Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-16
Ehft1tt1n G1at

Shop early, watch your step and
above all watch your change" is the
advice given by one of the city's best
known businessmen in the course of a
talk yesterday afternoon on the gen.
eral characteristics of the Christmas
rush in the city. This man has been
an observer of people and their ways
Tor many, many years and he says
that one of the things about which
most people are careless. and right
here in thrifty Harrisburg, too, is
change. Count your change before
leaving the ticket, bank or any other
window where they hand out money.
They count when you put 1t in. You
count 1t when you get it out" said
he. Give that message to the readers
or your newspaper. Why 1 could tell
you of thousands of dollars lost, stray
ed or stolen through failure to watch
change" What the man saws is
right During this busy holiday sea-
son many mistakes are made and once
away from the window the business
rule is not to make any alterations or
refunds or gifts. This rule, which is
as old as money, may work hardship,
put 1t teaches persons to be careful.
One of the first things taught clerks
who handle money in stores and
banks, is TO keep the bill to be changed
In sight, or note 1T on the sale book,
and count the cash before handing the
change to the customer. If there is a
kick the clerk can tell at a glance
whether there has been a mistake.
sometimes a customer gets the worst
of it, and has no Comeback" One
OF these cases came to the notice of the
police department the other day 4
man had a check cashed. He counted
The money and walked away from the
cashiers window. Then he counted
over the bills, something dropped to
the floor. He picked it up and found
it was figure "2." 1t had been pasted
over the figure al" on a ten-dollar
note. Three persons had overlooked
the detection on the note. The gentle
man in question was out just ten dol
lars. He could not. prove the fact
that the bank bill had been tampered
with before he got it.
The story in last evenings Chat
lcolumn about the ocean liners Siberia
and Mongolia meeting in midocean
and transferring Chinese stowaways,
has an interesting sequel that is worth
mentioning. The Siberia. of the At
lantic Transport Line arrived in San
Francisco on Monday by way of the
Strait of Magellan and will hence
forth ply between London and New
York, in the service of the Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine, carrying
only cargo. The Mongolia, which also
figured in our story, will follow the
, Siberia's lead and with the Manchuria
and the Korea, will go into the mer-
camille marine service. All four lin
ers are American built and fly the
American flag. The New York Sun
in the course of an editorial refers
to the fact that these ships hitherto
; engaged in the Pacific trade appeared
in New York harbor decked with their
names and the American flag such
ships plying the Atlantic adopted
some months ago as q precaution
against submarines.
A. B. Farquhar, the York manufac-
turer who was here yesterday, is one
of the foremost men in the State in
! conservation matters and has given
freely of his time and means to furth-
er projects for the good of coming
generations. He came here to attend
: meeting at the office of the Cover
nor.