Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-10-21
WOMEN AND BANKING
ODD NOTIONS OF SOME OF THE FAIR
SEX ABOUT FINANCE,

Came Under His Observation In Tn.
Course OF Business,
BUSINESS women of course" said "A
veteran banker understand the ron.
! tine of banking from the customers
| side of it about as well MS men. but
the queer IDEAS the average woman
pot III business has about bank would
make totem pole laugh.
i lost an awful good account once
because | couldn't convince Il woman
| mat a note put in the bank for rol.ec-
| lloh Is not money. She caalc in one
oay, made out deposit Slip ANA tried
10 deposit note just due HE teller
tod her that he would forward it for
collection. That seemed 10 strike her
us all right, and she kept on writing
checks against her account
she overdrcW in a day or two and
we sent her notice. She came down in
a towering rage ana asked me what
my bank meant by insunlIs her. over
draWnE Ridiculous! Why, she had
deposited $1,000 only Few days ago.
! What had we done with that money?
Il tried to explain 10 her that the
| deposit She referred to Was only
note sent ont for collection. tb,t II b,d
not been paid and mga. he returned
unpaid. she few into IA sion. What
did she care about it! She had given
it into the hank and she meant to have
the money on it,
WHAT wore banks for? l cautioned
I htr against checking against the
amount of the note until if had been
! paid, b1t she went away in n huff and
, kept right on making checks until we
had t. sto, her. We refused her
checks. marn.ng thea NO funds and
then she with rev he. account II
turned out 10 be a dandy afterward.
bse to this g.iy. understand. she can't
see any difference between notes
checks, drafts and currency.
"Saaugc n Il may cca,n. tJa number
of W9nlpl-,.J!2st absolutely guiIeless
womam-Who write other persons sig
natures 70 checks is LARGE. Only to.
day. for instance. the daughter of one
of our best customers came into the
bank Win check for $500 made pay
able to herself
Her fathers name was signed to it,
and he hlI plenty Of money in the
! bank. bait his daugh,pr had signed his
name hclsc.r. We explained to her
| that we couldn't pay ort money on
such an or.er or request.
"'R~t' aid she. we haven't cent
| Of r.aney I'm The house. Paua is on the
! tran somewhere between here and
!
! he'd hesitate to give us 5000. do you?'
THAT Young woman did not and
| could not understand why she didn't
! have as much right 20 use her fathers
credit at the bank as She had to use
| it a. the dry goods stores and the
! butcher shops. | wanted to tell her
that she had really committed forgery,
! but | didn't | advanced the money
Oh my personal account. and she went
| away Il bit miffed and fancying that
we were a fussy, unreasonable lot of
| money gatherers.
Things like that are always coming
| up in every bank. We had one depos-
| itOr. an inexperienced young widow
! Size had over $4,000 in Tie bank. One
HtJ Sic ta.'-" III ANA wrote CHECK LOT
the full balance, payable to herself
The teller stared and asked how she'd
have it. Any way would suit her, she
| sad, only she wanted the cash.
lie seat WORD 10 me ana began 10
count out the money Ill @loo ana SoOo
notes. A1tf counting them over she
wrapped the Whoie sum UP i'll news
paper ana went out we were all puz-
lied ana we were AFRAID she might
be fobEcn, SO l sent TWO Oh tile clerks
AFTER her 10 see what she dld with the
money as wen as TO protect hef' ohe
walled through the cfoWueu sueelS
about SIX DOCKS 10 ano Hda Dahk ana
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