is the
outgoing baggage room. After purchlS-
ing ones ticket and checking ones bag
gage. one proceed S to the express train
by entering gallery overlooking the
course. which is on Il level of the express
tracks.
This conccurse is approached by four
40 feet and 10 feet high. with wide en-
frances OF each end. extending TO Madison
rooms contain twice the area OF the wait
rs rooms in the Grand Central station
Their: is provided a loop for quickly dis
patching the suburban trains. and p!o-
vision has also been made for possible
connection with the rapid transit system
An officer ot the company states that
the cost OF the new terminals and the
electrification Of the same will be between
$.u.y1pIO and s2c5.0UU,GN.
Mrs, Bernard Baker Of No. . East For
ty-siNth street lost and found gem I'M
der rather unusual circumstances. Sha
the attention of Detective John Common.
They We're at the corner of Forty-tifth
street and Fifth avenue.
fIe was told that the woman had lost II
$50 diamond st dded watch and a 500
diamond pin. Mrs. Baker said she and
the men accompanying her had been in
Shcrry's and were on their way to che
EaSt Forty-sixth street address when she
noticed her loss.
One OF tho escorts obtained two Ian
terms. and the detective assisted in the
search. The latter found the pin hidden