Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1895-05-23
UNCLE SANS
GREENDACE
How They are Made. and
Precautions are Taken
Prevent Counterfeit.
ing Them.
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sn~aafte posts OF tb-, ~
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man disputes the right Of the gOvsfn'
ment 10 maintain is monopoly Of the
business Of manufacturing paper mon
ey. In order TO outwit the counter
letters the greatest care |, necessary.
In the first place the peculiar paper
employed, which is made Of silk 6ber
aud has treads Of colored silk embed
ded in its surfaces, can only be made
under strictest supervisors Of the
agents Of the Treasury Department.
If q private individual should be found
in possession of even q small piece OF
unplin. g paper he would be liable to
twenty years imprisonment at bard
labor 10 addition TO the payment Of q
fine Of s., 900. The sheets are coun-
ted scores of times irorn the time that
they leave the paper mill at Spring
field, Mas, until they are ready for
circulation, and each person through
whose hands they pass gives a receipt
for the quantity received, and is held
strictly responsible for the safety Of
his charge.
10 the matter Of engraving, every
possible precavtion is taken to prevent
fraud, and the resources Of the art are
resorted to to produce designs which
can not be copied. Occasionally
workmen have been detected in the
practice of making duplicate plates,
one for the government and the other
for private use, but such practice has
been always most emphatically frown-
ed upon when discovered. The work
upon each bill is subdivided among 90
many employees at present that It IL
not thought possible for any work.
man to obtain an entire plate. When
the designs for the fronts and backs
OF the bills are decided upon, the work
for the different sections If divided
among the various engravers; for in
stance, one man will be given the por-
trait, another the border line, another
the lettering. aud still another tn.
scroll work. Each man, excepting
the one that does the scroll work, pa
.iently reproduces upon splate Of sof.
steel the part Of the designs given
him. The work is wholly hand H.
Dor, each dot and line being carefully
cut with sharp pointed chisels, OF
'gravers.
The scroll work is done with . ma
chine called "lathe." This machine
works upon the principle Of the pan
tagraph," which is used in copying
pictures. The design for the scroll N
made upon large scale and this il
followed by the end Of the long arm
of the lever. The short end of the
lever carries a cutting tool which re
produces the design in the prope,
scale upon the ordinary soft steel plate
When all OF the parts Of the design
are completed and turned in, they an
tempered or hardened and are thsr
passed beneath roller of soft steel
under great pressure. The design
are thus transferred to the roller, on,
at time, and joined together in thei
proper order. 30 that when completes
the roller will have the complete de
sign for one side of the bill, but every
cut in the line Of the original design
appears as projection, and wee versa
In other words the roller represent
an "intaglio" impression Of the design
This roller is in turn tempered ans
the hardest part of the work is accoD,
plished.
From this roller as many printinI
plates as may be desired can be made
The steel plates are first softene'
then passed beneath the ''iutsglio
roller, an then tempered. When ID
plate has been worn smooth it can b
, again softened and passed under tn
roller. Each plate prints four Hill
and frequently as many as eighty or
: hundred plates Of each denominatio
will be in use at the same time. Ro
! lers Of this character have been know
, to reproduce the designs upon {
many ss ten thousand plates bsfor
0 wearing out. The backs Of the bill
are printed in one operation in gree
ink, then after being dried. the tao
o are printed in black. Before lesvir
u the Bureau Of Engraving and Prin
ing the billa are numbered in blue 4
the upper a kht hand and lower II
hand corners. After reaching u
It Treasury building prpor hey recsi'
II, the final impression which is the n
seal Of the Treasury of the Unit
!. States, and are cut apart. Not uni
: the seal Is imprinted can they be us'
" a money.
Is The routine work of the plate .
. graver is 20 different from that Of d