The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-16
LOTS OF MONEY.
o.-s1 Families Who Run Private
SeFS- Miats.

no" lin circulation in the United
Sues s.9rs. 2, said a treasury agent yesterday 70
areporter. ,oI,a q cuess y was the
IN ..t,,+ NOT very much l should sup
reply ;.Isiny from the sharp lookout Uncle
pose 80. l--S "a keep for counterfeiters and
their agents. r.,;u +ho marx RI
81 S non and | believe round half
say e"f T,Tney would be nearer the truth,
million "a -t-----,nisbing statement made oy the
was .Le Ice man, who has been IN the
secr7- If hunting conIackers for the last
decade. 7 make nv estimated Well, to
- 7 know pretty nearly every
o7gIt t.rfaif note and coin there Is, ana
c3un1si +-o,isrably close notion of the number
nav ave. aud women-fOr women are oIten
u counterfeiters and showers
go in the business Take the last maui,
s';rs-ance. the one we maze the oIher
IN DAYTON, .. In JhaU one cdse We
uas a. s5i 95O in well-executed imitation OF
gov Sa,yH,v $40 silver certificate. Now,
tue !, 90 Known since April last, that this
we .t.arIarIv dangerous paper was being
pa in Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, and
sno'TI - Illinois. The execution of the
oou'N u EXCELLENT, so good that plenty of
~ ny. t,va nassed in and out of the national
49, without question. Now, how many
u e-tsr, are to-day in active circulation, 1T
VI ~ a,nrsa impossible for me to say, but
d VI If treasury officers buying, or rather
lending to buy, the S2l, $40 OF green
rrard.' il might as well have been a genuine
fsyyer and a genuine gambler from fltts-
- The matter-Of- fact way in which
A. v-iT of n I'm "a ~
49, into the transaction shows that IL was
No uncommon event with Them
..tIovg are these notes made? Well, the
frst difHculty the counterfeiter runs against
;SirtbsDauer. The government uses paper
i,b a necullar structural texture which
+be coniacker can't get. To overcome this
GfcnI,y he engraves a steel plate in imita-
tiar If fine paper texture, and from this
fsin-lv nriuts the texture, before anything
eIsa * done. Of course he must c0ntine his
operations to the series issued before con-
eress required the parallel silk threads run
hing through all treasury notes, for 1t is I'M
Dossible for him to get the threads in or even
TO make fair imitation OF them, although
both have been attempted.
The engraving is done In almost every
casa bv men who have worked for bank
note companies, or even the government,
and have gone wrong either from fast living
or inb7rn cussedness. One man usually
make all the plates, of which there must
be at least three and often more. 1t takes
about six months to get up the engraving
alone The milled vignetting around the
figures denominating the face value of the
note is the sticking point with every coun-
te!feit ever issued. This is done by costly
machinery IN the genuine note, aud as the
c0uuterfeiter must perforce do it by hand
the work is always more or less irregular
and blurred.
Nv nat IS the most extraordinary counter
felt know Of This one. "
The agent here produced,a ludicrously bad
imitation of 81 silver certificate. 1t surely
never could deceive anybody.
That" he said, was made by an old
shoemaker He made his plate on a piece
of marble tabletop. The engraving was
all done with an ordinary shoemaker's awI,
and considering the tool and material he
worked with, it is really a wonderful per-
formance You will notice the paper he
used. 1t is the very best that any counter
feiter ever got hold of and is an exact imi-
tation of that used in the series of which
this note purports to be.
The colners as a rule turn out better
stuff than the n0te-nakers. There is bogus
dollar in circulation which has kept coming
u the surface for some time, but we can't
even get clew to the men who make it.
1t Is OF the 70 ISSUE and as the counterfeits
go Is beautiful piece of work Now none
Of thosecoins is struck in die. The base
metal Of which they are made would not
stand the process. Therefore they must he
cast from a mold of some kind. Cast money
is usually blurred. 1t has not the clear. sharn
cutting Of the genuine coin. But
tnls dollar, as you see, is as sharp as the
real tnlng, rings well, feels good, and is
Wllhln very few grains of the correct
weight" 'A-o0O
From another source the reporter learned
more about this dangerous dollar. of which
many hundreds, and perhaps thousands are
III Cfcu-atlon IN Chicago In fact one
Aoitn Side sUreet-car conductor caught five
VI mem within two weeks which shows
tlat there must be good MANY of them
about "a 'nelii
Inc metal is composed of lead, glass and
lows: p 0o'0' 10 as 4ol-
Two blocks of bird's-oye manle ora
planedSmooth SO that their surfaces come in
T1 1o"Ju ever where when laid on the other
@ O,oChs are tnen steamed for a nuu
yer Oh hours until the wood becomes soft
ami pulpy. Then a clean silver dolIo OIL y
paced oetweea them and the whole rntfit
- screwed up tightly in a wise until the two
s DiooNS meet They are left in the wise for
o?nle Gays until dry. The dollar is tbar1
p,CAou ouI ana a perfect matrix of it is left
4 uh tue WOOD. A gutter" is cut. throuph
4 WWn4ch Une molten metal can flow and ofter
, mpPlTrg IL IN water the mold is ready for.
b.r IS nc maple Is so hard that great num-
To- u G GOlus may be cast from one matrix
tS Ta0 ~ 'ue lines begin to blur. As soon "a
Tie ,no1d 10 Gool enough it is thrown out of
q eo.+a " ~. lAVo a bucket of water. The
tsr u III pr roJectlng piece left by the gut-
8 : 10 Cul on and the "millingn on the edya
- completed by hand. The coin T $50 IsS
III now OF dark, dirty color not at oil
s LaG onver, Is put into an elecfro-nIatinr-
- 49, 9iiu gwen good coating of silver an5
LOT circulation. Aii0'o II is ready
zinc sOo nlckels, made of lead and tin or
3 60 are made in the sap,a - VI
n Of ,iit - nlcKeLpiated. There are thorso ~
81 Tb lo9o IN III circulation all over the country
|2 used f., ,oa u, n why plaster of Paris is NOT
III does M me molds is because the material
& wears 'o oC., give sharp enough cast. some
M caught 1oal. a OiacKsmith in the east was
NJ was to 'bl' aat 20 cent pieces His plan
# WI, W neat two pieces of har ;,.or PC
~ 1ce neat and, after placing tha cai in ~
G9n Vnem, to strike the bar with sod %
q w. 80, -" . niin very durable mold b,1+ -
"a east in i. cry sharp, and, besides. tha coin
q ine sr+;oi. " aS Urlne smaller than tha CAM
terf iii nd ','eo tne business of making conn
+ k2,O10 feos requires capital of at Iaaa.
ale reo,i;.a ma Ierlal, press, etc. whila the
rintirg al, ca 10 engrave the plates. do the
81 bccounf9 u other work must be taken in4o
4 rsckono5 ie 5l the cost of the spurious noto
lheir product 70 a., he makers" turn over