El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-06

engraved by a machine which has as
many combinations as the best safe
lock. eac9 combination producing a
different design and no one but the OPP
orator knowing these combinations.
These lines can never be successfully
initiated by hand
The Highest Bill.
The highest bill has a face value of
$4,000. Few ever come back. as the
banks prefer them to any other kind
Of money. Twelve pounds Of them
take the place of 1000 tons of silver
in q bank vault. It costs the govern
ment one and a half cents to issue a
piece of paper money and redeem it.
It takes about so days to complete the
printing of a piece of ape money, and
each bill is counted 80 times during
the process.
The Secret Service.
The main province of the secret serv-
ice is to prevent counterfeiting, al
though it has many other activities.
The best guardians of the currency are
the teHers of the banks. More than
nine-tenths Of all the counterfeit money
in circulation is detected by them. The
counterfeiter takes advantage of every
modern process in his work, and
through the photo-mechanicaI meth
DDS is able to produce results that can
be detected only by the skilled hand
Ter of money. The United states mints
make the coins in circulation in the
United States. Except the gold coins
none of them is worth its face value
and in 1903 the profits from their
making amounted to eight million dol
lars. Nickles and pennies by the humid
red million are required, and there is
a profit of at least 80 percent in their
coinage. h government always
stands ready to redeem them, but puts
them into circulation again.
With its holdings of more than a
quarter of a billion dollars in money.
It ecomes necessary strongly to guard
the treasury building. A large force
of watchmen patrols the building at
all lines Electrical alarms are main
tanned and tested every half hour. and
enough arms are stored to arm a
thousand men on the instant. Besides
this there is connection with fort Myer.
the arsenal and the police department.
so that any organized effort to storm
the treasury would be impossible.
The controller of the currency has
supervision over the national banks of
the country, n the controller of the
treasury passes upon all expenditures
by the government, where there is any
question raised. His decision is final.
exceDt that it may be reviewed by the
courts. The banks of all the DEPART
ments are kept by auditors appointed
for that purpose and their decisions
are renewable by the controller Of
the treasury.
Hospital Services.
The public health and marine hospit-
al service cares for disabled seamen
and frames regulations for the
prevention Of the introduction and
spread of contagious diseases. The
surgeon general is charged with the in
vestigation of contagious and infec-
tious diseases and the publication of
a weekly health report. He looks af-
ter the enforcement of the Interstate
sale of vaccine ~viruses, cerums, toxines
and analogous products. It is to this
service that the country owes some of
its greatest advances in medical
progress and sanitation. It also has
charge Of the medical inspection OF the
aliens who come into the United
States.
Tomorrow-IV-Tle War DEPART
ment.