The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-03
THE GOVERNMENTS
 MONEY MILL The Factory Where the Nations s Currency Is Made in
 Washington.
AND ALSO DESTROYED.
The Great Care Taken With the Paper Which Is
 Use.

The new certificates of Indebtedness to the amount of $1o0, ,OOO will be ready for issuance next Saturday from the bureau of engraving and printing. This will establish the best record ever made in this or any oth- CT country in the printing of govern ment securities. It was not decided to issue these certificates until late Sat urday night at the White House con ference, which the President held with his secretary of the treasury his secretary of state and his post master -general-"my trio of finan- ciers," as he has dubbed MT. Cortel- you, MT. Root and MT. Meyer.
 From the White House Secretary Cortelyou returned to his office in the treasury, and it was long after midnight that he signed the order for the new security to be issued. The director of the bureau of engraving and printing was summoned, and in turn reused out of bed the best de- signer in his department The clock was just striking in the early morn ing of Monday when this expert reach ed his office and by o'clock that evening he had completed the design for the new issue One week from the time the actual making of these cer- tifcates began 1t. was possible for the director to show Secretary Cortelyou a sample of the new issue printed on one side. They are of the same di- rnensions as other currency and close ly resemble a $50 silver certificate. A vignet of Alexander Hamilton ap- pears on the left side of the face, and on the top of the back in large letters are the words, Certificate of indebtedness of the United States" In addition appears the date of the act authorizing the issue, the rate of in- terest, and the date of retirement one year hence
 Only such a plant as that which now occupies a building of it's own on the banks of the Potomac river, in the shadow of the Washington monument, and little more than a stones throw from the treasury building, could turn out these certificates in so short a time It cost $e00,oOO to erect this building, and it's machinery and fix lures represent an additional outlay of $1,000,000. Nearly 1400 men and more than 1500 women are employed in this factory, and to pay them the gov ernment is required to spend $2,500,- 900 every year of the money they are making. r VI. |. '
 Manufacture of the notes issued by 1he government and by the natianal banks of the country constitutes the main work of this establishment, but 1t also turns out the internal revenue customs, and postage stamps, and all of the checks used by disbursing of ficers of the United States throughout the country. Everything that it defined by law to be an obligation or securi- ty of the United States is produced ai this factory. And it is not surprising that the paramount purpose of those intrusted with its control should be the prevention of any imitation of its product. It is the counterfeiters against whom the managers of this money factory must constantly guard IOE JHlS 5TedSOl 4tHp processes or en- graving and printing employed here are those most difficult of imitation and this in turn calls for the most tal- ented engravers that can be obtained at the highest compensation, as well as printers of the greatest skill.
 With the exception of the capitol and the Congressional library. this vast money mill is probably the Mec- ca of more visitors to Washington ev- cry year than any other department. The making of money attracts them. and they frequently spend so much time here that their visit to some other point of interest has to be cut short, Groups of visitors stand fascinated before the heavily grated doors and watch the various processes that en- ter into the making of the govern ment's paper money. In the midst of all these millions are employees whose salaries range from $1 day up to $3,0O0 a year. To the average citizen it appears strange that all can resist