Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-26
DAY OF SIGHTSEEING.
Chinese Commissioners Are
Kept Quite Busy.
VISIT TREASURY VAULTS
Ask Many Questions About the Cur
rency.
TAKE LUNCHEON AT Y. M. C. A.
Inspect the Building From Top to
Bottom-District Commissioners
Receive Them at Art Gallery.
TAKE LUNCHEON AT Y. M. C. A.


Americas currency system got the Chi
nese immortal commission going TODAY
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lHeS hdu d lot u '!h'iSS On I"elI ''''I
visits TO the treasury and the bureau OF en-
craving and printing, luncheon at the
Y NJ c. 4. and a reception by the District
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. -. -. ,-..-... a.. r,,,,.
But when they got tangled up with the cur
rency system at the treasury there was
nothing doing on the mere mechanical end
of the game, and they stayed so long
travelling the mysteries of bonds and the
guarantee Of national bank circulation that
it ended by only few of them who were
specially interested taking hurried trip to
the bureau of engraving and printinp befora
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10" - "-''' io' i"iici'eo" dI the
/. NJ [. A.
They left the Arlington Hotel about
quarter of II aud tool in tr,. ,r,...,,r,, f;,.st
as t.iro. -. -. -, -,
SecretaF,, sLa,,- 70 t'.cf S'tstihs p Pm
Iat,,, - W ~ ~ tiie ouiiuiHs'
uS 80 - "' 'He S'G1iiet meeting ana they
90, -. :, 90 pay 'i'tII respects 10 ASSIST
ga Ia 20, 80, mn 1nty went Gown
G "du an duuleiiSe WIN treasurer treat
en- eAetdnSeu d Re" COMMITMENTS; some
VI NI'e dlt;iches Oh the COMMISSION WHO have
peSi par uCutaIlS Interested IN the currency
system mao gone 10 the treasury yesterday
for party who knew something about
money and banking themselves. He showed
mem t1e picture or Alexander Hamilton on
me wall ana explained that he was the
originator OF the financial system of the
Cul'eu states "hen he was only thirty
Years olG ana that II had not been much
improved on since. The party looked with
reverence on this noted American financicr
and then hurried down the corridor to the
poha vaults
c+5 e -,
This was where the experts of the party
left the minister and the other t,,.I,,,f
cal rnep,bers .,,,.,Io,,,l
of dust &c il 80, ~ -, Ct u'"Se CIouo
"a uu7'' aS II were. Mr.. wan. one of the
SECRETARIES. mad been a Harvard man as
well as having graduated at Stanford T-nf-
versity He had nads s,r,thf -
study of the American Cmrren,,,- ~ q
and the whole marty GOT irsida - E SeSLi
vault and he commenced firing cuestions
at the officials with the raniditI Of = ~
chine gun and translatfng the renfieS it,to
nuent Chinese The officials who were
were not dealing with any tyrme IN ma fi,, tneS
They were interested in the peculiarities of
me me Ill In WORK ana the me engraving Of
counterfritinr biit t%S So f s,,aru against
being worth S5OO.oD0 was Of no more IN inI
terest to them than if it had been a mere
i nuHII eu. NAT they were after was the
90 W H'iiS u lne system, the manner
ToTy Lo,,,S ~ az, no anu s,dleSuarus ana
cir",,,atinr[ N''U 'S SECURITIES lor oahk
CLi,,. 10. ....., ..,
raT.,, Ill o.''ts ny tI Ipuuceu paper cur
love- dsr"r,i,a~iot, 'a,aI'' anu "hile the
about a Movfc.,, ,I,rin ', efudIihs
noyrar Cf ~ 49,, u'ii'', liie purchasing
II Inc T-nftnd Statos 80 - "a ~ scr ser man
that the naDar - q n,,I.a,SSi, ,1', = iS SE
they want 70 coo MAJ - en- ti Wv
doing i'm the cIIrrenrI. linz ard H. , a.
of the treasury ofR.iaIy re- ~ -
mission had gHre u,as ~ ~ ~ IN Eolli-
government had saDt tha SOFT ~ 80, "
find out The deDth Of the y,isitors' i,r,,,t-
ledge and the sort Of technical GuastioTs
they asked indicated that they knew the
most there was TO know about national
finances before they arrived
Mr. DENLY and the Chinese minister. who
accompanied the party STAYED outside tne
vaults and amused themselves by see NO the
working of the time locks and that sort of
thing which will entertain the casual Wis
itor. But the experts of the commission
were after something deeper than that and
the chances are that they got It.
Inc L. M " "a bullulng.
The visit to the Y NJ c. A. building was
one of tho features of tho da, 7,bn GOV,
t,- I'm
e'o0lilpdLieu W dpout -FOUR
OF the members OF the party, were met at
the front door by President Woodward and
a number of the directors and ex-nrasidents
of the institution. and were shown all over
the building, which aside from being one of
nlo ii'iSs' N y a oululhgS IN the
as tbe LVasbingtoy scot; e. tme pa ~ ~
international secretary for China and Ko
rea, Mr.. II. S. Brockman. The commits
sioheis were SHOWN all over the building,
1ne - "iIia s swimming pool hand-oaI
their admjratJon sTba hesn,tf,I an,inn'n,I5
Of IN bIrilJtno td 49,. Siu,p ~
no r,nro -, Syi ~ -, -t = ~"
tinI ~ Ii,e "a "a, ~, LOT eou
81 that darar,n,a,'t NJ Sn 'iIe uitsC III
Directors sta ,bat tn i,a u otte sI 1i IN, tn9
about Inc y-orl 20 .to 80 s"oI H S
ba ca,,a 80 - 80 ~ ~, ", - -, /; petoao
a rcai oo L. ora , so "a ~ ..ol Waa
sunnort ~ ,ta - s,,.ar,'.,,o,,t ia" 'e "0''F0
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wasbipgton y,,orGars ~ ~ o ~ to
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VI ISHo"' VIM WAS mere up 10 Il year ana