New-York tribune., 1912-08-11
CLEAN MONEY FOR DIRTY
lIocIe Sam in the Laundering
Business Now.
q IAYING BACTERIA ON BILLS
rest of Treasury Department S
Remarkable New Machine
Proves Successful.

,NCLE SAM has started a laundry
| 10 wash his soiled paper money.
/ ~ He is bent on economiZing, and
s,ures that he can save a tidy sum each
.o, nv laundering the soiled bills, in
..,od Of destroying them, as now. and
,rhstitutinC new ones. Some of Uncle
Cnm's employees have invented a note
,aundering machine which is the only
ors Of the kind in the world.
The probability is that New York City
all soon have a laundry of the new
,yps that may be expected to do larger
husiness IN dollars than any other soap
ends factory in town. 1t will be a hand
laundry.
BEFORE long there will probably be signs
4, the windows of some of our most
.oud financial institutions appealing 10
,bs public in some such manner as the
tollowins
oHave your bills washed within. No
,rtrs charge to our depositors."
Ask any man identified with the proc
.ss Of handling large sums of money in
hanks and trust companies, and he will
,.u YOU that in recent years there has
FpvelOOeQ
til predilection for new bills.
In the days of our fathers, before the
r4xt probable incendiary action by the
frogressives was an absorbing topic OF
,onversat ton, and when the busting OF
hroncos vas accomplished as readily as
rby We theoretically bust the trusts, al
most any old kind Of money was accept
able at the bank.
One merely required then that the pa
r.r offered by the paying teller he issued
nv a sound institution, so that the next
man would accept II in payment on ac-
count of accrued interest on the mort
gage The question as TO the immacu-
late appearance of the bills themselves
bid not enter into the life Of the people
In those days.
Provided the sum they could acquire
was tidy. they gave no thought as 10
whether the individual pieces Of paper
money were neat, spruce, stainless and
unsullled
FAsrlpIoUs MlcRoeE AT WORK.
We. however are becoming more re-
fined We want our money to be beauti-
tb as we'll as necessary. We prefer new
money. absolutely pure, crisp, fresh and
unfaded. As all of MS cannot get that
kind of money all the time, we demand
the next best thing.
We demand that money which has been
in Pittsburgh, II only for few hours
and is therefore in need Of good swao-
bing. sponging and general brushing up
shall undergo a whitewashing experience
AZ the government beauty doctor parlors
before we accept It In exchange for our
wares. whatever they may be.
We are going 10 subject our green and
yellow backs TO the prophylaxis pro-
fessors.
We are going 10 take bill that Is
black with the fog and smoke OF that
same Pittsburgh, soused with the moist
ure Il has soaked up on some Broadway
far, frazzled by reason of its hilarious
sxperiences in the dens of frenzied f1nan-
eiers. and we are going 70 battle 1t and
make II bright and rich and gorgeous.
I ftn own mother would not recognize II
after the immersion. The public will think
lhe bill absolutely inexperienced In the
ways Of the world, will notice that 1t
Flows with the flush OF youth. and be
sansted
which win be fine. But experts won
Or whether the public, that makes such
, study Of IT'S present preference for new
hhs 40 TO lead II in many cases to make
keouisft1on for packages containing bills
ksnally ngmbered can be hoodwinked or
Mn partially satisfied by money that
IA BEEN merely laundered Will 1t not
~ RTE a last years straw hat Just from
BE ciesnsIse The future will tell.
1 TAINTED MONEY MADE CLEAN.
ths machine is modelled along simple
lEks The laundering consists of three
hyeoesses-tfle cleaning, rinsing and ron-
tHs. The operator. standing at one eno
lot the machine, places the notes on a
tband 81 cotton cloth. which, moving slow
Ey over the rollers. carries the notes into
lthe cleansing tubes.
The notes pass through the machine
IaHd ere held between two bands OF clotn'
IThe upper cloth moves slightly faster
isbAn the lower. thus giving the notes
tshght scrubbing.
The notes are then carried into tank
containing the cleansing liquid. consist
ing Of hot water, pure CASTLE soap and
lgermicide and bleaching chemical This
mot only cleans the bills but also destroys
any germs.
AS the note passes through the cleans
Ing tub the water is agitated by wooden
rollers
II is said TO be a highly agitating as
sgnnent for almost any one TO De pres
ent during the inundation OF such large
Quantities of dirty money. 1t Is, they say
all one can do to keep from taking
swim The water simply reeks with Dills
that, for all practical purposes, are good
enough for anybody just as they are
Without being rinsed and ironed
Il is next carried by the cotton panos
Into the rinsing solution, after which II
passes around a warm revolving GYM
Ger, where It Is dried and ironed
note, dirty and wrinklcd, going In one
end Of the machine emerges In about one
minute and half from the other end
clean, born again
AWFUL PAST is WASHED AWAY
II no longer appears inert. All soihpre
Indications Of its former soJourn III rl''S-
burgh have been irrigated out OF lts s!e
em. The smoke and the fog WIN "Hion
us complexion was shaded only moment
Or 30 ago have remained behind WIN ti'o
sgitated waters and the CASTLE soap. Ihe
slchemical power Of plunge mas oee''
demonstrated
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