Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-05
EFFECTS BIG SAVING TO HARNESS RIVER
Director Ralph Reports Stimson Advocates Plan for
Economies in Bureau. Mississippi Power Plants.
COST OF PRINTING REDUCED WOULD RETURN REVENUE
Expense Country
Years Cut $40563594 paid He Says
ASKS CENTRAL POWER PLANT SCHEME AR0USES INTEREST
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Assist to Advocate of etterW Water
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Director Ralph Reports on
Economies in Bureau.
COST OF PRINTING REDUCED
Expense of Work in Last Three
Years Cut $4O5, 1854.
ASKS CENTRAL POWER PLANT
Urges Increase of Pay of Plate
Printers Assistants to
S1.75 Day.

Continued efforts toward economy and
efficiency resulted in a saving OF $50. 574. Il
in the cost of work executed during the
fiscal year ended June 50 at the bureau
Of engraving and printing, according to a
statement in the annual report of Direc-
tor Ralph, which has just been submitted
TO Secretary MacVeagh of the Treasury.
The total expenditures of the bureau
were S13S ,962.37 greater than in the pre-
vious year. The number of sheets of
money. bonds and stamps was $262, f34. 739.
At the rates of the fiscal year 1911. the
cost of printing this number Of sheets
would have been s4.2s5, S2s.O1. while the
actual cost of the operation was $S2,574. Il
less than that amount. During the last
three years the reduction in the cost Of
work executed at the bureau has amount
ed to $4O5.635.9 After the power presses
have been in operation five years it is
estimated that the annual saving as the
result of their use will be about $450.OOO.
Claims for Injuries Paid.
Claims amounting to 81 9O4 81 were paid
during the year to employees injured in
the course OF their work. an increase
over the preceding year of SS466S, or
~. SIS per cent.
Director Ralph reports that within two
days of the passage of the sundry civil
bill on August n last. sixteen power
presses for use in printing backs of paper
money were put into operation. Fur
Their experiments have been made with
the money-washing machine, which has
been installed in the office of the United
States Treasurer. Contracts for the con-
Struction OF twelve similar machines for
use in the subtreasurIes have been let.
Central Power Plant Wanted.
Director Ralph renews his recommended
ton for a central power plant of suffi-
cient size to supply heat and power to
the bureau of engraving and printing,
Agricultural Department, National Mu-
scum. State, War and Navy Depart
ments and the Treasury.
"A hand-roller plate-printing press is
now being constructed with a motor for
trial, which undoubtedly will prove sue
cessful, reports Director Ralph.
"A medical and sanitary officer is pro-
vided for in the appropriation act for the
current fiscal year. and this bureau will
now be able to give proper medical at
tention to employees taken i'll or becoming
injured or disabled by accident in the
course of their employment.
Urges Increased Pay for Assistants.
The female employees of this bureau in
the grade Of printers assistant, for many
years were paid only $1.23 per diem. and
in the fiscal year 1901 their wages were
increased to $3.50 per diem but as the
work they are called upon TO perform is
of an arduous nature. requiring them to
stand during the entire day, and it Is
believed that they are underpaid in COM
parison with the salaries paid operatives
IN other grades of work in the bureau, /
recommend that L be authorized to in
cIude In the estimate of appropriations
FOR the fiscal year 1914, increase of
- cents a day for printers assistants
making their compensation $1.75 a day."