The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-03
now TIE eREEyBACK IS MADE.

The following appears in the It. LOUIS 4
Chronicle. ''-All paper money, Said a f.
Treasury official, in conversation with a 1
Chronicle reporter q few days since, I
s.both legal tenders and national secur- I
tiles. are now engraved printed, ana nm (
isbed in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing at Washington. some years
AGO. one half the note was finished in
New York bv lie Columbia Bank Note
Company. but that has been done away
with for some time. Under an act OF
Congress, a building has Just been COM
pIetcd for the sole use of the bureau.
Before moving into this they occupied
a portion of the Treasury Department"
''What about the process of making a
greenback p
The process of make the greenback
and other Government securities Is this:
The paper is first taken into the wettlnE
division. There it is counted and damp
ed 1t is then delivered TO the plate
printers. each sheet being charged to
them. They again count il in the pre-
sCnce Of their assistant. who is a lady,
and give a receipt therefor. the assistant
certifying that she witnessed the count.
The receipts are taken to the Wetting dI-
vision, where they are compared with
the books before work is begun. ard
must agree The paper IS then given
the first impression, which IS on the
back This is done with a hand-pTess.
Attached to all of these presses are re-
gisters, which Keep count of each sheet
of paper as it passes through 50 it IS
impossible for the printer to secrete any
without being detected. The note then
passes into the examining division,
where it is counted. and the work eX
amiued by experts, all of whom are Ia
dies The sheets found defective in any
way are cancelled. and the perfect ones
placed in a hydraulic press, where an
immense pressure is given them. When
taken out they are perfectly smooth.
They are then sent back to the swetting
division, where they are again damDen-
ed. g"
'.What is the next step in their-man-
ufacture -
'.Weu, they are taken to the printing
division. where they receive the second
impression, which is the black part of
the face. after which they are taken TO
the examining division. the dry box, the
hydraulic press. and back again TO the
wetting division, the same as at first.
They are taken from here the third time
to the state printing division. where the
third impression is received. which is
the large red seal on the face. After
this they are taken to be examined, the
same as on DOLn previous OCCASIONS.
From here they are sent to the number.
ing division, where they receive the
numbers that are seen on the upper right
corner and left centre. Both legal ten.
ders and national bank notes are printed
on sheets, and there are always foUl
notes on each, After being numbered
the legal-teuder notes are taken to an
other room, where the margin is trim.
med from the paper and the notes separ
ated. This Is all done by machinery
After being separated they are again
counted and placed in packages Of one
thousand notes each. This is also don,
10y ladies' who are experts. One lady,
Mrs. Silver. will count a thousand note
in five minutes. This is the final count
They are then ready for delivery to th
parties authorized TO receive them. Tn
national banks notes are not separated
but are sent TO the banks that issue then
in sheets Of four each, so that they ma
be more readily signed. The rules gov
erniug the Bureau Of Engraving anu
Printing are very strict. In fact, dur
iug working hours the employees ar
treated more like prisoners than the
are ladies or gentlemen. From on
thousand to fifteen hundred persons al
employed there, the ladies Outnumbel
ing the gentlemen considerably"