The morning call., 1893-10-01

Their fingers go like lightning. They do
not move their lips nor lift their eyes. but
they rattle off the bills at the rate OF
hundred minute. Thsy have TO be women
of nerve. and if mistakes are mace they
are charged with Them After the notes
are Counted they are put into the iron van
aud carried over to tine treasury. whence
they are now being shipped all over the
country. At the treasury the notes are
counted as soon as they are received. ne
sheets are cut up and the money is sent
out in packages Of a hundred notes EACH.
Before starting il is safe to say that
greenback Is counted thirty times after 1t
has left the printer. and there Is no posi-
bic chance for fraud or theft.
Leaving the rls counting out these
national bank notes and handling fortunes
in an hour, l went down into the basement
of this great money factory and saw lot
of the cOstliest muSh the world has ever
known. Think of a pot Of mush worth
more than a million dollars. This IS what
L saw in the basement. 1t was steaming
and seething IN a e eat cylinder, ana IL
was made of cut-up greenbacks. All the
money that comes back to the treasury is
brought over to this place and cooked and
or und and steamed until 1t turns from
notes into PUPPY, pasty mixture for all
the world like oatmeal Cruel. The cooking
goes on every day, and from one to two
million dollars are ground up every twenty
fourhours. The money iScutin halves atthe
Treasury; Department. 1t 10 hauled: here
in the great steel van, and it takes 1000
pounds Of it to fill the mushDot 1t goes
in dirty and filthy with, the s0iling OF macy
hands. The chemicals and steam take all
the dirt and filth out of 1t and it comes out
gray and PUPPY. 1t is then nodded into
boards and looking for all the world like
hides or Entanned leather and is sold to
paper-mills. Some of it is made into little
images If the Washington monument.
raricatures of MIR. and Mrs. Cleveland.
and these are said for paper-weights or
souvenirs for sightseers. Each souvenir is
labeled with the amount of money which
is supposed to have been made from the
pulp from which IL is constructed. But
this. OF course, is all guesswork. Inc
same amount of pulp could make 100000
worth of notes or $1,000 worth OF notes..
according to the denomination printed on
the paper which il represented.
Claude M. johnson, the chief OF this
great Bureau Of Engraving and Printing,
is Kentuckian, but he has been connected
with the bureau for some time. he is,
judge. about 40 years Of age, and Is noted
for his business talent and his executive
ability. He has broadgauge IDEAS OF the
money question of this country, and during
my talk with him he said that he thought.
we would soon have more money than we
would know what TO do with. ''The ma
tional banks" said he, ."have greatly in
creased their circulation, and the money
which has been drawn out to be boarded
will be thrown back into the channels Of
trade as soon as confidence is restored.
This will be within less than two months,
and:it is safe to say that within that time
moro than $500 600, 600 will come TO the
banks from that source alone. In the
meantime the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing is ready to supply the country
any amount that Congress and the treas"
ury may authorize. Ali we want is the
proper authority and we will do the work."
FRANK q. CARPENTER.