Show MONEY FOR C1TBANS Fortyeight Tons of Gold and Silver Coin Shipped Yesterday New York March nThe United States transport Meade saIled today for Havana passing out quarantine at 540 p m She has on board the 3000000 provided by the United States govern ment to pay thC Cuban troops Of the total amount half is In gold and half In silver There are 300OO 5 gold pieces and of the 1500000 silver 1 300000 Is in silver dollars 50000 in half dollars 50000 In quarters and the balance bal-ance In smaller coins The weIght of the metal is fortyeight tons Much Interest centered In the removal of the treasure from the subtreasurY A large crowd gathered and watched the proceedlpgs Captain Llttel ot the qualrtermasters denartment had charge of the detachment of soldiers from the forts in thIs neighborhood There were about fifty men each with a KragJorgensen and a full belt of cartridges They formed in line at the treasury building and the boxes and safes of cMn were passed out between them Half a dozen ordinary trucks were in readiness 1n the street and men dragged out the money on small hand trucks to the Pine street entrance of the building Half of the money was In Iron safes about a foot and a half high and weighing about a hundred pounds apiece All the money was got on the trucks I and eight men got on each truck They I stood on the safes or casks hoUn their rifles and the trucks were then driven through Broad street The treasure was taken to pIer East rIver where the General Ielgs of the government service was in w Unto Un-to receive It The soldiers agaIn formed In line and a dozen policemen stood at the gangplank gang-plank whIle the money was being placed aboard the 21eIgs There were over a hundred casks and safes in all The Meigs steamed over to Brooklyn where at pier 22 the coin was nlaced on the Meade Paymaster Carey accompanied by Major Rogers of the paymasters > office will have charge of the money and will turn the coin over to General Brooke who wlll supervise its payment to the Cuban soldiers |