Show Gumming the Stamps I The precautions taken to insure uniformity uni-formity In the gumming arc the most Interesting part of the work Each morning when the workmen report for duty they get a series of blanks which they are to fill out during the day us their work progresses The Government Govern-ment keeps a most careful account erf every ounce of gum given them and of every sheet of stamps they handle The system Is an dbEolute check on the stamp sihoets but was designed to Insure In-sure the use of the proper quantity of gum In proportion to the stamp sheets When they start work In the morn Ing each of the men Is charged with 1000 sheets of stamps and twentysix pounds of gum He must spread that amount of gum over the given number of sheets Exhaustive experiments and exact scientific calculations have determined de-termined the proportion of gum and paper Rigid and continuous Inspection and the keeping of n running account with each operator Jn the gumming room make It almost impossible to neglect neg-lect any sheet or to dispose of the gum except by spreading It with absolute uniformity over the sheets The little vats which hang over the rollers contain con-tain delicate Instruments which show the temperature nt which the gum Is kept and Its specific gravity From time to time the superintendent of the gummlngroom Inspects these Instruments Instru-ments He requires an absolute temperature tem-perature of 80 degrees and a bpeolflc gravity of Washington correspondent correspond-ent New York Tribune |