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Show The slot machine promises to cut quite a figure in national finances. The officials at the sub-treasury in New York are struggling with a plethora of bronze cents. Stored away in different parts of the big vaults are 16,400,000 of them. As 1000 of them weigh seven pounds, the , weight of woe that is oppressing the effictat4rtratif32,r3u0 pounds, or Ymore tlian thirty-six tons. The accu-i accu-i 1 rSulsitiin is credited to the cent-in-the--'t slot machines. The majority of the companies controlling these machines have their headquarters in New York city, and the collections are forwarded by express for deposit in the treasury. The demand falls far short of the supply, and the treasury men do not know what to do with the surplus. There is also in the sub-treasury $65,000 in nickels, presumably contributions from the nickel-in-the-slot machines- |