. Trent'anni a Washington; o, vita e scene nella nostra capitale nazionale. Ritrarre le meraviglie in tutti i grandi dipartimenti, e descrivere ogni funzione importante del nostro vernment nazionale andare ... Con disegni dei presidenti e delle loro mogli ... da Washington a Roosevelt amministrazione. Furto e furto - campane di allarme e segnali - GuardingMillions of Treasure - come è stato rubato un pacchetto contenente 20,000 dollari - l'uomo con un cappello di Panama - UN pacchetto contenente 47.000 dollari - cattura del ladro - i viaggi e le avventure di aDollar - Quando un dollaro cessa di essere una Dolla

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. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . Burglary and Theft — Alarm Bells and Signals — GuardingMillions of Treasure — How a Package Containing $20, 000 Was Stolen — The Man with a Panama Hat —A Package Containing $47, 000Missing — Capture of the Thief — The Travels and Adventures of aDollar — When a Dollar Ceases To Be a Dollar. T a massive, cloth-covered desk, in a large room ofsumptuous furnishings, whose windows look outacross the White Lot and the winding walks andstately trees of the grounds of the White House, sits the Secretary of the Treasury, the man who isat the head of an establishment doing a businessof two or three millions of dollars a day. From the wallsof this room look down .many famous men who have heldthis important office, silent reminders to the present incum-bent that some day his picture will probably find a placehere or in the adjoining anterooms and offices of his busyassistants and secretaries. This man is temporarily at thehead of that department of the government which not only (201). 202 A NEVER-ENDING STREAM OF MONEY. handles all the money but makes it. By virtue of his officehe directs the employment of many thousands of people.In the vaults under his care are millions and millions ofmoney and bonds. From this vast establishment the moneyflows out in a never-ending stream, and back to it returns, never perhaps to reappear. Here are millions of bright coins that have never oncemoved out of their dark dungeons in the underground vaultssince they came fresh from the mints. Here also are mil-lions of dollars worth of bonds — TTncle Sams own promisesto pay years hence — held for security, on which he is regu-larly paying interest to those who own them. Int

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