The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-26


One of the most ingenious labor
saving machines has just been per-
fected by the Treasury Department to
assist in the making of Uncle Sans
money. One machine Is now I'm oper-
alton In the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing and Is working so success
fully that n contract has just been
let for the installation of Is more.
The new device performs five opera
tions simultaneously with the aid of
only two employees whereas the same
work now requires two separate ma
chimes with FIVE employees to each.
None of the notes issued by the
United States Is good paper money
until 1t bears serial number and the
big seal of the Treasury of the United
States. Twenty-eight printing presses
in the basement of the Treasury De-
partment are now employed to inn
print these final signs upon the bills
which come in sheets of four from
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. There are now two men or girls
to each press, but the work Is neces-
sarily. slow because every sheet must
that the seal and numeral will ap-
pear in the right place.
After this operation has been COM
pleted, the sheets are taken to an
other machine. which cuts them so as
to make the four separate bills Three
employees are necessary to each of
these "separators' as they are called.
one feeds In the sheet, another takes
the separated bills as they fall out
and collates them in piles of 100. The
third counts them.
All of these operations will here
after be done on the new ms chine at
one time. Its mechanism is so simple
that the operator can feed i'm the
sheets as though printing hand bills.
After the printing the sheet Is auto
matically separated, mechanical fin
gers gather four bills together and a
register counts them, and when a
hundred have been finished n bell
rings A second employee then ties
each 100 in n bundle. Experiments
are being made still further to inn
prove the machine so that 1t will feed
itself and also tie up the bundles OF
100 as they are delivered. When all
the new machines are installed, IL Is
expected that they will save the gov
eminent many thousands of dollars In
salaries annually, and at the same
time produce more rapid work.
Some of the Upstate folk In New
York have .-been, for a good many
years, watching their farm lands &c
| to grass, and at the same time have
seen hundreds of thousands of farm
ers pass through these lands fol
crowded cities, where their useful
ness Is lost and where they usually
become bad citizens. Last year, near
| ly 100000 immigrants entered at Ell
| lis Island, a majority of whom Were
of the farming element of Europe.
Representative John w. Dwight, q
II dinner given recently to Secretaries
Nagel and Wilson, asked these gen.
t!emen why New York state could
not draw these men to it's farms Ma
gel told them there was fedora
| Bureau of Information to direct for
elgners to farms wherever requested
This Bureau he said would cooper
ate with the State.
But Dwight says New York is no
satisfied with such cooperation ant
so will establish Bureau of its owl
to push immigration to these districts
The Bureau will have it's headquar
ters in New York City and will keel
in constant touch with the farmers
end small towns Secretary Wilson
lauded this plan and said he hoped
soon to see II followed by other states
Secretary of War Dickinson beinI
called to the Senate wing of the cap
| itol on business, was surprised to finC
In big upstairs corridor model o
the Canal Zone 10 by 20 feet in area
All the points of Importance in con
nection with the canal work wer,
marked, and 1t was a graphic and in
\ teresting presentation of Uncle SAM
| big job on the Isthmus.
In trooped a capitol guide with
bevy Of chattering, blithesome lad,
tourists and ranged tnem In front o
the Zone Model. Then he told wha
he knew and guessed the rest abou
the construction of the Canal Will,
| the man who is building IT. his iden