Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-09-10
The Great Bank Excitement In san
Francisco.

alarmed. About that hour several check
Tor 100000 or 100000, or simila
amounts, came to be cashed from deposi
tors not usually disturbed by rum0rs q
financial trouble. All these were pai
without murmur, but they kept on in
creaslng. The scattering drops became
quiet patter, and the patter became heay,
snoWer' By two O'Clock the steady with
drawal of funds had quickened into
run, which attracted attention and drew
crowd OF spectators about the doors. Tht
news ran along the street like n prairi,
nIe, causing the greatest commotior
among brokers' and operators, who rushed
| toward the center of interest. some viii
! bank-books in their hands. others simnl,
inspired with desire to Join in the ey
cltcment. As the news spread to IN,
adjoining Streets and into the Quarter d
he city, devoted to heavy business
II aroused everywhere the same attention
stores and workshops were emDtied
Oh thelr occupants, either to see the excite
ment or TO enable awithdrawal of deposit,
Delore the hour for closing the bank.
winch was now at hand. The people thus
Ieu Dy curiosity or interest streamed from
all quarters toward the corner Of California
and Sansome streets, filling the space in
tnat locality for square in every direc.
tlon. AT half-past two the excitement cul.
minated in a scene of extraordinary inter.
est, which could be taken in at a glance
IRON an elevated position. The streets
were thronged as far as the eve could
reach, the crowd being quiet in certain
places, IN others alive with motion. The
steps OF all banks and offices were packed
with spectators A pale face was seen at
every pane OF every window. Wild men
were rushing in all directions, papers fiut-
terlng in their hands, and among them the
inevitable handbook. Pale women. with
dlsordered hair and dresses, began to an.
pear, giving the scene a little variety of
coior, ana striving vainly to reach the mar.
row entrance at the door of the Bank of
EaIllornla, Desieged with crowding, strug-
gllng, obstreperous, white-faced men.
The scene at the bank.door was so wild
eager, confused and tumuluIous that il
can be but imperfectly described. Po-
hcemen, in uniforms and without. were
scattered about in all available places TO
keep the crowd in the best order possible
under the circumstances. The great iron
door was closed, and through the little
narrow door in the center, like the en-.
trance to prison cell, the panic-stricken
deposltors crowded, pressing their wav
between serried ranks Of ragged, moneyless
spectators, to whom the failure of all the
banks IN the world would not have been
matter OF the slightest consequence. An
effort was made to keep out those having
no business inside, but it was only mar.
TALLY successful. Those who came for
deposits were largely brokers' clerks and
the representatives of business men in the
lower part of the city.
The scene inside the bank was even
more intensely exciting than that outside.
A crowd lined the counters from end to
end, neryously showing checks under the
noses OF tellers, who glanced at them and,
as their only answer, showed over to the
excited men who brought them little piles
OF gold or great piles and boxes of silver
Every teller had white, scared look, and
The book-keepers and the faces of clerks,
seen at the distant desks, looked CHASTITY AS
;now-drifts in the moonlight. Now and
ha'> = ha ri fi'istaa rras Coos: 4a;sa!---aIa,t
in CHASTITY way, disappearing IN the di-
'ection of the rooms belonging to the
officers. The old Chinese clerk, who
must have been contemporary with Con-
'ucius, sat on high stool, gazing wisely
through his spectacles, which are large
Is watch-crystals at the half.crazed crowd
pressing forward for their money.
Great piles of gold and silver coin
glfstened on shelves just beyond the reach
1f those so vociferously demandingit. The
,link of coin fairly drowned the din that
came from the thronged street through the
narrow. entrance. The crowd increased
rapidly from two o'clock until halfpast
5wo, when there was scarcely room for
hem at the counters. Then the manage
nent decided to stop payment, and so tel
egraphed to their Eastern correspondents.
At 2 80 the little door swung to in the
aces Of several anxious depositors An
effort was made from without to push it
)pen, but the policemen with strong arms
lhoved 1t to and drew the heavy iron bolts,
further ingress. Then the
,rowd began beating fierce tattoo, to
which the tellers and clerks who stood still
II theirplaces listened with a faint smile
If satisfaction and deep-drawn sigh of
ellef But the mission of the great Bank
If California was ended.
After the bank had closed its doors a
having evidently crossed the Ru-
,icon, but CHASTITY with paint and rouge,
'ainly endeavored to climb into the bank
through a closed window, declaring she
you'd have her money, every cent of it,
md if her John wasn't out to Sister Abb
rails, in Amador, he'd see that her hard
earned savings wasn't stolen, you bet your
ife he would. Only desisting after find
ng that entrance was entirely vt of the
question, the frantic woman departed,
her hands and protesting amid
of tears that never again, no,
leverl would she put hermoney in strange
olks' hands to keep for her as long as
here was spade to dig hole in the
ground with TO bury it. Therel And so
he perturbed female departed and was
ost TO view from California street
While the run was at its height an old
having the highest faith in
he Bank of California, struggled vainly
FOR entrance, declaring that he had $4,000
which he would deposit if the crowd
would open its ranks and allow him adj
But the throng, drunk with eX-
and alarm, paid no attention to
he protesting individual, who struggled
and shouted until he was exhausted and
speechless, when he strobe away breathing
husky anathemas upon the "plaguy cow
ards who thought the bank was going to
hust!"-SaR Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 27.