, 1890-12-18
OTHER BANKS SOLID
A Strtement Made by MI.
Warren Hussey.
IT IS The TALK OF The TOWN
How the News Was Received by
the Depositors - Incidents
of the Day.

Early yesterday morning, before the
hour whom laborers and mechanics be.
gin their daily toll, q crowd Of blue
shirted knights Of the tin-bucket
brigade collected at the corner Of
Howard street and Riverside avenue, In
front Of the Spokane National bank
Some OF the men decided to lose q days
work to assure themselves that oil was
well with their deposits. A faint spark
Of hope that the doors would open and
the whole thing prove horrible dream
glowed In the breast of the populace
that collected there.
Nine o clock came. The curtains were
not lowered, nor the doors opened. The
crowd dispersed.
At $3.50 O'Clock Perry Griffin. the city
passenger agent OF the Union Pacific
railway. dashed down Riverside avenue
to his Office. He had just arisen and
read the news in the REVIEW while he
ate tho frugal breakfast of q railroad
official He seized his hat and left the
restaurant without paying his bill, SC
great was his haste to know the worst.
He looked over his books in feverish
haste.
When he had finished, q
smile overspread his face.
The Union Pacific railway
was saved.
Only S3 cents OF the COM
pany's money was in the
financial cataciysm. The re-
msinder had been drawn out
. day before. The passenger
agent returned to his unfn-
ished meal, and ate an addi- e.
tionaI bowl of mush with q rel tHf1
ish. HN
When Judge M. T. Harrison
heard the news, he smiled fEff
complacently. When his 1flf1
friends met him and tod him ~
Of their losses, he condoled EM
with them. The temptation to I'M
crow over his less fortunate lell
fellow-men was strong. He .IET
smiled broadly as he turned lEl
the combination of his safe and W
opened his books. tZfN
An awful change was Iig
wrought in his features. The
happy, gay, debonair smile IL
vanished, and in its place SLT
there was wan, pinched face s.s seSf
that looked as though it had Ella
aged ten years in a single -
second. A piece of paper fiut- -5Nf
tered to the floor, and told the -
story.
Ii was an overlooked deposit
check for $3.50.
Such were the experiences of a day,
There were many anxious faces but all
was quiet on the Potomac. During the
forenoon the steps leading to the closed
doors were covered by an expectant
throng of depositors and curious idlers.
1t hung around the deserted building
like dark cloud over waterspout, ss
though the people expected that some
miraculous power might swing open the
carved doors, unlock the time lock on
the great vaults, and enable them to
march in and draw their own deposits.
AhS eioVe "ao "a ofueriy as Al IL were
attending funeral, as 1t really was in
one sense of the word, but a good deal
OF good natured badinage passed among
the victims, who were evidently deter
mined TO make the best of bad bargain.
But no bcnehcent genii came to open
the doors and fill the vaults with gold
and silver, and even II the throng had
been turned loose in the money drawer,
they would not have been much better
for the privilege.
Tho sufferers got plenty of cold COM
fort. Any number Of men were around
who "knew all about the shaky condi-
tion of this bank months ago." and who
had they only known that their friend.
had deposits there, would have given
them the tip.
AS the institution is a national bank,
and the designated United States de-
pository 1t will soon pass into the hand.
Of the controller of the currency, who
will send 4 bank examiner to take charge
Of the books and assets and look aftei
the interests of the depositors and other
creditors. or course the governmen,
will lose nothing. Ii always guards
against losses in such emergencies, and
amply protects itself with bonds. The
bank will be placed in the hands OF q
receiver by the bank examiner.
Mr. RUsSEY TALKS.
The Bank VIII Pay All Civilizations