Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-11-28
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salary.
HOW BURNED MONEY IS REDEEMED.
Way over in one corner of this division
and out of sight of the ordinary visitor.
sits white haired, pleasant faced, elderly
lady, who, as we approach, turns to greet
us with pleasant good morning" She
is Mrs. Brown, and to her is turned
over all the burnt and destroyed
money coming into the Office. With the
aid Of large magnifying class Mrs. Brown
with her years of experience Is able to
figure out money burned to crisp or
chewed to pulp by a mischievious mouse,
and many are the interesting stories she
can relate, which for want of space We
must withhold from our readers until q
future day.
DIVISION OF ISSUE.
Tempus fugit and We must hasten seross
the hall to the division of issue and leave
behind US the soiled and filthy lucre to see
how the new crisp United States notes are
issued. These notes are printed at the
bureau of printing and engraving, and are
sent to this division in sheets of four bills
each, and of various denominations. These
sheets of bills as they come over are count
ed by two women, and If found to CORES
pond with the report from the bureau, they
are sent into the next room where the little
red seal In the lower right hand corner Is
put on by printing presses, which register
every impression of the seal, which must
be accounted for.
They are then returned to the room from
which they came, where the sheets are
separated into single bills.
These are turned over to five more fe-
male clerks. who are rapid and expert
counters, and the bills counted into pack
ages of 100 bills each. When each counter
has counted forty packages of 100 bills
each they are taken over to man who oc-
cupies little steel cage at the end of the
room, and who binds them together and
seals them up.
In this division nearly 100, 900 bills of all
denominations, bearing Treasurer Morgan'a
signature are now completed daily, ready
for circulation. Here, also, the gold and
silver is counted for redemption.
THE MAscERAToR.
To the basement We next descend to view
! the big churn-hke mascerstor, where the
| national bank notes are destroyed.
Every day at one o'clock three men ap.
pear at the mascerator; one represents the
secretary, one the treasurer, and one tbs
registrar of the treasury. Each one Of
| these men possess a key to one of the thres
| different psdlocks on the lid of the mas
cerator and together they open 1t and pu
into it from $500, 900 to $500, goo to be de
stroyed.
| The maecerator is then locked and thu
machinery set in motion, which sets 15t
knives revolving in water, and the bills ART
thus ground to a pulp. Every six day.
these some men appear and unlock thu
other three pajlocks, and the destroyed
money in the form of pulp is pumped on
and sold to paper manufacturers at $40 {
| ton.
Our next trip is to the vaults, the larges
in the world being the silver vault, 1915
feet and 10 feet high. This vault contain
101, 1850, 900 silver dollars, and is open tt
visitors. The other vaults. of which ther
are seven, contain 500, 333, 900, and AT
not open to visitors. The total weight o
all the coin in the treasury is about 5 ,00
tons. Having seen the treasury we re
turned to the Office, and I left after beip
cordially informed by Treasurer Morga
that visitors were always welcome betweal
II and 10 and 1 and 2 O'Clock daily.
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