Arizona republican., 1904-01-03

and / viii tell you how we know
good money.
How do you know bad money,
thought" was persisted.
I'VE DO not, and that is how we know
good money" The answer was simple
and explained itself.
According to this teller he learned
good money" in three lessons. Bank
tellers go TO a regular school. Every
few months some man will drop into
Kansas City and report to the United
States authorities. He will give his
name, the address he will maintain
while here, and exhibit a license from
the treasury department at Washing
ton to carry a certain amount of coun-
terfeit money. He will not tell, because
ii will not be necessary, that he has
a bond up in Washington for twice
the amount of the counterfeit he has
and that he has to surrender his IL
cense and his counterfeits on demand.
This man is a bank tellers' teacher.
1t is his business to teach tellzrs how
to detect bad paper from good money.
His methods are encouraged by the
government, for it wants all bad mon
ey stopped promptly.
Gold and silver money is learned in
a hurry. The ring of the coin does
that. and the weight When a poker
player picks up his coins or his chips.
he lifts them directly from the table.
When a teller picks up money he drags
it with one hand into the other Ev-
cry receiving teller works on a piece
of marble. He needs that TO ring his
ccins on. If he is handed as little as
three silver dollars in a stack" and he
can pick them up with ease. he will
drag them one by one. He wants 10
hear them ring on the marble.
With paper money he feels his mon
ey. There is a crispness to a new bill
and a satin effect to an old bill that
counterfeit never has. If a genuine
bill should have lost this feel by
| reason of its having been in some old
sock for a week or two, or slowed away
| under a damp board. or fingered by
somebody whose hands were greasy,
the clutch of the teller will detect the
singularity and he will pick the bill
up. First of all he VIII try to snap il
apart. He wants to hear it thrash like
a piece of cloth would. and he wants
to see that it does not tear easily
| Bankbills withstand a heavy tug. II
these tests show nothing he will look
at the lathe werk and the lettering
Everything must be perfect. That is all
there is TO it.
There is not mistake on a govern
ment bill. No lathe work lines end No
scroll ever finishes. In the words
| United States of America" every word
is match for the ether and so for ev-
cry other kindred work. Every picture
| is perfect. Every line is sharp
| Fraudulent bills are always botches.
| If a photograph, then the lines of the
eagle are so dim they are blurred. An
idiot would not take the bill if he
| knew that government work is always
perfect. Raised bills are always
smeared. a fool would catch a raised
| bill the minute he looked at it, The on
| ~ way raised bills get into circulation
| is at night in a bad light Engraved
! bills are the hard ones to detect. but
! the paper is never right enough to get
| by the clutch of the bank teller. It may
| pass muster in the saloon, or the store
| but it will be stopped by the bank
! teller.
When you get bad bill what do
you do with it?" the teller was asked.
Some banks" he said slowly. and
| with emphasis on the some" some
banks never detect a bad bill once it
is taken over their counter. If it de-
tects bill as it is offered. it is handed
back to the man who presents it and
the revenue office is notified. l should
estimate that national bank with a
big business would take i'm 500 a
| month in counterfeit money"