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JKEJ3NUTOJN GAZETTE, TUES1AY KVEMKG, DECEMBER 0weltruthdrivesryd;OUR NEW MONEY.Beautiful Designs for the Treasury Notes That Are to be Issued.The Coming Legal Tend* r* Will Be I lie Kin at in the World and an Era in ihe HistoryThegovernment iesue of treasury notes will mark an eia In the hjs-tory of the paper money of the world, as well a3 define the re.at.ons fce.w^en art and currency, wrhich have heieio-fore teen left entirely out of governmental consideration. The one, two, five and ten dollar bills shortly to be put into c:rculation by the government of the United S.ates will be works of art, each note being woi thy of training, like any other engraving of high mer.t. Such artists as Will H. Low. Walter Shirlaw, and Edwin Howland Blash-field have made oil paintings, from which the government engravers have made steel engravings, from wh.ch, in turn, impressio have been primed on absolutely unique and beautiful paper, the result being not only new money, but millions of specimens of the highest art of the end-cf-the century engiavers put in circulation among L*.ie people of the United States.The design for the face of the five-dollar note, which w:ll be first Issued, Is by Walter Shirlaw. That for the one is by Will H. Low. Edwin Howland Llashfield designed the new two dollar note, and Walter Shirlaw the new ten. They will probably appear, the one a. d five dollar notes in January or February, the tw'o and ten dollar note3 two or three months later.Up to this time bank note designs have ^consisted of a hotch-potch of portraits, athe work, letters, etc., hav ng r;o particular relation to each oitaar, and 10 coherent significance. These var.ous bits of engravings have been dor,.* o.i a steel plate of a certain size, and the resultant printing has showm a series of splotches inclosed in a narrow border. The government of the United States, In the new series, has attained unity in design and effect. To secure the result the services of some of the best figure painters in the country have be n enlisted; and, of all tho^e who co np.t d for the honor, only a few succeeded.For this competition designs were submit l ed ranging ir*. size from 2% to 4 feet in width, and cf proportionate height. They are painted in oils andthe irreslstable tendency tcwaid cjo a-tion invariably asserts itself In the warnir.g and coding of tilts. These paintings, of coufse, depict objects in rmocth surfaces of color, relieving light or dark, as the case requires. The function of the engraver at once comes of upreme Importance. It is take the design and Interpret It tl the idta of the artist may go forthsicn of culture.For the first time In th the world money In itself is to refln« and enlighten.The engraver is obliged not only t% reproduce the light and shade of th« original des gn, he must dev.se direc tlons of llr.es which describe surfaces gracefuly ar.d harmoniously, depict ture ar.d actually convey a ser.se of or. HSs strength of lightness of 11 ie varying widths, crossings, recrossings and interwork; his suggest.ons o ness and distance, his rendition lt;i.y as well as color—these ident.fy andThe new money that will pass from hand to hand among the 70,000.000 people is In reallvy the work of the government engravers, and they are O. F. C. Smillie and Charles Schleht. When the designs come from the hand of the artist designer, the li -hts and shades ure depicted In smooth, unbroken, surfaces of color. In translating this into line, i broken linear surface, the judgmen and tact of the engraver are called in to play to translate these washes Intoand Sherman. For the first time persons not holding office under the gov eminent appear on its currency. The back of th-a a; ,i of all other new no its I designed by Thomas F. Morrj3, I=1 AHAchief of the engraving division of th Buiead of Engraving and Printing.The face of the $1 bill was designed by Will H. Low. It se^ms h.stoiy in-ructing Youth in the annals of Am2ri-i. Twenty-three memorial wreaths, in, which are the names of great men appear aiound three borders of the da sign. A distant view of Washington monument and the .dome of the Capi.ol s the background. The heads of Jef-son and Washington occupy p.aces 1 the center of the upper bolder. The figure of History is on the observer'sleft.The figure of Youth is on, History’s left, and almost in the center of the design.In the lower right hand comer is the seal, which :s smaller in all new notes.The Lack of the $1 note shows on the left an allegorical winged figure; to the observer’s right are por-ait heads of Mar.ha and Georgeashing ton. Mr. Charles Schlecht en- •*pjtcj1ed intgraved the face of this note. ..It. dThe design for the face of the r.ew „You haye .$2 bill shows Science presenting Steam 1 lt;jon’t do and Electric;.y to Commerce and Manu- the p0j«0n's facture. It was done in oil by Edwin body Howland Blashfield of New York. j «Ag rnrThe central group shows Science acbt **we ai Seated with two graceful boys, re pee- 80ned and ii ting Steam and Electricity, on e.ther only half dlj side of her. On el.her side of this cen- ing into metral figureu rea rep res. facture.The back of the note shows, appropriately enough, portraits of Fulton and Morse.The general idea of the face of the new $10 bill, designed by Walter Shirlaw, iis agriculture.Ears and stalks ofclogged and choked up, oxygen the tingling, the Heart is laEven theextieme left,upper selves andcorner. To the right, toward the center of the design, is a recumbent youth, representing the South; over his head are oranges.Further to the right of Agriculture, a splendid woman, holding a sickle; to the right, still, is Forestry, a rugged fairy,'clad in skins; to the spectator’s extreme right :s the West, a beautiful woman holding a wine Jar. Over her head are balls of cotton; under her feet, flowers.A famous artist conceives a noble design, w'hich will reflect some great patriotic idea. He puts this design on canvas, in oil, without co.or. The resalt is an o.i painting, say four feet long by 2l/fc feet w.de. This painting is put L.*.o.e the engraver, who studies it day to and day out, peihaps for weeks, now ax.d then tracing on a plate of soft steel, which rests on a table in front of him, his conception of the line or lines requisite to convey the artist s concep.l n to the public mind. The outline of thirr steel plate, on which the engraver is working must be of the exact size of the note to be printed. He engraves in sections, and when the whole plate is finished the steel die Is hardened ar.d the entire desgn transferred to a roll, Mie section of a cylinder, of soft^steel. Th a roll in turn is then hardened. The design is then transferred by prt.suaeblood and 1 health alwiir? itHplate, which is then chilled, and faom which the notes are directly printed o.i paper specially prepared by the government at great expense.The Bunau of Engiavlng and Pr nt-ing, said Its chief, Mr. Johnson, which has to do only with the printing of notes and securities, belongs to the treasury department, and has been housed in a large building at Fourteenth and B. streets devoted exclusively to Its uses, for about nineteen years. The bureau was created in war time, when paper fi actional currency was first printed. Early to Ks histcry, while it was yet housed in the treasury building, the printing of bank notes ai d internal revenue stamps was added to its duties. Surface printing, such as that of postal cards, has never formed part of ;is functions. We make the plates from which the postals are then pi toted for the government by the lowest bidder. The government stationery in geneial is primed to the government printing office, an entirely separate bureau. The stamped envelopes, which are embo -id work, are printed by private contract also. They are the only securities not printed in the bureau, which is gradually embracing all the government printing, ar.d is growing with the country. It will never be united with the government printing office, since the kind of printing we do Is plate print ng, while theirs :s surface or type work.Tliere are 1.508 persons on our roils, and we work from one year’s end to another, sometimes aluo at night. In 1*94 there were 55,516,000 sheets of securities printed here, including pension checks and patent certificates, the value of these certificates being for that fiscal year $777,865,400. This was an increase of aggregaic values for a year of at least $50,000,000. There was no any kind. In the year 1895 stamps have first been printed by the government, private contract having theretofor. plied them.Mr. G. F. C. Smillie, chief engraver of the bureau, perhaps the leading steel engraver of the United States,Scotch descent and was born in New York in 1854. He inherits his artistic tastes; three of his uncles, and seven of his cousins have been bank note engravers. The radical change In the policy and artistic aims made by the present administration appealed to Smllles ! ambition and he went to Washington There were indications of the revolutiun In paper money and he wants identified with it. As chief engraver ofproducing on the back of the notes for j *balb“reau »e receives a saiary of w.000the first time portraits of famous cf ■ ! and he has no dutlcs whatevcr sar iar.s we give the reverse the samecurity that was imparted to the facesBlurring, for example, will fects in a painting, ard color ! distracts the attention from errors In form. But there can be no slurring in a line engiavlng. Its meaning is exact, the engravers must cover the inaccuracies oX the art lit. Sometimes, for example, the design Is suggestive,” bui rough; in that case the engraver must appreciate the artist’s hints $nd make a finished picture. A photograph reproduction—an engraving is a t lation. The first is an exact copy second embodies the thought, ta tf originality of the translating mind. It is worth remembering that the note that passes from hand to hand is the engraver’s work, his translation of the designer’s Idea.When the new fives are issued, about the time specified, they w.ll get into circulation by beng paid out by the treasury department of the United Stat a instead of the old notes; within a month thereafter the notes will get into general circulation amorg the people. Twoa and tens will follow.Claude M. Johnson, chief of the Bureau of Engraving, said on this subject: The new notes as works of art will have a decided and agreeable educational Influence besides they will be more difficult to counterfeit. We have employed the beet artists to be had, ard we axe sure our engravers are the test I to be obtained In the world. These features of the new currency would themselves command for it the attention of all civilized nations. Buof the old notes by the portraits they bore, and add to the new notes a feature of beauty, of artistic value.Each of the new notes typifies a distinctive idea. The five may be called America,” embodying the ideas of energy and progress. Three groups appear side by side on the face of the note.The first group is an erect male figure, driving three spirited horses by reins which are really flashes of lightning; to his right hand he grasps from the storm clouds the thunderbolts, whose energy is conveyed by ribbons to an electric torch, grasped by the chief figure in the central or principal group on the face of the note. Coherency of design is thus indicated.The central female figure, of magnificent proportions, is winged. She holds aloft to her right hand an incandesce:THE DISCOVERY SAVED HIS LIFE.Mr. G. Caillouette, druggist, Beavers-ville, 111., says: To Dr. Kings New Discovery I owe my lifr-. Was taken with lagrippe and tried all the physicians around, but was of no avail and was given up. and told that 1 could not live. Having Dr. King’s New Discovery in my store, I sent f bottle and began to use it, and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won’t keep store or house without it.” Get a trial bottle a Churchill Drug Co.’s.to the 28th say that in the Santa Clara fight between insurgents and Span-electric flghtl whlcMB^onveying^hTen- ‘W° h°UrS- the SPan‘Shergy conveyed to her from the cloudsAnd Just i eommon-ser business w£ Dr. Hobb’s The’ Kidntstrength an » prodi the ashes oHeart, j joined In th The quari py family,Fifty cenD.*HoblSssevInterest in on Kidney Free.iBac Are Is ) AreHe;DLFlt;Disease and pei cases, less Re32 dead. The insurgents had inly a number wounded.Tobacca planters in Remedious have,7ch IhTm s«^I'und7 r p.ro£ib'teLf,T plaptin,!m,He”-her extended left at her feet; immediatey on her and resting only on the hemisphere, to. , Gomeas has issued a proclamation^saying that after Dec. 1st all trains «• wllj be derailed with dynamite. Counpeople have been advised to movea semi-recumbent position. Is a female thelr bouses back trom the road. Any figure, emblematic, perhaps, of the onlt;l ,vl the Spaniards information press, announcing to the universe the u| be dea)th wlth as an eremy. Wire progress of civilisation. | fences wlll be remoVed or be cut. Any-On the observer’s right, to the left one endeavorlng to sell products of his of the central figure, is a floating figure plantation in any citv or town will be of Peace, holding a law scroll hi one hung.hand and lightly supporting a dove in j * •-the other. In the background are | An Exi*nd*»«l P«pn1ati».v. Brown's glimpses of the great dome and of the Rkonchcal Troche* hav» for many jpara senate wing of the Capitol localizing b’en th* most pom.lar a- t«cl« in use fo relief*the design in- its entirety. Walter Shir- ing Coughs and Throo law, of New York, who made the de- j -sign for the note, stud.ed art In Munich, i . The tea plant grows best His best known work is a large paint- slopes, where the soil is not too of moisture.ing called Sheep Shearing.’On the back of the new $5 bill wil be j an ideal winged head, in the center* j with a V on her breast—a fancy of the ! engraver, Smilie; on either side of the ideal head will be the beads of GrantChildren Cry fur Hitcher’s Castoria.Gentli for liver lt;relief. 1 1 kidney disGENTL Kidney B; I recommfTHAscontaiidiction
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Burlington Gazette
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Tue, Dec 03, 1895
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