Ebbitt House, April 27.
Everybody was delighted with what you left in Washington for the hospitals. Some of the jellies and wine (I found a whole box of it left without orders), and some shoes, I took over to Georgetown to Mrs. Russell, who was just out of all. Mother is going about the room indignant still at the Bank, and “expects to have every policeman in the city tapping her on the shoulder to know the facts of the case.” We try not to miss you, but yesterday was very like Sunday, much more quiet and Sabbath-like than when you were here; to-day we have had the bank excitement to keep us busy.
The “bank excitement” is the little incident recounted in the Evening Star as follows:
The man had just the right business manner, not too polite–stepped out without his hat as if he had left his desk to oblige a lady. He was thanked for his courtesy, and left “right sudden” with the funds. It was hardly fair in us to run Mother on this winding up of her triumphant career in Washington, which city, as she indignantly said, she “left, under the full recognition of several of the Metropolitan police!”A Cool Operation.–This morning, Mrs. C. W. Woolsey went to the Bank of the Metropolis to draw the money for two checks of a hundred dollars each. Unacquainted, apparently, with business of the sort, she stepped into the bank, and instead of applying at the counter, presented them to a person who was standing at a desk outside, and returned to her coach. This person presented the checks to the paying teller, who refused to pay because they lacked Mrs. Woolsey’s endorsement. He took a pen and went out to the coach and returned with the checks properly endorsed. They were paid, and the fellow made off with the money, leaving the lady minus.