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Updated: June 1, 2025
Lincoln when he was in New York, as my most active responsibility in regard to the meeting was in getting up an audience.... I remember in handing some weeks earlier to John Sherman, who, like Lincoln, had never before spoken in New York, five ten-dollar gold pieces, that he said he "had not expected his expenses to be paid."
Before allowing the stranger to enter the ferry, Gibson demanded the money, which was given to him under the shape of five ten-dollar notes, which he secured in his pocket, and then rowed with all his might.
It was a large front room to which the boy took her. The ten-dollar bill had proven effective. It was not a "fifty-cents-a-night" room. Some one some guest or kindly patron had put a small illuminated text upon the wall in a neat frame. It met her eye as she entered "Rejoice and be glad."
In a few moments the skipper tacked, having weathered the Head, and stood into the little bay west of it. "Don John," said Captain Shivernock, sharply, fixing his gaze upon the skipper. "Sir?" The captain took his wallet from his pocket. It was well filled with greenbacks, from which he took several ten-dollar bills five or six of them, at least. "I will pay you," said he.
If I was nicely dressed I might pass it, but when a chap like me offers a ten-dollar bill it's sure to be looked at sharply. I haven't a cent, and I'll trouble you to hand over all you've got." "Why don't you work for a living? You are a strong, able-bodied man." "You'll find I am if you give me any more of your palaver."
Think what a ten-dollar bill is to them! It represents all they crave: food, clothes, comfort, joy. It opens the gate of heaven to them; it is paradise, for a few hours at least. Why, they would mortgage their souls, they would trade their Maker, for a hundred dollars! The crime is not theirs, but the shallow creatures who once ruled the world, and permitted them to be brought to this state.
"I'll earn another ten-dollar bill before the one I get from Don Gordon is gone, you may depend upon it." With this assurance the boy kissed his mother and hurried out of the door, and Mrs. Evans, after clearing away the remnants of their frugal breakfast, also went out to begin her daily toil at the house of a neighbor.
They had a kind of pow-wow in his office a whole gang of district leaders and Obed he was one of 'em. Bradley went to git out the cigar-box, and 'twas empty, so he called in the boy that swept out and run errands for him, give the youngster a ten-dollar bill, and told him to go down to a terbacker store handy and buy another box.
"Of course, you know about Maggie Brown, who stops here. Well, she's worth $40,000,000. She lives in Jersey in a ten-dollar flat. She's always got more cash on hand than half a dozen business candidates for vice-president. I don't know whether she carries it in her stocking or not, but I know she's mighty popular down in the part of town where they worship the golden calf.
Also, he offered a five-dollar bill, which Li Choo refused to take. When he persisted, the Chinaman opened his loose blue jacket and showed a ten-dollar gold-piece on a string around his neck. "Mlissy Mazaline glive me that; it all plenty me," he said. "You want me come, I come. What you say do, I do. I say gloddam Mazaline!"
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