Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1913 — WOMEN PUN A UNIQUE BANK [ARTICLE]

WOMEN PUN A UNIQUE BANK

Suffragettes of New York to Have Financial Institution With Only - Their Bex Employed. New York. —According to proposals and plans now under consideration here, New York in the near future la likely to have the country's first suffragette bank, a real financial institution which will operate like any other except for the fact that from president down to office boy, or rather from presldentess to office girl, only women will be concerned with its management and operation; Many attempts and proposals have been made before by women identified with the suffrage movement both here and in England to start such an institution, but for one .reason or another they have failed to be productive of

any definite results. The women behind the present plan, however, believe that this time they will be successful. Just what the plan is they refuse to disclose until the big meeting at which it is to be made public later in the month. As its backers are women of wealth, there is much curiosity as to just what they propose to do. Tt is pointed out, however, that if they adhere to the plan of having no man connected with it the bank will be unique in,.more ways than one. Since it will have a board of directors none of whom serve on any other bank directorate —that is, unless Mrs. Hetty Green Is made a director —and will thus be free from the criticism of interlocking directors. Of course if a few of the city's more prominent bankers should be askdd to seyVe, this claim to distinction would be lost, but even at that financial circles are expressing considerable curiosity over the plans for a real suffragette bank.