The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-27
MAKING MONEY.
How the Greenback is Prepared for
Circulation,
st. Louis Chronicle.

''t' A-SNlo SlFuuJCle,
"All paper money said treasury officer
in conversation with Chronicle reporter q
few days since, "both legal tenders and
national securities, are now engraved, printed
and finished in the bureau of engray.
ing and printing at Washington. Some
vars ago one half the note was finished in
New York by the Columbia Bank.note com.
psny, but that has been done away with for
some Time. Under an act of congress "A
| ouildlng mas Just been completed tor the
sole use OF the bureau. Before moving into
TINS they occupied portion of the treasury
department"
What about the process of making a.
greenback ?"
The process of making the greenback and
otner government securities is this: The pa
per Is first taken to the wettng division.
ihere 1t is counted and dampened. Its then
delivered to the plate printers each sheet be-
ing charged to them. They again count it in
the presence of their assistant. who is lady.
ana give receipt therefor, the assistant GER
tlfylng that she witnessed the count. The
receipts, are taken to the wetting division,
Where they are compared with the books be-
fore work is begun, and must agree. The
paper is then given the first impression.
which is on the back. This is done with a
hand press. Attached to all of these presses
are registers, which keep count of each sheet
OF paper as tpasses through, so is mpos-
slble for the printer to secrete any without
being detected. The note then passes into
the examining division, where it is counted
while wet and then placed in a driving boy,
when perfectly dry it is taken out and again
counted, and the work examined by experts.
all OF whom are ladies' The sheets found ee
tective in any way are cancelled, and the per-
feet ones placed in hydraulic press, where
an immense pressure is given them. When
taken out they are perfectly smooth. They
are then sent back to the wettine division
where they are again damponed."
What is the next step in their manufac.
tureY
swell, they are taken to the printing divi-
sion, whore they receive the sec md impres.
sion, which is t6e 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
inc third time to the state printing division,
Where the third impression is received, which
SA-S i"A So AVA SO'A ou tllc IhCb. AFTER tnlS
they are taken to the examining room, dried
pressed, counted and examined the same AS
on both previous occasions. From here they
are sent to the numbering division, where |
they receive the numbers that are seen on |
the upper right corner and left CEN
ter. Both legal tender and national
bank notes are printed on sheets, and |
there are'always four notes on each. AZ |
ter being numbered, the lega-tender notes
are taken to another room, where the margin
is trimmed from the paper and the notes sep.
arated. This is all done by machinery. After
being separated 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
i've minutes. This is the final count.
They are then ready tor de-
livery to the parties authorized to
receive them. The national bank notes are
lot separated, but are sent to the banks that
ssue them in sheets of four each, SO that thew
nay be the more readily signed. The rules
governing the bureau of engraving and
printing are very strict. In fact, during
Working hours the employees are treated more
ike prisoners than they arc like ladies or
gentlemen. From l,00O'to $500 persons are
Employed there, the ladies outnuu bering the
Gentlemen considerably"