National Bank (Baltimore, MD)

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Episode Information

Episode UID
143201250
Episode Type
Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
14320 national
Charter Number
1432
Start Date
February 6, 1904
Location
Baltimore, Maryland (39.290, -76.612)

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gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
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Description

Events are part of the city-wide suspension after the 1904 Baltimore fire under Governor Warfield's proclamation.

Events (4)
1. July 13, 1865 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. February 6, 1904 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Governor Warfield's proclamation (banking holiday/temporary suspension of payments following the great Baltimore fire)
Newspaper Excerpt
Under Gov. Warfield's proclamation the enforced payment of protest-able paper has been suspended from Feb. 6
Source
newspapers
3. February 24, 1904 Reopening
Newspaper Excerpt
The banks in this city resumed business Tuesday in all their branches for the first time since the fire. ... banks resumed business to-day in all their branches for the first time since the fire (Feb. 23/24).
Source
newspapers
4. March 31, 1930 Voluntary Liquidation
Source
historical_nic

Newspaper Articles (15)
1. March 7, 1888 Alexandria Gazette Alexandria, VA
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# VIRGINIA NEWS. Mrs. Rye, wife of Judge George Rye, died at Edinburg Monday night in her 77th year. In the United States Circuit Court of Norfolk yesterday, Judges Bond and Hughes presiding, the case of the National Bank of Baltimore vs. W. H. Peters, receiver, involving $4,900, was argued and when concluded the court will take the papers, and judgment will be rendered in due course. In the Spotsylvania county court on Monday Commonwealth's Attorney Jas. L. Rawlings, owing to the recent decision of the Supreme Court, asked the court to enter a nolle prosequi in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Mary Waller and Jennie Boggs, which was granted, and the prisoners were immediately released from jail. The resolution adopted by the Legislature providing for the appointment of a committee to draft a memorial to Congress setting forth the reasons why the general government should assume the debt of this State, advocated at one time by Mr. Blaine, was opposed by the Mahone republicans who are so bound up in Sherman that they do not propose to do anything which promises even in the most remote way to boom Blaine in this State.

2. December 28, 1900 Daily Inter Mountain Butte, MT
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Baltimore, Dec. 28.-Because of the appointment of a receiver for the Old Town bank. a general run was made on all of the city banks. It was soon stopped.

3. December 28, 1900 Daily Inter Mountain Butte, MT
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS San Francisco, Dec. 28.-Many ships are overdue at the port here, and much anxiety is shown in the shipping interests. Helena, Dec. 28.--The postmaster of East Helena was held up by footpads, Christmas night, and robbed of 65 cents, all he had. Chicago, Dec. 28.-The police claim to have evidence that Crowe, the Omaha kidnaper, spent some days here, masquerading as a woman. Helena, Dec. 28.-A coroner's jury decided that the death of Nicholas Kohr, who fell from the state capitol building was due to his own carelessness. Baltimore, Dec. 28.-Because of the appointment of a receiver for the Old Town bank. a general run was made on all of the city banks. It was soon stopped. Washington, Dec. 28.-The war department has purchased the large transport Samoa, now in the Pacific, for transporting the volunteer army home from Manila. Barre, Vt., Dec. 28.-The chief of police here, after quelling a row at an Italian ball, was shot by two or three assailants, as he left the hall, and will probably die. Washington, Dec. 28.-Reports say that the rebels are being steadily defeated in Colombia, South America, and that the governmen t is steadily gaining strength. San Francisco, Dec. 28.-The new Oceanic steamer Sonoma, made a record breaking run of 38 days and 9 hours around the Horn from Philadelphia, where she was built. Fargo, N. D., Dec. 28.-The Russian settlers in McHenry county are suffering severely from hunger. They came too late in the year to raise crops to feed themselves through the winter. Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 28.-A lone highwayman held up the stage near Hot Springs, yesterday, getting $50 from the private express box, and it is reported a large quantity of gold dust. Washington, Dec. 28.-Nothing is known at the White House of the reported invitations to the Kaiser and the Prince of Wales to attend the yacht races next fall, the guests of the nation. Pittsburg, Dec 28.-A strike in the Barnesboro district, because of the introduction of machines in the mines, bids fair to spread over the whole of the anthracite country. Washington, Dec. 28.-It is expected that the Hawaiian legislature will take action to pay the claims of the Chinese and Japanese who lost property in the

4. December 28, 1900 Corvallis Gazette Corvallis, OR
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LATER NEWS. Dewet is the guiding genius of the Boers. Minister Wu thinks the joint note demands too much. Minnesota has experienced her first blizzard of the year. The Japanese minister of communication has resigned. Spokane has decided to hold a mineral fair during 1902. Oregon has paid out nearly $100,000 in scalp bounties during 1899. ocPublic attention in Germany circles. is cupied with crime in high Kitchener reports that Boer invasion into Cape Colony has been checked. Germany wants the gultan American to pay war- its bill before buying an ship. Rebels are scattered in Philippine the provinces of Panay and Cebu, islands. will buy 50,000 horses and in mules in England the United States for army South Africa. in negotiations has regards caused great Delay change of sentiments as China in Japan. Alatornado did great damage in to all bama. A News is meager, owing wires being down. H. Phelps Whitmarsh has province been ap- of pointed governor of the Benguet, Philippine islands. Forty-five insurgents were killed encounter and American wounded in an islands. near one Gunobatan, Philippine H. Southern, the well known time acE. who ha been laid up for recovered. some tor, by an accident, is entirely large portion of the Philppines relief of A be abandoned unless the Secretary the must army is immediate, says Root. The police are working on recently the case Long, the Portland burglar that charge of It is thought a of will be laid at his arrested. murder door. Fire which started in a Pennsylvania control. mine 42 years ago is under two years coal is said that the next fire has and it it extinguished. The the finest will see about 35 acres of consumed coal land in the anthracite region. the H. Morris. auditor of killed war Frank was shot and depart- by department, Samuel MacDonald, a postoffice grievances and clerk. Fancied led up ment were the causes that afterward to liquor the shooting. MacDonald recover. shot himself and will not There is another hitch in the Chinese in Troops negotiations. are being concentrated Northern Cape Colony. to The English war office has arranged reinforce Kitchener at once. EastNicholas Darnell, a pioneer years. of Oregon, is dead, aged 63 ern Senator McBride has asked for service large appropriation for customs launch at Astoria. Booth-Kelly Lumber from Company Sagwill The change its headquarters inaw to Eugene, Or. Geer asks Pacific celebration Northwest of Governor to join Oregon in states Lewis and Clarke centennial. a at Gulf Port, Miss., lynched he was negro. A mob It now appears that the wrong man. court of Ohio has dis- the missed The supreme five cases brought under trust laws of that state. is probable that the president sound will It Portland and the Puget cities visit on his trip in May. of Washington pays beet $11,300 facState bounty to local sugar sugar tory for Spokane county crop. striking telegraph operators the fight. The Fe have given up by new Their the Santa places have been filled men. 1,000 Christians are Turks. reported The to Over massacred by utmost have Turkish been authorities show the indifference. has controller of the currency American appointed The Bank a receiver of Baltimore. for the It in is full. National thought that depositors will be paid says: A dispatch from asserts Tien that Tsin Emperor the "Prince Hsu, Ching unaccompanied Sinan Fu by DeKwang Empress 19, Dowager, bound for left Pekin." The water cember dead body of Peter ditch F. Johnson on Park found in a presumption unable to rescue avenue, is was that Johnson Puyallap. fell into The himself.. the ditch and the was Conger was instructed to sign Pennsylvania, note. A coal mine under the has city of partially Pitts principal caved burg, in, allowing part fall of into the the mine. It is town to also street of feared the other sections will is land sink. Following the break of caused the Lulu further damage dyke, to the floods the seawalls have Fraser protecting river winds valley. and the farmers Owing to of high tides, lands strong have been badly heavy flooded, rains, and the the village water. of Stevenson is three feet under The agricultural department-na laboratory established all at torts Washington of road materials aln for testing immigration bureau has Porto The laborers from as 0 lowed Rico to contract land in the United States of 8 for citizens. The cost of the public the schools year 1901 o will Greater be in $17,700,078. New the York schools is The estimated number at of pupils

5. October 21, 1903 Bismarck Daily Tribune Bismarck, ND
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NO FURTHER FAILURES. Baltimore Financial Institutions Continue Business. Baltimore, Oct. 21.-All the banks and other financial institutions in Baltimore were opened promptly at the customary hour of 10 o'clock and those who may have had any fears that the beginning of the monetary day would be signalized by the announcement of other trust companies following in the wake of the Maryland and Union companies were agreeably disappointed. Not only did every institution open but among local financiers generally there was a uniform expression of confidence that no other suspensions are now probable and that what ever of panicky feeling was manifested the previous day has practically disappeared. It is true, however, that while the financiers themselves and the brokers and bankers around South and German streets maintain an air of serene confidence, there is a degree uneasiness in the popular mind expected that this feeling may a more voluminous withdrawal of ieposits during the day than usual. But there is no reason for anticipating that there will be anything like a run on any of the banks.

6. October 29, 1903 Iron County Register Ironton, MO
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PANICKY FEELING OVER. All Financial Institutions in Baltlmore Open For Business and No More Suspensions Probable. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 21.-All the banks and other financial institutions in Baltimore were opened promptly at the customary hour Tuesday. Among nanciers generally there was a uniform expression of confidence that no other suspensions are now probable and that whatever of panicky feeling was manifested yesterday over the failure of the Maryland and Union companies has practically disappeared. The sentiment during the whole day has been optimistic, and in the closing hours there was evidently not a member who feared further trouble. Another incident that gave confidence was an inquiry from the treasury department at Washington asking if the national banks needed assistance.

7. February 11, 1904 Evening Star Washington, DC
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S BUSY Money is Pouring in for Business Resumption. , GEN. RIGGS EXPLAINS PLANS FOR REBUILDING ALONG MODERN LINES Composite Estimate of Loss Placed at $85,000,000-No Troops Sent to the City Yet. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, Md., February 11 -Phoenix-like Baltimore will arise from its district ashes, and in a few years the burned will again be a scene of great activity. For the past three days the population has been dazed by the appaling catastrophe. The people could not come to realization that the mainspring of the city's commercial and financial world had been destroyed. Now, however, the realization has come and with it a determination to restore and the city's eminence as a commercial financial center. Already a number have of leading merchants and amnufacturers commissioned architects to draw up plans for new structures. In some instances with contracts have already been signed builders. Thousands for Clearing Work. The work of clearing away the debris be proceeded with as rapidly as poswill sible. Arrangments are now being made put by the building inspector's office to burned of men to work in the district. thousands The Baltimore and Ohio, NorthCentral and Philadelphia, Baltimore engaged ern and Washington railroads are now into in laying temporary tracks running running district, for the purpose of great the which will be loaded the gondolas of on wreckage. This debris will and be carried mass to points yet to be designated unloaded. there the intention of the city officials city to It is first that portion of the bounded clear up by Baltimore street on on the the north, east on the south, Holiiday of about Pratt on the west, an area were 10and Liberty Within this section and 300 acres. the principal wholesale houses the first cated and they will be given that the factories, to rebuild, in order motion opportunity of progress may be set in again wheels at the earliest opportunity. Wholesale Traders Busy. Many of the larger wholesale southern houses, trade, secured offices just as have which already have supply an enormous their customers and never are in oc- a position expeditiously to as if the fire had curred. stated by a prominent wholesaler condition today It was that the larger firms once. are and in while the to meet cannot all orders be supplied at here they facility will be rushed goods through with the element greatest lies in the Another encouraging have given asthat the underwriters will be paid in fact that all the losses trepidasurance There had been considerable assurance full. point, and when that came tion on it this had much to do with restoring of confidence. feeling too, the wealthy men of the for city reThen, to give liberally the show a disposition sum is now at lief work, and large The financial situation, mayor's is brightening, disposal. and confidence in that too, direction is being restored president of the Mr. John Mechanies B Ramsay, Bank, and one of The the foremost National financiers of the city, said to Star correspondent today: into Money Pouring Into City. city to meet in general the "An men abundance and the all of community money current is needs. pouring Tempo- Business at once dispel all anxiety. by all the should rary offices are being were opened wrecked, and in so banks whose homes far as the banks Until few days business, will go on as before be outthe vaults is being obtained opened, are a concerned, money in the different banks from can has of-town sources City Bank of New York, the "Why, bank it offered to the supply need. every My bank here received all and money it may from New York, will all be banks are doing the quarters. $1,000,000 yesterday Other paid out from our temporary anxiety same thing. there is considerable the question of "I know men on occasion among business money, but there is no As an inmight getting for this lack of confidence. cite the Philadelphia, railroad. stance, Baltimore I and Washington to me Tuesrepresent ative came we going to Their asked 'Where are ddesday? money for our pay office, I day get Right and here at our temporary day replied. Suspension Order Causes Uneasiness. anxiety orig"I suppose this governor's feeling of ten-day legal from the That action was inated proclamation phases of holiday the legal have only to cover might taken sactions that could get financial transac until the banks quarinto working to be delayed shape in temporary finanters. there need be no fear coming of a into "No, stringency. Millions insurance are companies cial fire merwill expedite Then, too. of chants the city. to resume The payments rapidly out-of-town to enable capital mil- of lions of attracted dollars by the opportunity offices, builderecting will be new structures, and manufacturing arehouses dest royed ones. I ings, to replace the great disaster, but "The fire effect a great not one of here. of believe plants enterprise it will was mournful I am view awakening big the situation. of those who take There a is going to be a district burned there will boom. "In rebuilding ortunity the for the city to into put section. be an execution The old plans with ramshackle for modern beautifying build- structhat will be replaced Baltimore will rise deings and thus a new I think all the stroyed sites there tures, from the area ashes. will Do be are quickly too valuable rebuilt? to Certainly; long unoccupied." Mr. remain Fire Will Prove a Blessing by herein men. The views reflect expressed those of other and, prominent indeed, bankers Ramsay and those business who now regard disguise. the They conthere are blessing in into flagration as Baltimore had fallen ostastrophe rut, ergue and that that just such a

8. February 12, 1904 The Minneapolis Journal Minneapolis, MN
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# Council Will Meet To-night to # Consider This and Other # Matters. # Banks Resumed Business This # Morning and Paid All Checks # Presented. # Insurance Companies Have Now # Paid $10,000,000 in Losses # -More Ready. Baltimore, Feb. 12.—Baltimore is gradually resuming its normal condi- tion. All the banks opened to-day in their temporary quarters, at the usual banking hours, well supplied with funds to meet the demands for weekly pay rolls and for all ordinary needs of those who have money on deposit. Hundreds of depositors presented checks, and all were promptly cashed. Monday the regular clearings will begin, and general banking operations will be resumed. The vaults of all the national banks in Baltimore have now been opened, the last one having been inspected to-day, and in each the contents were found to be safe. To minimize the hardships under which the inhabitants now suffer, Mayor McLane and his municipal associates have decided temporarily to suspend the collection of taxes and water rents, it having been discovered that the city has enough money on hand, the result of large collections in January, to meet all requirements for some time to come. The mayor has called a special session of the city council to-night to consider legislation as to a realignment of public thorofares in the burned district and the reconstruction of public buildings. # Insurance Claims Paid. Several insurance claims were paid to-day and leading agents here say that at least $10,000,000 has already been paid out and that many millions in checks have been received here and are now on deposit ready to be paid out after some partial adjustments have been made. The big companies have deposited a much larger amount in New York subject to the order of agents. Squads from the street cleaning department started into the burned dis- trict this morning and the work of pulling down walls, removing debris and digging out safes was resumed. Marshal of Police Farnam reports that there have been fewer cases of robbery or lawlessness in the city since the fire than before, so well is the city patrolled. # Message From the Pope. Among the messages of sympathy received was a communication from Mgr. Falconi, the apostolic delegate at Washington, containing the following from the pope: His holiness, deeply moved by the news of the great calamity which has recently visited the city of Baltimore, desires your excellency to convey to the honorable mayor and the people of Baltimore his sincere sympathy. He prays that they can stand the severe loss their city has suffered, and that it will continue to pro- gress. -Cardinal Merry del Val. # No Outside Aid Needed. At a conference held to-day between the mayor and the citizens' committee it was decided that no call would be made for outside as- sistance. If it is found necessary later on the municipality will float a loan to meet all needs.

9. February 12, 1904 New-York Tribune New York, NY
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NewDork Daily Cribence FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1904. the NEWS THIS MORNING. FOREIGN.-The Russian Baltic Sea fleet have has There may started been a for third the sea Far fight; East. the Admiral dispatches Alexieff do was not this clear. make to the supreme command of Far the East. Russian appointed both land and sea, in the of forces, St. Petersburg reports bombardments saying Arthur on Tuesday and Wednesday, suffering Port fleet withdrew after is renewal of the as the Russians expected, severe that the losses; Japanese however, a Arthur; bombardment were the tearing report buildings in Port Manchurian of down the high blowing up of a bridge on the The is confirmed from Tien-Tsin. Railway censorship still prevails at the St. strict press and in the absence of news battles Petersburg, is fed on all sorts of stories of populace by sea and land and Russian victories. the Japanis great rejoicing in Tokio over paThere victories: on Wednesday night crowds ese streets with bands and transparencies; were cheered The Mikado has a the peared. the raded British the wherever issued and giving they procla- apofficially declaring war Constantinovitch mation therefor. Nikolai and reasons Mikhaflovski, the Russian critic, author Four publisher, died at St. Petersburg. were drowned off the coast of the Luzon, P. of a small boat in a storm; setting Province Americans of Tayabas, men. I., by two the were upteachers and two medical Roosevelt issued a directing citizens of war strict neutrality in proclamation States DOMESTIC.-President to observe the the Senator United between Russia and Japan. Hanna's condition was reported by his physiclans to be extremely serious, his temperature caused pulse having increased and the fever greater and weakness. The State Railroad Commissioners made sweeping recommendations street the better management of elevated and for railroad traffic in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Baltimore banks resumed business; sev- is eral streets were cleared of debris; the The city Rev. not likely to need outside aid. Dr. Richard H. Nelson, of Philadelphia, was Alchosen Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of The American Exchange National Bank bany. of Syracuse, was closed by a National Bank Examiner. Swollen rivers in Penn- A sylvania flooded factories and homes. bold attempt was made to dynamite a bridge at Conn., the result, most probably. of labor troubles. Ansonia, Six "cattle kings" were arrested for fencing-in government lands. CITY-Stocks were dull at email net the A victory was gained in transfer changes. fight, the Interurban giving transfers A et the four chief points in dispute. permanent receiver was appointed for the NewYork Building Loan Banking Company. brought to make the United States pay a on Steel A suit Corporation was dividend the Japanese its common stock A speech by Minister, Kogoro Takahira, defining Japan's for warring with Russia, was read at of the Silk to the wife of reasons vorce the dinner was granted Association. DeWitt fifteen A Clin- min- d1ton West, after a jury deliberated Chief Croker was in command fire near the a at utes. threatened a spectacular Fire block It was waterfront learned that that Mayor McClellan approved a plan to connect by the Manhattan ends of the two big bridges It was reported an elevated structure. that a number of small insurance companies which suffered heavily by the Baltimore fire would be absorbed by larger ones. THE WEATHER.-Indications for to-day: Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 27 degrees; lowest, 11.

10. February 18, 1904 Aberdeen Herald Aberdeen, WA
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FOR A BETTER CITY BALTIMORE'S CROOKED STREETS TO BE STRAIGHTENED. No Building Permits to Be Issued Until Plan for Re-alignment Is Adopted---Business Being Resumed in Temporary Quarters-Banks Opened. Baltimore, Feb. 15-It is announced by the mayor and comimttee on public safety that no building permits will be issued until a plan is adopted for the realigning of certain thoroughfares whose crookedness and narrowness have long constituted a blemish as well as an embarrassment to municipal growth. The mayor and committee on public safety are resolved that shells of buildings shall not be run up between fireprooff structures as in the past to serve as a standing invitation to flames. The business situation appears brighter than at any time since the great catastrophe. Shaw's Prompt Action. Secretary Shaw's splendid response to the call for currency has excited the admiration of all financiers. By his prompt action all obstacles were swept away and the sub-treasury is able to furnish any amount of money in any denomination required. One bank had $500,000 transferred by wire from New York, and large sums have been secured by several banks. Secretary Shaw's arrangement to transfer money by telegraph to Baltimore from all cities having sub-treasuries will probably be made permanent. A new York insurance company has offered to lend $2,000,000 at 1-2 per cent in Baltimore for building purposes. The task of clearing the piles of brick, mortar and rubbish from the streets in the fire scourged district is being pushed forward energetically. The work of emptying the safe deposit vaults in the ruined buildings has progressed rapidly. This is being done with extraordinary precautions. An escort of cavalry accompanies the wagons in which the treasures are hauled. All local courts have resumed business. Banks Are Opened. A signal proof that Baltimore is gradually resuming its normal condition is strikingly illustrated by the circumstance that all the banks opened in their temporary quarters at the usual banking hours, supplied with funds. Hundreds of depositors were at the banks early and all checks presented were promptly cashed. This morning the regular clearings will begin and general banking operations are now fully resumed. The vaults of all the national banks in Baltimore have now been . opened, and in each the contents were found to be absolutely not damaged in any respect whatever. Leading insurance agents say that at least $10,000,000 has already been paid out and that many millions in checks have been received here and are now on deposit ready to be paid. At a conference between the mayor and citizens' comimttee it was decided that no call would be made for outside assistance to relieve the distressed situation caused by the fire. If it is found necessary later on the municipality will float a loan to meet all demands.

11. February 23, 1904 Alexandria Gazette Alexandria, VA
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# News of the Day. President John F. Smith and seven of the 12 Mormon apostles have been summoned as witnesses in the Smoot case. Mr. Frank Ehlen has been appointed receiver by Judge Morris in the United States District Court, of Baltimore, for the Queen Anne, Maryland, Railroad Company. The holiday period for Baltimore as fixed by Governor Warfield has expired and the local banks will resume business today in all branches for the first time since the conflagration. The blowing up of a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive at Ehrenfeld, Pa., last night, caused the death of three men and the probable fatal injury of two others. All were railroad employes. A telegram from Tsienan-Fu, capital of the province of Shantung, China, states that hundreds of lives were lost by the bursting of a dam in the Huangho river and that several villages have been destroyed. Six men, including Capt. Harvey McClelean, and Mate John McCumber, were lost yesterday in the wreck of the three-masted schooner Benjamin C. Cromwell, off Bellport, L. I. Two men of the eight on board came ashore on bits of wreckage and were taken to the Bellport life-saving station exhausted. Anna T. French, who for several months was the maid of Mrs. Payne, wife of Postmaster General Payne, in Washington, was arrested yesterday afternoon at the home of friends in the Park Slope district, Brooklyn. It was announced at the Brooklyn detective bureau that she turned over the jewelry worth $1,800 and $55 of the $150 in cash that was stolen from the Payne apartments in Washington last Thursday. Having lost $600,000 by the fall in steel, Mrs. Maria T. Kunzman committed suicide in New York yesterday.

12. February 24, 1904 The Indianapolis Journal Indianapolis, IN
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# BANKS OF BALTIMORE # RESUME BUSINESS BALTIMORE, Feb. 23.-The banks in this city resumed business to-day in all their branches for the first time since the fire. Under Governor Warfield's proclamation the enforced payment of protest-able paper has been suspended from Feb. 6, thus making it necessary for all who have matured obligations to take care of them before the close of banking hours to-day. The Baltimore Stock Exchange will not resume until to-morrow.

13. February 26, 1904 The Forrest City Times Forrest City, AR
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BALTIMORE BANKS RESUME. All Branches of Business In the Bal. timore Banks Were Resumed Tuesday. / Baltimore, Feb. 24.-The banks in this city resumed business Tuesday, in all their branches for the first time since the fire. Under Gov. Warfield's proclamation, the enforced payment of protestable paper has been suspended from February 6, thus making it necessary for all who have matured obligations to take care of them before the close of banking hours Tuesday.

14. February 26, 1904 Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Cresco, IA
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# Banks Resume Business. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 24.-The banks in this city resumed business Tuesday in all their branches for the first time since the fire. Under Gov. Warefield's proclamation the enforced payment of protestable paper has been suspended from February 6, thus making it necessary for all who have matured obligations to take care of them before the close of banking hours. The Baltimore stock exchange will not resume until Wednesday.

15. July 10, 1923 The Evening Sun Baltimore, MD
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EMERSON TRUST CO. MAY OPEN ON SEPT. 1 National Bank Of Baltimore Expected To Reenter Building At Same Time. The new Emerson Trust Company will open its doors for business September 1, it is expected, and at the same time the National Bank of Baltimore will be reestablished in its building on the northeast corner of St. Paul and Baltimore streets, which is being extensively remodeled and enlarged. Announcement of the officers of the new trust company will be made shortly. Work on the bank building, the basement of which will be occupied by the trust company and the upper floors by the bank, is proceeding rapidly. A feature will be the large vault which will be part of the equipment of the trust company. The 46-ton door of this is already hung, and is said to be the largest vault door in any bank in the United States outside of New York. Another feature, unique among Baltimore banks, will be a lunch service for all employes of the bank, with large dining room, kitchen, serving rooms, etc., on the upper floor. It is the plan to operate this at a loss in order to give employes good food for their lunches. "At present," said T. Rowland Thomas, president of the bank, "a bank employe rushes off to some lunch room, grabs a couple of sandwiches, some coffee, and probably some sweet stuff, and pays 60 or 70 cents for it. He is rushed at it, doesn't enjoy it, and when he comes back he doesn't do as good work as if he had had good food and leisure to eat it in. "When a man has started in to work at 7.30 in the morning by the time lunch time comes he ought to have something good to eat. It will be our aim to give the employes the best food we can buy, and give it to them cheaply—much cheaper than a lunch or dinner can be bought in any restaurant. If we take a loss on it, we feel we shall be repaid by the increased efficiency and better spirit among our employes." Willard Sails For Europe. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, expressed himself as optimistic for the railroad outlook just before sailing for Europe today on the steamship Mauretania, according to a dispatch from New York. Mr. Willard predicted a continuation of record business for railroads until the beginning of winter this year. "The business situation in this country," he said, "is encouraging at present, particularly from the standpoint of the Baltimore and Ohio. It would hardly be right for me to say that conditions will improve generally, for, as a matter of fact, they have been so good that I anticipate a slackening up, which will probably be a good thing for the roads." Telephone Companies Gain. Large increases in the earnings of 70 telephone companies appeared in the reports submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission for April. The earnings for the month and four-month period to April 30, together with the increases over the corresponding periods of 1922, follow: April— Increase. Operating revenue..... $53,602,816 $5,765,619 Net operating revenue.. 16,725,091 2,451,115 Operating income....... 12,173,142 1,707,451 Four months— Operating revenue..... $210,723,542 $22,041,534 Net operating revenue.. 66,353,831 10,591,736 Operating income....... 48,225,509 7,736,354 A. C. L. To Spend $26,000,000. Stockholders of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, with their July dividend checks, today received a report on expenditures for equipment and improvements to property. Expenditures, it was stated, have been authorized to the extent of approximately $26,000,000, as follows: 5,331 freight cars, $9,000,000; 101 passenger train cars, $2,300,000; 98 locomotives, $4,500,000; doubling tracking and grade reduction, $5,900,000; shops and shop facilities, $1,800,000; yards and other facilities, $1,300,000; 30,000 tons of 100-pound rail, $1,200,000. On June 1 bad-order freight cars had been reduced to 7.5 per cent.