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78 coin is packed in bags, and the doors sealed with sealing wax, as shown in the illustration. Each bag contains exactly $5,000. The amount of gold coin in the Sub-treasury at present is about $72,000,000. In addition to this there are some $75,000,000 of gold certificates ready for issue.



If the "Father of our Country" could but step from his statue when it is unveiled a few months hence upon the steps of the Sub-treasury building, and take a tour through the premises, looking into the closets and cellars as in the days when he was about to remove the Presidential residence from Franklin Square to the Macomb Mansion on Broadway, and was