Connecticut western news., 1880-09-01
Making Money.
HOW THE GREENBACK IS PREPARED FOR
 CIRCULATION.

All paper money, said treasury of ficial, both legal tenders and national securities, are now engraved, printed and finished in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington. Some years ago, one-half the note was finished in New York by the Columbia Bank-note Company, but that has been done away with for some time. Under an act of Congress, building has just been con- pleted for the sole use of the bureau. Before moving into this they occupied 8 portion of the Treasury Department.
 The process of making the greenback and other Government securities is this: : The paper is first taken to the wetting division. There it is counted and damp ened. It is then delivered to the plate printers, each sheet being charged to them. They again count it in the pres ence of their assistant, who is lady, and give receipt therefor, the assist ant certifying that she witnessed the count The receipts are taken to the wetting division, where they are com- pared with the books before work is be- gun, and must agree. The paper is then given the first impression, which is on the back. This is done with 8 hand press. Attached to all of these presses are registers, which keep count of each sheet of paper as it passes through, so it is impossiblefort the printer osecrete any without being detected. The note then passes into the examining division, where 1t is counted while wet and then placed in drying box. When perfectly dry it is taken out and again counted, and the work examined by experts, all of whom are ladies. The sheets found defective in any way are cancelled, and the perfect ones placed in 8 hydraulic press, where an immense pressure is given them. When taken out they are perfectly smooth. They are then sent back to the wetting division, where they are again dampened
 They are then taken to the printing division, where they receive 8 second im- pression, which is the black part of the face, after which they are taken to the examining division, the dry box, the hy- draulic press, and back again to the wet ting 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 the examining-room, dried, pressed, counted, and examined, the same here they are sent to the numbering di- vision, where they receive the numbers that are seen on the upper right corner and left centre. Both legal tender and national bank notes are printed on sheets, and there are always four notes on each. After being numbered the legal-tender notes are taken to another room, where the margin is trimmed from the paper and the notes separated. This is all done by machinery. After being sep arated they are again counted and placed in packages of 1000 notes each. This is also done by ladies, who are experts. One lady, Mrs. Silver, will count 1000 | notes in five minutes. This IS the final count. They are then ready for deliv- cry to the parties authorized to receive them The national bank notes are not separated, but are sent.to the banks that issue them in sheets of four each, so that they may be the more readily signed. The rules governing the Bureau of En- graving and Printing are very strict. In fact, during working hours the employees are treated more like prisoners than they are like ladies or gentlemen. From 1000 to 1,500 persons are employed there, the ladies outnumbering the gentlemen con- siderably. -