The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
ATPOLL {. IN NEW YORK May Cuard Polls at the
 Election. NEW DEPARTURE PROPOSED Savings Bank Figurers Are Im-
 pressiVe. Police Headquarters Made Famous By Inspector Byrnes Are to Be Aban- doaed-Quick Esrepesn Mall
 Service Is to Be Es-
 tablishea.
Bf LONGACRE.

New York. Oct. 2as-The city election which will take place on the 22nd ot November promises to be unique in municipal history. in that women will turn out in considerable numbers for the first time to act as watchers at the polls Just how the plan which is mothered by the equal suffrage enthu- siasts will work out remains to be seen. esit
 Present opinion Is largely shaped &C., cording to one's views of the suffrage question. Certainly 1t will take wo- man into new field of activity before the polls are closed Is apt to afford her considerable surprise. If. as has been argued, business men are ungaliant enough to allow women to stand in subway and street cars. what Is to be expected from the notorious leaders of murderous gangs when they find wom- en attempting to block their schemes for repeating. Mere man will be faced by troubles too in addition to the pos- sibtlity of being spotted by his own wife in the act of accepting a handful of election cigars. or indulging in liq- uid conviviality. He will be confronted this year by the biggest ballot in the history of municipal elections. It will have no less than twenty-one separate columns and be about twice as large as a good-sized napkin. or more than four and one-half feet in width. The mat ter is further complicated by the fact that the emblems at the top of these columns are In several cases strikingiy similar. As the voting booths are only three and one-haif feet in width 1t will be difficult job to handle this big piece of paper without tearing 1t, torn ball. lots according to the law here. being subject to suspicion in the case of any %AA NAaN AI.A .sxA~ seems to be in for a difficult day.
 One billion dollars saved almost en- tirely in pennies. dimes and quarters-- this, it is now estimated, as a result of figures just compiled, will be the record established here by January l, 1910. At present in the ffty-eight sav- ings banks in the. city there stands to the credit of 1.so7.s59 depositors the total sum of $967.479.436. or an average of 35s6.si each. per capita increase of nearly four dollars over last year. Practically all of this great sum is the accumulation of many very small de- posits, and does not resemble in charac- ter the checking accounts of national banks and trust companies One cur fous feature of this great savings ac- count Is found in the fact that 1t is larger per person than any outside the city. since for all the rest of the state the average per. capita deposit in ssavinge [, banks ,is tS49f,s9, or about ss5 less than fn Inc city. and this in spite of. the established beiief that city folks are spenders and country folks savers. Of national banks the city now has 42 as compared to 45 twenty years ago. But in 1889 the average resources of the eity's national banks were si2.020.000, as compared 10 $41.952.000 today. or an increase of about 250 percent. Alto gether the resources of the national banks in this city now reach the enor- nous total of $1.760.0V0. The resources of the, city's trust companies are now over $1,33O. .000.o 900. an increase of 52 percent in the last two years. When to these totals are added those of private banks ana other similar institutions 1t Is apparent that New York in its fi- nancial resources has already passed the S5.000, 100000 mark.