The Detroit times., 1912-07-02
UNIQUE MACHINE TURNS
GtRM-LADEN BANK BILLS
INTO NEW CERTIFICATES
Laundry Device in Bureau of
Engraving in Washington
Has no Counterpart
OTHER WASHINGTON NEWS
Interesting Story of Conserva-
ton is Sent by U. S.
Consul in Russia

WASHINGTON, July Without a
counterpart in the world is laundry
machine In the bureau OF engraving
and printing, the plant where the gov
eminent turns out the national supply
OF currency, A great item of expense
has been the production of new bills
10 take the place OF crumpled, worn
and germ-laden paper money, sent In
for redemption.
Ii has had sufficient use to prove
It's success in taking the wrinkles and
dirt and germs out OF badly used cue
tency. Two young ladies' have been
placed in charge OF the laundry One
feeds the soiled money TO one end OF
the machine and the other stacks the
clean crisp. laundried notes then they
come through.
Before the machine had been placed
in practical service the claims made
Tor 1t attracted the attention of gov
eminent officials in several European
countries. They sent over examples
OF much abused currency and were de.
lighted in the condition in which It
" as returned to them.
Hundreds OF people have seen the
machine in action. Many of those
who laughed at the inventor and 9TH
ers associated with him in his effort
10 put such a machine on the marKet,
are today loud in their praises for the
wonderful piece OF machinery. Ii is
estimated that in eight hours between
10000 and $4,000 old bills can be
laundered.
National bank presidents have been
asked to sign notes from their banks
in strong indelible ink, so that when
such bills are put through the Laundry
the ink will not fade AS II is today
bank presidents sign notes with any
kind OF ink, from plain pokeberry
juice up to ordinary five-cent ink.
These fade in the laundry machine.
Burgess Smith, relative of Macon,
Ga, but for the past eight years a
scientist at the bureau OF engraving
and printing, is the designer of the
new machine. He is rather timid In
regard TO accepting the praise due to
him, and 1t was only after much ques-
tioning that his friends could cstab-
fish the fact that he was the inventor.
Samuel Elder. of Philadelphia. for IA
years a machinist at the bureau, fol-
lowed the designs of Mr.. Smith and
made the machine. They were laugh
ed at, but now they are enjoying to-
gether the victory they have won
What is photography? is a query
that popped into the minds of many Of
those who read a notice given out re-
Gently by government department.
Il was to the effect: THE Spanish
int 81 In eYtn nv
that the Tenth International Congress
on Tachygraphy, organized 10y the
Spanish photographic Federation, viii
he held at Madrid, Sept &c TO Oct. 3,
1912 An invitation is extended to the
stenographers of the United States to
take part In this congress"
Rather remarkable experience
was that of George Z. Diggs, heed
waiter in fashionable apartmt-
who, for almost a lifetime, unknow-
ingly carried In his anatomy a piece
Of glass one-eighth Of an inch wide
and fve-eighths OF an inch long. AL
though the glass had been hidden in
the flesh of his jaw for quarter of a
century, Diggs did not begin to feel
the effects OF IL until recently. He
went TO a physician who prescribed
liniment. which had the effect OF
drawing the glass to the surface of
the skin. Feeling hard substance in
his jaw Diggs pulled 1t out and found
il was fragment of glass. He ex-
plains that when but four years old
he pulled a window down on himself
snd that pieces of glass stuck in HIS
jaw. but at the time il was thought
that all of them had been removed.
An interesting story OF the con-
servation of forests in Russia comes
from Consul John II. Grout, stationed
.'at Odessa. That the Russians back
ward In many things, have long been
fcreseeing in the matter OF timber
supply is told by Grout, who says;
while the privately-owned woodland
Of Russia is being annually reduced
In area, the extensive state forests,
are gradually being brought into
use. and for long time 10 come they
will continue TO be an important re.
serve timber supply for the world
These forests cover 937060.0O0 acres
q proportion OF which Is we'll stocked
The Increasing utilization OF state for.
osts is shown by increasing receipts
from the sale Of timber, which have
risen from S9,4S6,30O in 1900 TO 42,525,.
Clio in 1911"