The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-15
FASHION IN CHECKS.
The Different Style Used by men of
Wealth and Those not So Wealthy.
From the Ne,o York sun.

From the NeD York Sun.
A man shows a good deal of his individ-
ualitv in his checks A flashy man will
have fashy check and a nau who wears
loud clothes and big rings will have check
engraved on tinted paper with pictures and
his name covering tue ends of 1t with orna
mental characters. A plain, quiet business
man has a plain, quiet CHECK. 1t does
not follow because a man has his check
made to order, instead of taking the ready
made kind that the oank furnish him, that
he has big bank account, any more than
a cheap suit OF clothes indicates that a man
cannot afford to buy better. On the con
trary, man with a bank account who uses
quiet checks usually mas bigger balance
than the man who sends out specimens Of
engraving with his signature to them.
The Astors use checks with no engraving
On them and everything Is printed. when
an Aston draws a personal check the name
is printed near the left edge in the plainest
kind Of wav. The numbers are not oven
printed on them, but when filled in at ell
are filed LII with INK. An Aston check,
however. does not usually have the same
writing Throughout, us there are clerks
who fill in the body of the check. he sig
nature alone is written by au Aston. The
Astors use good quality pink-colored paper.
They have the plainest possible kind of
check.
Some wealthy men draw up their own
checks, but usually the body of the check
and the signature are in different hands. II
they we're to draw up their own checks they
would have to pass them over to a clerk to
be entered afterward, or enter them them
selves. 1t is better to have clerk enter the
amount of the check and. to whose order it
is drawn than to draw up the check item
selves, and TO have the whole except the sig
nature completed first, instead of having
Iigned checks travelling around the Office
sn one big wholesale dry goods stors ii
New York there is clerk who does moth
but draw up checks in payment Of accounts
that are presented TO him and certified as
correct.
Tellers and cashiers prefer tho plain
printed to the elaborate, engraved checks.
They are easier TO read, easier to keep tally
of, and rather hard to alter. An altera-
ton or change shows easier on plain check
than on an elaborate one
Many wealthy men think that the checks
the banks give out for nothing are good
enough for them. If any addition is made
it is to have their names printed in plain
type on the end of the check. Banks usI-
ally have their checks printed on some
other than perfectly white paper. Piukish
paper is the most common. That is the
kind the Astors use. The favorite color Of
Philadelphia banks is green. Toe western
banks have more elaborate checks than the
eastern banks have, but the paper is not s.
good and the checks cost less. The western
banks have more engrav ng than eastern
banks, and western men have more epgrav-
ing and advertiseme It's than Eastern men.
Eastern men have better paper
The Vanderbiits' checks are more elab-
crate than the Astors', though not much
more They are not as elaborate nov as
they used to be.
Jay Gould is one of the most carels iss Of
all rich men about the kind of paper that
he draw checks on. When he was gather
ing the roads together for his southwestern
system be drew up cheek for several nil
lion dollars on the back of an envelope,
This check was all in his own handwriting.
and it would have been harder to alter than
many checks on picture paper.