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THE WORLD'S ADVANCE 



GUARDING A TRUCK LOAD OP 

 CURRENCY 



Three times every working day a large, 

 enclosed motor truck of unusual length 

 backs up to a rough wooden platform 

 near one of the iron grated basement 

 doors of the United States Treasury 

 building. The doors in the rear end of 

 the truck swing open and large yellow 

 chests, on small trucks, are rolled out 

 onto the platform, down an incline and 

 into the building. In these chests is paper 

 currency representing hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars, the amount, of course, 



provided for the purpose, may always be 

 seen a small squad of uniformed men, 

 whose business it is to protect this im- 

 mense wealth from any hold-up men who 

 may be lurking on the streets of Wash- 

 ington. 



A HAY DERRICK MEETS A LIVE 

 WIRE TWO MEN ELEC- 

 TROCUTED 



A small iron plate on top of a hay der- 

 rick attracted enough electric current 

 from a high-power wire near Yuba City, 



At the Right: The 

 Court Yard of the 

 United States Treasury 

 Building and the Auto- 

 mobile Trucks That Are 

 Engaged in Carrying 

 Currency. In the Circle: 

 A Treasury Motor 

 Truck and the Men 

 Who Guard its Con- 

 tents. 



depending upon the denominations of the 

 bills, which have been made at Uncle 

 Sam's newly constructed money-making 

 establishment down on the banks of the 

 Potomac River. The precious load is de- 

 posited in the vaults of the Treasury 

 building. 



The trip from the Bureau of Engrav- 

 ing and Printing to the Treasury build- 

 ing is not a long one, yet on the end gate 

 of the truck, occupying a cushioned seat 



California, to electrocute one man and 

 injure another. The two men were pull- 

 ing a big hay derrick across a small 

 stream when they were compelled to 

 pass under one of the high-power wires. 

 The derrick was lowered so as to allow 

 it to pass under the wires clear of them 

 by about a foot. The iron plate on the 

 derrick was directly under the wire when 

 it drew the current from the naked cop- 

 per. The electricity passed down the 

 guy wire of the derrick. The man who 

 was killed was holding one end of the 

 guy wire and the man who was injured 

 was holding the other end. The current 

 carried by the transmission line outside 

 of Yuba City is of extremely high ten- 

 sion, which accounts for its leaping 

 twelve inches through the air. 



