The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-26

main in the tank until the motor driven
pump has circulated the solution for five
minutes, all Of which time the bath is
maintained at temperature of l30 de-
grees Then they are similarly circu.
lated for five minutes more in plain cold
water, which thoroughly washes out the
suds After this they are spread to dry
upon wire trays.
Restiffened With Glue and Alum.
But they are yet to be starched. steril-
lied and ironed, so 10 speak The mon
ey laundry, however, does not employ
starch, hut another stiffener which
works better This is added by the g siz-
! ing machine that shown in the picture
where the girl with the white shirt
waist sits with her back partly turned
and with tall stack Of money at her
left hand. Before her is sort of grid"
iron of narrow felt bands revolving
over rollers. This gridiron is partly
open and into it she slides the freshly
washed notes. one by one. The
top and bottom rows of belts come TO
gether upon the moving row of bills and
carry them down into q tank filed with
this stiffener, which the money laundry
employs in lieu of starch-a solution of
glue, alum and water, heated to l3O de-
grees.
Sterilization is the third process. From
the sizing bath another combination of
felt ribbons carries the notes into tank
filed with a volatile antiseptic, of the
nature Of formaldehyde, devised by Bur
CESS Smith, a chemist of the bureau or
engraving and printing, who has direct
charge of the practical end OF the laun-
dering process. Microscopic tests beng
made at the hygicnic laboratory Of the
public health and marine hospital serv-
ice show that this antjseptic readily
kills all of the germs upon the solled
notes, and these meteorological tests
have been made with notes with one
half nearly black with dirt and the 9th.
cr half laundered.
Wringing and Ironing Machines.
A wringing machine is the next piece
OF apparatus to catch the moving pro
ccssion of bills. Still another gridiron
of straps carries them out of the an
tiscptic bath and feeds them to palr
of big rubber rollers held tightly togeth
er by weight pressure, And, after pass
,, ING through these, they are dropped into
, q conveyor, which carries them through
a chamber about ten feet long, heated
by coils. By the time they have
reached the end of this they are thor
ouehly dry.
And finally comes the ironing process
Forty notes are piled ono upon the 9th
er and placed between top and bottom
layers Of "press board, the leather
like glazed cardboard winch is useu ~
making the flexible covers of blank
books. Thus put in packs, the newly
[ washed, sized and stcrilized notes ar'
passed between heavy steel rollers
which subject them to pressure o.
: thirty tons and squeeze each stack as J.
: passes through TO the thinness OF paste
board. This process irons out all wrln
!, lsles, closes up all creases and Impart:
finish hardly distingulshable IRON
that of brand ncwness,
There has long been loud popula
clamor for cleaner money, TO obtaiI
which some individuals have resorted u
washing their greenbacks IN their nome
before handling them, Thus ! near
from a government official today th
story of an old lady in Massac husett
who long made it n practice TO wet al
soiled greepbacks which she received
p and then spread them upon plate o
glass that held them flat while sh
scrubbed first one side and then tn
other side with n brush wet with soa
and ammonia water.
Dirty money has long been nuIsanc'
especially in communities Tar from !p
treasury and sub.treasuries,, TO whic
institutions banks or individuals ca
take soied notes and exchange them rc
new bills without expense. but ava
out in the northeast and southeast an
through the west. until the gold oelt
reached filthy notes accumulate occaus
the banks have TO pay from 90 70 .
cents per thousand dollars worth I