The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-25
"sTocKINo ROOMS ,
Now a Feature in Denver Banks, and
 "Warm Money" Is Plentiful.

From the Denver Times.
 ''The Stocking Room" is q Denver in stitutlon. and "warm money" is plentiful.
 Out of difference to their fair depositors. to whom fashion dictates few pockets, but who have many mysterious places about their persons wherein to conceal their money, many of the Denver banks have private rooms where such conceal ment may be made Ladies Parlors' they are called by the modest Denverite, who would blush to think of the prom inent part that the stocking plays in banking.
 But this dainty piece of feminine wear ing apparel does play a big part in bank ing. \ polite young man. secretary and treasurer of one of the trust companies. tells how he came to put in ladies parlor."
 One day about five years ago" he said, a very handsome woman came into our bank First she looked about her uncer- tainly and then she stepped to my desk Young man. she said is this what you call modern bank?' ] humbly expressed my opinion that it was. Well. it's either way behind the times or the women don't do any banking in Denver she remarked in great contempt. Then she sized up my little office looked me over smiled and said:
 My husband insisted that l should do my banking here. Now, young man. if you will kindly step out of your office for ol,out +u,o r,inutac oIneo +ba ,loo, o ,d stand watch outside I might make a little deposit with your people,
 q merely got out. But when she step ped out and handed me about a dozen bills of the biggest denomination ever issued by Uncle Sam a great light struck me- The bills were warm
 Since that time we have taken over the counter immense sums of money that have that warm feeling We now have a regular suite of ladies' rooms. Stocking room? Oh, no, not altogether. Sometimes they carry their money elsewhere And he meaningly folded his arms across his breast
 As a general rule the trust companies have equipped themselves with these little OIHceS TOT ldules, dHu lie DIE ndllOlfai banks have not.
 The International Trust company has a full suit of pretty rooms fitted up for the ladies taste. There are locks on the doors, thick carpets on the floors, and the furniture is just what U women might pick out for her private boudoir
 Across the hall the magnificent First National bank has spent uneounted thou sands on marble and on bronze and iror art work. but nowhere is there any little room which women might call their own The United States National bank in tn, Ernest & Cranmer building, the Denver National in the Cooper building. and thu National Bank of Commerce welcome th' ladies as cordially as they can, but they have not overstepped the bounds of tht national bank conventions. Other bank. are the same way.
 Ladies have pockets, you know sage lv remarked a dignlfled vice presiden of one of these in explanation. The Continental Trust company is sait to be the first of the Denver institutions to provide elaborate quarters for women There are reception rooms, coupon clip ping rooms and retiring rooms, whicf are the real stocking kind, and for th' p;rpose equipped exactly right. Of course the Furnishings in any Denver bank arc costly and rich The Capitol Nationa | hank also in the Continental building ia just a straight-laced Puritan of ma tional bank The Central Savings In the Mining Exchange also has private rooms