The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-12
QUEER THINGS AT THE BANK.
Some People send in Most Peculiar
Orders for Money.
From the New York Recorder

/ oldest and at the same time most cNas-
| perating characters find their way daily
/ into metropolitan banks. The interroga-
| tories they put to long-sufferirg, patient
/ and always willing-to-serve employees
would drive the average man 10 strong
/ drink and their actions and remarks upon
various occasions would, It would seem
make the services of a policeman a ne
cessity. And then the queer looking orders
for money that are presented.
| Philadelphians are not done talking yet
about the strange looking checks that
their famous, one time mayor, Richard
! Vaux used to draw. but every one Of his
checks has had counterpart In appear
ance in this city. ana the recipients didn't
think the fact very remarkable. either.
] Mr.. Vaux. readers of the Recorder will
| remember, had an aversion to the check
| prepared and given out by bank. and so
would write orders for money upon any
| slip of paper, and those peculiar drafts,
| bearing his signature, were always
promptly honorea by financial men ia
| miliar with the grotesque hieroglyphics
| which, in his eyes at any rate-teW could
| deCipher them-Went 10 make up his name.
| But, after all, a check is simply an order
| for bank to pay out certain sum OF
| money and banking men az a rule, dont
| care straw whether that order Is written
on a handsomely got up affair, with vari-
/ Gus pictures scattered about or whether
! 1t appears on the back Of a lcvesick dude s
! envelope that has contained q letter from
! his best girl.
Every bank in New York has frequently
| paid out large sums of money ordered by
| checks in the shape of legal cap scented
note paper, or, for the matter Of that pa
! per torn from wall.
But now and then some really peculiar
| cases have been noticed. For instance,
| certain wealthy contractor drove up to
Broadway bank upon a recent Saturday
| just about n minute before the CLOCK would
! strike the hour of noon and the institution
| close for the day. He wanted $1,000, must
have it, and he had no check His horse
was FESTIVE and not TO be trusted to the
little lad sitting by his side. he hadn't
| scrap Of paper with him and no time to
| get any and SO necessity, which knows
| no law, and Is at the same time the mother
| of invention, was forced to get her in fine
work. Dragging his cuff from his shirt
sleeve and Selling lead pencil, the con-
tractor hastily wrote Upon az .,sc So
| New York, April -. 20.
Bank of -: Pay to bearer $1,000.
-r John A. ---.
The name Of the bank isn't given. be
| cause banks are very touchy where their
| business Is concerned, but the above check
was shown to a Recorder reporter by the
| cashier, who said that, with the signature
| attached TO it, II was worth the amount II
| called for
The lad leaped from the wagon, cuff in
| hand, presented 1t TO the paying teller, got
| the $4,000 and, an instant later, was rid
| ing away with the contractor.
Another bank has patron rich man,
who insists that he cannot write, while,
| as matter Of fact. he can write and write
| well. But for some reason known only to
| himself he prints all communicate that
cannot be made by word of mouth. lie
| prints all orders for money on checks, and
! after printing his name invariably adds a
| peculiar looking character With which the
bank is familiar and the words; His
! Mark"
Still another financial institution does
| business with a man who always explains
upon his checks just why the money is
! no lfa1 md a.
ment: TO pay for undarciothes and stock
ings ordered by my wife"
This idiosyncrasy got the maker of the
checks into a great deal of domestic
trouble once, but still the habit seems to
be so firmly fixed that he is unable to
| break himself of it,. He had become in
tionally fine form and remarkably we'll
| curved limbs. To that giddy creature the
| smitteh one presented pair Of garters
| having gold buckles and a monogram He
! had them charged-he reyer carries any
| considerable sum Of money with him. and
so paying cash is out Of the question In
| due time the bill was presented and paid
| by check, the story of the cause for the
| check being told in full. In due time also
the check returned from the bank to the
| makers office at a time when the maker
was out ana the makers wife was in
Woman like, the wife turned the checks
| over out of idle curiosity, but idle curiosity
| was not in IL when she struck that one re
| lating to the carriers. The husband en-
| tered about that time, and the scene that
| followed, witnessed by the office hoy
through the open door, dweils in that lads
memory unto this day, and he has been
| heard to declare to his chur1 EMPLOYED on
| the same floor. that he wiz never marry
There was talk of divorce, but matters
| were finally smoothed over and since that
| day any little thing in the form of Jew
| elry is the wife's for the asking.
certain. veteran of the late war who
| went to the front private and returned
home a full-fedged colonel Of volunteers
is so pleased with his career as a soldier
he a of hi fine aIf in, f,tr
regimentals on all of his checks
Still another, veteran, but not of the
late war, always runs his pen through the
printed matter on his checks and writes
his orders for money on the back To
those who have sought to learn the cause
for this popularity ne says he has q good
reason, but what that reason is he will
not tell
Another man, who, with Rory O'AIore.
believes that there is luck in odd numbers
will never make out check for an even
sum of money. If such an amount Is re-
quired of him he sends his check with an
odd figure and pays the balance-aiways
cent-in cash. This popularity is SO well
known at the bank with which he deals
that should his bank book, when balanced.
show even sum, one Of the employees
will deposit a check 10 the queer patrons
credit for a few odd cents, and then have
the customer check against it, thus rem
dering him happy.
II IS said he is confident some terrible
calamity will overtake him should his
checks or bankbooks ever tell q tale con-
trary to Rory O'Mores suggestion
Women's checks have few marked pc
culiarities other than that they are rarely
prepared exactly. The date viii be missing
in two of five and not infrequentIy no
signature is attached-that is, when the
makers present the checks personally at
the bank. OF course, these mistakes are
easily remedied, but they take time and
as a result womens visits to financial in
situations are rarely welcomed. with any
great degree Of enthusiasm.
The strangest story told of q woman in
bank Is that related concerning an ex-
tremely pretty little creature. bride evil
IDENTIFY who entered a downtown bank
only a few days ago. She had her own
separate account and her check with her
all made out correctly down TO the sigma
ture. This omission was pointed out TO
her in a kindly way by a handsome young
teller, and the result was disastrous for
she promptly became so embarrassed and
nervous that she absolutely forgot her own
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