Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-12
BANKS AND THE WOMAN
Surprising Results When Member Of

Fair Sex Gets Hold Of Check Book.
1t is a fact that women, consistent
and clear about the thousand details of
household, often become confused
over bank deposits and check books. a
woman may handle the household ac-
counts, run bills and pay bills on a cash
basis, with the ability of an expert ac-
countant, yet give her a deposit book,
check book and slips and the tangle in
which she envelops herself, her bust
ness affairs, the creditor and the help
less bank is interesting as well as sur
prising.
The patience and consideration to-
ward women depOsitOrs shown by
bank officials are worthy of note. EN-
cept in extreme and aggravated cases it
is seldom that a bank refuses to honor
woman's check for moderate sum.
Bank officers know that it is confusion
of mind and methods, not deliberate
dishonesty, which sometimes makes a
woman draw check for $S when she
has but 80 cents to her credit. Some
women consider their accounts in work
ing order as long as a blank check re-
mains in the check book.
Some of the stories told by bank
tellers of their experience with women
are amusing On one occasion young
woman received q check as a holiday
present from her father, with the sug-
gestion that she start an account at
some bank. Selecting a bank, she told
the cashier of her intention, and the
cashier, after filling out the deposit
book, instructed the young woman
about depositing, indorsing and making
out checks. Then he told her she must
indorse the check given her by her
father The girl went to a desk to make
the Endorsement. When she returned
the check to the cashier this is what he
read:
ITO Elizabeth from Father. Merry
Christmas"
In Washington about six years ago a
perfectly solvent bank underwent what
proved to be serious run through a
woman's ignorance Of banking meth
DDS and procedure. She had received a
check for SIS and promptly presented
it at the bank. Payment was refused,
the check being returned to her pinned
to small slip which read, Not suf-
ficient funds"
Without stopping for any sort of in
quiry she left the bank and hurried to
the government office in which she was
employed. In this department worked
numbers of women who had their saw
ings accounts in the bank. Calling
some of these depositors together she
said eXcitedly:
The blank bank is about to go un-
der. 1t was not able to pay even pal
try fifteen dollar check | presented
there this morning. Don't take my word
for it; here it is in black and white,
Not sufficient funds!"
The women read, gaspingly, and then
ran to tell others, not what they had
heard, but what they had seen with
their own eyes. The news flew like
bank opened for business the next
morning police reserves were handling
the mob of men and women who,
scrambling, pushing, had gathered to
draw their funds from the bank. Street
car traffic was blocked in four direc-
tions. 1t was some time before the run
was stopped.
This bank, one Of the strongest in
the city, has never quite recovered
from the fear of another run. Recently
it placed before the district commits
sioners a request for the removal of
police patrol box near its doors. The
bank officials argued that whenever the
box was pulled and a prisoner held to
await the arrival of a patrol wagon, a
crowd was sure to collect, and this
crowd might spread a rumor of run
on the bank. Commissioner Siddons,
probably remembering the run of six
years ago, ordered the removal of the
box
Not long ago woman wrote her first
story and sent ii to Il magazine. To her
surprise and delight it was accepted
The story was duly published and a
check for payment forwarded. With
the check was u printed slip reading:
mo more checks will be sent until this
one has been returned" Back by re-
turn mail went the check, with note
from the lady to the effect that she was
very sorry the magazine had had the
trouble of sending it, and please to
send the others immediately.-New
York Sun.