Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ng division, in the basement, is fitted up with the bestappliances for executing the fine plates required. Here is a massivevault used as a depository for all the plates and rolls, which at nightare securely locked in it. The engravers are guarded by watchmen,lazily sitting in comfortable arm-chairs a few steps off, who keep theireyes fixed on the blocks of steel and copper being
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . ng division, in the basement, is fitted up with the bestappliances for executing the fine plates required. Here is a massivevault used as a depository for all the plates and rolls, which at nightare securely locked in it. The engravers are guarded by watchmen,lazily sitting in comfortable arm-chairs a few steps off, who keep theireyes fixed on the blocks of steel and copper being engraved, forhere, as in the other divisions, all the employes are under surveil-lance very much as if they were inmates of a prison. The Register of the Treasury, who has charge of the account-books wherein all the receipts and expenditures of the governmentare recorded, and the Comptroller of the Currency, v\o has chargeof the national banks and their circulating notes, ? important offi-cials, and their divisions have numerous officials r a employes. TheRegister has a salary of $4,000 per year, an* ,ie assistant register$2,250; the Comptroller has $5,000, and deputy-comptroller, THE SECRET SERVICE. 187. THE Y. M. C. A. BUILDING. $2,800. The departmentsof Customs and Internal Revenueare very extensive. The Commis-sioner of Customs has a salary of $4,000, and the Commissioner ofInternal Revenue, $6,000. The Director of the Mint, who has thesupervision of the mints and assay offices, has a salary of $4,500. A large amount of important and very beneficial work is performedby the Secret Service Office, which is in charge of a chief with a sal-ary of $3,500, who reports to the Solicitor of the Treasury. Counter-feiting, and the numerous cunning devices employed to fraudulentlyobtain money and lands from the government, are investigated bythe Secret Service agents, and evidence obtained to convict office rooms in the Treasuiy Building contain an extensivemuseum of
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