Now They're Married.
San Francisco.*1 have loved your
dear eyes" ran a letter John Metz
ner dictated to his stenographer, Miss
Rivers. "Who's it going to?" she asked.
"Address it to yourself," said John.
Now they are married.
GARRY SILVER SAFELY
Trains Cross Continent Without
Loss of an Ounce.
Mint Director Revealed How War-Time
Shipments to India Were
Handled.
Washington.Now that the govern
ment has completed its war-time ship
ments to India of silver from melted
dollars, Director of the Mint Baker
has disclosed how thousands of tons
of the metal were hauled from the
Philadelphia mint to San Francisco in
special trains, guarded by armed men,
without loss 6f~an ounce and without
general knowledge of the procedure.
Eighteen of these treasure trains
made the trip across the continent ia
the 12 months ending last April 23,
with, the silver like big bricks piled
high in each of the five express cars
composing a special train.
Jwo men with automatic pistols at
their hips and sawed-off shotguns on
their laps sat In each car, and later
guarded the secret transfer of the
white bars from train to ship at San
Francisco.
Each silver brick weighed about 62
pounds and was worth $1,000, and each
train carried between $5,000,000 and
$10,000,000 of the bricks. Wrecking
of the trains and theft of the metal
by bandits was considered an ever
present menace to be guarded against.
Guarded shipments of silver dollars
also were made from the United States
treasury in Washington and from
the New Orleans subtreasury in Phila
delphia. These dollars traveled in
stout bags of 1,000 each and were
handled much like bags of sugar, ex
cept that armed men always were
near.
