Stopped the Run.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 26, 27 June 1901, Page 18

Stopped the Run.

' Some time ago,' says an American exchange, ' there was a run on a bank in a certain iron-mill town, and the depositors were being paid in silver dollars. The excitement increased and the run became a fast one. The cashier was a young Irishman, and the work put upon him was more than he liked. He resolved to stop it. He sent the janitor with a bushel of silver dollars into the rear room where there was a stove, with instructions to •' heat them silver dollars red hot." They were heated, and in that condition he hauled them out with a ladle. The depositors first grabbed the coin, then kicked. " But you'll have to take them that way,' said the cashier. 'We are turning them out as fast as we can melt and mould them, and if you don't wait till they cool, you'll have to take them hot." That settled it. The run was stopped.'