Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-12-29
HOW MONEY Is MADE.
The Curious and Interesting History
OF Dollar.

W - OS''os
Brooklyn Eagle.
The fact that money is a subject Of
universal interest probably accounts
for the large number of visitors to the
bureau of engraving and printing at
Washington, where Uncle Sam prints
his promises to pay and the various
stamps required to be used on certain
articles. A stranger on short visit to
the capital will not fail to visit this
institution and trace the history of a
dollar from the time it is simplya sheet
of blank paper until he sees it bundled
up with lot of its fellows, ready to
be sent to the bank and paid out through
the pigeon hole of the paying teller.
TIE PAPER
on which our national securities are
printed is manufactured at present in
New England. The owners of the
mills that make it are the patentees of
what is called the "localized blue lber,"
which runs through the right hand
end of the United States notes, and on
the back of the bonds, etc. This pecu-
liar fiber is the great obstacle to the
counterfeiter. y government officer
receives the paper from the contractor,
counts it and holds it until it is needed
at Washington. Each paper.making
machine has an automatic register, by
which the mill owners account to the
government for every square inch of
paper they make, and the key of this
machine is held by government Of
llcer who watches the work. The pa
per, after it is made, is sent to the
treasury department at Washington,
and from there the superintendent of
the bureau of engraving and printing
orders it as he finds need. He gives a
receipt for the number of sheets he
takes, and the printer, who next re-
ceives the precious blank paper, gives
a receipt to the superintendent. And
now the paper is ready to receive its
first impression.
TIE EMPLOYEES.
The number employed in the bureau
at present is 900, twO.thirds of the
number being women. In the case of
the ladies who are engaged in examin-
ing, counting and cutting the money
and cumming the stamps, they are en-
plOyed directly by the government. In
the case of the printer it is different.
The printer, always man, is employed
by the government, and he hires such
female help as he needs. The printer
is paid by the piece work, and no mat
ter how little or how much he earns,
he must pay each of his female help
Sl.25 day. If he is sick and obliged
to be absent from business, the pay of
the girls goes on us though they work
ed at such times.
The department is divided into vari-
Gus divisions, the building being four
OIL five stories high, the workers in each
division attending to only one of the
many different processes through
which the bit of paper has TO pass be.
fore it comes out a Grip, full lledged
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printer and one or two girls. The
impressions are, of course, from steel
plates, the man mixing the plate, wip-
ing off the surplus ink, and the girls
putting the sheet on the plate and re-
moving it after the impression has
been made After the face of the bill
has been printed, the sheets are taken
to the drying room, where they remain
two or three DAYS to be dried Then
they are taken to another division,
where a second printer prints the red
seal upon each bill. Then it will be
taken to another division, cut up,
counted and put into the vaults, for
then il is money. The signature on
the bill is part of the regular impress
ion from the plate. After the red seal
has been printed on the face of the
note. it is printed on the reverse side.
Revenue stamps receive two impress.
ions but lager beer stamps are made
with one
THE SYSTEM OF RECEIPTS
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ana checkS upon carelesSheSS anu us
honesty is Simply perfect IN olugl 9: u
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