Show PLENTY OF SOLDIERS oil No Difficulty in Getting all Recruits Wanted THE CHINA QUOTA IS AMPLE l National Guard Hay be Needed to Garrison Seaport Towns Slow Progress Pro-gress in the Construction of Public Buildings Army Medical Authorities Authori-ties not Afraid of Yellow Fever Epidemic in CubaGovernment Vaults Contain More Gold Than Ever Before J Corrcsfrondonco < Tribune Washington July 25In spite of the statements so frequently printed of the I alleged hardships suffered by the American soldiers In Cuba and the Philippines to say nothing of the camps jn this country there appears to be no difficult whatever In securing all the recruits required Since the prospect of a scrap with China arose the recruiting re-cruiting officers in all the principal points throughout tho country report h that applications enlistment are pouring In It was supposed by the War department that as there Is a great demand for labor 2n all Industrial Indus-trial centers as well as in the farming regions great difficulty would be experienced ex-perienced getting together an army of 50000 addltlpnal men If the services of such a body should be deemed necessary nec-essary Jut the recruiting officers returns re-turns show that this fear Is unfounded and Ad1tGcn Corbin Is confident that there will be no lack of responses to a Presidential call for men should the events of then xt few weeks make such a call Imperative The prospect of a row In the East seems to be fading however and the belief is growing in official circles that the Chinese situation will be cleared without a general war In any event It Is no longer deemed probable that this country will be required to send more troops than are now available to tho Orient It is likely on the other hand that the services of State ml lltla will be required in all oC the seaboard sea-board garrisons to replace temporarily the regulars who have been or will be sent across the Pacific and several thousand of the New York State National Na-tional Guard will in all probability find their time fully occupied during the next few months In manning the fortifications around Manhattan and In caring for the posts along the Niagara frontier which are soon to be abandoned aban-doned by the men now preparing for the long Journey to join their comrades on the other side of the world e It Is more than two years now since Congress provided for the erection of something like sixtylIve public buildings build-ings In all sections of the country In every Instance enough money was appropriated ap-propriated for the purchase of a site and for beginning the work of construction con-struction In something more than half of the cases the sites have been purchased pur-chased paid for and titles passed to the United States But not In a single instance has one of the sixtyfive buildIngs build-Ings been constructed As many of the towns to be decorated with a Federal structure aro scarcely more than villages vil-lages the buildings to bu provided are limited In cost to 70000 Including the price of the ground Any ordinary business bus-iness man would not dream of requiring requir-ing to exceed six months to plan and build such a structure But the methods meth-ods of supervising architects office of-fice differ materially from those of the business man and as a consequence It will be years Instead months before be-fore the buildings authorized in 1898 are erected It Is said now that the cost of material has advanced so greatly since the bills were passed that it Is found to be impossible to put up proper buildings for the amounts authorized to be expended For this reason nothing noth-ing Is likely to be done until Congress shall have authorized Increased expenditures expen-ditures As there are so many places directly Interested It Is probable that a successful logrolling scheme will be carried through next winter In the meantime there will bo practically nothing done toward the construction of Federal buildings which have not a been aheady started In any part of tho United States I S 0 The authorities of the medical department de-partment bf the army arc not In tho k least alarmed because of the outbreak of yellow fever among the American troops still in Cuba It was expected that the disease which for a century has prevailed almost constantly on the I Island would continue to manifest itself for some time to come and the fact I U that some of the soldiers of the American Amer-ican army of occupation have fallen victims causes no surprise Thus far 0 the cases have boon of the milder type and there Is nothing like the mortality among the patients that there was during dur-ing a yellow fever outbreak a few years 0 ago Mpdern methods of sanitation have t reduced the danger of fatal results almost al-most to the minimum and the army surgeons are confident that as these methodH are extended and the pepple I of Cuba arc educated up to American Htandards of personal cleanUness yellow yel-low Jack will become less and less terrible ter-rible until at last It will be stamped out altogether When this hopedfor time arrives the gulf cities of the Ufilt ait cd States will have as little cause to i fear a yellow fever outbreak as have the cities of Boston or New 4 York today iI to-day 0 I S The Treasurer of tho United States reports that the vaults of the Government i l Govern-ment contain more gold today than gCY ever before since they were construct tir cd Upward of four hundred and fifty millions in gold coin and bullion are F stored away and in spite of the desultory t desul-tory shipment of the yellow metal to Europe and the smaller sums sent tot to-t the Philippines to pay the troops the 11i store is constantly growing This indicates In-dicates that the United States Is I at present upon an absolutely round basis and that the currency law Is satisfac 1 tory to the business community A few ic months ago gold coin was In almost LlIc constant circulation In the commercial t centers but because of the plcntitudo i of paper currcrtcy for commercial purposes pur-poses or for some other equally satisfactory satis-factory reason the gold has found Its way back Into the vaults and has been replaced by paper certificates and national na-tional bank notes But while American gold coin Is not soon In actual circulation circula-tion as much as It was a short limo ago there has been anotable Increase In the number of foreign coins which have found their way Into tho banks and exchange offices of this country 1 This fact 18 duo to the return of HO many volunteers and regulars from service In the Philippines In those islands almost anything in the way of a coin passeH current Hundreds of z the American soldiers brought back bII pockets full of these coins as souvenirs At first they retained them as curiosities 0 curiosi-ties or gave them away as souvenirs S But after the novelty had worn off or perhaps when the exnoldier had cx ImuHtcd his funds he dipped Into tho i curio bag rind the Indian Spanish Ja 4 pancsie and other foreign colp began to + 44 How out of his pocket and Into the till of the cigar dealer or thA wiloon kp Fe 4 Ji < I er It Is estimated by one of the foremost fore-most coin dealers here that half a million mil-lion foreign coins have found their way Into the United States as a result of the return of the American soldier boys from their service in the East a with one exception all foreign silver coins are accepted only at their bullion value In this country The exception Is the coinage of the dominion of Canada Cana-da In all the border towns and cities from Duluth to Boston the Canadian half I and quarter silver dollar pass as readily as American coins of like denomination de-nomination But in cities further south such as New York Philadelphia Baltimore Bal-timore and Washington they are accepted ac-cepted only at a discount of from 20 to 25 per cent The knowledge that the coinage of Canada can be purchased at a heavy discount in New York and sold at par In Buffalo has been put to good account during the past few years by one Individual who has made a small fortune out of hts knowledge Several years agothIs man found himself him-self without employment and with avery a-very small capital He had a friend stopping In New York who kicked rigorously rig-orously because the clerIc at the cigar stand at his hotel would allow him only 40 cents for a Canadian half dollar which he had dropped on the counter In payment for some cigars The New Yorker had an Inspiration Die offered to take all the Canadian money which the clerk had In exchange for American Ameri-can money at the rate of SO cents on the dollar ITe succeeded In getting about 10 worth and before night he had visled severn 1 other places and had invested all his capital about 100 dollars dol-lars in Canadian coin The next day his friend carried the Canadian coin to Buffalo and twentyfour hours afterward af-terward he had received his capital back with 20 per cent profit In the form of a bank draft That was the beginning be-ginning of a business which Is said to have netted Its originator something like 200000 in the past three or four years It Is still carried on and every week or two a big satchel full of silver Canadian coinage la carried to Buffalo or Detroit by this man or one of his clerks for he has several which has been bought in some of the Eastern East-ern cities at a heavy discount Everyone Every-one is satisfied with the transaction except the fellows who carry those coins back East and drop them into the tills at 20 per cent discount C A HAMILTON |