The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-01-27
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WEDNESDAY. JAN. %. 1904.
BY AIKEN g scHMAHL.
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS A DAY.
How Uncle Sam DisposeS of Dirty and
Used Up Money.

Washington, D. c., Jan. Is, 1901
Bro. Julius Tt is almost too late
to say Happy New Year. so I'll
just open up with my old time
hello everybody with the hope
that the year will be one of pros
perity and peace for you all. and
| then proceed to spin little yarn
which may interest few of you, il
not all.
| At present congress is in shallow
water, loading up many cargoes for
future delivery on the statute books,
and | hope to give you few tips
thereon, when the proper season
arrives.
Just uow I want to tell you a
story OF a bit of cash. Everybody
is interested in the money ques-
ton, whether it be in is to /, or
rag doll sort-but this money
write of, is crumpled money, dirty
money, torn money-money that
has been laid away and utilized by
some tramp mouse to build nest
for herself and babies money that
was forgotten by some man who
had slowed it away in his summer
trousers and then sent them out to
be laundried-money that is SO old
and worn and dirt begrimed that it
would be a frst-class microbe fac
tory, and money that was hidden in
the old stove, because the banks
we're unsafe, and cold day left
nothing but few charred remains
OF a much cherished s'had been. !"
Now isn't that paragraph enough to
make you hold your breath?
Wouldn't its contents in proper or
der make you-rich?
Well, all the above mentioned
cash is sent from all parts of the
world to Uncle Sans redemption
department, in the big treasury
building in this city, where it is all
run over by experts, and new bills
are paid for it-and now comes nv
story-all bills that are full size,
that is, which are plainly read and
could be used for a time or two
possibly are cut il half, made into
bundles of four to ten thousand dol
lars, owing to the denomination of
bills, and packed into boxes that
will hold about $50 pounds. Then
they are sent over to the bureau of
printing and engraving, where they
are put into large macerator, with
the aid of chemicals, water and
plenty of machinery the old green
backs are turned out into long, mar
row sheets of paper, which is then
sold to car shops where it is used
in the construction of paper car
wheels Curio dealers buy much
Of it, also for making souvenirs"
and if you have never seen any |
money in the shape / describe, you
will find a sample on exhibition at
the GAZETTE Office, provided Uncle
Sans mail bag carried it through |
safely.
There are about 5000 pounds of
such money cared for at thelbureau
each day. Just think of it, Money
oy the ton! Ism t it wonderful that
we wear outsuch quantities, and that
such a supply is in circulation?
! would like to give you full de-
Jails OF the care that is exercised in
destroying this money, but would
nave to measure SO many yards of
red tape that well, wouldn't it
angle you? But anyway, after the
bills are cut, one-half is destroyed
lays before the other half is sent
'ut, SO that it would be impossible
or an employe to get a chance to
paste two together, so as to make
himself present of an extra dollar
n five. Sayl Next time you take
! trip to the cities, iustexamine the
ar wheels and see how many mil
Ions OF paper money they contain.
ut don T get wheel" in your head
'fter following instructions.
had the pleasure of short in
ervieW with Congressman Vol
tead today, and found him full OF
BUSINESS and plans for the benefit
I his many constituents. Mr.. Vol
tad is making HE nrocnnno foIt