Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-29
CuRIos OF THE TOWN,

why OlmeS Are Scarce-Bankss STORES ano
Manufacturers Report the Dime Bank
Actively at Work = A Thrifty Poker
Player-Misled by q Mirror-SouyeniI
Spoons of Many Cities.
DIMES are mighty scarce. This has nothing
to do with the scarcity of dollars that some OF
us feel more or less all the time. When EN-.
ployers make up their pay rolls they Ind all
sorts of change plentiful except dimes. The
other day. for instance. well-known firm OF
steel manufacturers in Allegheny could not get
all the dimes they wanted, although they made
application at several banks. Some employers
pay dollars only. and the odd cents 90 over to
the next pay day-this is the practice. for ill.,
stance,at Spang. Chalfant & Co.'s, and they have
not felt the lack of dimes which another steel
manufacturing firm, Smith Bros. & Co, has.
Where do the dimes go to? Into the little dime
savings bank. almost beyond a doubt. The
miniature tubes are sucking the silver ten cent
pieces out of circulation. 1 asked Cashier
Montgomery. of the Allegheny National Bank,
about it yesterday. and he said: There is no
doubt about it that for some reason or other
the supply Of dimes is short in this city. Chi
cago has been having the same experience. and
it is reasonable to suppose that the popularity
of this dime bank fad Is the cause. We have
noticed the scarcity here. although the ac-
counts of the Manchester street car line and
the Citizens Traction with us bring us all the
dimes we need. Many of our customers have
complained of the disappearance of the dime"
The Dime Is in Demand
AT saverai otber hanks tho casbiers stated
thar rho decrease in dimes in circnIation ia nm
6oubtedIv noticaabls esnecialIv dnrinp the last
week. The banks having street railroads or
bridge companies among their depositors have
all the dimes they want, but even they have
noticed that other people are not so well sup
piled. Cashier Heron, of the Fort Pitt Ma
tional Bank, said that they had all the dimes
they wanted, thanks 10 bridge company's re-
ceipts, which they handled, but he had heard
of the demand for dimes exceeding the supply
elsewhere. Such a shortage is felt in the stores
all over the two cities.
If the locking up of dimes continues the Pitts
ourg banks VIII have to call upon the treasury
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Dime Banks and foker.
A YOUNG Pittsburger of model habits who
was playing penny-ante the other evening with
varying fortune was at last obliged to fall back
upon his dime bank. He had accumulated
several dimes in the bank, and all he asked the
other boys in the game to do was to chip in
enough dimes to open his bank. A lack of
confidence in the bank or the banker pre-
vented ready response to this request, and
the thrifty citizen had to deny himself further
dalliance with jack pots.
The Lady and the Mirror.
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the last nounter after seeing eyerythino that
was tn he seen she beayed a sigh of reprer and
batboupbt herself of leaving
AMI inst here the fun oocurred- Her mind
was busv with the problem of wbetber sbrinn.
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vas naar the front and that the large ann mag.
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