New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-11

and VIII number ron 10 ''','''' ''i
tive numbering, q small hook IL attached 10 20
ratchet and the machine shifts itself Otherhse
tbe discs are turned by the number. NO TWO notes
If the same "letter" can have the same nuhber, 80
that a record Of the letter and "numDf Is sum
o,entto identity any note numbered by the machine.
That heavy, canking sound You hear resembling
tho claeking Of q mill or steamboat wheel comes
from The half-opened door leading TO this room.
messenger has lust entered with an immense bundle
of sheets hesh from The press Let us look H.
Something like repetition OF the scene N the up
stairs printing-room presents itself About thirty
gyls are employed in this room, and the noise they
MIKE With their machines is deafening. However
much disposed they may be to talk, they have GER
tanly no opportunity for it here, the noisy nature
of their duties completely deterriDg them from IN
dulging in this luxury during Office hours On the
basement floor and adjoining the Numbering room
are also located cylinder presses, and Bronnng ma
chimes. where the compound interest notes and
other issues requiring lronzed letters on their face,
are operated upon. This was formerly very dirty
and unhealthy process requiring great care On 'hc
part Of the operatives engaged IN the woik' pu'
new machines have been lately introduced 10 oDYi-
ste this difficulty. Before their Introduction the
bronze had 10 be applied TO the printed letter 10y
means of brush in the hands Of the operator. ms
bronze is used in powder and the small partc'cf,
in the process Of application, would fly oil and MI
the atmosphere, thus causing great injury TO mo
health Of the women engaged IN the work. ms
evil has been obyated 10 great extent by the ma
chine nov in use; but the girls still find it neces-
b.fr laade auf ugTtlnu OF
tho face IN unsghtly paper caps which give them
grotesque and not altogether pleasing appearance
II any of my female readers are ambitious to be-
come bronze statues let them apply at this room
and my word for il they viii be accommodated.
Our Note has now received ITS distinctive serial
number and 10 now ready for
THINKING. SEALING, AND CUTTING.
This was formerly done by hand aud Of course very
impcricc,ly and laboriously There were two things
sought to De- overcome in cutting by machinery-
the inequality OF the registry and the shrinkngo. IL
was desirable that the edges should be trimmed, so
they would wear well. Ii cut with a straight knife
they would be bcycled one way. As they are now
cut with circular knives running pinchngly, they
have All edge bcyeled both ways. The sheets are
registered in the center and the shrinkage between
the two edges As fast they are trimmed, the
sheets are taken 10 the sealing presses, Of which
there are fourteen worked entirely by girls. The
rcd figure known as the seal is imprinted upon
the note and it is then ready for the separator.
Tie notes Of the value Of one dollar and upward
are printed four on sheet One machine trims the
margins, and another separates them. The seps-
rating machine is all ingenious contrivanoe. II Sits
them very fast, and lays them with regularity in
box, each series of numbers separately. The notes
are ettcred A, b, G, and ID, and the numbers on
each are the same; therefore it is essential they
should be kept carefully apart. Each Of the boxes
that receives them has movable bottom.
when the cutting for The day first commences,
this bottom Is near the top OF the box, but as the
cutting progresses and the number of the bills In
creases rntchct lets the bottom drop the thickness
Of bill e. the box il kept just 50 full all the time,
20 make the bills slide in without doubling. II Is
intended that the cutting should be criterion by
which to judge Of the commences Of the bills, for
every one r1ust be OF ,hc came width and length.
We place the end Of bin on tho center Of another,
to test the process. You there is no difference
in the width, an eIao;ness which cannot be given
by the hand.
| The cuuency-cuttiHg machine is more comph-
Gated it cuts both way. and hcs them in bundles
Of five dollars each and ain Lot sure but it binds
and seals them.
Attached 10 both the Numbering, Sealing, and
Separating room. are Counting rooms, where each
days work Of each employee In the several rooms Is
counted and passed to the Office record II the
coun, taken when work stops at night does not
sgreo with that made in the morning when the
work is given out the whole force engaged in the
room in which the deficiency occurs IL required 10
remain in their respective places until the missing
sheet OF sheets Gre found. II not found the hands
are made to bear their proportional burden OF the
loss
The accuracy aud honesty with which the work
is conducted is amply proved by the fact that this
extreme measure has been resorted 10 but twice
since the printing Of the Government money was
commenced in the Department.
! We have now completed our tour OF inspection in
the Note Printing Bureau. The subject of making
nancy, though treated at some length is by no
means exhausted We may take occasion 20 revert
10 il again in this Series of Articles. As afordng
some idea OF the facilities possessed by the Govern
ment for the manufacture Of its enormous issues,
md 70 countcract too prevalent notion which has
got abroad in the country, and especially here in
New-York, that the Department at Washington is
unequal to the task of supplying the country with
money us ias, as il was needed.
Drouth ia England.
In cntna mort ions al kp,crica bur,n,y lba Sp,n.