The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-15

berANlng and Printing in Washing
: : doing. Those who have stud
4 ne work OF his bureau say that
hts adopted every economy con-
ected With the making of money. ex-
hi free silver. But, as paper and not
l.fal constitutes his raw material.
exception tells nothing of his
Uliucs.
However that may be, in the max
Il IL paper money alone from the
Oscillation of his economical devices
March. 1913, to December, 1912.
Director Ralph estimates that he has
rsyed the Govern. nent $469,158.33.
Ind this is only one-fourth of the
ECONOMIES of the bureau. In all it's
sork including the making of the
Earious denominations of gold and
Dilyor certificates, Treasury notes.
United States notes and National
bank notes, revenue stamps, and
pcstdgc stamps. in the period men,
toned. savings have been made
amounting to S~17S5,63S.22. Other
Economies will be installed as fast as
congress gives permission.
The question of Compression per-
mission brings up one of the most in
tcresting bits Of history i'll connection
with the heavy cuts Mr.. Ralph has
succeeded in making in the expenses
rf his bureau. 1t is the history of
The unceaSing war trade unions nave
Waged for years against h installa-
ton Of one Of the greatest single eco
nomic achieved in the making of
PAPER money. This is the installation
II power presses. instead of hand
presses. for printing the backs Of
notes and certificates.
This warfare delayed the inStalla-
tiou cf the cheaper system until Au-
gust - last. and limited the installa-
ton tu 20 per cent of the bureaus
.4 Ign, - the 49, rn,tL f@~
which figures are available the sub
s~titutiou has resulted in a saving OF
337.5U0. 1t is estimated that this
SAVING will easily reach S90.000 a
year. while il will be much larger
when the power presses are used eX-
c~lusivcly for the work.
The light of t.e trade unions
against Director Ralph's innovation
was waced sharply and shrewdly ana
considerable sentiment in Congress
q teloped against the substitution Of
machinery for man. But shrewdly as
that Eight was waged. a humorous
slant was given to the whole discus
sion from the fact hat while the
night waSed before the Secretary of
the Treasury and counsel for the plate
printers were pleading before the
committees of Congress, another eco
nouE was adopted. without attracting
much attention. which goes even fur
49, 49, 'b& ~ piR % az 1ttttC
the number Of printers needed in the
bureau.
strange as II may seem. this second
innovation WAS the installation of d
laundry. Ii is a laundry for soileO
paper money, and, in view of the
added life which it will give to bills
and notes. the estimates for the blu
fead FOR the coming year have beer
reduced $4,000. Experiments ave
shown that laundering a bill or note
makes the "deDominational numeraI
rade slightly. If passed through tn
machine more than once. and expert'
are AT work searching for inks tina
VIII stand the test of repeated laun
uering. Mr.. Ralph told the Hous
committee on printing that there i
no greater disadvantage in a fade
humeral than in one covered Wit
however that may be. with tn
approval of Congress- four new wash
my machines were installed in IN
bureau last week and began thei
work. OF the 1857 employees Of tn
bureau $40 are plate printers. O
mere about $50 will bed ropped o
July | as a result of the economic
VI administration. Some Of the me
marx the savings in labor from TIA
installation of power presses; but a
onSress only permitted an annus
- 14oNaA ~ II
cent Of the total printing capacit,
most of them have been absorbed j
"''her positions. The other men I
oe dropped rom the rolls will be di:
pehsed with because washing an
IRONING old paper money will
stedtly prolong the life of the pap'
o"dt the work of engraving new none
money viii be heavily curtailed.
BESIDES the -four new money laul
uIies put in operation last week. ne
ar tour of the machines al the Su'
assure in New York. one in Phli
"lphla and one in Boston.
While the labor unions paid con
pdtatvely little attention to the i
.'dilatlon of the "A belat'
ntht has commenced against the
nom another quarter. Senator Jam
- MARITIME OF New Jersey, whose l
crest has been aroused, has receIV'
a'drly 600 letters from bankers pr
~~sllnS against the washing of oil
ne bankers objections is that a lau