The Obsidian Registry · File 047
Six Men. First Names Only. A Secret Train. They Designed Your Money.
The most powerful decisions in history were made by people pretending to go duck hunting.
Built on the real record of Jekyll Island and the Federal Reserve. Every documented fact is numbered and cited at the end. The rest, use your own judgment.
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Intake record
| Recovered from | Estate of a former steward of the Jekyll Island Club, Brunswick, Georgia |
|---|---|
| Contents | Steward's service ledger (November 1910), a bank passbook (1929 to 1933), a letter to a grandson |
| Finder | Grandson |
| Status | The ledger entries for November 22 to 30, 1910 are written in a different ink from the rest of the book. |
Cyrus Bell was nineteen in November 1910, a steward at the Jekyll Island Club. He served meals, carried luggage, laid fires, and kept the service ledger in which every meal, every bottle, and every request was written down by guest name. He was proud of that ledger. He had the neatest handwriting on the island.
The week before the guests arrived, the club manager called the staff together and gave them a rule he said came from the guests themselves.
NO LAST NAMES. NO QUESTIONS. NO MEMORY.
You served Mr. Nelson, Mr. Frank, Mr. Paul, Mr. Harry, Mr. Ben. You did not ask what they were working on. When they left, you forgot they had been there.
Cyrus was paid five dollars extra for that week. It was a great deal of money. He gave most of it to his mother.
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