New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-28
EARLY SCENES AT THE BANK.
o,,rrn PEOPLE LAYING UP TREASURE.

MANY ,horsands of the poor of this DIG Guy ,'y u
"""s A.. ,~rn,..r,,s Many a mickle makes |
w,crlsn Pence make pounds. lake c're VI va"
sn,. anil the dollars will take care OF themselves
ana the like and to their tar-reachlhg '"uacue0
NAV he attributed in part the prosperity VI 'no
Nsvyork savings banks Pennies mcke's anu
- rats mn not few of the millions of dollars
chat annually flow into these institutions. ana IN
the struggle of saving mites for deposit tragedies
orc enacted os which the world does not dream
One may sketch In his mind many pictures OF nle
In this metropolis of the world II he Will turn
srectator aud spend a day in one Of these oanAs'
Take for instance. the big olive-colored STONE
build,ng in the Bowery. BY common consent no'
less than by necessity Monday is made the ousy
dav Then the bulk Of the deposits are made Inc
hank doors are opened at a. m, ana are nor cioSc"
until 7 o. m At this season day has hardly peeuu
TO dawn at 8 a. m, yet If one approaches INC oanN
at that hour he will see dim figures shlVer'ng IN
the deep shadows about the entrance, waitlngt 10
rush in and deposit their savings OF weeA 'io
instant the bolts of the door are drawn.
The first few stragglers are 6remen whose engines
are waiting for water and fuel They draw their
nav late on Saturday evening hoard 1t over sun
day. and put It away the first thing on Monday,
What temptations some of them must resist in tnal
shirty-four or thirty-fve hours! Among 'neSe
early corners a woman appears, thinly ci'u' H'ns
ing on the arm OF her young husband whose siouonS
look and shmeng gait are infalliole signs tna' ne
Is travelling tbe wrong road to reach prosperity
ard happiness Perhaps they have a baby at the
Mace they call home and she has left 1t that she
may come here with her wayward partner to see
+heir nittauc. put beyond the Immediate reach OF
+ha oroC-shop How she must have schemed and
rlanned ALL dey Sunday to keep her good man by
her side away from temptation, where she could
NAV the watchdog over their miserable treasure
until it was in the hands of other guardians! IL
the restless man wanted to go upon the street sue
threw on her shawl and went with him; II he
insisted upon having dram she took pitcher and
got him beer with her own hands aud persuaded
him to drink it in his room. Not for an instant ala
she lose sight of him. Nobody knows what strata
gems such wives use TO save their husbands and
ti,.ir children and-ast of all themselves, from
going 70 the dogs. Aud can Sunday be gay OF
rest TO them with such breakers ahead why
would it not be better II Friday were mace pay
day SO that these people could put away tner
earnings without Bhis dangerous holding over Ior
thirty ODD hoursi Or WHY not open the savIng s
banks on Sundayi Has either plan been trleo
Ia this city
FILING PAST THE RECEIVING TELLER
As day comes on and the city begins to wake up.
he stragglers into the bank give way to pro-
oession. curious assortment Of persons forms the
line that beginning at the grated window marked
Receiving Teller" stretches down the length OF
the Office curves to the left in the form OF a horse
shoe doubling back extends beyond the starting
poiut into the lobby from which 1t Is ied ms
lobby reminds one of the hopper in an oldtashoned
cauprgy g-ist-mill. With their blue bank-books IN
hand the people crowd into the small pace, twist
Ing in and ont, through and between, pushing and
squeezing this way and that way. elbowng their
neirhbors. and finally catching on to the line of
march IN precisely the same manner as the corn in
tho homer finds its way to the Jaws OF the mill
stones Glance Mt the line as it slowly paws out Of
the hopper and files BY the grated window. Sec
the old woman now nervOusly funbhng IN the
pocket of her too-shiny alpaca dress for few COINS
- make up tue dollar she has come to deposit:
savings OF week Yesterday she went
without dinner and fire rather than rob
herself of one penny. She must have worn
flat remnant of a bonnet for ten years Judging by
its lools Her shoes-yOu couldn't call them shoes
they are patches of old leather sewn together
somewhat in the shape of shoes. stockings Why
yoG can the skin OF her loot through that Oroao
@Only .ninety-ive here ma'am," says the teller;
Again The trembling hand seeks the fast empty
Ing pocket and fishes up more CONS she piaees
them one by one on the glass counter. -
One-two-three-fonr dollar an
ri2ht.D says the teller. He makes few figures, I'D
her hook and hands il back 10 her; The little
slender figure is unceremonlously pushed on by the
revolving unwinding process gong on ia 'ae
feet two broad shoulders, deep, chest
less front al covered with huge white apron
reaching from ankle to throat-Butcher; Ihose
two ould make good text for social pnoSVpner
10 discourse upon. Sewing woman and slaughterer;
She DEPOSITED 81 he pulls OFT great roll OF
ha1kpotes counts out $500. and moves on with the
World ia smiling One might well believe that
MON his mind he never carries q heavier burden
tnan the carcass OF steer
THREE CURIOUS SPECIMENS.
~ No. 3 comes Cd. woman of middle age once short,
nh, hukfa dad
and wr;nkled. She has the lack-lustre eye so
common in persons who belong in what may surely
be called. even in democratic America, the dis
Amounted cass-an eye from which al hope of
Lappjness long since fed. She has seen better
DAYS she married beneath her and her husband
dragged her down Too late now to rise, woman
Your life is wrecs ed. Nothing 10 live for but
death. But for whom is she laying up that money
She gives the teller some notes and he counts
rLern out So The hopper grDds on. she Is forced
aside and disappears in the street
che next person in the line Is n Young girl,
e. identiy sent by her mother to make deposit.
she gives no indication of the circumstances OF her
family though any one NAV see ny ner uhtldy
fr,ss that her mother, be she comfortable or needy
is a careless sort of person who doesn't DeIleve I'D
The next thing to Qodiiness Behind the girl is
nan whom Won would take to be mlser, simply
because OF his repuisive appearance ne - apout
blades a hump that dwarfs and stoops him, causes
his neck to seem much shorter than 1t is and pushes
lis head forward 10 an angie Ol lOTty -ufe ueeIcos'
go that il is not easy for him to raise his eyes to
look straight before him. Most persons, you know,
particularly those who think they are close
Answers and philosophers and judges OF human
ratnre and all that. labor under the deluson that
20 he honest a man must look another always I'D the
eve SO. then such persons-and they, peIhap
are IN the maority-wouId believe that man a
sconndrel because they could never eaten his eye ;
il is unlike the peacocks ALWAYS cast upon ms
foot Those gray trousers are eight inches too
short if he regards the fashion, which evidently
be goes not do. Yet they are OF good material ;
an il his coat notwithstanding the short allowance
OF sleeve and his hat is a rev Derby, his shoes
luttoned CATERS his shirt surely not sham OF
white linen and his cravat Turkey red. This last
article of dress would be enough to condemn him
in me ewes of certain men. William Lloyd Garrison
C. ;nstnrce cnnld not be hrought 10 trust a man