New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-12
Armed Guards Vigilant,
Crowds Envious, as Coin
Is Slowed Away.
THRILLING $34,5 500, 600
IN ODD SECURITIES
uO,alded Treasure DwindleS
from Mythical $lOO,Ooo,OoO
When Ii Arrives Here.

- =. learned that the big gold ship
-, from London was less than $50
annnoo instead Of the Sl00,o0o,ooo
n.,,or Ne. had led it to expect.
ordinarily Bangor, Me, is not impor-
...,ma financial news centre. What
.r Gold reaches Bangor stays there
- ~. most important financial items
~. r.vspapers relate to first mort
n7 per cent or better It would
-, b,v. figured in this transaction had
:. The British government. ANXIOUS
- nav J. P. Morgan & Co. something
=, sceount for the groceries, gun
Oowdsr and other war supplies solo
-. Aires. decided that the only
vsv 70 make reasonably sure that the
c.ruans did not send the money TO
-. bottom Of the sea or blow the tram
,,rrvinr II from Canada all over the
1.,ited States was to take an extra
reef in the censorship.
The extra reef worked well until
Rsnoor. Ne. was reached. In LonooE
$40 5S42l0 in good American gold con
.,5 reams OF securities Of an est
80 value Of S84.50O,OOO were loaded
=, 20 warship by agents OF the Bank
- ENGLAND and sent across the AtlaN-
&c u,+hoot word Of II leasing
,broycb Not even the fact that ioI-
rsdo fotilla had left with bs;tleSalp
~ through. and when Halifax was
reached the secret was still safe.
Bangor Spells Golden Secret.
Il leaked only when the train o.
seven steel cars, preceded by pI'ot
engine 20 make sure no German spy
had mined a bridge or two, paused II
Bangor TO change crews. linen the Sc
ere, was out. for native OF that part
Of Maine IN even tolerable health can
smell money at the bottom OF Wei.
So overpowering an odor OF money
could not mean less than SlOO.OOOOOo,
and so the world was told that Slcc,-
100000 was on its way 20 New York.
Then the railroad officials and the
express men charged with the safety
OF the shiDment said damn. The Eng
Eshmen with the go.u said something
about Yankee rOtters' and press
swine" All felt better wen the num-
Der of guards on the tram was raised
10 thirty and the speed increased, as
was possible when the Maine Central
turned the train over 70 the BOSTON
Maine, ana that company, in turn.
sending the special around rather than
through Boston. delivered II 70 the
Boston & A bany. which was 10 carry II
Iolf fo 4
New York Central for the last leg of
the journey
That last leg vas comr eted Just be-
fore o'clock ycSterdl" morning, when
the American Express Company re-
eepteG for the contents O. the cars al
the Eleventh Avenue and IhirtY-third
Street yards Of the Central. Its Off
cials had ade ready for the arrival
OF the silk train" lrulroadese for I'M
usually valuable freightsJ by clearing
out a large part OF is Sled, putting
extra labolers al wo~E and obtaining a
detail OF police from the West Thirty
seventh Street stauon tC see that
thieves or German svmDathizers made
no trouble.
Much Gold But No Food
Right of the reel. hcv ever, there
was trouble. bu, not by thieves or Ger
mans. The cOmmissary department. Of
the train had broken down. and wild
cries for TODD sent hurry calls for
Ssndw lches and coffee. FCr once how
ever, the waiter were not allowed 10
get near the money. Othcc guards fed
nose VINO mad come thr.Lgh with the
gold, the waters stopping at the gate
Tough luck that-mi lions in gold in
SIGHT and rot nickel fol the hand
some waitclJ
The guards we're still. eating when
X. l. VI. CJWle, vice president and gen
'ral manager Of the comrany, accom-
panied by two representatives of the
british government, arrived in a taxi
,ao. The guards at ne gates allowed
mem 70 PISS without GU st'on. and the
"oIS Of ~ oadIEg tins cars was begun.
OUT on the platform laborers, TO
whom a $50 gold piece is wealth. tum-
oied great big boxes looking all the
world like drygoods cases on to the
platform. There were a lot Of these,
each marked and sealed with great big
oioos Of red wax They had just COM
Peted the work when William Pier
son Hamilton, Of the firm of j. P. Nor
Kan Co., arrived with members of the
morgan staff and the big cases, after
oelng checked of, were broken open.
IN each was pile of smaller boxes,
pound with steel bands, numbered aud
yesrng many red seals. They did not
Uok much. but each weighed about
w pounds, and the 81 day laborers
u'o not Ind them easy to handle. These
700 were checked up, and the work
oI loading the 700 small boxes in big
motor trucks Of the company began.
mere again a tally was kept, and il was
almost 10 o'clock when the loading was
completed
meantime word had gone through
me nelghborhood that tons Of gold had
.ome IN, and folks began 20 talk Of bet
,l tunes Reserves from several po-
ne stations had also arrived and taken
position about the railroad yards, 10
Aeep me crowds in check and prevent
awning like an attempt TO hold up the
Shipment. Any one attempting this
would have met with short shrift, for
On each car beside the chauffeur sat
pohceman IN uniform inside were
s~o men with Remington rifles and
Snother with sawed-off shotgun load
90 with bucksho:; mounted policemen
we're ahead and about the cortege, and
motor cycle cops secuted ahead TO keep
me way clear.
9 re4 StaHl DdrIoWi OF IrdUC
squad c, in the lead, the procession OF
twenty-five trucks left the yards at
IV;SV o'clock. Orders TO the chauffeurs
were 10 keep close together, but at that
s1e procession spread over two city
eloeks: Through Thirty fourth Street
20 Eighth Avenue he led the way, traf-
nc policemen on post holding up traffic
as the procession approached There
were no protests from the pedestrians
delayed momentsrly, for it is not every
Gay they are troubled by millions in