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Show Jj.l the clearing house! ss the cashlet never saw the contents of the clearing house letters and simply posted the totals of the letters on the cash book The general ledger and the genera1 were the cashier cash kept by Physical Endurance of Taft Is In order "to make the total amount ol deposit In the Individual ledger acre Extraordinary. amount shown bv the gen with thp era! ledger. Coleman resored to false debit entries (plugs! and tl-- reduc IS DUE TO HIS TEMPERAMENT tlon of balances when carrying for five rear1 Within ward accounts 2 the Mf N THE departmed' j Coleman looted the bank of more than j a Ions Is now serving service ho saving Washington "d $200,000 al Beautiful Lawn Party at the 'Whits a eak of term In the state prison. The dlree they sometimes House for International Red Cross of tty do reduction work the the holloed Jersey on tors nights - Delegates Plan of Comptrolltr coast," which, to casual listen-- ' posits In the bank, but attributed It er Murray to Check Uank not was defalcation The er, carries-n- o signifi. esjedal competition. Defalcations. cance. It la only fben one Ja discovered until the books were ex curious enough to probe behind amtned by the auditors of the Harvard the matter-of-fac- t Trust company, to which concern the gtltude of the By GEORGE CLINTON. out sell or dig Into to had directors agreed QffldVgli. department has Taft President Washlngum of the the camHenry M Hearing, cashier of the Al been through some strenuous of Albion, Mich coast bank cue obtains s National blon that patrol not made has He paigning this year. is a term In prison A search glimmer of what t$ls branch of only political addresses, hut ceitainly of serving cashier's desk, after the closing the government servlqt expects of 50 or more sjmeehes on occasions removed Its servants, and of the unemotional heroism leave disclosed of the hank, extraordinarIs an Mr. Tsft frotftfe"'loose leaf Individual and av that Is concealed In that casual phrase a ily big man physically, and yet the j depositors' ledgers earning cred nights work. strain of hard work does not seem to Itlngsbalances 41 $IHi317 From Washington, If you go dowqlnto the lifeaggregating other tell upon buu as It does upon a shortyou will saving stations along the Jersey men who carry much lens weight which of course represented Thl In eat h of an equal amount find the same casual Indifferent story of age tgthe his ihe asci of the friend piesldent In been Is now history had of Indifference which method one 'covering night a$ continued good condition to Ms buoy business that might lead to the belief thatjhe occasion In other words, his rogue since the hank began snt diapoMIloa. to thp examiner cashier mated was a trifle, were It not for the faf that In the The dura fttctid him temperament stands no difficulty at all In found of the old men of the arvlce its dehe that memories ing his hard work the directors The hill re tails are still vivid There have beeii one or two lawn deceiving were added by htm on an ndd It was the third of February, 1880 cplvtible parties at the White House ibis year, In-was checked tlie list were machine; rushing along the Atlantic coa. and before 1m spring season closes with the notes of the directors, but at off the Jersey shore, two or will be ,ou there probably no time, the rahfpr staled, did the of wind and weather, snow-ren- t si inure. At one party I he guexis of hon- director heck the total of the add As darkness settled the or were the visiting delegates to the t the general stations along the coasi Ing. machine list with international Hed Cross convention. ledger The assistant cashier statisd sea with foreboding In their hearts The pieidcnt and Mis. Taft, standing that the storm was at its height. practically all of the' manufactur under the trees on the south luwn of In the next twelve hours during It I'ontinuance customers' note owned by the Ing distinthe White House, received were forgeries hank the apprehensions of the Jersey itrol found guished guests from all .over the realization. Within those twelve hot n there were Years. Three for Not Balanced re had Just world The president five wrecks within the scope of fou consecutive Karl SlHnnaid, bookkeeper of a na turned from a week's campaigning ami while another disaster eng; pd a etation stations, tinder was to leave again at midnight, hut tiona! hunk at Tomona. Cal . a short distance beyond The men o he stations of the oil abstracting charge be stood the thiee hours' 'social siege" arrest rescued forty-threpersons, tolled lungry and as If he had been testing Instead of more than $150,000 of the funds of the half frozen In darkness and tempes .established working 1'hysUally, (he president of bank One of his methods It Is al a standard of bravery and fortitude t bit Is unique was that employed by Coleman the Hulled States is a wonder to that ordeal with (at offhand Items and sent through the of extracting the clearing part of mankind which gets a ih.une of personal risk which paracterizes carelessness from the morning mall before they to see him. of their calling were wen bv the cashier or others those one In the At , At the Red Cross Reception. Keeper Cities H. Valaul dcsirovmg all Heins in favor of an entine of Station morning Isf pleurisy. No. 4 lay gravely Tne lawn parties at tile While oil v In which he was Interest At 1 30 Surfman Van Hrunt, stagge ig Into the House aie the most picturesque sotial ed. uiinp.u of Of the fiftysix pngs Inactive It drift of the gale on the west patro .caught the events of the'ye.ir In Washington II la charged xveie itceouiiln, thirty-six- , red gleam of a light in the break i So fierce Is not ptobuble Him those who do not falsified lor a total of more than $!0U wa the wind, (IlUd with driven sa it and-aleactually view the at cue can rtnlire the Oil'l Not tor over three years had tn that hp could not look into its t ifli, but by extrooidimiry beauty t.f ihc grounds of active hiii! inactive ledgers been foot shielding his ejea and looking acre t it he saw House lit May and June ed and balanced on the same dav was the tlie outline of a large schooner. manv (tees, much shrubJ'berc T Vtiiobl, c, odder of the First C. of Babcock E. Somers he or '1olnt, a some in and a$ was on places profusion bery Vitio inl bunk of New Merlin, N Y, a bar close to shore. jowets A! the b it k is the house ifsell1, estlan of awaiting trial bemuse 4 gave the Van Brunt ran for the station is fine specimen of colonial architecr xteil tdiotlage of about $150000 in alarm. Derplte his illness, Keeper V ilmtine rose with while and Impressive, ture, pure tie dejKisit account' He Is charged each of Its gteat pillars adding a line w , j y, issuing .cert Men tea of deposit from hia bxd and In person led hb sew to the rescue. Baffled by the anow wk h lay thick of beauty. The day of the reception whieh be failed to register, or If registhe beaehhy the gale that t r seam In along Red Gross tered the entries were for a luwer OB the lawn given for the their faces, and' by the tntenae cold dilch fro people was perfect. The thermometer amount than the face of the eertlfi was st "0, and the sun was in a cloud- cate called fer, It Is understood thal ahot line and beach apparatus, tit tfe aaveri to get a liirAoard the less sky. The ladles all wore white, no one but Arnold was allowed to fought for two hour a while the men, or most of them? for It make any entries In the eertlflcaie of stranded vessel. At length they soceeded. and In the breeches hoy. He said man came ashore were official an was largely reception, deposit register, which Is wholly, in la$ hla wife JIa uniform, many of them being In the his handwriting and presents manv that the captain of the Babcock The breeches and two amall children on board. Latin-inert of the In picturesque garbs evidences of erasures and changes came waa and out sent th captain again buoy and Europe and It is said he concealed his ashore In figures anna. Is hla hla It, daughtf countries of thfe far east. work in several other wavs Hla wife followed. Then came the late with the Pretent at that reception, unknown Bill. Insect child. Last came the rest Of 4e crew. Quarantine other to most of (he guests and bearing her life savera went back to th station, and The New of Simmons Representative self with extreme diffidence, wav a In the early hour of the stormy daai were hastily of on committee th behalf York from who returned woman had Just t reMrted favor rearranging the apparatus when on of the men "hlna. She has been connected for on agriculture li.i-saw a large brig coming head oa hr the shore. fears with a school maintained by the ably a bill to enable the secre- Keeper Valentine had gone back toted, but once establish to of quar agriculture Protestant Episcopal church In the tary more he arose and Insisted on leading hla men heart of the flowery kingdom. When antine district for plant diseases ami , again to the scene of danger Insect pests and to regulate the itn ilvll war broke out In China reoentl Before the crew could get tbo and other stock of nursery and the Young Chinese started on purtatlon beach apparatus to the aurf, tbo trig, running tbetr crusade, the woman who was a plant products. Mr Simmons guvs furiously before the tremendous lea, her aalla T'til.t the laws our under that present guest at the White House reception terrific impact become a dumping split and tattered, struck with deft off her teaching In the college and ed Sta'ea ha was and the bri. the Augua-tln- a tide The very high, went into the Held as a volunteer Red ground for diseased ami Insect Infest from Havana, tanie up close to the etation Cross nurse. She had many hard ex- ed plants and well Inside the breakers. Jut before she I MR the if the Simmon passed periences, but wot as hard aa it was struck the life savers could see i man at the expected that she would have. China Knited States will be able to retaliate wheel, apparently steering composedly, hie face Her Austria Hungary. Frame, ordinarily is not considered thoroug- upon a pipe in hi teeth. emotionless, Turhly civilized, but even In the midst of many, Holland, Svvltzetlfind and When the shock came a tormt of frothing i the madness of civil strife it was key, all of which count ties absolutely seas broke over trte vessel s sters, covering the prohibit the entry from the Knited belmsan; but a moment later be faction of the found that ld be seen observed the Red t ioss reguia- - j State of all nursery stock ami m at the wheel, unmoved. Tbtn the brig standing mit Irult only whcnlhe most rigid o i tiona as Implicitly as would the conn-swung broadside to the fusillade tl thundering amlnatlnn shows freedom from in tries of the avest surf, and her crew fled forward totbtbltts. fcet.v loti By this time the life savera wertoa the beach To Stop Bank D:falcation. 4t said that if the Slnwnona bill mfrh their gun, while a crowd of nrae hundreds Comptroller of the IVrrency hud been made a law some years ago of persons watched from the shelterof the higher O Murray has Jnade a the hlsiorlc elms of ('ainbrldge. Mass dunes. The brig wns so close to shore that Surf-mamethods study of some of tlie nvlght still l.e standing. Including the Garrett White, following a (reeding eea by which banks occasionally are deis still standing but down the beach, succeeded in throwtt a heaving He has great elm, dwhich under which frauded by their employes George fcttck and line on board her 'ad ia almost j put had a number of aieclflc case of the Con command took This the crew secured, and haalel the whip-linWashington before him and as a result of bis inon board, but, getting the tallbiock, did not tinental army of the Revolution, it vestigations he thinks that such which was know what to do next In vain the Ufa savera beetle bark wa elm the una'e occurrences ss these and and shoutnd to them. They were Spanthe chief agent in the destruction of many that have preceded them may be the Washington elm and the other signaled and ish. the direction on the bfHet attached to national If ttie avoided in the future. This beetle the line were In Lallan and EnglUl Massachusetts of elms only... with his office banks will In from Europe unchallenged At thl moment the life savers vir filled with In the plan which he has Just suggest slipped no was quarThere crew of unmolested the horror. The and grounded brig, unable ed to them Thl is nothing more nor antine to keep the pest out and as a to solve the mystery of rlging the breecbea buoy, less than the simple device oTsendlng result bewere preparing to take a terrlbl risk. One of splendid old tree are now to hi office a carbon copy of the down to be used for flyw them seized the line and started the attempt of ing chopped by the examining wood. -- coming in on It hand over hand. ' commit I of directors of jeofthethe board which Meantime the wreck of the Babcock, a quarter, Fror Coma Pests Europe. tn state each bank report a mile up the beach, had broke up. and the of ftv the department authorities The Mack and white what the director of the vessel, together vitb bar caflgo all It fragment have up of agriculture figured think of their own bank. come to tha of cordwood, were being swept by have and carefully, office very assumed When Mr. Murray down about the Augustins, flliinj half of th tUrf with about 3,000. or between 30 and 40 per conclusion that more than and-far- m fruit tumbling debris which of Insured th cent of the national banks, had no by- Important insect pest who Ml into tL in a moment cropa'ure of foreign origin, and death of anyoneover laws and therefore made no provision which the asOora were prethe line, of whip a tax nearly occasion now now that they toy exsminlng committees. They a billion dollars annually. It has paring to come In. fouled In the wreckage-- Dis' all have half by suggested adopted -example, that the regarding the shouts to waittb lrt sailor, clad the comptroller and are-- fitted out been reckoned, forIntroduced Into this only In a pair of trousers, seized tht and bescale. Josa San examining with yegularly1-appointe- d subsegan working his wty in on tt hU(1 0rer hand and north China, from of country carbon When copies committees. Rushing waist deep into the breakers. Whit state In the tha reports are sent to the comptroller quently carried Into every seized orchard-letthe man. and a the brig rolled Inahore the cost .has already a study will be made of them which Union, and the line slackened he s!lppg 1 thl to from and adding 150,000,000, to the study will he supplementary sum at the rate of $5,000,000 a year, the sailors neck. made in the bank. In thin way It la The next second both were inthe that tha depositors, sad stock this Annual charge coming from and rush of wood and water and tortt8ht D the Une the of operations from spraying check expense double a have holders will terthe shrinkage In quantity and to be hurled beneath th breaker ' By against loss from defalcation and from hia footof the first yield. Another re- rific effort White succeeded la value inlng .forgery. and, still clutching the ullor draesed him cently Introduced foreign insect pest ing Some Specimen Cates. of the surf. out whose rat leaf weevil, alfalfa the which la Hera are some of th caaea While ot this struggle alfalfa taking regions two more )aC moved the comptroller of tha currency ages In the great sailors bad started down the bn from the brig. known. well so are Utah to act: Van Brunt sprang into th water to aid No quarantine law. however good, Surfman George W. Coleman, bookkeeper of can now was swept from hi fc but them, to propthe damage hli ufe hangrepair the National City bank of Cambridge. ing on a atraw in the deadly have " wrought, which these account of tumbling pests erty Mass., kept a small personal waa He timbers. carried dowahore a hundred be' safeguarded oa the Individual lodger. Ho would but the future canbill. rnemlly ,v, It t believed, yard, where bim op "kits" hla own check through a Bos- and thea Simmon toward aecompllab ton the bear At the reumeet Va way peril will go them long Brants ton curb broker and abstract In tble end. i from the mall aa they cams back, from JSc $, j 1 Hfe-savi- wind-swep- i 1 hand-to-han- 1 et, j i 'he-Whlt- e ie 1 d ea -- -- Chl-nee- e 1 Law-renc- e e un-fo- rt -- well-nig- h by-la- - s -- . j waa recognized by those on shore, Surfman Potter leaped to hts assistance, only to be himself unfooted and flung on to a floating mas of drift. Aa he lay there struggling to get to hi feet, the liue suddenly tautened in the current and falling aero hi breast held him pinioned under water. For fully a minute he lay there helpless in sight of his comrades and slowly drowning. At last, nearly dead', a wave washed him free. Meantime one of the two sailors was torn from his hold on the rope and washed ashore unconscious. Surfman Ferguson went for the other and brought him In. Surfman Lockwood rescued the fourth man. And so. one by one. In grim combat with the storm, the crew of the wrecked brig were rescued. Hours later she was boarded in the surfboat. In the cabin, lying In his bunk, a pistol bullet through his head, they found the captain. He had been part owner of the vessel, and when he had seen that she was lost, he had gone below, scrawled a note In Spanish saying he was ruined, and shot himself, While tlie men of Station No. 4 were battling at these two wrecks, those of Station No. 2 were rescuing seven men and the captains wife from schooner Stephen Harding. the three-masteWhile five miles off shore the Harding had "been In collision with the schooner Kate Newman, which bad gone down with all bands, save one man, who, as the vessels came together, leaped over tlie bulwarks of the Newman on to the deck of the Harding. At the same time Stations Nos. 11 and 12 were waging one of the grimmest and gamest fights against masterful odds tn the history of the service. This struggle waa at the wreck of the schooner George Taulane. The night before the big storm she waa off Naveslnk, running steadily In the growing wind. An hour found the snow shutting thick over the rim of the sea, and the gale Increased to a hurricane. It was two In the morning when the craft found" herself In distress. At that hour the deck load of lumber, piled high, broke loose. The terrific roll of the schoooner in the high sea sent huge timbers tumbling about her decks, making it almost impossible for the crew to stay above hatches. Twenty minutes later fire was discovered on board. Flames shot aft from the forecastle, igniting the deck load. With her progress somewhat arrested toward ahore by the dragging anchors, the Taulane began drifting parallel to the shore, getting In' close to It very slowly. At this time she was discovered by the life savers of Station No. 11. This crew, leaving beach apparatus behind and knowing that no lifeboat could live in the breakers, followed the craft as she drifted along the coast, calculating that she would ground near Station No. 12 and depending on that station for Apparatus. Shortly afterward the wreck was seen by Keeper Chadwick of Station 12. who ordered out his crew with beach cart and gun. beAt this time the vessel was about half-watween the two stations. On one side the crew of Station 11 were following her along the beach; on the other the crew of No. 12. were coming In to meet her. It was between nine and ten oclock when the two crew met. The horses that had started with the beach cart of the men from Station 12 had refused to ford the sluices between the-bl- lll and had been left behind, the men dragging tha cart themselves. The helpless Taulane was then still holding off the bar by her dragging anchor and still drifting along shore. The two crews now Joined forces In a strange and terrible battle The vessel was 400 yards off shore, her men In her rigging, the seas breaking and tumbling white all over her hull. Rut the waa still moving, steadily, surely, alongshore, ber keel free of tha sand. The life savera at once placed the surf gun and a Une which was fired fell across the Taulane out of reach of her shipwrecked crew. Be-'- " fore another could be fired tbe vessel ball drifted . southward out of Loading the gtm and apparatus mto the beach crews started after her car, the two alongshore, laboring manfully In the sand and flooded alulce to keep pace with the drift of the do this they were j vessel to leeward. In order to run. obliged to proceed at what was almost After twenty minutes of breathless work they were again opposite ber. tbe gun. was once more planted, and another shot fired. Af this portion of the beach the sand dune were low, and the only point of vantage from which fhe gun could be shot was the top of the knolls. The knoll on which the effort was made was tn an indentation In the shore, making it farther from the vessel, and, the line being wet and heavjr. It failed to reach the Taulane. Once more the crews of Stations 11 and 12 loaded the heavy beach cart and staggered on aftef!the fast drifting schooner. Aa the chase led to the south, tbe conditions on the beach, became worse. Tbe surf washed in higher, tbe alulces' became more numerous, and the dry sand-duntope further eeparated. The seat dry hiU waa 400 yarde farther on. , y g g e and the beach t Hat lay before it was well-nigimpassable. After twenty minutes of grim effort It was finally gained only to find that the vessel had passed it and was drifting on. Perhaps the best account of the remainder of the terrible march to its ultimate end is given In the report of the serxlce of 1880, which say of It: From first to last the difficulties of the life savers and the perils which beset them never slackened a moment. The wheels of the cart. In coast phrase, 'sanded down so rapidly that is. sank so quickly in the infiltrated soil that ihe conveyance had to be kept on the move lest it should be lost. Often the cart had to be partially unloaded and portions of the apparatus carried by the crews to lighten it sufficiently to make progress possible, and at other times the men would have to fling themselves upon the wheels and hold them with all their strength to prevent the cart ftom being capsized by the Inequalities of the submerged ground or the overwhelming Inburst of the sea rushing high over the axles. The escapes were numerous. It was with great diflicutly that the men could keep their feet In this constant onslaught and pelttng of drift-wooBut not a man fell away or flinched from the work before him "Not the least'difficult of their tasks was that of keeping the lines, and especially the guns and powder, dry In the universal drench around them, and it is difficult to understand how they contrived It; for, aside from the number of actual firings, wherever a momentary pause of the vessel as she grazed bottom, or a slowing of ber motion, offered an opportunity for action, at least a dozen times, and probably more, the' cart was hurriedly unloaded-- on the nearest eminence, the gun planted and the ehotdtne arranged tor' when the wreck would suddenly roll away upon her course, and the men would have to reload the cart and toll on again after her. In this way and with these Interruptions, they worked down along the beach to station No. 12 and a quarter of a mile beyond it, when a chance offered for another shot; but the line parted. The crew again moved stubbornly on. It waa now noon, and suddenly the man so long seen hanging In the rigging fell Into the sea and was gone. The crew still followed the vessel with unslackened activity. Half an hour later they saw another man drop lifeless from the ratlines. "Laboring forward now for the rescue of the remaining five, they suffered a misfortune. In staggering and floundering through one of the worst sluiceways with the cart, the gun toppled off into the flood and waa lost. A desperate search was made at once, and finally it was found In (our or five feet of water, fished UP anil wiped dry, and carried thenceforth by tbe stout keeper on hla shoulder. ' A man was dispatched back to No. 11 while the crew, moved on to for a dry shot-line- , of a mile below tbe staa point tion, where they got another chance to fire a shot, which, however, fell short, the tide having forced the firing party farther and farther back on tbe hills as they advanced, and the line, too, being weighted with moisture. The cart was again reloaded, and tbe march resumed. A mile below tbe station the man overtook them with the dry shot-Un- e and, chance offering, the last ahot was fired. This time It was a success! The line flew between the foremast and the and, the cut sweeping the bight of the line in to the side of the vessel, the' Fallons got hold of it and fastened it to the Tore and main rigging As the schooner still continued to drift and roll, nothing could yet be done, but while the greater pari of the force loaded up the cart and trudged on with It, three or four kept fast hold of the shore end of the shot-line- , and kept pace with the wreck In leash. At the end of another quarter of a mile the vessel suddenly struck the tide setting north, stopped, swung head Offshore and worked back to her anchors under the comb of the breakers. The time had come at last; and with Its arvurtenances, was bent the wblp-llnon to tbe shot-line- , hauled tboard, and made fast by the tail of the block to the mainmast bead. The wreck now slued around broadside to the ' sea and rolled frightfully. The hawser followed on board, and the breeches-buothe whlp-llnrigged on, but the,yessel rolled so that it jjss was up on shore ia the usual manner, so lt Vas rove through the bull's-ey-Jthe sand anchor, while aeveral men each foil held on to the end tegive and take of the vessel. .The. work of hauling the sailors from" the wreck was now begun with electric energy. After two men were landed, the vessel took the ground, but tbe circumstances Increased rather than diminished her rolling, and some con--: cqftiotf of this powerful motion may he derived from me fact that In one Instance the breeches roll buoy witlk n man in it swung in the fully fiBqcjreet In the air. "The strjin and friction upon the hawser were bull's-ey- e o great that the lignum-vltathrough which It ran at the despite the harness of the wivt worn fully half an Inch deep during 30 minutes of use. Within those 3$ minutes, however, the five men were safely landed, the last man getting out of the buoy st half-patwo." And so closes the story that which In the department st Washington. Is spoken of casually a "A night's work on the Jereey coast." d. ttoe-eff- ort, three-quarte- jib-sta- e y lmpossible.-to--eri4bw-bvi'8- n . e e sand-ancho- st ' A! |
