The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-04-16
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Money Stories Cf the Queer"
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Money Stories cf flsc Queer"
Louisville Courier .-o1rnai.I
Meeting fdwin cushnnan, the COIN
terfcil aetector, ct Balncr's hotel, re-
Gently, a reporter as~cl him for few
points con- erning his business.
i.ow long have you been in your
tu.incss, where have YOU tcen. and
with whom have You had business"
was ask. d.
Il s:aric ont teaching how to detect
counterfeit; money in August. 1873. ]
ha len in twenty states. Indian ter
ritory, and Canada, and have registered
in nearly 1000 discre hotels. i:avo
taught the governors of four states.
state, county, and city oTcers, preach
ers, lawyers, doctors, editors, bankers,
and business men OF all kinds BY the
thousands have taught men OF nearly
I'll natiOla,it es except Chinese
~ ho are the Ucst Judges Of money!
They are not, rs most people sup
pose. hank tcllers The latter, have
found, are generally young men, who
start out in life with o good stock Of
self f-conceit Some of them get over it
in time, and are willing to learn all they
can, while others carry their conceit
with them to the grave, and, for aught
] know, into the next world. Telegraph
operators and dry goods men become
good Judges Of money. Some men are
natural-Dorn judges; others could never
become judges by any system of instruc-
tiOn nor BY any amount of experience.
While good judges of money are pl,nti-
ful, it IS only occasionally that you
meet an expert. An expert has to know
thousand things aIout money that 4
mere judge never dreamed Of. 7
How many different counterfcits
have been detected.
There arc ll6 counterfeit bank bills,
33 greenback and treasury notes, . silver
certificates, 1 compound interest notes,
nited States bonds. and gold and sill
ycr coins by the bushcl. Onc gold p.ecc
is SO fine that it was at first pronounced
genuine by the tn.tcd States mint at
Fan francisco. All denonlinat. IONS,
from 81 to $1,000, have been counter
feitcd. The largest number of any one
counterfeit was on the Traders bank OF
ChicayO-$2,V,OO ,OOO in IS bills. | have
found them in every town have Wis.
tied. The old s., $40 and so green
back cOunterfcits were round BY the
thousand. hicAmond, Ind, and rough.
keepsie, N. L., 80 had an immense
run.
Which are the finest!'
"A - bill on the merchants National
bank of New Bedford, Mass. q 500 bill
on the Pittsburg National Bank of Com
merce, the old so grcenLack. and q SIC
treasury note, series of lois. counter.
feitiDg in America has been reduced to
practical science and is the most
completely organized system o. ras.
cality on earth. Its members include
both sexes, all ages, classes and nation
alitics. The secret service is ut present
fine and enicient body of men who
have = competent chief, but the force il
too small for the work there is to do
Ii it were increased threefOld, there
would soon be i pe.crptibIe de -rease in
the manufacture and passing Of counter.
felt money. Counterfeit money fire.
quently passes current for years, but in
the end some one has TO lose it, and il
generally falls on those who are least
able to bear the loss"
Mr.. Cushman has IN his possession a
large amount of the queer" in notes
of all denominations, and coins from a
cent to $50 in value. Eesides thes he
has many bills and coins that would
make numismatists turn green with
envy some OF them rare IS gems, and
worth from ten to q hundred times their
face value. wildcat" bills, old state
and dcontinental money, and Confederate
money OF all sorts abound, and his col
lection is one that any man can study
| with increasing interest for hours.