The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27

ITO be exact it is alleged that s15,5oo in gold and
s1776 in silver went up the chimney because of
defective construction. 1t is alleged People have
been incredulous to suspect that it might have
been blown into somebody's pocket, but they have
never been able TO prove it. Uncle Sam, gulble old
soul that he is could quite make up his mind TO
swallow this, and he actually tried to get his money
back. He thought must have been careless
or wasteful. OF course, he wouldn't say, as others
did, that some looking fors easy money but
he started suit just the AS the government lost
the suit the skeptical he willing to admit
that it mus have been in the wrong
Still. defective fue is excuse, and that s moro
than Uncle Sam can put forward in many OF the
thing lie hasn got wife Cor is he married to the
Goddess of Liberty?). because if he had there would
:. Sam, what did YOU do with that $4,000 you had in
the sub-trcnsury out in Chicago''
And your uncle would run his long fingers through
his sra ght white hair and pucker his fine forehead
into frown
continue sfI, bet Won We been giving some more
pensions to people whose grandfathers had friends in
"No I haven t." the old fellow would swear;
'that is; if did, didn't that money for them
" 'fess up" that he had lost it,
shout7
A FTER which the whole sad story would come out
N How he put the money in Chicago in the
of trusted servant; how he went the
books himself at the time and that everything
all right; how he had made every learn the
finest system of bookkeeping in the world how he
hired lot of trained inspectors and skilled account
ants to that nothing went wrong; and how in
spite of all this $4,000 had simply melted away.
High and low he searched but to avail. All the
employees questioned and the vaults turned
topsyturvy without finding much as one of the
elusive shekels, Let draw the curtain before the
which follows. We cannot bear to uncle
Inundated by Mrs America.
1t would be monotonous to cite all the instances
like the foregoing which constantly coming to
light Not willing to be outdone by her rival-Chi-
cago-St: Louis developed shortage of many thou
sand dollars about which little nothing is known.
IT is clear enough that the United States is almost
thick. The gold that falls carpets isn't all that
is recovered A weighing clerk in the Philadelphia
mint actually got caught with $Il3,426.s5 worth of
gold bullion tucked in his Jeans
1t a good Joke the weighing clerk, and
doubt the secret service who bundered onto the
bungling amateur nightly set up their
capture But the best is yet to There's laugh
in every line and the climax is The novice
went south with $l2 900 that has been found.
Those who have tried it say the postoffice is the
softest thing, while others claim that a disbursng
officers Job the nearest thing to paid up endow
ment policy that be found
Let ii not be supposed that the instances cited here
and others have not caused perturbation off
cial circles AS has been said, it harder to steal
from Uncle Sam than it used to be Cunning thefts
have served to tighten the purse strings
At last universal system of bookkeeping has been
adopted by the suggestion Of commission appointed
to stop leaks and increase efficiency