The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-03-22
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
TO NJ siyEss MEN IN ALL BRANCHES OF TRADE.
An Invention That Should he III Every Busincs
House In This City--A Brief description OF the
National Cash Register, and Its Advantages, as
Explained by Those Who are Using II.

In a number OF the busiest establishments OF this
city customers may be somewhat surprised after
making purchase to see the salesman step to an
ornamental continuance, something between a type
writer and cabinet organ In appearance and press
one or keys in front. bell ls heard TO ring
sharply, and II the customer IL looking he will see
one or more MEAL tags, bearing in plain figures the
amount of his purchase, appear near the top OF the
machine, there to remain un,ll another key 10
pressed, when they fall again.
This is the National Cash Register, an American
invention which promises to work greater reyolu-
tlon In the methods OF cash sales than tho bcllpunch
did in the collection OF fares and less extensively
1t iocs not brand anybody suspected thief, for 1t
Is check on the employer well as HIS clerks, but
II gives TO the daily transactions OF 4 shop, even
down to the petlest, the same accurate record, un-
falling check, and daily balancing that belong to the
business OF a carefully conducted bank, and that
without interruptlng the course OF business but
rather Fastening 1t.
The machine Is made in simpler anu cheaper forms
for small dealers but In Its most complete shape 1t
includes a cash drawer, which opens only when
registering lever Is struck, surmouned by the regis
terlng apparatus above described, AT the same time
that the metal tag or tablet Is displayed, indicating
the amount which the clerk Is TO place in the drawer
as well to himself as TO the customer snd to ali OBJ.
Servers equally Important operations take place In
side. In the od-fashoned pattern, still useful for
some purposes, an impression Ia made upon moving
roll of paper, which can afterwards he detached and
preserved as record. In the new pattern, or "self-
adding" machines, by the revolution OF double sets Of
wheels, one showing the number OF revolutions OF the
other a few moments calculation at the end Of the
day Is ali that Is necessary to get at the exact
nj tn Ian In, Tho
eiit transactions can also be made by depostng
slips with the name of the customer which can be
carried to the books at the end OF the day. when
Is desired to pay bill out of the drawer the cipher
Key can be struck In order to open the drawer
without interfering In any way with the record Of
the Register, while the interior which reports the
business for the day week Is under the sole con.
troll OF the proprietor, and cannot be altered or
changed except by him. It Is an invention that
cannot fail to commend itself to any who may exam.
Inc 1t, and one we know that Is destined before long
to be In universal use.
1t is not claimed by the inventor and manufac-
turers that the register will at once make all busl-
ness men accurate to the penny aud all clerks
| strictly honest in handling money, but they claim
that their machine Is an immense Improvement over
| the Old method OF making marks on a paper or
merely counting up the cash that happens to be left
In the drawer at the close of business As soon as
1t Ia introduced there Is at once an effort naturally
| called forth to make the cash tally with the record
every day; the figures displayed make both Gus
| toner ana clerk more exact In paying and making
change: aud clerk disposed to he careless or dis
honest can he easily watched by his employer or
"spotter," even II he Is not detected and exposed
by the customers themselves.
An Improvement In business methods so important
as this Is OF deep interest to all business men, and
representative of this journal last week made maui
| rics among those who have the National Cash Reg
lister in use to learn what their experience has been
she reports in many were curious as well as
striking, AMI some Of them are given below:
MR. NJ. b. SCASLoH,
Billiards, Ala Ninth street,
TO number fquestions propounded by U.s. answered
with his usual promptness and pOliteness Is follows:
:" have had the Cash Register in my establishment
for about one year. and have no hesitation In pro-
nonncng 1t one of the greatest inventions OF the age
FOR the purpose for which 1t Ia intended. 1t makes
correct report OF my cash receipts daily, AMI saves
me much annoyance and trouble, when compared
with the old system of keeping cash and making
change from the old money-drawer In vogue until
this machine replaced it, 1t causes even n prOprie-
tor to be careful and accurate In his cash business
besides, 1t makes, am satisfied, q full and correct
return Of every dollar belonging to the proprietor
OF any establishment where 1t is used. don't think
| could do without 1t, and IL could not yet another
money could not buy my present machine. Usually
dont't touch any OF the thousand and one inven-
lions which business man Is harassed and ANNOYED
to buy, but the Cash Register is one of SO much
value and merit that cheerfully give Won NV ex.
perience with II, and know that any one who uses IL
would not do without it,