Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — All-Night Bank Didn’t Pay [ARTICLE]

All-Night Bank Didn’t Pay

Little business Done After Nine OVtock and Directors Decide to Close at Midnight. New York. —New York always likes to regard Itself as the busiest city in the world. It takes itself very seriously on this side, however much it may frivol for amusement and recreation. Nothing pleases a New Yorker more than for a visitor to notice the great rush in the streets and to express- admiration at the immense concourses of people, and to protest against the terrific congestion on the transportation lines. Indeed, the average New Yorker regards the physical discomfort of dense population as a tribute to his personal sagacity and cleverness. Give him half a chance and he will talk volubly in statistical terms about the tremendous volume of business done on Manhattan island. A few years ago a banking institution was started that appealed strongly to this peculiar side of the Manhattanite. A bank was opened to run day and night, never to dose its doors. So rushed were the people, it was announced, that it was absolutely necessary, in order to enable them to jptrjd of their surplus cash and put K infco a safe place, that dn opportunity should be offered to bank at all boars. Strangers were shown the Night and Day bank as an evidence that New York never sleeps. The

burning withir. the institution were ' regarded almost as reverently as altar flames. The midnight tellers were considered as the highest type of metropolitan enterprise and progress. But lately the directors of the Night and' Day bank have noticed that while the lights burn brightly and the institution is pointed out with pride by New Yorkers escorting rural cousins about the city, and loudly proclaimed by the orators on the sight-seeing automobiles, little business was done after six o’clock. So having more regard for dividends than for furnishing an object of tourist interest, the directors have decreed that hereafter the bank will open at eight o’clock in the morning and close at midnight