Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17

This assumption took form in her fare
well speech as she remarked:
"They do say. ma'am, that politics
makes strange bedfellows, and never
thought I'd ride with the likes his ol nvSr SoI f.
that I aint much obliged, and any time
yen be runnin' for office, ma an"tno ne
womenll be votin' pretty soon don ye
on the Vote of Bridget O'Riley. My
sons the leader here for Mr.. Archer'
and we'll deliver the division, for ge'
ma'am-yes, an the ward, 100
Mrs O'Day laughed, flushed ana de-
INJURED
Mrs. O'Riley dropped fat and waopiins
courtsy.
you're very welcome, I'm sure
smiled Mrs O'Day, and was dri.sn ven
away waving her fan aIp;ior Gordialiy 10 '"e
At the time the two women LETT tne
office of the Archer Tool Works. It was
true. as Mrs. O'Day had laughlhsly re re
marked. that there Were ,be as doors t no Of The
comnany Office but it, was also true, as
Torrv had replied. that peopie "ese
trickling in with money to otter IN IT,, eN
change for Tool rsnjdlv MG5ES as n'' one every
three or four minutes. From anout
o'clock on tho interval between Scat supScr.t-
ers began to be reduced in an acceiei@ s,.ero @.
ipD
,,,e,,en raS and wives of the working class,
"on,;nF here direct from the saNlnss
banks as witnessed by the paS;ssoooNs ne Its
their hands, gave Jerry an !uea' I f,ar
tmrned and began to call up the alter
"GonId YOU get it into your last edl-
tion that our office will be open untt ~
o'clock tonight to receive oS SUD the firs,
of working people?' he asNeu '"o
c''S YES es''' How's it coming?" responded
'he Fine Sn,eG boasted Jerry. "subsctihedTs
are going past my door l" I" '
'.sWnnderful echoed the editor III
honest amazement. ,ao of the
The same request was made OF L,ie
,+her editors, with ensuing converse
,,ons more or less similar and II SeeIleI
~ Terry that almost by the time he M hau
inished with the telephone tnere a, maa
perceptible an increase in the rl,i.yr
ppitb which subscribers to the popular
loan appeared. In fact they We're con-,
ing faster than they, could De nan nan bv
and a line began to FORM MAJ rsila,su "a a.
clerks and stenographers, VINO neaueu ~ IL
nm TO a window where the money was
received and counted, and then paSseu,
the subscribers on to desk wneIe wn, ,,,ed
and Henry T. Archer signed anu issueu
Terry exercised general super
vision. greeting acquaintances IN tne
line making new ones where oPpor
tunity offered and appearing mere: tneae
and everywhere, busy as the hostess at
n was about this time that a most as
. tonishing and delightful message came
to Jerry from the outside. tc,a MN n,
Liberty savings Bank two blocks away
in the Forty y-ninth Ward.
"Good!" laughed Jerry excitedly.
That's one of Buckingham's BANKS isn't
Sure thing" declared his informant,
| who was none other than our OLD trlenu,
| officer No. 53241. who happened to be
"Drawing money out of one of Buck
! ingham's pockets to put 1t into ours
! commented Jerry, and, rejecting on such
state Of affairs, laughed some me more nIa e
| news to Paul and his father.
! They're holdin' 'em up over there
| takin as long as possible TO give each
one their money. SO they can shut EN-
| off short at closin' time explained the
officer when Jerry came back.
They'll start run on themselves,
with that sort of tactics II they re not
| careful" observed Jerry. and looking at
| his watch noted that 1t was twenty
minutes to three.
| And a run on the Star of Liberty was
| exactly what resulted. The paying tell
err pursuing his mistaken, strategy had
worked more and more slowly, the line
| had backed up farther and farther till
| IL passed out of the door and turned the
| corner into LaZare street. lnus auNeTtls-
| ing its existence to everybody in the
neighborhood.
what's it mean?" people asked curl
ously.
Folks pullin' their money out of the
| Star" was the answer.
whats the matter? Amt it safe?"
Search me?"
One or two lugubrious mods and shrugs
| accompanying words like these and the
work was done. Like an alarm of fire
| In a powder mill the rumor spread
through that half-foreign district tnat
| there was a run on the Star of Liberty
SAVINGS Bank and that II was going
to fail. The news passed from lip 10
| lip: II was carried by customers from
little shop to little shop, and then taken
home where IL went up the rickety stairs
| of tenements and was shouted across
areaways and through open windows
| Women dropped their washing and with
suddsy fingers dug their precious bank
books out from under mattresses and
obscure holes in closets, and hurried
bareheaded to the bank,
Almost by the time Jerry Archer had
made his shrewd prognostication, the
| line had begun to receive accessions oi
| scores OF excited deDositors and the anx-
| ious questions. the vague, nervous
answers. the fear. the incipient panic
| In the back of the line was spreading
1 to the front. When at o'clock the
| bank employees tried TO shut the doors
| thev were unable 10 do SO. Al mob oi
Vi1dlyis gonticuizting. screaming scram-
l bnnE alon broke past cIerk4 and the
EE1@1IA and pressing theirf way n.