The evening times., 1900-01-16


Miscellaneous items .....--..-----.... lo,5l''Vs'
Total ,l56, 567
The miscellaneous items include Treasury
notes fractional silver coin and other
fractional currency. This money is kept
in the vaults of the Treasury and sub
treasures. and in the national repositories
About two-ffihs of the amount is carried
in Washington. portion Of which is the
gold reserve OF Sl00 000. .000. another por-
tion is for current use in redeeming and
changing money, and another portion still
in the nature of a supply for the sub
treasures and national banks Of issue.
II may be stated that something like
$500 coo 0OO in money and bullion and Coy
ernment bends are stored away in the
vaults of the old stone building over
which Secretary Gage pTesides. These
vaults are various sized rooms in the base
ment constructed of stone, steel lined, and
their entrances closed by massive steel
doors which time locks shut against even
the Treasurer of the United States, except
during business hours. from nine TO three
each week dav The various vaults or
rooms are devoted TO special purposes and
are fitted up not only for guarding the
money supply. but 10 utilize space. For
instance. Que of the gold vauits-about IL
feet squares built so as TO accommodate
the-largest possible number of eight ounce
duck bags filled with coin.
In storing coin in this room each bag
would contain s. O00 and zoo OF the bags
would fiji the room one foot high, being
exactly 81 .000 GOO The entire room. there
fore would hold 81. 100000 in gold coin.
BY similar arrangement Of sacks con-
tanning 81 600 each SO 1000, GOO in silver are
stored in a vault something over p feet
la SC ar1r-
cube OF standard silver dollars The sacks
are easily transported 10 different parts
OF the Treasury building or sent 70 the
subtreasuries.
Paper money is stored in long boxes or
drawers piled together with the denomina-
tions of the bills plainly marked on the
face OF the box The bills are in packages
OF 100 so that the value of the packages
range from 500 to 500 000, according 10
The denomination A box holding forty
packages. therefore, would be worth 81 COO
or $500 O00. according as the packages
should contain 81 or S1OO bills
Bullion. whether gold or silver is stored
in bars. Silver bars usually contain 100
ounces. and the room required in the
storage of $1.OOG,0C0 ounces is 1l5 or 130
cubic feet. according as the bars are piled
lengthwise or crosswise.
Subsidiary silver coin is stored in eight
ounce duck bags each containing $1,000 and
the space required for 81. 200 000 is $50
cubic feet
The 500 gold piece. or double eagle,
weighs 516 grains and is / 720 inches in
diameter. Piled one on top Of another
thirteen coins make a full inch. with
l-l000th TO spare, and 1856 of them are
a trifie over foot in height. In s1,000,000 |
Of gold coin there are 90 900 $40 gold |
pieces. Arranged as indicated above, |
the column of gold pieces would be more |
than 800 feet high. II would reach two /
thirds of the way up one side of the Wash /
ington Manument and. as shown above. /
would require II cubic feet for storage.
Placed side by side 81 00O, 600 in $50 gold |
pieces would extend 1925 feet. or up the /
side Of high mountain. Linked together |
by golden links 1-16 of an inch long, the |
chain would encircle the Capitol nearly |
three times. |
Standard silver dollars piled one on top |
OF the other occupy 2 greater space. One |
million of them would make q column s.,
eco feet high and would tower nearly 1000 |
feet above the highest mountain on the |
earth The coins would make ten piles as /
high as the Washington Monument.
The Treasury building, aside from its |
being the depository of the Governments
money and bonds. is a busy hive Of indus
4 Ue lItdSuIg lJtpdI AiLtuA bIllplOss
about two -fifths Of the men engaged in the /
Government service. 1t collects customs
which amounted one day recently to S447,-
000 and since the 1st day of July the
amount aggregates S121. .315. II also
collects the internal revenue. The Treas
ury Department also has charge of the |
disbursements of the Government and all |
that relates to its finances. More than 600 /
clerks and employees are engaged in Wash
ington and about 10000 in various depart
ments of the service elsewhere.
Assigned to the Hydrographic Office. |
Capt. c. c. Todd, until recently in COM
mand of the gunboat Wilmington, has |
been selected for appointment as chief of |
the Naval photographic Office. to succeed |
Capt. ]. A. Craig, assigned TO command |
the cruiser Albany.