Smyrna times., 1899-05-17
NEW MONEY FOR OLD.
AN EXCHANGE FOR MuTILATeD AND
WORKOUT BILLS.

- every person employed in the bureau is
= IN some degree an expert, because eaob
III one of them has to pass on the ,,ap,i,,o
= ness OF Tie money presented for re-
demptlon, and this is difficult tas,
remember that this money comes n
'he treasury, as rule. only when if 10
, 30 badly worn that it will not mass cnr.
! rent This dirty torn. greasy r,,,,,od
y money the experts have to handle and
! decide whether il was issued nv the
. government aud should be redeemed NJ
lts face value or whether it is the wo,k
OF counterfeiters and should be rejected
1t Is not at all to the disrredit of +h.
8 experts OF the bureau that some bogus
money has got past them and been do.
tected In one Of the offices to which tho
pieces OF the money 90 for further ev.
ANIMATION This docs not occur often
The peculiar province Of one evnor+
Is not to detect bad monev-thougb
enc Is an expert at that-but TO put TO-
gether torn pieces Of money sent in for
luehtlHcatlon and redemption These
pieces OF money come from all parts of
! -
the country and arrive under most ev.
traordlnary conditions This is not snr-
prlslhg IN view of the fact that thew
come from experiences with fire and
wafer ana gastric juices and many 9TH
Ct poWertul agents. a not infrequent
accident to money is to be left in a
stove, whence it is taken in badly
charred condition. with only ashes to
represent the greater part of it, Often
II Is used by rats TO make their nests
or buried In the dampness of a cellar II
rots away, or, swallowed bv COW If
rescued from her stomach slimv mass
of paper
mere are the rules Of the treasury for
the redemption of mutilated money
ror piece OF currency greater than
| tWO-uIths ana less than three-ffths of
the original note One-half the face yaIne
OF the note is given For piece as
great as three-fifths the whole value of
the note is given. For piece two-fftbs
IN size Of the original nothing is given
But this last provision is limited Inv tba
law which gives discretion to the treas.
ury department to give full value for a
note II the owner can prove to the salts l
tactlon OF the authorities that the note |
or the missing part of it, was DESTROYED
ms last provision opens the door to '
possible fraud, and many are the efforts
made by dishonest persons to take ad |
vantage of it t
Inc fragments of money which come .
10 the treasury are turned over to one.
OF the experts and sorted out under the {
mlscrOScope for Identification They ara '
picked apart, and each tiny piece is as d
signed to Its place like part of Duz-
zle ms Is usually done ON glass. and d
the fragments are eventually nut be- "
tween pieces of glass to hold them TO-
gether while they are measured to see o.
whether there is two-fifths or three. C
fifths of the note idcntifiable or whether
1t IS SO little that the owner can recover 1
nothing Sometimes it is a very serious III
matter 10 the owner but the poor are "i
not the only applicants for assistance
to recover damaged mcney AT the time
w X Nanderbilt's beautiful home at
Newport was burned Mrs Vanderbilt Ia
sent IN about 81. 600 in mutilated chr. 10
rency. out Of which the expert WAS able w
TO identify for redemption all but n an
fraction OF the sum al
IL 1t Is not alone mutilated money Ca
Ihat comes to the treasury. but dirty WI
ana worn money of all kinds, to the ex- III
tent OF nearly $500, 000 600 a year an
sometimes counterfeits get past the In'
experts in this bureau and are caught
n the other bureaus to which the halves III
ire sent when the packages of old notes lul
lave gone under the knife and been di. an
'lded up for counting and Identification OF
before they are destroyed But this is SID
lot the most frequent form of attemnt. Is
a traud The mutilated money offers w oIo
he easiest path to this sort of crime tul
Some OF the experiences of the re- al'
emptlon division with would be prl
hleves are interesting One man in qu'
-ansas sent to the treasury the halves "a
some small bills with the edges nice one
charred. accompanied by an affidavit oy
rom the sender that he had put the neo
honey IN his pocket, hung his coat on
renee and that the coat had been nal
1rned. to the destruction of part of car
le notes 1t happened that the treasury ah
ld redeemed the other halves of these sec'
Otes just two and half years before 0eO
T money broker ON the Bowery, in
ew York and. thinking the case sus-
clous. had Kept an eye out for the
Isslblllty Of attempted fraud The Oe {
ansas man was person of good busi- iatn
'ss standing. and his bankers threat grea
led the treasury officials with dismissal -.
they questioned his affidavit They VIII
1t the case in the hands of the DEPART n
ent of iustice and ovon+r,IIr, ~ afte
an nIeadsd gniltv ord me- e.a1 a. bust
0 Va larg
A bank in Alabama received from a In
posltor a fragment of $40 bill. and ~ snat
treasury people paid So for it lrlo
ter came a claim accompanied by the
ler part of the bill little charred NJ
tn an affidavit saying the sender had maxi
rned the remainder of the note bv eters
stake -.
A Chicago man sent in fragments of the I
o SSO bills and one $40 bill with an
Idavlt telling how the other halves In
d oeen destroyed. and in the same ever,
III the other halves of these notes t;nr
ne III from Chicago bank A spe- nle !
agent caught the maker of the affi- rd by
'lt' VINO proved to be the tool of
ne swlndlers. and he was sent 70 A.
son Tor year and half Wash 100 =
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The Largest Trees In the wor1a.
he largest tree in the world is to he Ev
at Mascali, near the foot of with
unit Etna, and it is called "the Chest foreb
Tree of Hundred Horses. - It's throu
ne rose from the report that Queen tells ,
e OF Aragon, with her principal no. pear
ty' took refuge from violent storm Bir
:, l:s oranches' The trunk is 2O4 comp
In circumference. The largest tree ture {
n9 oni'eu S'ates, II Is said, stands of eg
Bear creek, on the north fork of ON al
Tule river, in California. It meas ment
14O feet in circumference. The ed
1T redwood tree in Nevada is 119
In circumference. Ladies' Home a
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- w 'ne wrong slde Oh SUI what
Wv" Ano" "nat ne sees In paper