The evening times., 1896-07-25
DOLLAR alLIs IN DEMAND
Run onrfhc Treasury for a
New Series Note.
FINE VIEW. .0F WASHINGTON
The Design shows the City In Birds
eye Looking From the Monument
TowaBd the Capitol Banks Asking
for n supply and Some willing to
Give Gold In Exchange.

AiShoo.g oPAubt
sensation on the country in the issue OF
n new one-iollar silver certificate. The
bill has proved very popular. and de-
mands for il have cctne in fIom banks
IN all parts Of the country.
The Treasury officials have been ohl:g-
ed To put limit on the amount chat Will
be issued for the present TO any one bank,
and the figure fixed is $500.
At the same time there has been a sort
of local run on the Treasury to get the
new note, and in self-defense Mr.. Frank
, Forsythe has been obliged to decline to
pay them out except when convenient.
There has been every DAY Since Thursday,
when the notes first cane out, a string uf
applicants for them, like that at the hox
office OF a Popular pia y-house, and somt 4.
times the lite has reached the Treasury
entrance and overfiowed into the space at
the north entrance. For three weeks per
SONS whose friends in the Treasury have
mentioned to them the prospective issue,
have been writing with enclosures of cash
asking for an exchange.
GOLD OFFERED FOR THEM.
Some OF the BANKS have offered gold for
the new notes, and these have always been
70 elit III
In all about $4,000 of the notes have
been drawn out here n Washington, while
some $4,000 has gone TO the country at
large. over S25, 900 wds sent away yes
| terday.
Ii Is only a question of short time when
! there will be plenty to supply every call for
! the new bill At present banks asking for
| over $500 receive the xcess in the old series
! of notes.
This note is the first ofa new series which
VIII he isseed as fast as the designs are
completed t'y the cngraver and approved by
the Secretary of the Treasury! Theouly rea-
son which could be learned at the Treasury
Department for the change OF the esi5ns
was that Mr.. Claude Jouston, chief OF the
Bureau OF Engraving and Printing, had
decidedthatsuclia change would bel pleasing s
7 IL the People Of the country, and lie had
therefore engaged Mr.. VIII III. Low of Ne "
York, who made tie dra wings.
The new bills are considered very pretty
and appropriate by the Treasury Officials,
whil. considered from an artistic stand
point, the work is deserving of the highest
praise. For the face black ink has been
used, which gives it a darker appea rance
than usually seen in currency.
The design represents Youth standing he
side the reclining figure or History, which
occupies the left side OF the bill, while a
birds eye view of Washington, to which
the figure of the woman is pointing, occu-
pics the right.
WashingtonIans will be pleased to have
the beauty OF the city spread in steel en-
craving and sent broadcast through the
land.
TIE FACE OF THE NOTE. .
To the extreme right OF the bill is the
Consultation or the United States, open at
the first page, the preamble and the first
two sections or the first article being
easily read. A IL around the edges OF the
Till have been placed the names OF the
nHtion's great men, Washington's name,
of course, occupies the enter.
To his right are Franklin a nd jefferson,
respectively, and following them are the
names OF Hamilton, Perry, Marshall, Web
ster, Morse Hawthorne. Bancroft Grant.
Farragu5, Emerson, Longfellow, Sherman.
Lincoln. Irving Cooper, Fuller, Calhoun,
Clay, Jackson and A dams.
On The reverse side are the portraits of
President and Martha Washington, which
are very Well executed, indeed. This is
printed in green ink.
The banks all over the city have had
applications for the new bills, but have
only been able to give them to regular
customers.
On the other hand. a good many mer-
chants, who had not heard of the new
hill. have looked at it with suspicion, and
several have gone 10 the Treasury and
others to their hanks to learn whether
it was good. They have been pleased 10
find that so beautiful a note is also genuine
money. Experts, however, say it can more
easily he cuunterfeited than the old designs