The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-02-07


wipes away the surplus with q cloth
and gives the few quick turns of the
wheel which secure the impression, and
his feminine assistant, whose duty it is
to place the blank sheet of paper on
the plate after it has been linked, and
remove the paper after the, impression
has been taken. The printers are paid
by the piece and some of them turn
out as high as twelve hundred sheets
of new money in day. The sheets of
money are hurried while yet damp
with ink to drying room where the
temperature is always away above
wi at it is anywhere on the hottest day
in summer. This observation is con-
fined strictly to the earth. After the
drying is complete huge bundles of the
sheets of new money pass to the hall
OF expert examiners. Here deft-fin
gered women turn the sheets of money
as one would the leaves of book
actually faster than the unframed eye
can follow them, and yet the smallest
defect in any sheet, is instantly detected
as it flies past in the mass of paper,
and with unerring accuracy the exam
liner selects the faulty sheet and casts
it aside to he destroyed. In our party
there was a young man who had rich
daddy" and this fond parent always
kept the young man supplied with a
''roll' of generous proportions. Nor
was he averse to displaying it on the
slightest occasion. But while we
were looking at one of these expert
examiners, the young man suddenly
began feeling his pockets saying: 81
thought l had some money when |
came in here" "What's the NATTER"
said 1, shave you lost it1 "NO," he
replied, "but it wouldn't take one of
those experts five seconds to count all
l have"
AS the final stage in the work of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
J there is the numbering of the new
. currency-that is the imprinting in red
, ink of the series numbers which are
: familiar to all persons who have ever
! bestowed the most casual glance upon
: piece of paper money. This numbering
! is done mechanically by SURPRISINGLY
3 ingenious machine which was invented
q at this fountainhead of good money,
s This apparatus is worked by treadle
and sets its own type and automatic
d ally numbers consecutively from one to
q one million. It's work is the more
b wonderful from the fact the series
j. number is placed on each end of the
d face of the note. The new money has
Y been counted tifty-five times before II
J. is finally stored in the vaults to await
: use.
g The cost of making this money il
much smaller than one would suppose
9 and here / will quote a paragraph from
n q current weekly. "It costs the gov
# ernment just as much to make dolla
v note as to make ten thousand dolIa
Q note. The cost for engraving, printini
70 and paper is practically the same. Th'
8. average cost of each piece of pape
% currency in circulation is about ON
,r and three-fifths cents. The wear an,
" tear incident to keeping up the circu
It lation is nearly one-fifth of one cent o
# the whole circulation. The nationa
te government furnishes about three
Ia fourths of this paper circulation; tn
T. national banks the remaining fourth
IF The Comptroller of the Currency place
u the stock of money in she United State
se at $3,O69 100000 of which So, ,162, ,OOo, 90
at Is in COIN"
Of This total is often slightly increase
ty by some budding genius, but the none
~ so put into circulation is "bogus" an
in most cases the efforts are crude an
nr quickly detected. In the meantim
b. the offenders chances are excellent
Mt Of spending q few strenuous month
IN behind four lovely stone walls. How
al ever, the man is not always caught q
to the following story will show. One 9
n our most popular actors, at the begil
re ming of his career, daily walked up an
ch down Broadway looking for jo1
he While thus occupied he made the. q
1s, quaintance of many of both sexes
ire the same profession. One day he VIZ
nd given ! small part IN new play an