. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ers who present checks for payment, and other clients;there is also the safeguarding of personal checks and other papers. Severaloutfits for the use of banks have already been devised, based of course 354 Personal Identification on the existing system, and consisting mainly of a mahogany box, a smallpiece of plate glass, and other appurtenances, and with this comes, afterthe payment of a certain sum for private instruction, the explanation ofa part of the well-known method of indexing, as given here, with
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ers who present checks for payment, and other clients;there is also the safeguarding of personal checks and other papers. Severaloutfits for the use of banks have already been devised, based of course 354 Personal Identification on the existing system, and consisting mainly of a mahogany box, a smallpiece of plate glass, and other appurtenances, and with this comes, afterthe payment of a certain sum for private instruction, the explanation ofa part of the well-known method of indexing, as given here, with a guar-antee of secrecy on the part of the purchaser. This last, in view of thecomplete publicity of the whole system from the beginning, seems rathersuperfluous. Naturally, however, all these systems are good, since theyare taken directly from the approved methods. It is to this source, that of banks and their needs, that we are indebtedfor a recent advance in the technique of taking finger prints, a techniquewhich will rid the process of the only possible disagreeable feature, that. ^^fl^-- ^l^lfj Figure 148. Plain impressionof the right index, middle, and ringfingers, as used by banks at thepresent time. of the use of printing ink. This advance comes from Mr. Ray E. Bauder,cashier of the First National Bank of Taylorville, 111., and consists of theuse of a card, sensitized chemically, and developed and fixed much afterthe manner of a photograph. This system has already been adopted innearly all the larger banks in Chicago, and is employed by the ChicagoPolice Department. Aside from the usual form of records, Mr. Bauderhas devised two other applications. One of these is an identificationcard, which is to be issued only through a bank to its clients, and designedto identify him while traveling. It consists of a small card, marked withthe name and any other devices of the bank, and bearing the signed auto-graph and the usual three finger prints (right index, middle and ring),
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