Deseret Evening News | 1910-08-06 | Page 28 | Safeguarding the Treasury at Washington

I Safeguarding the tICe Treasury at Washington O frequently has lice been II W expressed i ed by II h those visiting thin tho Treasury building mull of o dollars dollar In III gout gold gouts goldi Rol o I Ind i ml nd silver coitus coln besides s paper I money nn and other evidence of or value are uro stor ator od ed that Hint the strong troll box of or Uncle Omle Sum Ham Si mm hils never been hren robbed Tim The answer Is that lh th thin Treasury l Is IA guarded night slay ln In In by Jy both holh men III II n the most t modern mechanism Every 1 Iery vault la Ix I cornier conne ted led with nn an ele clott trio trie alarm no o sem that the slightest touch of at the ban hand 1 will wIlI sound 11 II warning at tit the Iho office of the iliA guards hail In ht thin the police stations of the Iho city nf if Washington 1 tan A 1 signal lOllS cd rd II would woul suffice to bring out nut tho Iho troops at Fort con l ort Myer Myor three miles away awn these theM mechanical safe pa safeguards guards there Is his a n large of men Islets In watching time the Treasury Tren ur Tho The secretary r 1 himself 1 lm could not get Into Inlo Ills hili Ill room r Om after office flee hours unless h b by bythe the tile authority of nf the captain of the tho watch to 10 whom nil time the ordinary keys koya of ot tho the building urn are turned turnell over nt at the close clo o of or tho thin lillY day Time The vaults urn uro protected by hy lib tho mont Ingenious of or time lock locks Th this foo paper money mono of or the government IK Is brought In Iron Iran bound client chests lock locked ed etl timid mill sealed from the tho bureau of or on en avin and nd printing They The are ro deliver delivered ed ed Id at nt tho the tho cash room room to oth tho Iho chief of the division of issue In sheets of or four bills each They are ar complete with n unit and 1111 1 numbers number except for tor tho the seal Melli which IB Is l printed Upon III them with power pOl fon e r presses premier tosses In a small apartment under tinder the cash h room Those These presses lire are operated by b two persons 11 u pre Pressman n a woman who act acts us liS feeder or assist ant When tho neal ban has neon been Imprint Imprinted ed ell upon tho the bills bill they are uro counted automatically bound In t of equal numbers number by bands of or paper Doper In er marked signed r by the tho who nho havo handled r them and panned passed Into nn an adjoining room where the tho sheets hel ore are cut clIl and the hills are recounted and Inspected In order that the tho Im ha Imperfect perfect ones may bo ho thrown out Tho Thu next toIl step Is l tn th bind them Into pack packages packages I ages of ot equal amounts amount Ind nil to take tako 1 them to 10 the tho drying rrY 1 Ing vault VII to fn Ho upon I tho the shelves for several weeks until I tho rho Ink become Tho utmost Ingenuity Perfectly dry surround these aH s r l ll I every ever possible po Isit u alb to s ne IS will UH Il of ot ho the division I Is II en shed 11 I Tho 10 o which of his hili tl tel touched e h thin tho different III ff e hills as P ho hee know who In Ih t r ro e them who printed the soul meal a who ho and cut them for w wro Mi tt and end Its lis ever cen r fI lift i I ed 1 In III books I e record It II U is I said Ihl ut if f 1 Ir hj I y so RI tt WI r re n II 1 1 Ix fact tact would w ho IK know 1111 In to i I hg K t n c minutes New York Yok hr rad