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Show Busy Burning Tons of Old Paper Money Washington. More than 180 tons of old paper money now ire stored In treasury department depart-ment strong boxes and new amounts of tho old-style bills 4re arriving at the rate of between be-tween six und seven tons dally. By means of a vast macera-or macera-or In the hnsement and an Incinerator In-cinerator at the bureau of printing and engraving, the treasury rapidly la destroying the wornotit bills. Formerly old ulp taken from the macera tor was hound In bundles and sold, lut It is now being entirely de-stroyed, de-stroyed, as the treasury has onehided the profit Is . too . mull. Since Issuance of the ' new currency In July. an Increasing unount of old paper money has been arriving at the, treasury for destruction. |