This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...silkfibered paper made at the Crane Mills in Dalton, Mass. Its manufacture is a closely guarded trade secret, and the law forbids possession by others of any such paper or _its imitation. It is received in packages of 1,000 sheets. This 1,000 count, beginning at the paper mill in Massachusetts, is maintained throughout every department of the Bureau, and is continued after the notes reach the Treasury. To each pressman 1,000 sheets are given at a time. The printing is done on hand-presses. Each pressman has a young woman assistant. Each sheet makes four notes. A pressman prints 500 sheets a day, on one side only. From this floor the printed sheets go to the one below, where the count is verified. Then they pass to the numbering machines, which impress upon them in blue ink the distinctive series letter and the number of each note. The machines are purely automatic as to the progression of the numbers. The numbered notes are counted for the last time, and wrapped in packages of 1,000 sheets each, to be taken to the Treasury. There are fourteen departments and 1,400 employes; each piece of work passes through the hands of thirty different people. An elaborate system of receipting prevails, and at the closing hour everything is delivered into the hands of the custodians, and every count is verified before the force is dismissed. The rule prevails not only here, but in the Issue and Redemption Divisions in the Treasury Building. From the Bureau the currency is brought over at 9 o'clock every morning, a million dollars a day, in a wagon built of steel, and attended by a force of guards, to the Treasury, and delivered to the Division of Issue. Here three experts verify the contents of 1,000 sheets to the package, each sheet being composed...