The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-15
NEW ER LOST.
Engraving Plates Are
Well Guarded.
FAITHFUL MPL0YES.
They Stand Between Gov
eminent and Wrong Doors.
From the Washington star.)

From the Washington Star)
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1'ii'e' 40 matter now duII the times are
elsewhere. the financial depression ,
never affects our businaes Va loan /
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= - 0-' ma ''-''9 'li'''7y I7-" over l49''
mat what they tell you at the
bureau Of engraving and printing.
where 201o raoD1a sro are,ae,a,l u, ,,,i,,t-
:-,..z
t"s anu counting Ohc1e sam money
It is not only true that in that plain
building is tho r7ona,, Of tba co,,,,+,,,.
,,aa.
''''' ''i 'i'I CIV - y NSS use u tiIs
people ouL IL IS also true that there by
the faitllessnnss, of = single am r,Io,,aa
tho e,,,,-l. 80 - ..-...-7,.---..
III < Ill
oe wrecked.
In two vaults about the size of a han
bedroom i'm yy~sgbir,e.+,r, t,-.,,.5f,,,.
49,. . '''' ms
'7V d = N7pl '"E '''o'V pieces OIL chlll-
ed steel from which the money Of the
land Is produced. What a bonanza for
the man who would dare 10 suuesle out
Of those small rooms two or three Of
those Kits of steel, There are scores Of
government clerks who could steal a
hundred thousand dollars, but sooner or
later they would be caught, and the
wheels Of government would go on I'M
disturbed. But the fellow who could get
away with the plates that would print
the face and the back Of any govern
ment or national bank note would he
limited in his mischief only bv the nun
Der Of times he could make a wheel
turn around IN a lifetime. He could
turn out his particular bin in carIoads
and find plenty Of helpers to get thep
into circula ton, until he might hank
rupt the United States treas7,,,I- i+saif
The faithfuluess of two or three
men stands between the government
and the possibility of sucf vybolasaia
Wrongdoiug The urasant C1letcdia,, ~
the dies is Joseph +. RaIph Of Illinois
who was COLLECTOR Of c1,eto,,,g
worlds sair in 1893, and since 1884 has
been an employee OF the bureau of an
craving and printing. TrDon bir7 and
his assistants, Mr. Saundare ana ~,
Ashworth, old EMPLOYEES of tba b,frc.,,,
rests the responsibility for the go
keeping Of the dies and mates IN agnh
Of the big doors Of The vaults arc +hraa
combination locks. one of which is
time lock.
At half past T every n7ornino fnage
three men have to he ,r'.l,,t rs, 49,
the vaults After Mr. RaIDh eate tbn
time lock his assistants each has HE
lock to attend to. After he onans HE
lock, still the doors will NOR onap 7,,7tii
the other TWO men in turn unlock than
Every morning the plates and dis
used i'm the d., ,,rir - "i'o u ne.
plates or dias On ,,.1,tah - 80 a. w
are AT work az rI,aai,,li Wy, q, '' ri =
active ,-o1I1e, III m. ~ "a fuiLh'
yauIt one a9ter ar,ot t,l 80 op' VI lHe
small cars. Opening the boy IN tho oar
with key that is kept constantly i'm
larioue ,,iacas +,7ftI,i ''V 'a'iS Oh the
.',Ty-o-I ~ w Lin,
co,n,,,o, 10 ~, mar .thl5 Us the
"0na-cn,t d,,o,,,,,[- 80 stamp
,,.a, sts,,,, ms is the
..W-boIas,I, Jj,,,,,,, jSa a.iN Lelt5 sliis)i
21--,S ..C,i,o No. ~, 'e az 12". Beer
{lt,e,,,. 49,, !, 50 ,,' o.; = BONUS.
co1iod - o." . l'i"ls' W. OF ron is
,1, t5'.S"' 10 It" NUMBER ConsecutiVelY.
5o eere are nov 10y, 4"l2 dies, $500 plates and
49, - IIs loi9 are sys1i lnpflntS
III - III me oi iS'uaiS' FROM these
In oil5 ~ lurh altef theN nave been
iisi ugueu' d ueSiSil Is transferred any
Itul,ioTI VI tIhltS ny hedNE pressure in
special presses 10 the steel plates. In
eiIlS way, Lur instance, ordinary post
age stamps are printed in sheets Of 400
each.
,9ldHse as II may seem not one of the
N!ousahdS OF plates that have been
ilidue III the bureau in the past quar-
Ter or a century has been lost. All that
nave ever been made have been ac-
counted for, The custodian keeps three
duplicate books of registry Of evet.,,
piece. In the office Of the contradict
of the currency another set is kent. An
nually under the controllers direction.
a committee of the most experienced
clerks, appointed by the secretary Of
the treasury, examines the vaults and