Show CORNERED COHERED THE COPPERS 11 L 1 r tho the of a detroit dalor bukor ula ins by a bank jie ile colloun 11 of them thein und Cre ittes a hh ortigo in the detroit banks dislike to talce take pennies nickels and other oilier small change a as s much Is as the western cowboy v lio ho invented the term gliates to see such buch currency in a game gaine of poker As a rule there is a trong mck kick NN lien anny large amount of pennies is turned in at once and sonic some time arro ago n the local banks noll adopted opted a rule nott not to 0 take in bulk from mercantile establishments this aroused the indignation of storekeepers who received large quantities of coppers from their customers as under the new deal they aliey v ere obliged to fillip their surplus to eastern cities or send it to the treasury department or to sub treasuries at con considerable considers sidera tile trouble and expense c barrie iliano saladin who run the largest 6 b bakery in the city and naturally talce take in an almost endless number of cents cent i were ere the most seriously affected of any firm and they deter minoa on revenge just how bow to accomplish this was a mystery if the lule inlo had applied to only one bank it would have been ariy easy by transferring business to another bunk bank but as all the banks had united on the issue this remedy ans r out of the question to suspend all banking relations could not bo be thou thought lit of mr dal ric went home one c evening cl trying to devise gome plan to pet get even ah lie sat bat reading the paper alter after supper one of his children asked for a penny to put in a missionary box suddenly an idea occurred to him bim why not work on the missionary idea and nd get eta feta f a corner on the penny market wit ith ii tile large amount of collar coll coppers cr oming to his store it would bo be easy to oon foon f accumulate enough shiners to cause a criola shortage on cents 3 the more inore lie thought of it the more mr barrie was pleased with the id adza on tile fol louin morning he be consulted his pirn pr abild an d two tivo decided to carry the plan into execution A strong hogshead was reci Recur tred cd careful fully ly scaled up and placed in the cellar A slot was cut in the lid and a tin tube placed to run from the alot to the cash drawer upstairs early in november I 1 the first penny was dropped into the huge barrel and after that every copper that came caine in instead of being placed cash to be turned into the gaii bank was vas dropped into the slot the barrel began bag an to fill and the receiving teller it at the citizen s savings bank was puzzled at receiving no more inore offers of heavy do deposits posits of cents mr barrie barric explained at the bank that 1 lie I had bound a new wity of getting rid of his IX pennies buies but blut slot machines sunday school contributions at a heavy licad call by merchants fort for small nall abang e during the holidays the visible supply of the useful coppers and the bunks banks instead of refusing to take larg large e quantities of pennies were nvere at their wits end to gather g athar enough to supply their merchants who iio to banks for five dollars ten dollars or fifteen dollars worth of cents verc re disappointed the banks tele telegraphed graphed to 4 eastern astern cities but were unable to get a supply on short fiort notice then tile the follow ing appeared in a detroit paper there is a bear scarcity city of pennies in n detroit mr barric was wa happy tie ile roped dropped ro L ped lito his bank and casually asked the cashier ashier about the V penny uny crop ile he then plea pleasantly tautly reminded the cashier that the babli had once sneered at coppers on the days 1 Ys follow following ilig lie made similar I 1 at the bank and on the fourth visit lie casually said I 1 by the alic way I 1 guess gness weve got g ot quite a batch of f pennies up at the shop if send a man up I 1 can give you johnc lome buti want a premium of one and one half liala per cent cant the bank readily dily fd and a M mes 1 ea henger Nv was assent sent up when lie he arrived lie was wa told fold there were more pennies than he could carry if the bank amt ed ca wea aalthe y M must w send sead up lip al an express wagon the telephone was re d to the bank was delighted oh cc certainly it v take all it could get half in an hour later au an callea the contents i of the hogshead had boen been emptied into three bariel banel which were placed on ill the 1 llad taken to the bank the cashier vai fauly struck dumb lie had calmi calculated on half it ii bushel of pennies at the outside liero liere were of them lie telephoned to mr ilardi blarrie 1 e uc lie dida t want the whole mint cant can liole that said mr Il arric you yon said take all you cowd get ct at one and one half per cint arc enitan so the barrels acie cie lolled into hito the bank and placed in a bade room aih was cleared of all furnita furn itoi no 0 tte alic thousands upon thousands of copp coppels vi i ere cre dumped on the tiled floor Counti counting nIg them was out of the question t nd iii was resorted reported to lle average number of pennies in a pound was and then the entire collection was weighed off on it was I 1 estimated that there were one limi amidi deed ed and two thousand hundred pennies denul 2 in the lot lol barrie 6 sal sauda adin I 1 a check for fifteen dollars aud alid benenty five cents as premium um then bank in in town was notified noti lied that it eoula i have all the pennies it s anted by bend ing over they all bit aud aia ube the bank managed to unload about t two o third ot its stock within a few horns bouis the shortage in the penny maibet wah ivah ie ic lieveld and there is now a superabundance of the copper ai ait icle |