The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-26
MOVING DAY FOR A BANK
CAREFUL REPATRIATION LONG IN ADVANCE MAK ES IT EASY.

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 Transit, and Finally a Week More of
 Reudjustment in the New Place.
 Moving day for the average family means a preliminary week of confu- sion in the old home, day of anxiety for the safety of household treasures In transit, and finally week more of readjustment in the new place. For a disagreeable fortnight, personal pos- sessions are lost to sight, and life is matter of makeshifts If, indeed exis- tence in a mess of belongings can be called living" At length some order is brought out of chaos; the fiatirons are found carefully packed in tissue paper in the china barrel, missing cutglass discovered among pots and pans, Willie's books are unearthed from the icebox and baby's bottle Is rescued from fathers cigar cabinet For some days afterward, however, father cannot discover his evening clothes, and regards this as a trick to force him to stay home nights and help in reorganization. Still later, peace reigns, and mother says, Two moves are worse than t1re,' and or ders glue to repair broken china, and prepares especially good dinners to mend fathers broken peace of mind.
 When fathers bank moves, however there is no time for all this readjust- ment. The bank must, so to speak, hold reception all day for it's GUS toners in its old home, close at p. nl,, and then without fail next morning at 10 o'clock be in full social trim and ready to receive it's friends as if it had always been in its new quarters. If mother were required to hold one re- ception on moving day and another the next morning in her new place, she might think she had cause for di- vorce without residence in a Western state Possibly, therefore, the bank s methods of moving contain sugges- tions, which, if copid in family migra- tions, might mean a saving of two weeks of life and comfort.
 When a bank determines to move, it not only must. provide for transferring it's chattels, but also must make ready to move many hundred pounds of sil- yer and gold and hundreds of thou sands of dollars in bills and securities through tho city streets. The bank, therefore, can take no chances on it's new home, because money, unlike chil- dren, must be put safely to bed every night. Therefore, the bank first finds a new home which is entirely satisfac- tory before 1t even determines to move And the signing of the lease establish es merely that the bank will move soon, but does not fix definitely the actual moving day.
 The next step after the signing of the lease is to make the new home absolutely ready. Money does not rest quietly with strangers in its home, so that the bank does not wish to have painters, decorators, carpenters, marble workers and artisans interrupting the home life of it's financial family Therefore, all painting, decorating, installing of new fixtures and new furniture are completed prior to the fixing of moving day All safety de- vices on windows and doors are put in place and tested. The new vaults where the money is to sleep are made absolutely ready for the change in combination, the setting of the time locks aud the final closing of the doors which are essential to monetary re- pose at night The telephones are in stalled. Particular attention is giver to the lighting fixtures, and the cur rent Is turned on and tested. It may be all right for household to move about its new quarters with flickering wax-spilling candles because some one has forgotten to direct a gas company to turn on the gas at the meter, but it is not pleasant to have to put halt a million dollars to bed with such 2 light and the assistance of dark lantern.
 When all is ready in the new home preliminary operations are transferred to the old. From the old quarters the bank rpoceeds leisurely to move intt US. I6W OlnCGS elll pdlCly OlllulllVllbet belongings that are not needed in Its daily blsiness. Extra chairs, desks stationery, old ledgers, ink and car pets are taken to the new home ant put where they belong. Needed sup plies are distributed, ink wells filled and everything is made ready for thu clerks when they arrive When the ol( bank is down to what might be called racing trim, the date for the moving is fixed
 On moving day nothing can be dont until the close of business. Just at
 o'clock all the clerks begin to balance their books and count their cash Nothing can be done until every penn! is accounted for and the books ar, closed for the day. When the book are in order the moving begins In or der that strangers may not be arount the bank, the clerks generally volun teer to get the furniture out of tn bank proper, where the moving mel take charge of it. The current ledger and books are moved personally b, the clerks, who never lose sight o them until they are in their nev places. Change making, adding am check perforating machines coin tes ters and oil the other machinery use' by the teller are moved to the ney cages But as these vanloads of offic furnishings arrive, they are not throw into a heap on the floor. A place ha been determined for them in advance and each article or book is put wher 1t is to remain permanently.
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