and produce 6,000,000 pounds of wet pulp per annum. This is sold to be converted into bookbinders pressboard and other like material.

The various Government bonds are printed by the method employed for currency. Postage stamps are printed on intaglio webb presses, similar to the rotary-gravure presses used for the newspaper illustrated supplements. The Bureau produces daily approximately 3,360,000 currency notes or 992,000,000 yearly with a yearly value of $3,945,000,000. The annual output of postage stamps is 16,000,000,000, and of revenue stamps 7,827,000,000. There are in the Bureau approximately 5,000 employees of whom 55% are women and 45% are men.

It is to Gen. Spinner that the credit belongs of having been the first one to employ women in a Government department. When, in 1862, the Treasury force was depleted by the enlistment of SO many of its employees as volunteers, Gen. Spinner filled the vacant places with women, who very soon demonstrated that for certain work, such as the counting of money, they were superior to men. Gen. Spinner always took great pride in thus having opened the way for thousands of women employes in Washington departments.

Saving the Shreds and Patches. A special group in the Redemption Division salvages the remnants of burned money and shreds and patches of currency. It is a work filled with compensations. for each new case makes its own appeal to one's ever ready sympathy, and with every new success comes the consciousness that some unfortunate person

has been helped. To the editor of this book was exhibited on a recent

occasion the particular work then in hand. There were pulpy bits of money which had been chewed by swine, in which traces had been made out of a $10 note, and another of $5; fragments of two $500 notes, supposed to have been torn up and thrown away by a Chicago man before committing suicide; the ashes of one $10 and two $5 notes, which a woman had hidden in a grate and afterward set fire to. There are restrictions upon the redemption of such fragments of money, the amount allowed being proportioned to the pieces identified in such a way as to make overpayment impossible. If three-fifths of a note are received, the bill is redeemable at its full face value; if less than three-fifths and more than two-fifths, at one-half the value; any part less than two-fifths is not redeemed unless proof is presented that the rest was destroyed. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America is the national federation of the commercial organizations of the country and the largest national organization of its kind in the world. It now (1924) has a membership of about 1,300 chambers of commerce and trade associations with an underlying membership of over 750,000 corporations, firms and individuals, and approximately 15,000 individual business men, firms and corporations in all parts of the United States, its insular possessions, and in many foreign countries. The functions of the Chamber are: (1) to serve American business in the study and solution of its national problems; (2) to interpret to the American business public those acts of the National Government which affect business; (3) to present to the various branches and departments of the National Government the opinions of American business on business and economic questions.

THE STATE, WAR AND NAVY BUILDING, on Pennsylvania avenue, west of the White House, is open to visitors from 9 to 2. Take the elevator in the corridor on the right (Pennsylvania avenue entrance) to second floor. The doorkeepers will give admission to the ante-rooms.

W

ITH a frontage of 342 feet on Pennsylvania avenue, and a depth

of 565 feet, the four-storied granite structure of the State, War and Navy Department ranks with the large and magnificent office buildings of the world. It has 500 rooms and two miles of marble halls. The stairways are of granite with balusters of bronze, and the entire construction is fireproof; for the records and archieves deposited within its walls are priceless and beyond restoration.

The War Department formerly occupied the west wing. The General Staff is still here, but most of the Department organization has been transferred to the Munitions Building, B street, 19th and 20th, S. W. The Navy Department has been transferred to the Navy Department Building, Potomac Park, 18th and B streets, S. W. The State Department is in the south wing.

War Department.-The walls of the corridor of the Secretary of War's offices and the ante-room show a series of portraits of Secretaries, beginning with Henry Knox (1789, Washington's first administration) and including many men whose names are household words in American homes. Of chief and peculiar interest are Huntington's portraits of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, the three frames grouped with a drapery of the Stars and Stripes and a silken standard of the Arms of the United States. The Washington portrait is a copy of an original by Gilbert Stuart.

On the opposite side of the hall are the Headquarters of the Army and the office of the Commander-in-Chief. In the hall above are shown models of the uniform of the Army at various periods of the service. Among the groups is one which represents the dress of Washington's Life Guard. The service, formed in 1776, consisted of 180 men, who were carefully selected for their soldierly qualities and trustworthiness. Each of the Thirteen States is represented. The duty of the members was to serve as a special body guard of the General, his baggage, papers, The motto of the Guard was, "Conquer or Die."

etc.

State Department. In the ante-room of the Secretary of State's office are portraits of former Secretaries, with others in the Diplomatic Reception Room, the salon in which the Secretary receives foreign ministers. The portraits include those of Thomas Jefferson, 1789, Washington's first term; Daniel Webster, 1841 and 1850 (by G. P. A. Healy); William H. Seward, 1861 and 1865; Elihu B. Washburne, 1869 (by Healy); Hamilton Fish, 1869; Wm. M. Evarts, 1877; James G. Blaine, 1881 and 1889; and F. T. Frelinghuysen, 1881. A portrait of Lord Ashburton (by Healy), recalls the "Ashburton Treaty" of 1842, which defined the boundaries between the United States and the British Possessions in North America. and provided for the suppression of the slave trade. The State Library on the third floor is to be visited only on business.

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