The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-01


And in the evening in full dress, or
outdo themselves am still talking of
ladies OF good families, please bear in
mind. The lowness of their necks and
the shortness of their sleeves, makes
their fathers and brothers blush for
them. A wel1-known actress attended
a large party In this city recently, and
the next day she said to me stI as
sure you that when / looked about nae
at that collection of the bon ton, / was
the only woman in the room dressed
with any regard TO decency. Yet
/ have no doubt that they rather
scorned my virtue in their hearts.
SAVING THE PENNIES.
An old adage says: ''Save the pen.
MES and the pounds will take care of
themselves" Z" and Judging from the num-
ber of savings-b banks in this city and the
patronage which they receive, it would
seem that New York had tried the plan
and found the adage a true one. The
number of savings-banks is over thirty,
and the excess of assets over liabilities
amounts to about ten millions of dollars.
The oldest ones are of course the most
hourishing, as is seen in the case of the
Bowery Savings Bank and the Bleecker
street is the oldest in the city, and the
second or third oldest in the country,
having been chartered in 1919 as the
Bank for Savings in the City of New
York. It was first situated on Cham
bers street, but was removed in 1856 to
handsome marble building on Bleeck-
er street, which it occupies still. In
order to show what classes of people
patronize savings banks, will quote a
| little from recent report of this bank.
In the list of new depositors domestics
predominant, there being l, 400 OF that
| class-n1ore than double the number
| from any other-and of laborers, who
come next, only $50, clerks 3S7,
seamstresses 357, tallors III, mefcnanUs
| 13O. liquor dealers 1875, walters 116, and
bar tenders %, shows that the trades
are well represented. But with the pro-
fessions it is different, there being only
81 musicians, % artists, "A clergymen,
| 20 physicians, II attorneys, and 1U en-
| gravers, and no actors at all Out OF
| the whole 10, 1S7 deposltors opening ac-
| counts 2. I'll were married women, 2, O6O
single. SS2 widows, 341 minors, and 65
colored persons. About 1O,O10 persons
closed their accounts there, probably on
account of the panic. The deposits,
| old and new, numbered A., 1893, made in
|
! since its organization, has opened about
363, 900 accounts, and received from de-
positors some S110, 600, 900. The comp
| troller of the bank has been connected
with it for the last forty years. The
Jew residents on the BoWery patroniZe
| the well-known Bleecker Street Bank
| to a great extent. Their own neighbor,
the Bowery Bank, situated on the Bow
cry, near Grand street, was chartered in
1884, forty years since.
will take few figures from the list
of depositors in another wealthy savings
bank in this city to show the nationaIi-
ties of some of its patrons. Our own
countrymen head the list with I'll, and
400, and English, 112. A Dutchman,
an African, eight Bohemians mot re-
porters,) and others vary the list.
THANKSGIVING DAY IN NEW YORK.
There was probably more actual
thanksgiving in this city last Thursday
than there had been for many years pre-
vious, and the holiday was far more
generally observed. The churches and
places of amusement were crowded, and
| everybody on the streets was attired III
| holiday garments. Religious exercises
| and feasting were the order of the day
at the charitable and other institutions.
It is a significant fact that more poor
people applied for meals at these
places than ever before. On Wednes-
| day large wagon went about the city
and visited stores in quest of pro-
| visions for big dinner to be given
try on Thursday. The wagon was
labeled Thanksgiving dinner at the
Five Points House of Industry,R and
was well filled with all sorts of edibles.
In addition to the 400 inmates, /, 10C
strangers were fed at this place. The
little waits who are sheltered here appre-
| ciate their advantages more on account
of the familiar contrast presented by
the domestic condition of the adjacent
| tenement houses, from which most of
them have been taken by the managers
and missionaries of this truly charita-
BILE institution in which they are SO well
| taken care OF.
EMBEZZLING CAR FARES.
The managers of the horse car rail
roads seem to find it a difficult matter to
prevent the conductors in their employ
| from appropriating fares, and despite
constant vigilance, all their efforts
have never completely stopped
this system of peculation. All sorts OF
ingenious devices have been used, but
the ingenuity of the peculators has IN
every case set them at defiance. The
plan of having boxes to put the fares
in, and thus dispensing altogether with
| the employment of conductors, is prob
able the only safe one, but it is a
perfect nuisance to passengers,
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
Many people doubtless think that the
practice of imprisonment for debt is a
thing of the past, and that together
with many other semi -barbarous Gus
toms of the early part of the present
century is no longer in vogue. But they
are mistaken. Although debtors may
no longer be imprisoned for their debts
under that name, they are in reality
often locked up for no other cause in
the world OF course New York is not
the only place in the country where
such things are done, but they are pro
badly of more frequent occurrence here
than elsewhere. The system, although
much practiced, is none the less unjust.
This is the way it is done: A
man has a number of creditors. Wish
| ing to get either money or some
other sort of satisfaction from him,
they trump up pretty much any charge
against him. Such as that he is about
| To leave the place. dispose of his prop.