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New-York tribune., 1909-06-20
COULD COIN s4,oOO,oOO DAILY.

Are the four mints being worked TO their full
capzcitye' I asked Nj. Leach.
They have been run pretty steadily and hard
for sereraI years. ] suppose could coin $500
o. day II We were pushed While 1 was super
.n,sndenr Of she San Francisco mint We manu-
.sctured s55.ee9o11 in sixty days But that was
r1sh erde-. jhe money being required 10 meet The
cost Of the canal property IN Panama
Is gold eKer stolen from the government:
Not often said Mr. Leach 4 superin-
ts.desr q she san Francisco mint for eleven
yts-s and during that time there were only seven
lasss OF theft il a working force OF three hundred
-sn and women which speaks well for the hon
ssy of human nature No special precautions
Fere taken 10 guard the gold while il was in the
process Of manufacture Turning metal into
-a1ez- Is IncIean work and Ihe presons en-
peyed change their clothing when they come in
Eun the streets. They are not searched either
IL entering or leaving the building, and YET there
. scarcely moment of The day when gold Is not
vsts- their reach Small quantities could easily
Il aassa and sec-eted, but The employees al our
uzss are traditi0aally honest. and instances OF
bec2use q his activity and intelligence While
dishons-y are rare. indeed However, I made ar
Tzngsusuis hy which ] was TO be notified promptly
fsHy one In san Francisco offered gold for sale
to jewellers. uaHnbrozeTs or bankers Six small
1hsres were caught II that way.
The seventh man. my chief clerk. stole 5000
Re had been cashier OF the mint. I promoted him
bsuzuse % his activity and intelligence While
cashier be had a vault Of his own N which gold
was kept for current business. All the rest Of
ne g0id Was locked in sealed vaults and counted
onss year. The new cashier permitted the old
cashier 10 change the combination OF his personal
Ts1ll Meanwhile the time lock had been put out
C service with piece Of wire. These facts came
u ny knowledge afterWarG-
Tbe CHEF clerk took hold Of his duties with
great energy and industry. 7 didn't know it at
Ire tine. bUr he worked in my pfice every night
IN s,x months. coming with suitcase filed with
sroounI books, as he explained 10 tbs guards. and
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20

there. In the old days bunker crossed the course
about three hundred yards from the tee-an excel
lent hazard with the solid guilty ball Latterly the
long drivers easily got into trouble at this bunker
favored they were by the natural conformation
OF the ground, which sloped downward at a con-
siderable angle. This hazard wes removed few
years ago that the long drivers could set the
full benefit OF their efforts.
The weak point OF the hole lies in the fact that
person can top his drive and still get home IN 2
provided he makes fairly good second shot. as the
length of the hole is less than three hundred and
fifty yards The out OF bounds to the right is the
real difficulty now for the least bit OF slice means
a lost stroke That is why the short and straight
player has nothing TO fear at this first hole az
Montclair.
Many an important match has been decided at
the pond hole at Nassau. In the old days this was
No IT. but few weeks ago. when the course was
rearranged, It became No. IL AS ali golfers know
many matches are settled on the seventeenth green
of golf course. The hole In question is only about
a hundred and forty yards. just nice msshie shet
under normal conditions. n the wind Is deaa
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20

ahead. an iron and sometimes a cleek. but rarely
There is no way to dodge the issue without seri-
ous loss Immediately in front OF the tee the
ground slopes down TO the waters edge. and then
there Is the expanse OF the poBlfor the best part
OF one hundred yards. On the far side the ground
rises abruptly so that to reach the green properly
the ball has to carry all the way. When the wind
is fair there will be need for considerable amount
OF back speed to the ball. otherwise IT Will oyerrun
into trouble Speaking OF trouble. there IS also an
abundance on either side of the line OF play.
Dasn,ts the fact that this is one of the best
shot holes to be found anywhere in the East. II
may besaid that even bad shots can go unpunished
there Nassau golfers will never forget the mem
orabls match between Finday s. Douglas and
Howard Whitney for the club championship some
wears ago The conditions were against good golr'
as a gale of wind prevailed at the time Standing
on the tee for this pond hole Douglas stood up,
with only to play. and tbs match looked as sooa
ss won when he landed his drive on the edge OF
the x-esn. whitney badly hooked MS psiI ana ihs
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20

wind catching it, the globe swung wildly on TO the
left finally striking the roof OF the -ratlroad
station and coming to an awkward lie on the other
side OF the tracks It looked Ike almost any odds
that Whitney would be unable 10 play his ball az
all. but nothing daunted. he took chance and
tust happened catch the ball right 10 was
long shot to the green. but the ball kept going and
never stopped until il had trickled within two
feet of the hole. This disconnected Douglas that
he failed to get his g. while Whitney down the
put and won the hole, which practically meant the
club championship. he also won the home hole
Immediately afterward. making him a winner BY
l up.
The seventh hole at Nassau. formerly the thir-
teenth. has few weak features since the bunker
guarding the green dug out, making II the
deep graveIke formation II is. II is only a tribe
more than three hundred yards from tee 70 PIN.
and the green begins from the bunker msntioned
The short driver is always az a disadVantase. TOT
the reason that a second shot with eieek or
orassey stands a good chance Of running oFsr Into
trouble
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20
CUPS IN BEDROCK USED BY MINERS or
AN ANCIENT DAY FOR GRINDING GOLD
ORE IN INDIA.

for DAYS between California and the East. through
an arid region. seeing plenty of jack rabbits and
lizards but very few and women As the
supply of money increased, enterprise pushed fur
;her and further the plains ard deserts 10 the
very foothills of the Rocky Mountains Great irTt-
cation schemes were undertaken, and now, instead
Of rabbits lizards and des0at1n. I see good roads.
automobiles. splendid farms and orchards, brick
buildings, large towns. and even cities. with all
the improvements and advantages Of our older civ
ilzation-"
Cold" ! said. is not consumed Once coined
into money il remains in circulation permanently
The worlds stock is growing all the time What
will happen when it is doubled perhaps quad
rupIed?"
i don't look for catacysul replied AIr Leach
Although the present stock OF gold, amounting TO
S7,O0O0a00 Of which Sl6i2.70oG0 belongs TO the
United States. may be multiplied two three
times Additional capital viii be necessary for
new commerce. new enterprises, the developments
of new countries and the growth of trade alFesdy
established. There are economists who believe that
the stock of money is inadequate; others fear that
if the present production of gold is maintained the
finances of the world viii be overturned
Following every important discovery OF gold are
great movements Of men and business Africa
bought s1500000 worth of mining machinery in a
single year. California, remote wilderness six
or seven months away from the East, with deserts
and mountains and murderoUs Indians between.
was suddenly opened TO the by its wonderful
mines Cities were built if by magic, great har-
bors were made for the ships Of all nations. and
railways were soon spanning the continent As for
myself I am not afraid the world viii ever be IN
undated by a food of gold"
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20
GOLD IN THE SOUTH.

why was an assay Office established at Char
Iotte. y. c.
ITO receive the gold obtained from the mines IN
the Appalachian Mountains. Ii may not be gen.
orally known. perhaps. but gold is found In nine
teen states and territories. Last year the PrOduc-
ton in the South was Alabama. S2I.eo, Georgia.
s64 OGo: North Carolina. $4,000, South Carolina SS
900. Tennessee SS'0 and Virginia SS30. Silver Is
obtained in twenty-five states and territories much
IL being the by-prodUct of gold copper lead and
zinc. Colorado leads the country in both gold and
silver. The value of its minerals last year was al
most S2S0Ole0e California has more than one
thousand gold mines, thes output of which amount
ed TO about SlS.o0o060. 1t will be news 10 many
people I suppose. but the yield OF silver in Michi-
gan amounted S2l9.0oo in Missouri to $1,000, in
Illinois to $500. in Tennessee To $3.50 and In
Vermont $500
''How much gold is used by jewellers. psnmaksrs
and dentists?'
I'VE estimate that manufactures and the arts an
nually consume S40G0O.G00 worth Of gold and S24-
0Oo.O00 worth Of silver. The consumption OF saen
metal doubled in years All the gold
that is mined, therefore. Is nOt manufactured into
money.
Copyrighted. 1909. by James B MorrowJ
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20

copyrighted. 1909. by James ,. Morrow)
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20

nous value OF sIG50OO 90 If twenty-one years that
country which has the richest mines In the history
Of the human race. has given the world N0O0pbb00
in gold. Put another way more easily TO compTe-
hend, Africa since 1887 has produced two tho1sand
tons gold which would load three railway trains
giving each train thrty-three ears OF twenty tons
apiece.
Since 1892 the mines OF the United States have
yielded s3OGo 00oO00 in gold The product last year
amounted s97 600 600. which not only - sub
stantial increase 1901 but broke al prov Gus
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20

taking it home again. After the guards had be
come accustomed 10 his presence, he stole six
bags OF coin from the cashiers vault. The chief
clerk himself. when made our annual count
discovered the loss. assuming great excitement as
well disgust I for William }. Burns. the
famous government detective. The chief clerk
was arrested, convicted and sent 10 the penlteH-
Jiary for five years. He is in prison now. Burns
had TO go to oregon aunt for land and tim
Der thieves, and never learned what became
of the gold
i was also interested IN case of theft al Seat
tie. All gold dust contains impurities which dis
appear in the process OF melting. The loss OF
weight ranges between / and per cent Persons
taking gold To the assay Office al Seattle complained
that their losses in weight altogether abnoC-
NAL. Leslie NJ. Shaw, then Secretary of the Treas
ury. ordered TO undertake investigation.
soon concluded that the stealing being done in
the melting Burns sent two excellent
detectives They watched the METERS almost fol-
lowing them into their homes, but reported that
they family men AMI seemed 10 be entirely
outside or all reasonable suspicion had been
weighing in and weighing out nearly all Of the de-
Tosits OF dust. most e which came 10 US from
Alaska in small nags made Of buckskin.
The cashier. ! suddenly remembered. usually
weighed deposits received late in the afternoon
Taking his reports TO my room at the hotel where
l stopping, / saw at glance that his melting
losses We're very much larger than my own. had
found the thief His scheme of robbery was simple
and unique He would put down the weight Of
each deposit in and carry the figures
with him when he went home AZ night, checking
against every deposit any loss his cupidity deemed
was reasonably safe. For instance, miner with
five hundred ounces OF dust might safely be robbed
Of five ounces, or / per cent The cashier had OBJ
tanned supply or veterinary capsules. IN which
medicine given COWS and horses, and had flied
them with sand Some OF the capsules weighed an
ounce and some weighed less.
'In,ariabiy the cash!e: reached the assay Office
in the morning ahead Of every else With bal
ances which he had hidden in the vault he would
weigh OUT quantity Of gold he steal
from each deposit and for the loss OF weight would
substitute sand poured from the capsules which
he carried in his pocket. ] caught him with a de-
coy deposit which had been run through a Sieve
When he it 10 the melting room next day IL
contained three ounces OF sand. After he
rested found that he had stolen S150000 IN dust.
We seized his property paid his victims $4,000 Of
the proceeds and sent him 10 the penitenuary for
q long OF years"
What countries produce the largest quantitias OF
gold?" I asked
Africa Is first the United States Is next
The African production last reached the enor-
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20
DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST.

without accepting the conclusions OF either
school OF economists" Mr.. Lesch went on TO say
''let me call attention to certain conditions and
striking contrasts in the United States con-
vincing proof that large volume OF money sttnu-
lates business and indirectly causes the advance
nnent of prices There was q time when New York,
New England and the states this side OF the
Mississippi River had capital to contribute tow
ard the development of the West Each community
needed all 1t had for its own purposes. then rode
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20
NEVADA PROMISES MUCH.

future?"
ut is not safe to indulge in prophecy" Mr. Leach
replied. Even with the mines already an opera
tion the worlds annual production, I'm my opinion
New-York tribune., 1909-06-20

records When Mr.. Bryan made his first campaign
for President in 1895 the product Of the yaar
valued at $5S oo00o0 The yield OF gold throughout
world in 1908 have been $4,000 0la.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
Jefferson Day.

The National Democratic Club of New
York will eat Jefferson day dinner this
year, and have for guests several demo-
Gratis of distinction from 1.-The provinces. /"
Tomorrow week is the anniversary.
Richard Croker is chairman of the re-
ception committee. and the toast to the
patron saint of the party will be re-
sponded to by Thomas f. Grady. the
silver tongued orator of Tammany Hall.
Surely the shade of Mr.. Jefferson can
ask nothing better than that. 1t should
be a great evening, and If Mr.. Clark OF
Missouri attends-he Is on the card for
speech-Mr. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn
will probably hear something to his dis
advantage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
Congress and It's Critics.

In a public speech in New York the
other night. Mr.. Littlefield of Maine. who
served several terms in the House. re-
piled to some of the criticism which OF
late years has been leveled at that body
and the men who have presided over IT.
Speaking from knowledge and experience.
he replied with force to the ISLANDERS
which have had a wide circulation and
are still current about the popular branch
Of Congress and its procedure. He paid
q generous tribute to Mr.. Cannon.
Saturday night at Los Angeles Mr..
Fairbanks paid tribute TO the senate,
speaking from knowledge gained both
as a member and as the presiding offlcer
Of that body. He declared 1T capable OF
doing and disposed to do the right and
the wise thing In matters of domestic
concern and of international concern.
Former members of either house of
Congress cannot perform a better public
service than by testifying In this way.
A most damaging misrepresentation as to
Congress is widespread. For long time
muckrakers have had the subject practi-
cally all to themselves. The country has
been assured by them that the House is
rendered incapable of elaboration, and
that the Senate is owned body and soul
by predatory wealth with headquarters
in New York. Behold. the cry has been,
the lawmaking body of the nation, strip
ped of character and independence, and
doing the bidding, not of the electorate,
but of a few masterful individuals banded
together for pelf.
Not all the muckrakers have been VI
cious persons reckless as regards the char
acter of representative men, or persons
indifferent to the facts and doing stunts
by contract. Some have been sincere
men. but hasty. Everything about the
public business in this town may not be
learned and digested in twenty-four
hours. And yet it was fresh New York
scribe who blew into Washington to dis
cover the cause of the trouble, and set
tied 1t for his readers the next morning
by telling them that. so far as the Senate
was concerned, much would be gained If
the power of naming the committees Of
that body were taken from the Vice
President, Laughable as that made the
fellow appear in Washington. it did not
injure him at all in the eyes of a great
majority of his readers.
1t Is the general hope that we have en-
tered upon period of calm discussion
Denunciation has run long course, but
should give way. for time at least, to an
examination of the facts good deal of
rottenness in business and in politics has
been exposed, but all is not rotten. At
the base things are sound, and we shall
all be the better for keeping that truth
constantly in mind, The President of
the United States has been judge. and
retains the judicial temperament and
training. He wants the facts. and is not
likely to be impressed with perfervid
defamation. Let the country guide by
him as to that Abusing Congress and
the men most influential i'll shaping
measures in that body ought to go out of
fashion. 1t has been greatly and in some
cases dishonesty overdone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
Preserving Scenic Beauty.

The protection and preservation of
scenic beauty is subject that yearly be-
comes more pressing in a larger number
OF regions. There is constant war over
Niagara Falls between the utilitarians
and those men who would preserve the
falls and gorge that their awe-impelling
beauty may be enjoyed by posterity.
A late bulletin of the American Civic
Association recites that Niagara has
been saved again for all the people. Con-
gress has again exercised its rights in
controlling the water of the falls and
recognized the expressed desire of the
American people that the great scenic
wonder be guarded from the diversion of
it's waters for purely commercial activi-
ties The bulletin then recounts the
action of Congress in extending for two
years the terms of the Burton bill, which
limits the amount of water that may be
diverted from the river above the falls
by the great electric power plants. The
bulletin concludes:
IF the American Civic Association had
never achieved anything more than its
grand work for the falls of Niagara it
would more than have justified its exist
ence and maintenance. But IL is doing
more. Niagara is but an incident. 1t is
making daily for better and more beau
tlful America by inspiring In all parts of
the United States and Canada positive
work for the physical development of
cities. towns and villages.
The Hudson highlands Is another battle
ground between utilitarians and scenists
There Is bill pending in the New York
legislature providing for the establishment
of a state park in the highlands of the
Hudson memorial to Henry Hudson
and Robert Fulton. The leading New
York papers urge the passage Of this
bill
When old trees shall be growing in
Potomac Park; when all the Potomac
river flats shall have been converted into
green lawns. flower beds, shady walks
and graceful drives; when Rock Creek
Park shall include the whole length of
Rock creek: when the south side of the
avenue shall have been restored to the
Mall. and when many of the commanding
hills in the environs OF Washington shall
have become public parks. who knows
but that the government OF the United
States will set aside strip of the Poto-
mae valley from the Aqueduct bridge 10
a point above Great Falls and hold 1t for
all time as beautiful playground and
resting place for the people?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05

Bryan's statement to my sense OF pro-
priety and respect for my party. 1 have
only to say that IL the democratic party
had given me three opportunities TO be-
come President and l had failed dis
malfy as Mr.. Bryan has, even II did
not have the sense to do so. yet the
obligation of gratitude to my party would
compel me to remain silent about mat
tiers of which l was grossly ignorant
Mr.. Fitzgerald might have gone little
into details
First, as to the rules: Why on a point
Of principle, should Mr.. Bryan be so
exercised about what he calls Cannon
ism? He was member of the House
in both the Fifty-Second and the Fifty
Third Congresses, and made no protests
against Crispism. Crispism was but
Reedsm, and Cannonism is only Crispism
brought up to date. Was Mr.. Bryan In
fiuenced in accepting Crispism by the
favor he enjoyed at Speaker Crisp's
hands? The Nebraskan was young and
aspiring and received the unusual COM
pliment of assignment to the ways and
means committee in his first term. At
any rate the House procedure, which
was the Cannonism of that day, seemed
to suit him, and he with his party en-
joyed the benefit Of it.
And why should Mr.. Bryan quarrel with
the way the Payne tariff bill was pre-
pared? Has he forgotten how the Will
son tariff bill was prepared? Impossible
for he helped prepare it. That bill, in
the jocularity of the day, was called
1.-The dark lantern bill The title was
given it by the late Maj Selden Clark. at
that time the Washington correspondent
of the New York Tribune. and grew out
of the fact that the democratic members
OF the ways and means committee had
not only sought seclusion for their work
but in room unknown to the general
public Rumor located the room in the
House basement. but the actual NUMBER
was never published. Maj. Clark VIII
caught the public. and all through the
debate "the dark lantern BILL figured in
the republican newspapers. and passed
into congressional history.
These twistings and doublings by poll
ticians persist, and yet invariably injure
a cause Neither party is free from
them The minority of one year will saw
the air and split the ear against practices
which the very next year If meanwhile
il has been transformed into the major
ity. it will gleefully avail itself of and en-
ploy most aggressively. If Mr.. Bryan had
not served in the House under Speaker
Crisp and was now serving there under
Mr.. Cannon his anti-Cannonism might ap-
pear persuasive. But. in the circum-
stances, it appears as not only Illogical
but a little insincere. 1t strongly resem-
bles play to the galleries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
Bryan and Fitzgerald.

Mr.. Bryan having challenged the de-
mocracy of Mr.. Fitzgerald, the Brooklyn
man replies as follows:
with his usual rashness. Mr.. Bryan
PUSHES in where angels might well fear
to tread. His statement that 1 am not
a representative of my party would have
come with better grace IL made when
my speeches were being selected as demo-
cratic campaign documents In the last
two national campaigns. 1t would be
more convincing If he had marshaIed in
cidents in my ten years service in the
House of Representatives to justify his
assertion
III Mr.. Bryan means that am not a
representative Of the democratic party
as democracy has been understood and
professed by himself I shall not chal-
lenge his statement. My political convic-
tons and beliefs are more in accord with
the democracy OF those men who twice
made possible Mr.. Cleveland's election as
President than with the latter-day radi-
calism OF the west.
LAS to the personal references In Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
Exposition Benefits.
From the New York World

from the New 1Ork NOrlu.
BY means of the Alaska Yukon-Pacific
exposition, to open June l at Seattle,
$500 900 worth of new buildings VIII be
added to the University of Washington.
The water. lighting and sewer systems
of the exposition, together with numerous
park embellishments, will revert also to
the university. A precedent will be es-
tablished thus which may we'll be a mat
ter of consideration in the planning Of
future worlds fairs. Chicago has the
Field Columbian Museum at present as a
relic of the big fair Of 1893, but this
structure is to be displaced by the new
museum edifice downtown. Probably the
German castle. transferred to the park
department., will be the only permanent
reminder of the show. st. Louis has an
art gallery from the Louisiana purchase
fair, and a building of like use remains
In Paramount Park. Philadelphia. out of
the centennial exhibition group. The pre-
vailing rule affecting exposition struc-
lures has been that of early vanishment
and consequent waste.