Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
SAVING THEIR WAGES. Servant Girls Bank Accounts Agsrs- gating Over S2, 2,5ooooo. A Number Reach the S3,OOO Limit A Majority Of the Depositors
 Are Irish and German
 Working Girls.
IPhiladelphia Times 1

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 On the books of the Philadelphia Say ing Fund are the names, residences and occupations of nearly 115, 900 depoSitors. Of thi number 2 900 are servant girls, | chambermaids and nurses, whose deposits foot up over $2, ,5G0, ,OOO Thursday being the traditional servant girls day out. there are always more depOsitOrs on that day than any other. Thirty seven women stood in line waiting their turn to get to the receiving teller's desk on one day last week Each one had bank-boo and in one hand tightly clasped was the sum of money that was to be added tO the savings | already entrusted 10 the society for safe keeping
 First Teller Mckee said that the aver age number of servant girl depOsitors On | Thursdays SSas 20O and that three-fourths | of th&. 9s ,OO0 had ,on an average $500 cres-a tied opposite their names in the ledgers of the bank. The deposits vary from s to SjO. Some of the servants save up for month or two before making deposit The rules of the institution only allow q | depositor to deposit $3O0 year and the final limit is S3.OO0. Teller Mckee said that number of the servant girl depos- itors have reached the limit, which takes ten years.
 kl-NNO anu SANll SlA uCM iepOsitors. who are servants, opened ac- counts last year and l,Si9 had begun to deposit their savings this year up 10 Oct l. The majority of the girls are Irish and German and great many draw money and get drafts, send them to the old cOun- try and in the course of a month a sister pr mother or a cousin comes tO this city on the proceeds of the draft. Of the 27.O00 depositors not more than 10000 can write their names. They are registered in a big book at the rear of the desks. where their names, occupations and residences are registered. Those who can write are requested to write their names and those who cannot simply make a mark under their name written by the clerk.
 Every depositOr is allowed 8 per cent. per anaum on the money deposited. Many depOSitors have never touched their deposits and number have had interest accommodating for a quarter of a century without touching either principal or in- terest When the servant girl depOsitor draws out $lO0 or S2OO and sends draft 10 the old country and a relative comes 10 this city, it is not long before the green horn also becomes a depOsitOr.
 The number of Italian depositors is in- CItet>lu- ldlitAlN lfAlNA hNhSN oetA0- Many of them are rag pickers, and a still greater number are labOrers who work at building railroads for Sl or less a day. A few orgsn-grinderS are among the de- pOsitors of the institution and good many beggars and misers have snug little sums stored away in the vaults at Seventh and Walnut streets The teller said that supposed paupers frequently die in the almshouse and after they have been buried in Potters field the discovery is made that they have deposits in the Philadelphia Saving Fund Nearly four ffths of the Chinamen in this city are depOsitors there and several of them have over $500 in bank, but the ma jority of them have about Sy0O on inter- est They write their signature in the register in Chinese Alaska and St Mary
 treets have many rcSidonts who arc de pOsitors in a small way. In 1883 there were 135. 307 depOsitors and $6,S51.- 501. 42 were received by the tellers.