Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-24
MOBILIZATION Of
GOLD BRINGS ODD
SCENES IN PARIS
Old Men and Women, Peas
ants and Wealthy Folk,
Unite to Put All Sorts Of
Coins Into Bank of France,

ASSOCIATED Press correspondence
Paris, Aug i4-There have been
some remarkable scenes at the Bank
OF France since Alexandra Felix Ri-
bot. the French minister of finance.
ISSUED his call for the mobilization Of
gold. We are spending two billion
francs month"; he said Its "a
frightful sum and we've got TO keep 20
up another winter-bring on your
gold The call spread rapidly. and
the response has been prompt.
Monsieur RibOt is onk one month
older than Monsieur Colin. of the
Rue des Tours. who was 73 this spring
Madame Colin SO wrote on the slip
she delivered in The Bank of France
with "a hundred francs of gold To be
exchanged for national defense bonds.
had saved it to make present to
Monsieur Colin on our golden wedding
day, she added. but we decided that
we could both get more pleasure and
satisfaction ont of that gold by turn
ing II over as a sort OF homage to
Monsieur Ribot
Hundreds Of school children will
associate The name of the venerable
minister with their first visit to that
mysterious and awe-inspiring institu-
ton. always So impressiVely guarded
by the handsomely uniformed republi-
can guards. Their teachers lift them
mp To the tollers window where gold
is exchanged. and they are generally
not TO see the patriarchal
head Of Monsieur Rihot' somewhere
behind the counter
Wanted TO Give Gold.
one woman showed a pile of coins
amounting TO 300 francs through the
tellers window at the Bank of France.
with the concise explanation, For
Monsieur Ribot. She turned TO 60
away without her bank bills ana had
to be pursuaded that Monsieur Ribot
was not seeking gold without giving
equivalent in exchange.
man who had spent years collect
ing hundred-franc gold pieces, and
had gotten together a hundred Of
consecutive dates, including the rarest
etflsies, brought it to the bank Worth
as a collection five times as much. he
went away satisfied with 10000 francs
in bank notes. Another numismatist
sacrificed a unique collection of POO
of double louis '-forty- franc pieces
Another man. i'm the familiar peas
ants blue trOck, came in, took his
place hesltatingly i'm the line and fidg-
iaet itti 10y "a4uIl9- ne
hesitated hpmed I hnn, go an - t t, 1ooL
place again at the foot Whan his
turn finally came he cast !, FOND
flance al The sock he nuIled o,I+ az n
vest pocket. then poured seven thaus
sand francs In gold lpon the counter
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ne COUNTING Oh tne mlillons OF
7 'Qves ieogiN Gu "oulu t1he 700 IONS
u WIN aiso pc zoo complicated since,
' VII the l"uis' napoleons and re-
P9ip'i's tueie are soVtrelsns, ca
u"uole eas!fs In iaCl pieces
,,,s,l,,SS efeiS n@tioll tiiot COINS goId;
Iuise quyulIy every deposit IS valued
ny WelsnJ sometimes weight is the
NY pussluie means Oh EaIqatloh' as IN
.ii'.., Oase Vi tiie NuIe Oh huron VINO
w we pJ 3S''. 't t"e pIaIch 81 we Bank
w. riollce al ma ohs-sur Marine a
t ~" po.tsS lleSs le nau ItcoNereed from
"9''e9 w 'ne piespS Iely AFTER lhe
tetlS"t ~ t'e Net iilails. IONS OF the
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