Evening star., 1907-11-02
NEW YORK GEM MERCHANTS
ARE RUBBING THEIR HANDS

:1Trsce.ng that there bo many millions
OF dollars sunk fl the old SOCK. as A re-
suit Of the boarding determination Of the
"feard ones, promptly exhibited IN It's
show windows hundreds uf siz,abla can
vas bags, about a foot long bound with
leather and capable # being fastened at
IN" top with strap ANA q little paddock.
In" a dog leafhvTn collar Nugtae
i2eSe bags w,r" quickly manufactured 80
meet the occasion or whether they had
been carried in sock for som, other pu--
pose. co"snt appear. hut al any rate.
p2SSershy who'd got itn'r money out rf
thu banks Were Gu X TO see the point
ard they cleaned the sVurung goods stor,
out of is stock Of bags in Il little less
than no time
Never WAS 50 much money seen every
where on The streets OF New York As dug
Ing those par!ous times for banks last
week. and II is extraordinary that norr
theftS haven occurred than have been
reported. II was a common tn ug 10 see
women actually count 5ug the money tEa'
they d drawn from banks as they rode
away on the street cars or on the o.. or
the subway. They q experience a clutch
OF fear that they not Go- the correct
amount from the bank. and hen. with "A
curious sort Of ineNpliCable fatIousuess.
considering the circumstances they'd
open the rec ptac ts-iil!r val SoS aat
satcs els ana portmouraies- right IN the
cars aid begin to tnI-.b over TIA money.
often letting some of tie bi.!s drop on th-
car hoor to be pick aI up and lc uruad by
strangers | saw at least a dozen women
DONG this during tn two mos; arl-s
days or the banking stress The women
seemed 20 70" utterly uurousC .oIs thar
lhtN were taking a wide, large aGaUCe IN
dong that
The streets were yingged with men ard
women and even children aarting nltler
and you wit grips ful % money There
were many instances in which ii, k moth
erS were forced to send their li.rla boys
or girls 10 the bcsegcd hanks for tLe.r
money. 1t IS creiitabIe 10 Big Cu.rt
bingham that lie gave explicit IuStrlc-
tons to the pain C-Ot4es detective Whp
were put on duty at all Of the banks that
these children drawing siZ able sums OF
money We're in every Instances TO ue ar-
comEanied I" tteir homes by on" Of IN.
sieuths Old women. too. we're given
safe escort IN he same way by tho cops
in mufti.
Good for the Crooks
The high-notch pi kpockats of course.
made a good thing of the bank panic \
lot Of men who took a day or half a day
off from their business to stand in line at
the bank to draw down their money .'cela-
bra ted" a hit afterward and the pick
pockets made specially of singing out
these uuwise ones and ''frisking" them
for the works
The police are looking for a vast
amount OF piund+rlnR IN New OH homes
from now on. 1t seems that, despite the
efforts of the police to weed out the
waiting lines Of crooks. lot of sneak
thieves and porch climbers and second
story men from other cities came on
mere, at the first announcement OF bank
ing stress and got places in the waiting
lin-s. solely for the purpose of picking
up information. They contrived to get
the address S Of folks who were drawing
down large sums of money. and II Is
stated by police persons who appear TO
know that these crooks from the other
cities have scores and hundreds of these
addresses all nicely 'salted away" in
their memories or notebooks for future
reference. They have the nCalculabla
advantage therefore. of knowing where
tha actual currency Is or ought 20 be. and
now they can SO ah al at their leisure
and fabr.Cate ways and means for s ting
at the hoard=d money.
1t IS, by the way. a curious sight 10 see
one man carrying million dollars on his
Ierson In currency. | saw tEat during
the run on the Trust Company Of Amer
lea. At the Treasury u partm@nt at
''hOme'-by which little ola Washington
is meant-they hand visitors package
said to contain Il million dollars In
currency But 1t has always struck me
that there was something a bt dubious
about that proceeding. and when I've
expressed these doubts even to Cap
Cohaugh, the genial captain of the Treas
ury ID partm"nt watch he has invariably
But this man l am mentioning now actu-
ally had the million dollars in cash He
laid down check for S1,oo0,o0o and the
paying teller. with the coolest and most
casual sort of a glance at the check
promptly counted out 100 $4,000 bills and
slipped them to the equally cool man
who'd handed in the check. The man
with all of that money on him didn't have
any bodyguard. Nor was he armed-1
asked about that later. and he told me
that he hadn't anything more deadly than
a nail file on his person at the time he
drew the million. He was a clerk from "A
big bank only n little distance away from
the Trust Company of America, and so
he didn't have far to go with all Of that
cracking" money-why, by the way. is
II that these big notes always do 'crac-
kle' so in that appealing sort of way7
Too Much Money.
One of the humors of the drawing down
furry was the story Of that messenger
boy who was sent by a bank to draw
$500 from one of the lettering trust
companies. The messel- ger boy, as you
may have read In the news reports.
thought that all that money looked too
good to be turned into a soulless already
bloated bank. So he bolted for It, carry
ing the thirteen Ofateful numberD s5a0
bills which had been given to him for the
banks check. The messenger boys story,
as 1 heard it from his own lips, as to the
and gIdcia ness he encountered n
trying TO git somethin' 80 for his assort-
ment of $500 bills was entertaining to
listen To. in its way. He couldn't buy
thing. Every time he flashed one Of
those $500 bills on somebody with some-
thing to s"ll-a suit Of clothes or 4 lat or
a pair of roller skates or somnthing-he
had to take TO his heels and l"g it with
all his might 10 keep from being pounced