Evening journal., 1896-08-12
AFTER BANK HOURS.
hOsT IMPORTANT WORK DONE AFT
Err CLOSING THE FRONT DOOR.
low the Money Is Counted and Sorted.
Care I:zerciscd to Avoid Mistakes Bills
That are Worn and soilcd Are Sent to
Washington or the subtreasury.

lnlt are w ORR anu colit0 are oeAN 70 1
Washington or the suotreasury.
On stopping into any Of the large hanlz-
Ing houses down town one is almost wick
edly tempted 80 likcn the functionares be-
hind the bars to so many Gagged animals.
But the sharp, quick, intelligent faces OF
these mon forbid the thought Once in
side these iron bars end permitted the
privilege to pierce the inner depths an or
dinary individual finds much to awakcn
wonder This is particularly true Of both /
the paying tcller's and receiving tellcr's I
dcpartments whose workings indeed are i
peculiarly IN unison. Here the fragments /
OF silken tissue, that pass daily through |
oiir hands as dollar bills, are undergoing
strictly systematic discipline, eich bill |
being vigorously scrutinizod and carefully |
handled and dealt with according 60 Its |
just deserts, good or sad The position of |
the paying tellcrs assistant is one which I
requires the stictest precaution and nm
falling attention Of him who holds it--a
quick, alert mind and active brain capable |
Of doing at least half dozen things at the |
same time This clerks hours are irregu
lar and unccrtain--some days long, some
short much depending upon the deposits
made through the day.
The banking hours are usually from $50
in tho morning TO . O'Clock IN tho after
noon, and thcnajority of people are under
| the impression that there IS nothing moro
| to do at the latter hour but for the book
| keepers TO close their great volumes and the
/ teller 60 lock up the safe and oil retire
Simultaneously. But II those who hold
| this notion of bank clerks hours should
happen into the bank two or thrcc hours
later they would still find these men as
busy as bees and sleeper in work il posi-
bic than at high noon.
| Among most OF the important banks Of
| the city the deposits made daily average
from 800 to 400, some OF which arc
| amazingly large. It is a little startling to
sec the deposits made by some Of the well
| known firms OF this city at holiday time,
as well as by the railroad companies after
the many legal holidays, but more strik-
ingly is Il so with the deposits Of some Of
the large dry goods stores after one Of their
celebrated mark down sales or bargain
days Many of these latter deposits, IL
piled up separately, would form series OF
little pillars that would put n man OF & feet
completely IN the shade, each yaluiuR IRAN
$4,000 70 $4,000 and composed chiefly
OF 81 and 81 bills
The receiving teller on taking ia the
smaller or sundry deposits passes them over
to hisassistant while quick. eyes sem their
contents, examining and proving eaoh one
separately as ne docs so. These IN turn fall
into the hands of tho paying teller nssist-
ant, from whence they spring TO either a
| glorious resurrection TO make once more
the circuit of the globe or forever sink IN
oblivion But before reaching its final
destination in the bank-the safc-cach
individual deposit has gone through the
supervision Of at least thrco people. Thus
are avoided, as far as possible, all errors OF
mistakes and traced If there be any such Ia
, their original source. Thus the bank Off
, Gers, ever shrewd, ever cautious, suffer
themselves TO run no risks.
r Having received orders from tho paying
teller as TO how he wishes the drawers erl
safe stocked for the day. bis assistant be
gins at once TO unbind the fetters Of TIN
! dense piles, and soon the desks arc strcwl
l. with this big display Of wealth. 1t present
4 a patchwork appearance OF singular char
. acter He takes the large deposits sepa
rately and with wonderful skill and ener
qy and with still more wonderful patienc
wados through tho mazes OF the mass,
seemingly never ending task, and, TO sa.
= the least, o most tedious one He start
of to mnko up 5000 packages OF s. and &il
l. bills, throwing OUT I'm systematic order TIN
. raRrcd and time worn Hills Of all denomi
. nationa Each bill * carefully examined
: and smoothed ont, and When each packag
a Is complete it "a slipped into a nent iittl
white paIer band, with the amount 10 con
q tains clearly stamped upon II as well as tn
. signature of him who IL responsible for It
4 The bills Of tho larger rdenominations-tha
o Is to say, tho SaO, 900 and 800 biils-ar
o usually made up into packages Of thou
sands, and tho $500 and 81 900 bills az
y Laid away Independently of any state
b amount
Having finished with the iiyes and ten'
j. the counter takes ones and twos IN hnnd
}. These are likewise dealt and strapped int
4 bands OF twenty-1ycs, flfties and hundrc
/. dollars. The coed bills kcing thus sorte
, out, the ragged nlc gone through M
q counted up separately. These latter bin
after respectful performance Of the lns
rites are ulthnatcly committed to I'll
flames at the national capital
It Good and bad are for the time placed +,
It gcthcr ard footed up according 20 ti
ID straps in order to prove whether or not "a
50 figures agree with those given with tl
Is deposit The good bills arc then store
Df awGy, and tire ragged orcs of each depos
< are taken apart and amused togeth'
Is through the day. Whom in duo season q
70 business of sorting has ended and not
Or | good bill IS anywhere 70 DC seen, thcy NJ
Of then taken ard put up in stil more COZ
I'd venient order Tho legal tenders or Rrcei
n backs, the silver dollar bills, coins and n
IN tional bunk notes, ALL ranging from Il
ar lowest denominations to the highest, n
II carefully separated from each other an
on taken in series and put into straps rcspc
ar nyely of hundreds five hundreds al
X thousands Thus all the 'lcgals' aIO ke
" together in 1yos, tens, twentics, and so o
| with the silver and "naticnals Tho
are sent TO Washington TO he dcstroyc
and occasionally TO the subtroasury, "a
,w for them ia return there arc sent ba'
It's good bills
ir- 1t would seem that most Of the mcnbc
ms Of the large business concerns of our Irog
IT city understand to degree tho tcrm bur
by etiquette" as though they had baskcd
m its element lifetime md had been taug
rts from childhood 70 understand its lcgi'
mate meaning. They arrange their d
posits with method, thenost satisfccto
Imaginable TO the bank clerk, delight
ed behold. This regularity, while II distin'
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