Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1906 — Stopping Runs on Banka. [ARTICLE]

Stopping Runs on Banka.

Runs on broks, as all the world knows, are often stopped or restricted in the oddest ways. A rich bank knew that a run was to set in on a certain Monday morning, for it had been robbed of some postage stamps on Saturday night and the robbery had been exaggerated in the newspaper reports, and if this run was not kept within reasonable limits the bank would have to close Its doors. It had plenty of money, but not plenty of cash. It needed twenty-four hours* time. Before sunrise on Monday morning a man put a fresh coat of paint on the front doors of the bank, on the wall panels and on the counters. The result was that people who made the run on Monday made rather a walk of it They wanted their money, but they rushed no one. On the contrary, they came on with caution and deliberation. So careful were they lest they get paint on their clothes that it took longer to pay off out of them than it would have taken ordinarily to pay five. This is one of many odd tricks whereby, in a run, a bank has saved itself from wreck.