Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-24

man can leave the building. And right
aere it may be mentioned that no one is
allowed to leave the building until the
close of working hours, and not then
without a pass to show that the exami-
nation of the work of the day has been
completed and everything has been
found regular" 1t has sometimes
happened that an employee has been
seized with sudden sickness and had to
be taken home in the Government am
bulance. but that rarely happens. and
when it does proper precautions are
taken to see that the invalid has not
taken any of Uncle Sans paper
whether blank, or wholly or partly
printed.
The bills are generally printed fouron
a sheet. The presses are worked by
hand and require the attendance of n
printer and one or two girls. The i'm
pressions are. of course, from steel
plates. the man mixing the plate. wiping
off the surplus ink, and the girls putting
the sheet on the plate and removing II
after the impression has been made.
After the face OF the bill has been printed
the sheets are taken To the drying room
be dried. Then they are taken to an
other 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 it is money. The signature on the
bill is part of the regular impression
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 impressions. but
lager beer stamps are made with one.
The system of receipts and checks upon
carelessness and dishonesty is simply
perfect. In order to swindle the Gov
eminent in this direction there would
have to be collision through an almost
interminable line of employees, begin
ming with the mer who make the paper
and ending with the officer who receives
the packages of bills to put them in the
vaults. In fact. the sheets, whether
blank or partly or wholly printed, have
10 be receipted for by each and every
person through whose hands they pass.
The superintendent receipts for them
as he receives them from the Treasury.
the paper clerk as he receives them
from the superintendent, the printer as
he receives them from the paper clerk.
each superintendent OF division rs he
receives the sheet partly printed from
the printer, and each sub-superintend-
ent as he receives them in turn from
his superior, and so on up to
the time when the banks send in their
receipts for The dollars when Uncle Sam
has finally parted with them never
more to see them, until they come back
to another branch of the Treasury in
the shape of old and WORKOUT bills to
be burnt up in the furnace after being
replaced by new ones. Indeed. this
system of receipts is so earnestly
spoken of by the pleasant gentleman
who shows YOU round the building,
that at the moment YOU leave the place
you almost expect him to return you a
receipt for your precious person ere you
are permitted to depart. As soon rs a
printer has printed two hundred sheets
he sends them to the division where the
next process is to be gone through with.
There are four divisions in the building,
each managed by a superintendent. and
at the close of the day these superin-
tendents make their report in writing
to the chief of the bureau.
The drying-room, where the sheets
are taken to be dried after receiving an
impression. is heated at temperature
of $50 degrees. The sheets are wheeled
into the room on a sort of railroad
truck and put upon drying frames, and
there they remain long enough for them
to get dry and crisp. When all the
impressions have been made they 90
into the examining room where the
women examine them to see that there
are no defects in the work After this
they are pressed in a hydraulic press.
Then another set of men cut them: