The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-10

Esaazss 4sa1i4.11 pctitors who are
always interfering with his work.
ard trying literally to make money at
his expense. So persistent are they
hat his entire methods Of operation
have to be planned with view to
| checking their rcrncioes activity,
He calls these recple counterfeiteFs.
and when lie catches them he sends
them to Jail fer many years.
1t is to protect the people that
Uncle Sam takes great pains with his
| money He prints ii on peculiar
paper. which is difficult TO initiate;
he prints it with scrolls and devices
that it takes a skiilful cngrayer to
duplicate; he makes it penitentiary
otfGnse for any one 10 have or to pass
an imitation; and he raintains an en-
! lire detective force, charged with the
special duty Of catching those who
do initiate It, II possible before they
have tloated their work
His precautions start with the
blank paper on which he prints his
notes. Ii is a peculiar paper. with
silk threads running all through it,
PAPER that can be manufactured only
BY powerful and expensive machinery.
out of the reach of the counterfeiter.
Experience has proved that this pa
| rer is the greatest safeguard Of all
that surround the work; for as far
as is known no counterfeiter has ever
perfectly initiated it. The nearest
they have come is TO paste two sheets
Of thin paper together with silk
threads between them. Anything
better than this has always been stol.
en-, not manufactured
So Uncle Sam has established the
| Eost rigid rules about this paper
| 1e contracts with certain firms 70
supply him with it, and no others are
| allowed to make it at All, and thu
favored ones only under the most
rigid bonds for it's safekeeping; any
/ body else having IT in his possession
is liable to a long Jail sentence.
Every sheet that is made is count.
| ed and recorded again and again, Just
as carefully as if it were already a
$1,000 bill After It is delivered to
Uncle SANS representative it is fol
lowed even more carefully than be
fore. Between the manufacture Of
The paper and the finishing of the
note each piece of parer is counted
more than fifty times by as many
different counters
I Before the paper reaches Uncle Sam
the plate with which the printing is
to be done has been engraved 70
save the plate, duplicates are used in
printing The process begins with the
preparation of designs on a large
scale, perhaps two feet long. These
are reduced to proper size by photog.
rarhy and submitted for approval
| Sometimes several sets are submit
ted before satisfaction is given.
Then the designs are turned over t.
| the eBgravers who prepare plates fo-
them. Several men work on each
plate, one engraving the portraits
another the scroll work, another the
lettering and so on Each prepares 3
! separate die, all of which are as
sembled and fitted together until The
whole is completed Then the imprint
Of the original print Is transferred ir
reverse to soft steel roller This /.
then hardened, and from II, in turn
are made plates which are exact du
plicates Of the original, from which
the printing is done
When the plates of four notes leave
the engravers they so to the printins
room, where Impressions are taken b.
hand presses, this being necessary, g
it is claimed, to allow the time es
sential for careful work The printer
inks his plate with small hans
ArolIer,, wipes 1t first with rag ant
then with his hand, and then places I
upon the press His assistant, who y
always a girl, adjusts the sheet. ATTIC
it has been passed under the role
she removes the print and examines /
, for impcrfections, while the printe
removes the plate and re-inks IT, Tit
backs are printed first, and then thei
faces. From the printing room the.
80 TO girls who nut on the numbers
by curious machines which chang
! their numbers automatically Next th'
! notes arc trimmed, pressed smoctl
. by hydraulic presses and tied II
/ bundles for sending over to the treas
ury At the latter place the sea
Of the United States, Uncle Sam
signature, which makes them money
, is printed upon them, either in red O
1 blue ink, Then the -four notes whicl
have been together since they cam
from the press are cut apart.
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