Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1931, Page 16

A—16 PLANTTOREGLAM OLD MONEY PAPER Machinery Being Built at Navy Yard for Use at Bureau. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. There is now being constructed in the Washington Navy Yard special ma- chinery for a plant to be in operation within six months in the U. 8. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for reclaim- ing macerated United States paper money which is now being hauled away as waste to & Virginla dump. That is the present promising status of a spe- cialized intensive study being made for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing by the U. S. Bureau of Efficiency in an effort to turn what is ncw the principal cost of redemption of worn-out cur- rency into a source of considerable Tevenue. This is entirely distinct from the ef- fort made by Representative Will R.| ‘Wood, chairman of the House Appro- priations Committee, to have legislation passed providing for erection of a Gov- ernment-owned and Government-op- erated paper mill at the Bureau of En- graving and Printing to manufacture the distinctive currency paper fcr| which the Crane Co. of Dalton lndi Pittsfield, Mass., have had & monopoly for many years, That project was fathered by Herbert D. Brown, chief of the Bureau of Efficiency, but was de- feated in committee hearings when of- ficlals of the Treasury Department, Secret Service, Bureau of Engraving and Printing ail united in oppositicn. | Problem of Years. | The destruction of the distinctive paper in the worn-out currency has for many years been an important problem for the Government. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which turns out the currency, bonds and other ne- gotiable paper for the Government, has nothing to do with the redemption of the currency after it has become worn out in circulation as it comes from the After it has been redeemed, v by the Treasury Department, it is taken in large padlocked trunks to the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing and there dumped into tanks driven by machinery, with soda, ash and lime thrown in on top. The lid is bolted on and sealed, and with the chemicals chewing up the paper the machinery churns all night, reducing it to a dis- colored, ground-up mass which is then loaded on trucks and hauled to the dump. Some years ago the Government found a market for this macerated paper which was used in cheap paper board for book covers, in fashioning gouvenirs, &c. But the market fell off and prices slumped, so that it cost more to prepare the macerated paper 1ot shipment to the contractor who bid for it. ! Some few years ago the Bureau of | Engraving and Printing cut off one of he big coste of redemption of worn- out currency by duwntlnulnf the use of a lap machine, and found it ch:lper{‘ to dump“fl}e n.l:(’:mteg paper than to| repare it for ent. 5 A uml-eoumzvr?hl machine was operated at the Bureau of Engraving{ and Printing for about a year, with the Bureau of Standards co-operating, which worked out so successfully that the decision was reached to go ahead with the manufacture of the machinery, which is now being made at the Wash- ington Navy Yard and at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. | Test of Possibilities. Otto C. Winestock is engaged as a specialist by the Bureau of Efficiency to test out the possibilities of the pro-| pised redemption plant. One of the achievements has been to entirely de- ink the macerated currency, so that' instead of coming out a blotchy hluL*h‘i fluld mass it comes out clean and white. As the distinctive currency; paper is of rag stock the reclaimed paper is of high quality. It cannot, | however, be used over and over again for making paper money, because it has Icst much of its wearing quality,( which is of extreme importance in | aper money to prevent cracking ‘where folded. One of the problems which has re- ceived the most intense study is de- struction of the silk threads which are a distinctive feature of the gurrency T, : PoPari of Mr. Winestock's special )ob! is to find new uses for the reclaimed stock. Already he has interested a number cf manufacturers. several of whom have asked the privilege of mak- ing bids on the product of the new Government reclamation plant. It is proposed that some of the macerated money will go into counters for shoes, into high-class linen paper, into artifi- | cial leathers and into imitation parch- | ment on which important Tecords can | be kept after the silk threads have been | destroyed. It is estimated that some- thing over 2.500.000 pounds of pulp will be reclaimed each vear, which, on ac- | count of its high quality, will find 2, P able market, s0 that the present high cost of redemption may be wiped | out and a sizable net profit on the op- | eration substituted QUAKE IS RECORDED An earthquake of moderate intensity was registered on the seismograph at| Georgetown University yesterday be- ginning at 3:53:37 p.m. and continuing until 5:15, with the maximum intensity at 4 o'clock. Its estimated distance from Washington was 2,000 miles. The direction could not be determined. List Your Vacant House with J. LEo KOLB 923 N. Y. Ave. 1237 Wisc. Ave. Dist. 50 }’ia;;l oae Music Lessons Free lessors. G he interest of musical sell- xpression W. W. KIMBALL CO. 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