[A single sheet of foolscap, folded in quarters, kept in a manila envelope at the bottom of H. Loomis's clothes-press drawer at his rooming house, 38 Holland Street. Envelope endorsed in his own pencil: "DO NOT DISCARD — for my own clarity only." The sheet itself bears no heading other than the account name. Pencil throughout, ruled by hand. Compiled, by internal evidence, between January and the late summer of 1922. Loomis left Hume Shipping for a clerk's position at the Erie & Genesee in Rochester in November 1923; the envelope was retained among his papers and surfaced when his sister cleared his rooms after his death in 1947.]
``` GENERAL ACCOUNT No. 3 — H.S.Co. Standing disbursements identifiable to date — for my own records only. H.L., 1922.
(monthly recurring schedule — General Account No. 3) ================================================================= ITEM | MO. AMOUNT | METHOD | INSTRUCTED BY
"Thompson, Mrs. L." | $90.00 | check | E.H. personal — Pension Ledger, 1921. Audit clerk-1922 #08. — P.O. Box 3118, Buffalo, N.Y. — P.O. box rental ($8/yr., Misc. Exp.) drawn off the same fund (see foot of schedule).
"Hume personal — H.H." | $1,100.00 | cash | E.H. personal — Form PC-14. Eleven hundred-dollar bills. — Delivered, standing monthly, to Hume House, Vanderlin Row. Sgt. F. Byrnes, H.P., carrier. — Receipt destroyed at month-end per office instr. (The slip of 3 May 1922 was mis-filed at the counter into the May Office Supplies folder. I have not returned it to its proper place. If it is found there it is not by my hand.)
"Gang M. — bonus" | ~$240 | cash, wkly | E.H. weekly countersig. — Stevedore Payroll, Gang M., 1920 vol. onwards. — Apportioned by foreman D. Morrissey at the quay, Friday evenings. — Bonus column began Wk. 30, 1920 (week ending 24 July, six months after the constitutional provisions). No equivalent column for any other stevedore gang at Quay 3 or at any other quay.
P.O. Box 3118 rental | $0.67 | check | Misc. Exp., standing. ================================================================= Monthly subtotal identifiable : $1,430.67 Annualized : ~$17,170
Sources of credit to G.A. No. 3 — to be traced. — Not freight (Genl. No. 1). — Not coal account (Genl. No. 2). — Inflows present as round-figure cash deposits, on irregular dates, with no narration, brought to the teller's counter by Mr. Hume himself. — Erie Trust, Port Hume Branch. Deposit-slip stubs in the bank's 1921 binder, examined by me during the routine reconciliation of 14 Jan 1922. — The sums do not tie to any company income I am able to identify. ```
(in pencil, at the foot of the sheet, underlined twice:)
The arrangement is set by Mr. Hume. The arrangement is countersigned by Mr. Hume. The arrangement is reconciled by Mr. Hume. No clerk in this firm has standing to ask Mr. Hume about Mr. Hume.
— H.L.
(in a softer pencil, at the upper right of the sheet, undated, in the same hand:)
If this is found among my papers — I never spoke of any of it. I drew the schedule up to know what I was filing. Mr. Standard would have asked me to leave the firm.
— H.L.