The Cairo bulletin., 1904-05-28

TO he More Thoroughly MacerRted
For Pieces Have Been Redeemed.

To he More Thoroughly MacerRtcd,
FOR Pieces Have Been Redeemed.
Through an order promulgated by
the treasurer Of the United States the
old macerating machine in the sub
basement of the treasury at Washing
ton has been pat out OF commission,
aud hereafter all paper money wheth
er issued by the government or by liz
tlonal banks, viii be reduced to pulp
I'm the large macerator nj the bureau
of engraving and printing
This order was brought about by a
protest made by national bankers
claiming that the OLD machine failed
to do its work perfectly and that the
bank notes dumped mto ii not infre,
qucntly turned up in sections for re-
demption by the banks of Issue, that
the pulp sold TO various makers and
manufacturers of images, to be res0lI
as souvenirs. was filed with large
pieces of bills aud that these were
picked from the pulp images and Of
fercd for redemption. NOtwithstanl.
Ing the fact that the treasury macera-
tor has been in service for many years
ana has reduced to pulp many trillions
Of dollars in bank notes which had
ceased to he current, this complaint
was The first one ever made against its
noupcrformancc Of duty hnt the treas
urcr got such positive evidence That
the bankers were correct IN thcir as
sertlons that he issued The order
Washington souvenir dealers have
long realized that the pulp images
found o heavier demand than any 9th
er, and those made from the pulp Of
the notes last destroyed or partly SO
by the treasury maeerator have always
brought a higher price than the ones
manufactured from the pulp of the
macerator ut the bureau Of engraving
and printing, this being due entirely
to the fact that images from the latter
contain not Il Speck OF grecnbacks, the
notes being reduced to almost whit
ish pulp. Naturally visitors prefer an
image "made FROM real money" in
which some Of the money would be In
evidence. The treasury maccrator pro
duetlon or output, was therefore worth
n great deal more TO the mauufactur-
ers and always brought much larger
price. In fact, the bureaus pulp was
almost drug on the market
But now the images busts Of presi-
dents the Washington monument, Tn
Gle Sans hat, the national emblem THE
eagle the capitol. the treasury eats,
dogs, frogs etc., each representing
from $1,000 to $4,000 must be made
from the bureau pulp or a first class
counterfeit, for every note destroyed
must be ia this specially constructed
maccrator which works every day ana
night in the year except sunday. there
being from $1.j00.00O to 100000
macerated every twenty-fouf hours.
This work Of maceration and the prep
aratiou for ii are under the personal |
direction of representatives Of the |
treasurer, the secretary, the comptrol /
Ter and the register. and these repre-
sentatiyes 20 with the heavily guarded /
wagon containing the money to the bu- |
reau. whore it Is taken from the steel !
boxes, checked Off, placed in the mac |
orator, the iron doors closed. locked |
and sealed, and thea the machine be- |
gins its work of destruction. The large /
boiler or vat In which the money Is /
placed Is filed with some kind of chem
iCals, ana a network Of machinery I
keeps up continuous churning and /
grinding until II O'Clock the following !
day, when II is stopped, the pulp taken
out and another million or two placed |
in, 10 be treated In the same way for
tho next twenty.four hours.
by this process Of maceration II IL
utterly impossible for any one TO find
any evidence Of money in the pulp,
even the small silk threads which run
through all genuine notes being entire,
~ destroyed save to form n part e the
Khitish p1ln -Npw York TrlbHup