A RUN ON AN AMERICAN BANK.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 10

A RUN ON AN AMERICAN BANK.

An American tot respondent writes to the Umphie : — "A inn on an east-side bank in Now Yoik \i a picturesque incident. Tho deposits in the east-aide banks aio the small savings of the foreign colonies — the accumulations of litt'o Khop. kovpeiß, peddlers, puMtcnil men, and all that ehiss whoso capital lcpic&cnts tho saving of a penny at n timo. Theso people, coming from Ru.ssm, Italy, Hungiuia, and Germany, havo never been woith a hundred dojlnrfc befoio they vouched America, nnd every dollar that they save i» magnified to them one himdied times by contrast with their foimer poverty. Tho thought of losing any of it ih heartrending. Their sensitiveness about their savings miiku.s them dbtiust luniks, and if they are* petMiaded to put aside Ihh distuist for h time, and to deposit, their money in a Livings institution, they are very sensirivo to every rumour affecting its integrity. For this reason, when, in some- mysterious way, word was circulated on the east mHo that the State Bank in Giand-streot was insolvent, thoro was a rush of depositors fiom all over the Jewish quarter. They stormed tho bank and demanded their money. Not ono of them was satisfied to await his turn in line. Kaoh wanted to precede the other at the cashier's window. The bankers, who had hud experience with wmilar ! runs befoie, took it good-naturedly. "It is impossible to stop them," they said, and they simply sent for more .cash and tho police. A ropo was stretched in the street to hold back (he crowd, and a» fast as they .could count out tho money — principally in silver dollars — tho smnll deposits, were paid. There were some amusing wencs when tho excitable lUisMnn Jews received their load of i silver. Ono man got 500 si'.ver dollms in his hat, nnd did not know what to do with them. First he tried to distribute them through his pockets, leaving some in his hut, nnd putting tho ha I on his head. Then ho put them all into tho hat again, being fearful that ho would bo lobbed on his way homo. Finally he decided that there was no safe way in which he could take the monoy with him, and ho took it to the receiving k-'.lor and a.^ked to deposit it «gain. But this the bank officials firmly refused. No one was allowed to ledcpo.sit what ho hml withdrawn. Ono giey-haired man had 1000 silver dollars which ho took to tho corner of tho bank and eaiefully counted before putting them in a bag and earrjiug them away. Most of the women diew small amount*, and carried the silver dn'liua away with them in bugs tittuclted to (heir undeickiil*) or in their chocs and slocking. Koine women had pouches under their shawls, and went aw.iy with the money hugged to their bosoms. All the lnrce depositou lcceived cinviiq bags from the bank in wK'ich 10 eiiriy away their money. Almost without exception, when the women found that their demands were honoured, they wanted to rrdcpoMt their money, but tho bankers refused to jreueive it."

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