Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-25


ing-WhRtAsy Be seen In the MORN R.Fg
Ing. Fflt ~ LF4-t tE
B. F, Taylor, writing from Washington
thus picture of life where greebseks are i. %
made ~ --.--
The Treasury building is a walled, CITY
any morning, between eight and nine. if
yST ~, watch one entrance OF another. you
49, - - line OF men and women fling
m. Some in carriages, some n.
a.1ll.e s.-O ~ 9l1e On DOT dangling dinner
have missed out of daily life, and Who bsva
worn out their +eXcelloneies" are anon, o. s.'l
them; senators that were, Legislators that -..7
would be, smooth-faeed youth and grizzly
age pale, thin men in slippery black:
stout, ruddy fellows in fancy patterns:
meek-sysd matrOns and bright-eyed mai l1
dens. You wonder at the long procession, ..r
and you number it at five hundred, but it 4,
is host of two thousand strong. As the
clock tolls nine, the last girl Autters in ats
door Sad out of sight. You have been see ft,.
ing the working force, the rank and file of
the Department. The Secretary Of the aI
Treasury has stolen In without your know
ing it you have missed the most notable
man Of all. As the day wears on to ten. &
another strong tide begins to flow -i e.
Treasury ward and to pass on in at
open QoQfs- Men mat Out~Atlas Atlag.
with their couple Of worlds on each shoul.
der; rlsty-looking Colonels straight from
Wars horrid front; prominent citizens 7g
with immense phylacteries; rough-riders lr.
in cavalry jackets hour-glasses of blades, -
the chameleOns of fashion at whose coats
you cry, and what length of tail be-
hind = men with one eoat-slseve blue and
empty; soldiers swinging themselves !gi
slowly along between two crutehes; wo- .5r
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then a human butterfly.
By and by, you follow, and find your -i
self a spacious hall that conVerges like q
Y, SIS yeu look down it, but, aside from a .t
messenger Fastening with nOiseless step,
you see nobody. You wander trom hall to
hall, and beyond little group here and
there, talking vito bsted breath, still no cd
body What has become Of the Thousands
that Just entered before your eyes2 Are
they the retinues of the eight kings that
went BY in Macbeth's vision, and now all
melted into nothing2 And so you fall to 37
wondering at the solid heavens of stone
vaulting, and the stone stair-csses swung
up within them like spiral trail of gray
cloud ss = - 'i-.i
He then describes his decent into the hsolsI
lower portion of the building where the -i.
working force is employed. =
So, down the stone stairways into the
cool halls of the basement and among the
arches you go; by doors Sjar you would oi
like to set wide open; past rooms full of as Z
queer. noises; in sight Of rows of girls play -
ing upon strange Instruments beyond the
art of the Tubal5 and Jubsls Of old time
Sometimes grating, sometimes a solid l
door, is locked behind you; yon are getting q l7
into the rough regions Of q smithy; the s
temple Of money IS not at all what you
fancied, if this be it; two forges ara before
you the iron Of commerce is around
you; in the story of that beautiful
l. so, this is the "in the beginning" the 5at
very Genesis of a green back. Here ia.
many of the delicate and beautiful pieces
of mechanism are fashioned that have rem
dered the making Of a Treasury note tha tlo
finest of the fine arts. Imagine Vulcan .lsz
"blowing and striking in the place Of St
James; think of the Ionic columns and
marble halls and stately portieos, and here
| In the heart of the temple blacksmitRs
shopl 1t masT be queer assertion but it 1sf
is true one, that the government, which .f
I in its economy takes Robinson Cruso for
model, makes the boldest approach to
perfection whose needs create efforts, and -'f
who never encountered q want but 70 sup lgs
ply i. Nov, if ever 8 government played ials
the lCnely Islander, anywhere, it is in this Z. D.
making OF money. Within these walls,
every process is carried on, every manu-
/ fseture produced, necessary TO create from 5os
shred of linen and bar of steel, the Ia7d
most beautiful evidences of national
wealth and good faith in the world-a
truth strikingly Illustrated in the fact that
when you want to see money made, they I
begin by showing you hammer, and ai
forge and mass ef ugly iron. B. III. 9l. e.
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