Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — The Value of Cashiers. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Cashiers.

An Ohio merchant who kept three clerks, each one of whom made his own change and had free access to the mon-ey-drawers, was the other day asked by a commercial traveler why he did not keep a cashier to receive all moneys. “Cost too much,” was the reply. “But are your clerks honest?” “Perfectly honest. ” “Have you any objection to my trying them?” “Certainly not; go ahead in any way you wish. ” The traveler went away, but in about three hours he returned and said in a loud voice so that all might hear: “When I was here this forenoon I paid you a bogus quarter by mistake. In case you find it in counting up tonight, lay it aside and I’ll redeem it.” Then the traveler, accompanied hy the merchant, took position where the back door and the alh v cock! he kept in view, and in less than ten minutes out came the head clerk a handful of silver on the heart of a barrel and pawed it over. The bogus quarter was not there. He returned to the store and out came the second clerk and went through the same programme. He was followed by the third, and after he disappeared the merchant calmly observed: “I’ve been waiting thirteen years for trade to pick up, and I rather think I’ll try the cashier system. ”