The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-10-10
From the Chicago Tribune.
How a Run is Started.

The way run is got up is some
thing like this: John, going along 8
istreet oyertakes a bank. and hav-
ing no money there or anywhere else,
Immediately begins to wonder if
that institute will be able to nav its
| depositors, of which he is not one.
While thus cogitating he gazes into
the windows, and Bill then comes
aiong-Blll being an impecunious
deVlI like JOhn-and Bill begins to
stare as if there was a menagerie in
slde, the counter being the cage. and
the clerks the wild beasts. Tom
heaves IN sight and SEEING
John and Bill with their eves fixed
On the bank, and beng an initiative
animal, he reinforees them with his
loptics. It's now about time Charlie
came along, and along comes Char.
lie. Now, Charles great grandfatbar
was a man of wealth, but his deOen-
crate descendants squandered itand
Charlie isn't worth continental
Charlie, however, feels in duty bound
to mediate on the vanity Of riches;
how they take the wings of the
morning or the afternoon, as it hap
pens, and fly away, leaving him with
out money in that bank. John, and
Bill, and Tom, and Charlie are now
gathered at the corner, staring at
that bank with the concentrated DOW
.er Of hundred thousand micro
scopes. They wink and shake their
heads and wonder what the world is
coming to, as if it made the least
difference to them, financially. if it
came to an end at 4:30 the same
afternoon. Nevertheless they exer-
else the inalenable right of American
citizens without regard to race, color
or previous condition of servitude. |
to stand on a sidewalk and look at .
bank. They stand and look, and
while they are standing and looking.
Peter looms up on the horizon. Pc
ter is three blocks away, but he sees
a crowd in front of his bank and
wonders what on earth can be the
matter. Quickening his pace, he
arrives in the vicinity of Charles
and Tom, and Bill and John, lust as
Tom is observing to Bill that The in
stitution is shaky and Charlie and
Tom agree, the latter clinching his
observations by saying that money
is safe nowhere unless sewed in the
lining of mans petticoat. Simple
Peter begins to feel like an Garth
quake, his heart trembles up against
his epiglottis, he troubles in his
shoe-Ieather, the circulation of his
system is as limp as wet rag. As
soon as he gains control of his mind
and his legs, he directs the former
to propel the latter up the steps,
writing a check, presenting it, and
getting his money. Having his
money, ike man with a baby, he /
doesn't know what to do with it. If
he takes the lucre home the house
may burn, the honse may not be in {
sured. and even if it were it might
not do him any good. He walks in
the direction of another bank, and
finds there another set of Johns,
Bills, Toms and Charles predicting
eternal smash. He meets his friend
Ned, and tells Ned what he has done,
and Ned is off like a streak of light
ming to follow his foolish example
for fright is infectious. Ned meets
and so it goes until there q;
s q first-class run on the bank. Pc
.er and Ned and other weak-minded
fellows take their money home, if /:
hey do not get robbed on the way, !
and feelas if they had an elephant l
n the houte. They and their wives I
stand guard over it all night, taking ]
.urns OF two hours each, and in the I
they complain of being ]
weary and sleepy, and almost wish /,
hey had as little money on their i
minds as the Jacks and Toms and
Jharlies who eongregated near the
bank and started a panic in which
hey were not interested.