The Press., 1896-10-01
YAD MONEY TO WASH.
CURRENCY THAT SOMETIMES RE- QUIRES AN AMMONIA BATH.

The Experience of Young Actor and His Brilliant Wife.
 The fair metropolitan cashier has add | ed a new factor to her growing vnlua- tion which will not prove so desirable a vile ill the eyes of her employer as the honesty and efficiency which have won for her almost monopoly ill the busi ness. It is the result of the microbe craze, and is nothing less than washing all the money she handles and charging her employer overtime too.
 The discoverer of this now way to en hance her usefulness and cost is Annie Nesmyth, the money taker of a big down town hotel Miss Nemyth serves at night mostly, and, while less money comts ill then than i'll the day, she is | generally kept busy enough. The money is often very dirty and to the last degree repuIsive to handle, Now, the cashier is a trained nurse resting" from her ar duous professional labors. After sick spell from handling the soiled currency she concluded to resign. Sbe was per shaded not to hy all increase of salary and permission to wash the money. So every night sees soup plate of am monia water at her elbow, into which | each note, as it arrives, il dropped. It | gets a quick bath and is then laid out On a piece of flannel tO dry as tendorly as if it were her best piece of jowelry. The water has to be changed two or three l times i'll a night.
 The cashier recently had an offer of another similar job. Being asked what 1 salary she wanted, she mentioned her | usual figure, with the prOvisO that it must be so much moro Eff there's money 1 to wash. ''
 Money to wash?" said the aston ished would be employer. "Why, l haven't enough for my hides Che is leather and tallow dealer), much less to wash. "
 "You see, she said calmly, "your business is dirty, and it's likely the money will be. I won't wash another fellow s money in ammonia water-it's bad for the hands and head-without a consideration ill my salary. Different if it were my moneyl" She says she's passing the tip along" and soon all merchants in business that calls for an unusual fortitude ill the olfactOry and perceptivo nerves will have to pay extra salaries if they wish to retain steady and efficient help.
 A money washing episode which con- verted Charlie Bigelow, the actor, and his wife to belief in banks is worth recording. By dint of great saving and denial the young couple got together $500 ill the first year of their marriage. The money was kept in chamois bag, which the wifo strung around her waist under her corset, and as the fund was a great secret which both tried hard to forget, so that the we'll known borrow ing prCpensities of their profession might not be excited, it was never | touched or even looked at for months. But a 1un Cf lad luck finally drove the young folks 10 draw on the chamois bag, when to their intense dismay it was found the money had become per fectly illogible. One by one the eight $10O bills WCro laid on the bed, all in the same condition of greasy, uniform black green no color. Husband and wife took turns at trying to restore the at tractive greenness of the filthy lucre, but ill vain. The young wife wept; the sav- ing husband raved. Then together they went to the bank which had given them the bills. The bank refused 10 recognize the money, nor could ManagG Baker s indorsement make the cashier change his mind. The manager then took $10O bill off their hands for friendships sake and got managerial friend to do like wise, trusting to their prominence to pass the notes. That was doing a good bit for the young folks, who had sub mitted to being called stingy many a time to gather the fund together.
 The actor then left his wife at home weeping over the remaining $500, while he went down on the RialtO to sell it to any speculator at 50 cents for the dollar. But the wife was mo slouch" at expe- dients. As soon as he was gone she dried her tears and declared to the girl that, as the money was no good anyway, they would just experiment with it. The girl made strong ammonia water, and the mistress took some washing soap and soaked and soaped and washed those six bills as industriOusly behind locked doors as if she were perpetrating the regular handkerchief and hose wash in fourth story room of a hotel where "laundry work ill the rooms' was for bidden. Patience was rewarded. Rid of their slimy coating, the half dozen bills at last shone feebly out in a wan sort of alive greenness, touched up with brown, as if under the rays of dying sunset. They looked like autumn leaves after a big gale.
 When her husband came home with the news that he had sold our bills at 25 cents on the dollar, and would throw the other two ill for fear the speculator, an actor friend, would be bitten toe badly, she said radiantly, "Guess not, '' and led him to the table where the six faded, wishy washy governmental prom ises lay still damp. He rushed out and got the others from his considers and submitted them to the same restorative process. The bank took the whole eight as the young couples first deposit. New York Times,
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