The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-10

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il ring. The molders used a part of these
ingots to cast miniature Washington
monuments aSsouvenirs for the mem bers
of the committee, but the major part of il
was taken away to the metal room, where
it will be kept subject TO the order of the
Secretary of the Treasury. g'he smiths
say it is of little value for casting pur-
poses, because of its poor quality, but
some of it may be used in the casting of
parts of the great gun carriages.
The seventeen dry goods boxes, which
were designed for the "Cupola,n were
lifted on the strong elevator 10 the iron
platform where the covers were stove in
with axes and the contents hurled into
the interior of the furnace, already fired
up with pine wood and Lchigh coal
These were the boxes in which they had
been sent to the secret service in Wash
ington by express. and bore the inscrip-
tions which they originally had. One of
these was marked 10000 beer on the end,
while the address was THE Honora BILE
Secretary of the Treasury"
The contents of several consisted of
stereotype plates, which newspaper and
printing esta blishments in various parts
OF the country have contributed to swell
the collection of contraband articles The
most of these plates are for advertise
ments, forbidden because of likeliness to
coins Of the mint One plate consisted of
the likeness of a silver half dollar which
served as the head of stylish female of
slender proportions passing near a sign
advertising certain kind of hair dress
ing.
There were many circular plates of
mammoth dollars and half dollars, and
plates capable of printing on paper a
dozen dollars or half dollars in row at
one impression as well as in large squares.
Many of these were used for printing on
yellow paper, and are said. TO have been
the property of tobacco firms Indeed the
tobacco men appear to be guilty of sew
eral advertising devices that violate the
laws. Two large boxes of tobacco tags
with the impression in tin of a goddess of
liberty on a throne, with a staff in her
hand and naming somebody's silver quar-
ter tobacco, were poured down the hot
throat of the blast furnace.
VALUABLE ENGRAvERs' TOOLS DESTROYED.
| The boxes also contained afiarqe supply
of engaYers' tools, hard as diamond, and
valuable to the bureau of engraving and
printing, dies Of the finest Workmanship
| for all denominations and all the valuable
metals, and valuable outfits Of tools! A
number of pincers, compasses, hammers,
hatchets, files, spokeknives chisels, and
anyils were melted down. for the fact that
counterfeiter has been in possession of
|
| There were several articles proper to
wOman's domain also, and it was re-
marked by MIR. Gallon that there is gem
! orally woman in counterfeit case. A
! cake dish, curling iron, many pins and
| needless a dozen silver spoons, a bracelet
| with bangles, and other objects of female
adornment appeared as the boxes were
emptied, and went in to moke up the
curious alloy. "A large consignment of
l a n1ra hq 10. g,r
thousand or moro was one of the interest
ing features of the collection, the design
oil western business man, and objection
able because in the center of each there
was the fac-simile Of quarter Another
article out of the ordinary was an arts
tic ash receiver with q metal cigarette
resting on its side and two imitation IS
gold pieces in its center. There were also
two or three large boxes of copper clip
pings of the best Lake Superior grade,
from which an enemy of the currency of
the country had cut out from planchettes
circular pieces as halves or quarters or
dollars, which were stamped with a die
and electroplated TO represent genuine
silver coins. These were the productions
of the Chicago crook, and his large die,
which was worked with fly wheel, went
into the furnace with them.
COMPLETION OF THE Committees WORK
After the boxes were all emptied and
several bars of cast iron were added to
the pile inside the fiery caldron to hold
the heat the doors were closed, and a Me
kenzie blower, driven by an oscillating
engine, started the temperature IN To
$500 Fahrenheit, sufficient to melt the
hardest steel. There proved to be CON
siderable zinc in the material to be melted
down, for a white smoke issued from the
furnace while the temperature was com
paratlyely low that caused a sweet taste
in the back of the throat and made the
smiths SILVER with the thought of zinc
chills, which the smoke always produces
among the iron workers.
The completion of their work REQUIRED
that the committee should see the molten
metal run into bars, and il was drawn of
into ladies as fast as it melted and poured
into a big bed of POughkeepsie sand The
softer metal was the first to melt. and ran
out of the spout, which was closed at in
tervals with clay, and was alive with
swapping sparks Of steel that went I'd like
a thousand little skyrockets When the
last metal had been drawn out, after over
two hours Of melting, during which time
the furnace had been wrought up 10 "a
white heat, the signal was ri zen TO "drop
the bottom out" and the mass of red hot
coal fell upon tile sand with a hiss and vol
ume Of smoke like the falling of a wall of
the Knox building. The bars OF metal
all that remains Of the labors Of many
counterfeiters, will be sunk far out in the
Potomac or used for ballast in outgoing
vessels.