Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-10-25
WHERE NATIONS
CASH is DUMPED
ALL AT SOME TIME HEAPED ON
TREASURY BUILDING BLOCK.
NEGLECTED BY REPORTS
Only Object of interest in Washing
ton Which Has Been Overlooked
by Those Who Have Written Up
the capitaI-HandIed by Poor
Men.

"See that building?" asked Wash
ington correspondent of visiting
| friend to whom he was showing the
sights OF the capital. They were
| standing on the East side of Fifteenth
street, near f.
Yes replied the visitor, "and it is
the treasury building"
1.-The untold millions of dollars in
notes, gold and silver which the gran
lite walls of that structure has hidden
would make Rockefeller's pile look
like 30 cents"
Very true; | know that" rejoined
the visitor.
And that building and it's monsy
| and its associations, and everything
else connected with it, have been
| written up about million times and
in million different ways" added the
Washingtonian.
Il know that, too replied his
| friend.
Nevertheless, there Is one thing or
bject connected with that historic
pie vi otone WHICH udS luuS lar eS-
capped fame"
Impossible" exclaimed the tourist,
| incredulously. Il thought that Wash
ington was annually raked with a
| fne-tooth comb by writer's"
ut is" acquiesced the correspond
ent, land then 1t is remarked by still
others Yet there is one object which
we will now make famous, which, as
have said, has escaped. Do you OBJ
serve that low block, or platform, of
close to the curb opposite the Base
| ment entrance on the Fifteenth street
side, almost directly opposite from
| where we are standing?"
YES" said the visitor, interestedly.
| THAT block is the one thing in
town that hasn't been written up,
from the president to the frescoes in
the congressional library. For a
quarter of century those heavy wood
en- planks have had the distinction of
OF billions of gold coin, silver coin.
| gold bullion. silver bullion and gold
and silver certificates, treasury and
bank notes which have entered and
have afterward been dispatched from
/ the treasury building. The grand to.
tai of this wealth is scarcely suscepts
BILE of estimation; it is simply fabu-
| lous. Do you note that covered dray
backed up to the block and drawn by
| three big white horses? 1t is filled
with government notes which await
only the seal of the government to
make them legal tender. AS such
they will afterward leave the treasury
for distribution.
When that load Is emptied an
other vehicle will back up to the
block, perhaps an express wagon,
from which will be dumped million
dollars In coin or bullion. Then more
millions done up in securely sealed
packages of notes will be carried out
OF the building, deposited upon the
block and thrown into still another
wagon, covered van or wire-netted ex-
press wagon. And thus the continu-
Gus performance of handling the
wealth of the nation in the public
streets of the capital goes ON day by
day, year after year, unnoticed by the
public at large. And it all. from bags
of dimes to packages of notes prac-
tically without limit as to amount, as
well as all of the bullion, lands at one
time or another upon that old wooden
block"
Il should think some enterprising
thief might try to make raid some
day. suggested the visitor.
That's what the men whose duty
1t is to handle all this great wealth
think, too, so they are at all times pre-
pared to welcome any gentleman
whose enterprise might prompt such
an action" replied the correspondent.
And the funny part of it is this:
All this great accumulation Of money
which passes over that block at inter
walls during the day is handled by poor
men who work for moderate wages.
perhaps not over SIS month. This
would seem to prove that man
hasn't got to be rich to handle big
money after ALL