Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-17

How = Hank Teller Secured Raise In
His HnInry.


How Hank Teller Secured Raise In
HIS salary.
The MOTEL bell-boy, who was recent
ly sentenced to ten years In the peni-
Tertiary for stealing s13, 00C I'm a New
York hotel, said that he had hidden
the money where no one could find
1t, and where he could get IL at the
end of his ten years term.
III the money Is not literally hid
den or buried but Is invested safely
where 1t will draw interest, the boy
may have about $40, 900 when he be-
comes free man. This boys actions
reminds me OF what Western bank
teller did some time ago. He was
daily intrusted with large sums of
money. Although his position was
an important and responsible one, his
salary was only $1,000 year.
One day he asked the directors to
increase his salary. They told him
as he was single man they thought
he was getting all he needed, and as
much as the position was worth. His
influence with the customers of the
bank, they said, was not great enough
TO JUSTLY an increase Of salary.
Next morning the teller appeared
at the bank as usual, about thirty
minutes before the opening hour. He
sent for the directors and said:
Gentlemen, as you know, these
are panicky times, and an inability
on our part to meet single call for
money would precipitate panic.
There would be a run on the bank,
and the concern would be ruined"
"Yes."
swell, there will be run on this
bank to-day"
"How do you know"
IL know because l have arranged
matters so that there will be.
"You?"
"Yes; yesterday you told me l was
not influential, and you declined to
raise my salary. propose to demon
straJe to you to-day that 1 have in
fiuence to break this bank"
"How will you do it?" sarcastically
said the President.
Il have taken all the money out of
the safe and have hidden 1t where
you will never find it.
"What?"
There is neither money nor securi-
ties in the bank, and when the door
Is opened in half an hour you may as
well shut it again at once"
Don't you know, sir, that you will
be arrested, and that your offense
will send you TO the State PRISON."
Il have considered that. / know
the penalty, and I'm prepared to &C
cept the punishment. / shall prob
ably get ten years in the penitentiary;
good behavior will reduce that by at
least a year. / shall likely have
light, clerical work to do, easier work
than l do here, and / shall have nc
cares nor harassing responsibilities.
l shall have leisure and shall employ
it in study. At the end of nine years
/ shall leave prison in the prime OF
life, the master of several modern
languages, and otherwise well educa.
ted, and l shall have your money as
a capital to begin life with it. What
do you think Of my plan?"
The directors stormed and swore
and begged, but the teller remained
firm, and suggested that they send
for an officer to arrest him. After he
got them thoroughly alarmed, and
when they were almost on their knees
supplicating that he return the
money, he seemed to relent, and said
"On one condition / shall return
the money. If inside Of five minutes
you give me written contract agree
ing to retain my services for five
years and pay me salary Of 5000 q
year, the money will be on the desk
by the time the door opens for bust
ness"
The agreement was handed to the
teller in about two minutes. He ther
put on his Office coat, went to the
safe, opened it, and took out the
money. He had merely pretended
that he had done what he could easily
have done, and what almost any teller
of any country bank could do any
day. OF course such action is not tt
be commended, but it certainly would
serve some bank directors jolly well
right if their ill-paid tellers would
! give them at least a scare. 1t is a
shame to pay such small salaries t.
men who have positions of trust and
responsibility, and it Is wonder thai
there are as few defalcations as ther,
are.-Texas Siftings.