El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-26

! w Money ne; by the mile A"'HA
Just imagine what it would be IKE S
/ to have a mile Of paper uViai ~
/ spend That many ought 10 idst =.
J the most extravagant person quite
Uncle Sam is getting ready to print L
his paper money in that Way-Ihdt 10
| to say, in continuous Strips q. 7iiil
| long. Such strip win he exactly %
| inches wide, its breath being equal 70
| tho length Of a dollar bill. Nhicn
means of course, that the notes or
certificates will be prlhIeu u OS' ~
on the paper ribbon 49,, lido. an
Each note is Is inches woe, 50
that as a simple calculation will snow.
a. mile of dollar bills would represe.nIt
fortune for the average hard-worklng
man. A mile of 500 notes WOulu
make one more than twice million
aire- ,, A.. ,IpI.
If one had mile of dollar bills in
such a strip. it would be necessary 10
hire a cab to carry the roll ma
a picturesque appeal the idea Woulu
make to a registering Spehu ~ ~. III s;r,reoi
perhaps journeying along the GreaI
White Way" Of the national metropolis,
couId. bv the use OF pair OF scissors
at fudicious intervals, supply the neeus
Of a pilgrimage Of hilarious dlsslpa-
But. alas such joy can never be
his: for the United states SoVernmeht
will not issue its paper money by th9
mile. or even by the YARD ~, ~ t NJ
present time it's notes and certl1lcat IS
are printed in sheets of four, Du'
neither for love nor money can any any.
body get them in that shape Ihey
must first be cut apart;
Until very recently all OF our paper
money has been printed on hand press
es. It is an Old-fashioned method,
and unnecessarily expensive. But tne
influence of organized laDor IN CON
gress has prevented the substitution
OF automatic machinery for doing the
work
congress was at length persuaded 70
authorize the use of machinery foI
printing the backs of the notes and
certfficates The faces are still printed
by hand. on old style presses
The bureau OF engraving, which IS
the governments paper money bill, IS
anxious to do away with this wasteful
system, and, in expectation Of favor
able action by congress, Is getting
to revOlutionize things entirely by the
employment OF new machines tor print
ing both faces and backs without In
PREVENTION by human hands Some OF
the machines, which will turn out the
dollars in continuous ribbons, are al
ready built. and space for SO Of them
enough to print all the paper cash
required by the gOvernment-has been
set aside in the bureaus new building
at Washington
The director OF the bureau. Joseph
T. Ralph. asserts that by this me-
chanical method. putting the dollars
through by the mile, the paper money
can be much better. as well as more
cheaply. printed than by the most ex-
pert hand labor. 1t will be more
perfectly printed. every detail of the
engraved plates being brought OUT
and the notes will have the additional
advantage of being absolutely uniform.
One Of them being not blacker than
than another or otherwise different
in the smallest particular.
Would Reduce Cost One-HaIf.
The cost Of printing the money by
this new mile-strip method will be
less than half what II is today A roll
% paper a mile long will be put into
an aluminium box that opens in halves
to receive IL. Then the box will be
locked on both sides with Yale key,
so that nobody can monkey" with
it
When the machine is operated, the
the top OF the box, in a strip exactly
as wide as q dollar is long, and. car
ried along by rollers, will pass over
steel cylinder on which the design
OF the face OF a note is engraved.
Further along, it will pass over an
other cylinder that is engraved with
the design for the back.
By this simple process the ribbon
of paper will be converted into a con-
tinuous strip of Uncle Sans printed
promises to pay. arranged side by side
AS it passes through the machine. the
ink will be dried by steam pipes; an
automatic attachment will number the
notes or certificates consecutively; and,
incidentally, they will be counted