The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13


His conclusions are evidently satisfactory,
for ''the secretary" is holding his page of fig
ures out at arms length and is nodding and
smiling at them in a way that says as plainly
as words could:
"Ah, very good; very good, indeed. Just
as 1 anticipated. Cash on hand, S14 ZOO, 900;
investments, S75,25O, 600; total deposits to
date, S2S 25O, 600; banks original capital, ST.
100000. Very good, indeed. We are to be
congratulated"
"Now," says the doorstep spectator, 'you
will see him vibrate between the tellers' and
cashiers desk, and take up the banks bust
ness where it left off at o'clock.
All this "the secretary does with an earn
estness and attention to detail that is watched
from without with breathless interest.
at length when it is nearly 10 by the bank
clock he resumes the performance of his
duties as custodian of the premises. He
rattles the handle of the front door, He gets
the long pole and puts up another window,
and then drops it to inspect the bottom of
every chair in the Office. He peers under the
heavy cylinder desks; picks up an old UNI
brella, opens it and examines every rib;
turns wrong side out the sleeves of an office
coat and shakes it thoroughly; does thou
sand unnecessary and incomprehensible
things; and at last, having put the Office in
the neatest order, washes his face and hands,
resumes his clothing, turns down the gas,
and, leaving the bank by the front door
which he spends several minutes in locking
walks half the length of the building on
Fourteenth street.
Keep your eyes on him." whispers the
doorstep spectator; you have seen him in
his legitimate capacity of janitor, or trusted
custodian of the bank, and you have observed
him balance the banks accounts and take up
its business when the cashier and clerks left
off at o'clock. Now you will see him as the
lynx eyed private detective of the concern"
1t is even So Suddenly 1.-THE secretary"
stops, crouches down and walks with rapid
stealthy strides beneath the central window
of the main Office, and peers cautiously
through the glass. Observing nothing of a
suspicious nature going on in the bank, he
goes back and tries the door, and then,
strengthening up, disappears in most digni-
fed manner around the corner.
But the curtain has not yet fallen on the
pantomime. Presently mysterious, crouch
ing figure, collar turned up, hat down over
eyes, creeps back in the shadow of the build
ing and conceals himself under the iron stair
way that leads to che bank entrance The
policeman on his beat has stopped, as he has
many times before, to watch the final scene
of the pantomime. For some eight or ten
minutes ''the secretary remains hidden under
the iron steps. Presently he dashes out, as
though convinced that a safe blower was to
be taken in the act, and gazes sharply through
the windows. The failure of the safe blower
to put in an appearance seems to be the signal
for 1.-THE secretary'sn final exit.
After rafting the handle of the front door
again, he's gone, and the pantomime is ended
until another Monday night shall again crowd
the street with people of the neighborhood
who think there is no performance half SO
entertaining as that furnished by ''the sec
rotary" CURTIS DUNHAM.