The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1903, Page 13

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Z == 4 ) weight, which allows the counterfeiter - - \ 3 < 2 = [ but 25 cents on five dollars for his work b < 2 g = — and the risk he runs. nd ‘he greate e 1s experfenced with counterfeits made of pure siiver, which b By < : and customs collectors to be " B ernal revenue man's daily offer- - e om five to seventy-five thou- Y L : 5 sand, and this is only for_the southern sy : district of California—from San Francisco paths and by-f b to the border. f wn Every time you buy a cigar or a glass of beer you may know that ; Kets 1 he of th . - s 1e A . s well as a saloon, a g - seme . . b D keep the m e & Fior p e 1 the ground {3 brandy, beer, tobacco and cigar e string w berries and wi'd in to enabls the internal rev ads the w o strange . of other wood- make such a neat contrib s v a e e « ke 1a a “ the sad- treasurer. a sa f the leaves 2 But tue man who carts his money to . 1 m tw » wers are ‘ o ——— Uncle 8am’'s vaults in large sac boxes guod A 4 i and wagon loads is the y ctor 1 e w Ay W was 3 ot Thirty thousand is a small day's haul . bea the for the man who stand r g W e es- are anl all the ships that e port ” w taug as ered w their thick blankets Francisco and makes them walt g N w a . i woint” B ands up.” while he goes throhgh their w v = pockets v plunder. - . H 5 My! ot 1 e he wi them & ~ ~ ' ca & t 1 w t w . g 5 e : i .l and transport w = HOW U A AND! | another two hundred, a good I t . tat aying i a year all told . v n f. ele his clothes the t i ferage e | takes m e SAN FRANCISCO PCCKET. - a g g 1 departments. . ks IXTY million dollars in just one of e pas Al E his pockets—that's the Kinu of a . ¢ ‘ fellow Uncle S8am is. = e ot Thie sixty million he keeps mere- . - to jingle in his jeans. In the o o . .,. ¢ over the tcourse of a year there is in and out two ad beg ‘ it tha Mher ndred millions more, and the S8an Fran- 5 he Coast nge, to Cisco sub-treasury is but one, and not the Shasta St But ¢ of his pockels. r ening = there is another re dest buliding in the narrow alley y not all e ranch house int with its calied Commercial street does mot look e a percentag T sure of old Bohemian furnishings, tlie part. One is inclined at first to judge ' enzel ¥ a lave eside the hunting cos- il by the company It keeps—by the strag- e nd takes : Slir ghng row of shabby, bad-breathed neigh- . ere . ' at he has bors, cheap eating places, cheaper drink- E t he nas iced gtead- 1ng places and places worse than chea. ine_at to be fl awad v ) this customs highwayman, who, on a falr day's haul, counts up his two and three dred thousand A yard of si of oplum—they tom-house man his tithe. And there 2nd hemp and tea and « the Orient that help the ~ man to come daily to the t m full sacks and many of them o Just at 3 o'clock every day these moneys begin te pour into the gaping pocket of ('ncle Sam in_the narrow me alley, where the flag flapping gainst the staff is the only thing that lacks dinginesa In gold and silver and gzreenbacks the treasura s brought in. No paper but that which bears Uncle Sam's own stanip passes here. A man's 1ay ba good for a thousand or a nywhere eise in the world, llector or a postmaster w with never a quiver of ¢ }':} hundreds of dollars’ the man w it m te whol orelgn goods. in eith: eck would be the simplest way to pay. But no siree, he can’'t do business that way with his Uncle Samuc man in 8an Francisco must tle plece of paper to his banker, get in its stead the good har sh of the reaim 1 o and then Governmen iclals will deign . to do business with him olds & n ali ot s Of them in turn the treasurer makes the S - & like demand. Nor will any pass T 8 thrown out or by the cashi it_were No m silver on whic e Gover is not plainly discernible comes to gold coin that light w t ¥ as though i\ TR \ HUNTER.. but take a and s a g 8 a F ith fastly. Four hours of every twenty-four But the two-story brick holds aloof and Where does it all come from, and where (ne man w it gy are devoted to the work. So if he has tries to live up to the honor of flying 1N does it go? the owner to do is take s grown rusty in the art it is not the fault from a mast on the roof a banner of rel, S . Listen. and turn it in, the Governm of laziness white and blue. \\ Every time you go to the postofiice and 4 cents a graln for what it lacks In caslonally while he was In Europe he Tne geedy shacks of Commercial alley 5 T buy a 2-cent stamp you may know tuat WEIEDt. M took his violin and went before an audi- v A y ‘ T 4 3 hese treasury people keep a narrqw nudge one another and stand agape ever y very day that very 2 cents of yours fieds .yeo for count the doings of thelr haughty nelghbor. #t8 way to the sub-treasury. keen-fingered ts. So prac and y as the receiving teller be- Every afterrcon the San Francisco come that it is America has not heard him years. Friends who have been s Day af! ay express wagons back over hard for a plece of bad , a circle of fortunate enough to visit the ranch have D2y after I"k{ ap bbbl Postmaster shakes together the pennies money to get past him as it s said to be een been treated to le concerts in the « sidewa o the very door of the flag- hick and 2 b - ron g g BB 2 t 1 to little topped brick—a door mever for a minute TFO0MS, With walls a yard thick and a ce- 'nd nickels and dollars and goid that for a rich man to get past Saint Peter. Phila v of the house it as to the P! = ® ment floor in which a man could be have dribbled into his till since motn: One of the puzzling attempts at counter- a2 w public—that he regards with ?f :Ay or u;ghé v;u:::tn:rdmt‘z :“‘;{d'j‘; buriea standing, walls and floor allkec a and every plece of it, from pu;m;' s f"“‘“flmish“"”?. ‘}I’l‘,‘ ‘“h”“'i" silver dol- : cagerness and anxlety, as it load or unload boxed nd tass of 8014 web of wires the cuiting of any one cf dauble-cagle, Is put in sacks and taken ptgndard American dollar, has had ihe =3 unknown g He knows ot of ¢ ot A & e "¢ which would give alarm—all three rooms to the treasury. Some days the sacks face removed and the American imprint us; but he Test of the a . > choked with sacks of sflver—thirty mil- hold $500, some days $1000: and 1799 other placed upon it. This is sometimes done a ta, this re- If they could see within, wwhere gold i3 lions more. Postmasters add thelr earnings to the so skilifully that on n expert can de- was the t e a do? He is as enthuslastic, ptled sack upon sack high as a man car It keeps a dozen men busy handling and pile, the Assistant Treasurer at San Fran. tect it. but with a strong glass the Mexi- the warra t : : as exclted as a child, for the artist tem- ' reach, and row upon row—thirty millions accounting for other money that vomes {o cisco belng guardian of Government (1), /WPrint 8 always traceable under- With twe Y e e Forest n ever quite grows up. ot it—their greedy eyes could never go this capacious pocket of Uncle Sam, the treasure in a territory that begins at the “’l‘lj“,‘,'\ap. bk Sest SRS R ot o 2 handle 2 2 Blonsn, AR s g he comes to us to win us all over shut of the sight. money that in the course of a year Rocky Mountains and ends in the Orient. terfeit work is the counterfeit five dol- a ir nat will be the outcome? And In the vaults below, three big amounts to two hundred millions. Besides Postmasters, there are revenue lars that contain $# 7 in gold by actual AN DALE MAKES HIS DEBUT AS A WRITER FOR THE SUNDAY CALL—FEBRUARY 1 KX