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Show 1 if fill I Demand Is Greater Than Treasury Department Depart-ment Can Supply New York, Oct. 21 So great has become be-come the domand for paper currency In certain parts of the country to replace old notes, that Lee McClung, treasurer of me United States, and J. E. Ralph, director of tho bureau of ehgravljjg and printing, arc now making a tour of the sub-treasuries to see whether some way cannot be devised to limit tho 'redemption of bills, which Is costing more now than the treasury under present regulations regula-tions can well afford. Mr. McClung and Mr. Unli'di "are in New York to-da', to-da', after & study of the situation in Boston, whcie the demand for new monov is keenest "Thp demand for new paper currency cur-rency is vory much greater "now than the approprlatlcn from congress allows al-lows to bo f'ilfv met," said Mr. McClung Mc-Clung "We nc trvlng to see If it would not be posslblp to cut down redemptions. I thri'k1 sentiment has more to do with the demand for freah money than sanitary ideas. As for the claim soraotlmes advanced that old money Is danqcrous to handle it is worthy of mention that during the existence of the redemption department de-partment not a single case has been known there of transmission of disease di-sease in this way, "Tho life of a $1 bill nowadays averages av-erages a little over ono year. In Boston Bos-ton yesteiday, I noticed a note pre-sento pre-sento 1 for redemption which left the currency department only three weeks ago. Tho oldest and most worn notes come from the mining districts, especially es-pecially those of Pennsyhania. West Virginia and Indiana. The extreme south is bad In this respect also. The Now England district seems to be more particular about getting new monej than any other. section of the country " nn |