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Show UNCLE SAM'S TREASURE WAGON More Than Four Billions of Dollars Have Been Carried In This Cart. Down in the sub-basement of tho old custom house, along with tho ash cans and rubbish barrojs, thcro stands n sturdy llttlo wagon which has carried in its day moro than $4,000,000,000 of Undo Sam's money. Wheu tho llttlo wngon was consigned con-signed to tho scrap heap some time ago Custodian Lawlor decided to pro-servo pro-servo It If hp could. "I've been hero for nearly twenty years," said Mr. Lawlor, "and It ain't within my memory when tho llttlo wngon failed to inako Its dally trip up Wall street to tho sub-treasury, and never a penny spilled. There's them that have boon hero thirty years and thq tale Is the same. I call that faithfulness faith-fulness and Undo Sam'll hnvo a hard time finding any other word for It. I guess. Anyway, I'm going to keep tho little wagon as long as ho'll let me." Tho wagon, as Its plcturo shows, still seems fit for duty. Its Joints aro rathor weak, though, and It lias been repaired so often that It was thought best to replace It. It carried tho money received as custom payments from tho custom house to tho nub-treasury nub-treasury at tho closo of business each day for more than thirty years. Now York Sun. |