Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-14
ARMY And navy

After thorough test the money
laundry at the Treasury Department
has been pronounced a success, and
henceforth viii be permanent fix
ture and not an experiment. Secre-
tary MacVeagh has approved the In.
yention.
Half a million dollars in bills, rang
ing in denomination from 81 to $50,
have been washed at the laundry.
Yesterday they were put back into
circulation.
The laundry saves about 80 per
cent Of the bills that ordinarily would
be sent to the macerating machine 1t
the Bureau Of Engraving and Print.
| ing. Instead Of destroying sOiled
bills. as the Treasury once did. II they
are in good physical shape they are
given washing Those that are
really unfit for the laundry are
ground into pulp.
| The machine Is the Invention Of
burgess Smith, native OF Macon,
Ga.
For the. past seven years he has
been employed In the Bureau Of Ems
craving and Printing as Q scientist.
When he began studying out the fine
points Of money laundry he was
given the laugh BY hundreds Of other
nsachinists and plate printers, 1t be-
Ing claimed impossible to perfect such
q machine.
1 But Director Joseph Ralph, Of the
Il bureau encouraged him In his efforts,
i and now, since the machine has been
/ declared q success, the Government
will save at least 100000 year.
/ This saving Is made possible by
1 the fact THAT thousands and thousands
LOT bills can be kept In circulation
tmuch longer time, thus doing away
with the necessity OF making new
bills.
Il But the machine win not cause any
lief the plate printers to lose their
4 position. The present force Of print
i ers have all they can do. The ma
chine simply win help and not injure
II any one.
Eventually other machines will be
i installed. The one now in use can
laundry about 10000 bills in an eight.
tlour day. After being washed and
/ lanndered. so per cent Of these are
i coed enough to go back into circula-
| tion.
| Secretary Of the Treasury Mac.
i Veagh has settled the long
standing controversy over the pay
ment of drawback on sugar and syrup
| by completely changing the practice
of the last fourteen years so that, it
is believed, the government will not
B allow an undue amount of refund to
/ exporters of syrup Very little refined
sugar is exported.
i Under the new arrangement, a
fixed rate OF approximately cents
per gallon will be allowed as draw
back on syrup, while the drawback on
Irefined sugar win vary according to
1.-THE amount of duty paid on the raw
sugar.
The combined drawbacks on sugar
and syrup will not be greater than
So per cent of the duties paid. Here
tofore a fixed drawback has been al
lowed on refined sugar while the
drawback on syrup has been 36 per
: cent of it's market value. This, 1t was
feared, might be an incentive to ex-
! porters to increase the market value
! to pay more drawback than was
proper.
i One of the big refineries wanted
the drawback distributed IN accord.
snce with the polariscopic test OF
sugar and syrup, but the Treasury
i held this would not comply with the
law.
Major General Leonard Wood, CHIEF
i Of staff. has conditionally accepted
an invitation to attend the mansuyers
of the German army this fall. u case
he is able to make the trip t4 Ger
many he will be accompanying BY
I Capt. Frank r. Mccoy OF the General
Staff Corps as aide-de-camp.
4 The entire Atlantic fleet Wit the
torpedo fi6tilla and 4 number o lux
! Hilary vessels has Ioft NeWpol end
s. put out to sea FOR the annual Sd ner
!. practice. Later in the month tne
4 VIII cruise to the Southern Y
grounds. Of the Virginia capes
J, Piot0.E nyriuing q highest
ntSNs Eo ss<xk.ss.s.I 1S<<a,1 49, cfus1 n