Show BANK NOTES how they are Be dermed by hie government remarkable in the treasury department the national bank have tramped about tho country until they have become ragged and vagabond and have reached athe of degradation they are bundled up and sent to the treasury department for tion many million of these iva grant aare received at the debirt meni each year they have to pass in review through the nation al bank redemption agency where those that are utterly depraved and good for nothing are sentence to be chewed up and those that have potion through force of association but are still not so far gone that bome glod may not be got out of them are sent bacat cinto the ber vice in the place of shosei thai are condemned new notes crisp and clean are sent out the of varied anan same novel and interesting but their tale is told only by their ap bearance pe arance get to the department the average length of time that a new note can keep up a respectable ap bearance pe arance is have been foundas foun dat the end of twenty years to be asi crisp as on the day of their issue but these are exceptional cabet where they have fallen m to af pf people who made pets of them and carefully guarded them from caage the wandering note soon becomer bec omea a tramp jt rapidly goes 0 o pieces if it starts out cpr the west stopping inns or ii it frequents and falls company bad habits lell on a bank not very quickly it ia n falls in butcher become goad under such clr few weeks they to all borts of misfortune water identifying NOTES t haliy thousand get burned up then blackened remains are sent to the treasury for redemption one lady in the offic eini athis case has charge of them and they are sent to her for can be redeemed her name is fitzgerald and she is eaid to ibe very expert seldom failing to identify a note giving us proper name date and no matter how badly burned it aig sometimes packages of dred done up to be expressed are sent in all stuck together and burped clear through to a black crispy mass she then separates theaone the mone byone by one with a very thin bladed knife and places the charred ca chone separately upon a slab and examines it very carefully with all peculiarities of the issues of the various banks and briot 0 must be reduced almos tto ashes to be beyond her recognition to an inexperienced eye it might not a piece of grocers paper which had gone through the fire EXPERTS IN THE redemption Mo EKoy CA t C at all those notes otherwise auf go directly hotbo redemption agency the degree chency displayed is something remarkable this branch of the service was originated about eleven years ago by general spinner oh the paper I 1 currency as it became too worn fin circulation many ragas muffin notes were wandering about the count ryThe service begun with about people employed in mountings coun tings and the notes which require great care arid it is only after long that t can be done i rapidly there is an average of about notes per year handled and they have to b counted abo ul five times if there no hitch countant coun tand softener if any mistakes are made but the amount is variable from year to vear an d even from month month the lowest number was in 1880 81 were redeemed and from that it has rucj up as high as in it rung as low as four or five million tien against rune IB other i i rw months t to i eighteen cr twenty roillie the of january and june always take the lead those being the after the fall and tf pring trade respectively when the currency worn out from the rough bodge new notes T A DAY the j allrey dept sor three of whom are ladies can handle just half a million notes caan day this is very ex pert the notes when they to have first to lecount edia w the countering coun terin to go over them twice and she buet make no mis take and pass no counterfeit JOBS thus caused will be deducted from her salary she is given from six to ten thousand notes for gives a receipt then she counts them in then she counts them back and if the two counts agree she credit for them when she up in the evening turning in the money bound and labe ledwith her name and amount on each package if tho packages or any of them aro found short she haa to imade good the deficiency next the have to be assorted in from hayett be grouped as denomination then distributed of issue and then denomination into under he beada of banks then they are counted out the counter in haab ilice and the counter ou tl thrice i bu the furmer has iti the t most ji responsibility 1 and must beamore expert the counter in handles from six 0 o ten thousand notes twice counts twelve to twenty dayi While the counter out five to seven thousand three times or counts from fifteen ito twenty one thousand per day his 13 provided they make no mistakes which makes a recount necessary and doubles the work i requires constant attention and is A ON aa each note ha scrutinized very closely to see that it is not counterfeit and the countering coun terin must know the name of every bank that has a counterfeit upon iff and have in his mind a full description of the false note so as to be able to detect it at tight the auperin counterfeit notes are thrown out by these experts without hesitation every time they come to them they have a line of passing before their eyes all the time and any flagor defect they notice on the instant R two hundred and fort appoints ments have been made during the eleven years of the agen cys existence and forty of the fifty seven employees now there have served from the first A new hand ia doing remarkably well if he or she learns in six months to count five hundred per day on the assortment which is the easiest while thes eold hands will count ten thousand a day if the notes are fairly good women are employed for this business because of the delicacy of their touch and on account of the fad that thep arc not k gocpt to have bad habito or when they do it is more quickly discovered than initha case of a man they must be young quick and healthy and well educated and their salaries which are paid in through the Treasury by the banks for the three grades of work are rated al 1000 and 1200 the cashiers and two or three of the counters are men to witness the silence and byg tern of ibe office is a remarkable eight the eye of the counters po cannot for an instant be taken from the notes and their fingers fly through the money like fine machinery one greenback following another ina never ending fion all day long it is said that three counters or count reses see every jino of engraving on the face of a note at glance as it passes through their fingers washington star |