The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1898-03-10

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, blank coppets on witch the design /
stamped from Western arm. each thor
sSnd ceuW costing u %. SO 100 cent
With . lace value OF 81, oos, the govern
meut lees thSn ooe.nnb Of that suu.
A.. q result OF all this, L uuclc sam msk =,
= big profit on bis renuief, This wonlt
net be trae II sll the pennies that At,
caincd we're presented lot redemption
Ibey never are. however. for inlIy one,
itlh Of them seemingly go ont Of riistenc,
10 mysterious ways, All the ways IN
which the psunies are lost ste as mutifsti
Gus as the tins OF the usurer. II The lost
pennies we're weighed, It ia estimated thai
they would tap The soslee at 600 pounds
/ When the blanks from which the oents
are made reseh the mint they are hrst run
/ through q stamping machine which cuts
them ont, impunts the design and drops
them into boIes.
/ Then they are run through = sorting
machine, which throws out sby that are
/ int, riectly made and the rest pass on to
a broad table, where they are counted, not
by hand, bnt by means OF Rfooyed case
into which they fall 900 at y time. Then
they are tied mp IN canvas bags ready to
be shipped away as they are oslled for
One would think that the penny would
be tue last coin to be oountetieited, but A.
a matter Of fact there are more spurious
cnuts than there sre Of dollars and dimes.
A pound OF copper, enough to make 100
cents, can be bought for | cents, so that
the conUteiieters can make good pro
tit il Trey are tkllItul enough. SO msny
bad pennies o. me to the United States
Treasury that some Of The Secret Service
men are at work oil the time looking for
the men VITO made them,
Tha hardest worked member OF the
whole coin isnlly is the penny, said
Superintendent Muhlmsn OF the New |
York Sub.Treasury the other day. ss he
watched the unloading OF IN express
wsgou piled Ligh viii canvas bags OF the
copper coins. II is the erraud boy OF the
money world, aud remarkably spry
yonngster, too who covers lot OF ground
In the course OF year, 1t is aleo pre-
emluently the oLildren's coin, though
dare say there are lot OF interesting
L. .l "a 1
fingers help to keep it under motion do
not know.
the rate Of a million day The Sub
Treasury is the clearing house OF these
orcons for the mepolitsn district, and
we handle sn immense number OF them
10 the course OF year. That lot lust
,omiDg in contains s., 900 worth and
epresents days collections from . sin
gle big slot machine company.
Perhaps before the day Is over delivery
ruck from one Of the great department
torres will be down here after 10000
worth Il 000, 900 pieces, That often hap
,ens, and it shows the way they come and
20. Here, leading the way to the room
occupied by what is known ss the minor
DIN division you see the way we handle ,
hem
The part OF tho room which held the
loney was protected by = railing OF
esvy iron bars. and behind these bars
Jerks were busiiy at work. In one cor ,
er. piled rs high IS the ren's heads,
ere the canvas bags, esch with it's | 600
oins, just as they we're brought IN. On
be opposite side we're three clerks busily
bunting of from q great heap Of loose =
enuies.
Perhaps there are 90 000, 900 one-cent
ieces here now, continued the Snperin
ndept, possibly more. The stock is
rowing nov, has been since the begin
ing OF the year That 10 to say, there
re- more people who have pennies which
icy wsnt to exchange for bills than =,
lere are whs bring us large deDomins
ons and get cents Tor them. The pennies - :.
o az good as calendars for us. :,
For several weeks before Christmas we
dot take iu many, the children we're :,
vlOR them up TO buy presents. All
zoe that pssed into the hands OF the
may man, toy dealers ard shopkeepers :,
,out Dec. rs are coming back TO us now
Ut they will go ont again by and by
very fail when school opens the pennies
,gin TO come 10 fast The children ere
endlDg more for candy aud such things.
unDg the summer months they acoumn
te on our hands, for then the youngsters
g not spending so mlny. When ever A.
ere 10 d storm, a spell Of bad weather -
anything that keep the penny-spend
x population At home. we osn see the
ference in the mum bers that come to us. VI
The crtzs for 4J.cent and yJ.cent bar "
ins requires gres: msny pennies In D'
e wsy oi change, and it il no unusual ~
ing for the blg department stores 10 ~
be $4,000 worth at u time. Most OF
ese come back to us by the way OF the ge
,t machines, which have come to be N
,nderlnl 10 nun Der and variety IN
There are kiuetoscope view, phono
sphs sutomstio music boxes, candy 10
q chewing gum sellers, weighing I'd
schines. sui 8 hundred snd one Others 90
,uiIas IT e'ery hand aud ooaIiug the bo
nnies II m their owners pockets The m
,uIt Of all this hss been that the govern WI
sut has h,i hard work some Of the time 70
msiutHoias the supply, sad oah bard vi
make pennies lat enough 10 keep up
tn the srowtb 10 densBd Tor them. Vi