The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1890-11-15

Tsississ & Tssss.
i TIE prsssman rubs the plate Arsl
With : roller saturated with lax. Then
he rubs on al the super6ous Ink wish
: RAG, and finally he polishes the plate
with bis bare and inky hand. When
It has been thus made ready be places
the plate under a roller, lays sheet Of
fresh paper upon It. gives twist to q
big iron wheel that communicates the
hand power, and plate aud paper pass
under the roller, the sheet coming out
with the faces Of four perfect notes
printed on It. Four notes are en-.
graved on each plate. you see. As fast
as the sheets are printed they nre laid
neatly In pile by the young woman
assistant. who puts sheet of brown
paper between each two sheets to keep
them from rubbing. This same per-
Torrance Is going on at more than 200
hand presses In the big room.
Revenue and custom stamps for
cigars. liquors aud all such things arc
printed by some of the presses on
blush green paper; but In money,
notes and certificates alone nm average
Of one and half million Of dollars Is
printed In this room daily. All OF
Uncle Sans paper cash Is manufac-
tured there. The printers have to be
such skilled men that they are paid
from e6 to % o day by the piece system.
After being printed on one side the
sheets are printed In like manner on
the other though not by the same men.
For safety sake no one person is al
lowed to make note entirely, and by
this and other checks stealing Is rem
dered impossible.
The sheets thus completed are taken
to an Office OF the big room, counted
aud but into wooden boxes on little
trucks. Then the boxes are wheeled
upon an elevator and conveyed by 1t to
the examining room below. In the
examing room they are taken and
counted by women. II their account
tallies with the count above stairs the
sheets are laid across racks arranged
in such q manner. stack shape, that
dozens of layers Of them can be placed
one of top Of the other. The rack
stacks are piled upon trucks. which
are run by small railway across the
floor into an oven bigger than an ordi-
nary sized room, built Of iron and
heated by steam pipes. There the
sheets are left until they are dry, when
they are taken out and again exam
ined, all defective ones being thrown
aside and charged up to the boss of the
printing department. He is allowed
q percentage OF 9 per cent of spoilage,
but II he exceeds that he must pay for
the labor lost. Next. the sheets are
placed between oiled pastebords and
put on an hydraulic press. which sub
jects them to pressure of $500
pounds to the square inch. This makes
them smooth. After this they 60 to
another room, where the sheets are
clipped and the notes numbered by
machines. Finally they are counted
again and deposited in the great vault.
which has sometimes had in it rs much
as a. OOO.0
Only the other day the vault keeper
sent over to tho Treasury little pack
age that you could have put comfort
ably into hand bag and carried away
as. 600. 900 in go, 900 GER
tifcates for legal tender notes. In
making such transportation of wealth
the sheets of money are put into
lock box and showed aboard
, huge chilled-steel safe on wheels.
which conveys the millions safely
through the streets. The upper part
of the big vault is lined with cup
boards. each one OF which bears the
name Of u State. The cupboards are
for the national bank notes
Of the various States. The notes and
reach the Treasury in sheets
of four-or, three in the case of the
bigger gold certificates are there
cut apart and stamped with the Treas
ary seal. When the Treasury wants
money 1t simply makes requisition
apon the vault keeper of the Bureau of
and Printing for whatever
{ needs. Authorities In the depart
mont say that the greatest difficulty
Dounterfeiters meet with in the imita-
ton Of United States money 10 found
In the peculiar paper used by the Gov
ornment, which has silk fbers rum
ming through It. You can pull these
silk fibers out Of one of Uncle Sans
notes without injuring 1t, but il you
split counterfeit In two you will lind
any silk fibers that may be in II sim
ply laid between the two films Of pa
per. and they will not pull out at all.
The making Of this paper Is Govern.
ment secret and Is conducted at Dali
ton. Mass, under the eye of Treasury