The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-10
HOW DO THEY MAKE MONEY?

HOW DO THEY MAKE MONEY!
Harry and Nellie had come to visit
their grandfather who lived on Girard
avenue in Philadelphia, and like some
other little folks that we know. they
kept asking how things were made.
Their Aunt Helen had already taken
them to see the old Liberty Bell and the
animals in the Geological Gardens.
They had been on the marble roof of
Girard College, driven through the
| glens of Paramount Park, and danced
with delight at the Water Works. The
United States and private Navy Yards
had given unbounded delight and slim
ulated Harry's hands to attempt Il min
iature craft for Dwight's birthday, and
| its launching babe fair to rival the
| launch of the great iron-clad that they
saw glide so gracefully into the welcom-
ing tide.
And now the living question is: GLOW
do they make money!" Wee Dwight
says: May go, too?"
So here they stand on the marble
portico of the Mint. Nellie thinks the
| building looks like one of the pictures
of q Greek Temple in her mother
portfolio, while Dwight's first glimpse
of the great chimney with its foaming
volume of smoke calls forth: 81 see a
train"
Passing through the door they take
| seats in the large circular entrance hall.
| Very soon gentleman comes and
offers to show them what they want TO
see.
Passing the glass doors of the
Deposit Weighing-room, they see
''scales and scales and scales" with
men weighing old money and blocks,
which they are told to call "ingots I"
of gold, silver, nickel, copper and zinc.
In the Melting, Refining and Assaying
Rooms the heat, as they look into the
furnaces and see the pots of melting
! gold and silver as they sit on the CRATE,
with glowing coal all about them,
makes them draw back quickly, while
the bright light and darling sparks
from the dazzling liquid which is being
poured into the molds to form ingots
makes Dwight draw back and 'want to
90 home"
In the Rolling Room they see that the
ingots were made chisel-shaped at one
end, so that they would easily feed into
the rolling-mills. AS they are passing to
this room Harry spies the engine, which
their guide tells him runs the row of
stout, heavy rolling machines which
they see standing along the side of the
room.
The ingots are about half a foot long
and half an inch thick Those from
which dimes are to be made are an inch
wide, while those destined to form
| double eagles are two and one-half
! inches wide. An old man who has run
his mill for more than forty years takes
| two ingots and measures them so that
| Harry sees that they are OF the same
length. Then, after running one of them
| through the mill, he measures them
again, when the rolled ingot is seen to
be an inch longer. The next time the
strip is rolled it becomes considerable
| longer, but Harry can not watch this
strip until it becomes as thin as is want
ed, because if it were put directly from
! one machine into another it would break
To prevent this the strips have to be
sent away several times TO the "anneal-
! ing rooms" where the gold strips are
| heated red-hot in air-tight boxes, and
the silver strips in the open furnace,
and then cooled in water to make them
| SOU. ENeIg llLlc u Slrlp Is run through
rolling-mill it becomes heated and
hardened, and the machines become so
hot after running awhile that we do not
want to touch even their heavy frames.
The silver strips become thin enough
when they are rolled eight times, but
the gold strips have to be rolled, or, as
they say, 'broken down. ten times.
Then they are six feet long, and from
the gold strips fifty or sixty double
eagles can be cut. While Nellieis look.
ing at one of the machines she says:
'Aunty, did not think it was so late.
1t is half-past two o'clock"
'No," says the man at the machine,
''this dial face does not tell the time.
1t shows when we have set the mill to
roll the thickness that we want If it
were at -four, or five o'clock, as you
would say. the strips would be thinner,
and we can set each machine to run
any thickness. SO saying he sets She
mill and runs one of Aunt Helen S
cards through it, so that it crumbles to
dust like flour.
Harry thinks that the rolled strips