Evening star., 1898-06-13
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A Big Achievement by the Government
Printing Office.
About Four Million Documents 10 he
Distributed Describing the
New War Loan.

The government printing Office has added
another feat to its wonderful record OF
achievements. 1t has been known to print
an edition of the Revised Statutes in a sin
gle night and only a few weeks ago the
report of the board Of inquiry into the
cause of the disaster to the Maine was
turned out by this great establishment in
one night, including the Illustrations which
accompanied 1t. Saturday afternoon at
$50 o'clock, Secretary Gage delivered into
the hands of Capt. Bryan. foreman Of
printing, the material to be used in the
preparation of circulars relative to the
new war loan. Almost 100000 of these
circulars, subscription blanks and pamph-
lets descriptive of the bonds were required.
Capt. Bryan hesitated as to whether the
government printing Office, with all its
facilities. would be able to accomplish
such an undertaking in the time required,
that is, between 3:30 pm. Saturday and 8
am. Monday, it being the desire of Se,re-
tery Gage that fifty of the most rapid mall
ing clerks in the Treasury Department be
In possession of the material at The latter
hour.
The First 100000.
This morning, before the time indicated
the entire work of printing had been done,
and wagon from the government printing
100000 of each of the circulars, blanks and
pamphlets required. The treasury force is
busy today preparing for the mails the
enormous number of papers that will be
sent out to all money order post Offices
banks and express offices, and in order to
avoid congestion of the mails Assistant
Secretary Vanderlip invited the co-opera-
ton of the city postmaster and the super
intendent of the railway mail service, ami
by their direction the bundles are being
prepared according to states and territories S
and sent to the post Office in :nstallments.
BY tomorrow noon this work will all have
been accomplished and these messengers
from the treasury will be on their way to
mlIlonS or American citizens. 1t is prob
able that never before has SO systematic
and energetic an effort been made to actu-
ally reach the people. The treasury will
not wait for the people to come to 1t: IL
has gone to them; and every man. woman
and child who has so to invest will not
lack an opportunity to buy a government
BOND, and thus participate in the war loan
Already many have subscribed heavily to
the loan, not by single subscription, but by
several. expecting thus to be allotted among
the first. 1t Is the intention of the depart
ment, under the law. to consider several
subscriptions by the same individual firm
or corporation in the aggregate as one sub
scription.
Thus fifty separate subscriptions. each
lOT d gu poHO Dy the same person, Will be
considered single subscription of 81 900
for so bonds, and such subscriptions will
have to wait for allotment until the 81 900
class is reached.
Allotment for $500 Subscriptions
Another important feature in the floating
of the new loan is found In the fact that
Secretary Gage for all subscriptions of
$500 and less will begin the allotment at
once. This fact should be borne in mind
by small investors, in order that they may
not delay their subscriptions until the last
moment, when the heavy subscriptions are
taken up for consideration. For all
amounts received Of $500 and under receipts
will be given Immediately, and the bonds
delivered at the earliest practicable date.
This course is taken, 1t Is understood, be-
cause it is believed that after all the small
demands are satisfied there will still be
enough left to be distributed among the
large subscribers, although the indications
ar the present time are that the loan will
be participated in to an unusual extent by
people of small mears.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived the following joint letter from The
National City Bank of New York the Gen.
tral Trust Company of New York and Yer
milye & Co. Of New York:
referring to your circular letter In
which you ask for subscriptions to S2UO,0UD-
600 United States per cent coin bonds. re.
deemable after ten years and payable after
twenty years, we desire to advise you that
we stand prepared to subscribe and pay for
at par and accrued interest any portion of
the bonds offered tlat may not be SUBJ
scribed for by the public"