The Penn's Grove record., 1891-10-16
WHERE BANK NOTES AXE MApE.
M r. Q. CALHOUN.

III all DLAQS8 IA v 2nAA VIM hA0 Au-
reau of Endraving and Printing is the
most attractive to strangers. Perhaps
the moss remarkable thing about the
place is the ease with which access is
had to the building. Visitors enter
without being challenged, and are
shown through without being watched.
II looks as If there was nothing TO
prevent any one from pocketing two
or three million dollars, and when the
visitor is ushered out by the polite
oulde, he 9 ally leaves with the idea
That Uncle Sam is very careless indeed.
But he isn't. The visitor Is watched
from the moment he sets his foot in
The building, and if the guide did not
accompany him to the door, the visitor
could not get ont withouta written pass.
The visitor is q prisoner, and il he
touches q plate or note he win surely
regret 1t.
All the employees, without excep-
ton, are prisoners during the day,
having NO freedom to leave the build
ing until they have rendered q full &C.
count OF all that has been placed in
their keeping by the superior.
In the corridor at the main door,
where the watchmen sit silently all dav,
there is q metal plate set in q frame in
the wall. In this late there are twelve
little round holes, one under another.
Each hole is labeled with q name, as
wettlng-room, mess-room, vault, and
so forth. Each hole represents one de-
partment OF the bureau, and as long rs
the hole remains empsy the watchmen
will permit no one from that depart
ment to leave the building unless he
has a special permit.
When the force Of one department
are through work for the day, and all
have rendered their accounts straight,
| the superintendent in charge of that
| branch marches down at the head of
the whole force, and, while they wait,
places a little straight key, with q but
ton al the end eff it, into the hole desig-
mated as his diSsIsion. Then there is o
loud ringing of an electric gong that
sounds throughout the building, and
the watchmen seeing the key in the
hole, permit the men to pass ont
This is repeated as the days work OF
each division is done. The last key to
be put up is that Of the custodian OF
the vault where the plates are kept.
and when it is there the building is
! supposed to be empty exceps OF watch
men. Any enc found in the building
after that would have to remain there
| until there was an order from the prop
/ er authority to let him out
The closing scene at the end Of the
day in this great money factory is in
teresting. In the morning each mai
and each has been given tn
proper assignment Of work. The wo
men are the counters, testers, wetterl
aud helps to the presemen.
Each employee taking the materia
for work, whether it is paper or plates
gives a receipt for it to the custodian
No one ever gives anything to any on
else without . receipt. :.
The paper IN which the money il
printed is counted as so much money
and every time it changes hands mus
be counted and receipted for. Eve
the girls who act as helpers, and carr.
the paper from the wetting-room, hav
to count it for their own protection
and give a receipt to clear from respol
sibility the superintendent OF tha
room.
At the end Of the day. each must re
turn in one form or another all that hi
receipts show him to have had durin
the day, and until he has o Chez
showing that this has been done b
cannot leave the room.
When the paper and the notes an
Stamps have all been turned in b
those working on them, they are take
to the custodian Of the vault, in who's
presence everything il counted an
checked of. Every scrap Of paper
blank or otherwise, which was give
out in the morning must be returned
This being done. the custodian Pu'
it all IN the vault.
Then the keeper Of the inner doc
of the vault must pull that door !
without as much as putting his loot Il
side the vault, and, while ther rest stan
apart from him, SO as not to see Il
combination, must lock it securely.
1 The custodian of the vault then iocl
!. the outer door, which is provided wit
q time lock, so that, being once 10
!, tened, it cannot be opened before tn
next day at the hour set.
This being done, the custodian al
his assistants are free to go after u
key has been put in the board q u
main door.
:. Then all the plates which have bet
. in use, and all those which are IN pr
cess OF engraving, and all rolls 81
parts of plates, have TO be returned
the custodian Of the plate vault.
No man can leave the room uni
y every bit Of engraved metal has be-
returned to the custodian. II one
these plates should be missing, not
y soul would be permitted to leave u
building until it was found.
1t is almost impossible for snythli
i, to go astray, as nothing changes hand
= even for a moment, without the chan
y being made o. record- Each man tax
sole responsibility for whatever ne
charged with.
FLOWER NOTES.