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DEPOSITS POURING IN. SAVINGS BANKS' BUSINESS STILL A HIGH TIDE. DEPOSITORS RETURNING THE MONEY THEY HA WITHDRAWN WHEN THERE WAS CAUSE FOR ANXIETY-HOW SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS FARED DURING THE CAMPAIGN. The tidal wave of favorable business which swep In upon the savings banks of the city as a resu of the election continued in full force yesterda; Long lines of depositors stood all day yesterday be fore the windows of the receiving tellers in all the banks waiting to pat back the money they ha withdrawn only a week or a month ago. Th amounts deposited as reported yesterday were dos ble the amounts withdrawn, a condition of busines which the banks have not known since the close . the Chicago Convention. A large part of the amount offered for deposit yesterday was In gold and while there were one or two institutions which were averse to accepting much of the yello metal, most of them took It all in without any que tions. At the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Dav Ledwith. the controller, told a Tribune report yesterday afternoon that the volume of busines was even ahead of that of the previous two day Gold continued to be deposited, amounting in the aggregate to several thousand dollars. Mr. Le with cited several cases before the election when depositors had withdrawn their savings and ha paid a premium to have them converted into gol This gold was now being put back in the bank I the depositors, who lost by the transaction not on the interest which their money would have earne had It remained in the bank. but also the amount paid in premiums. He said many a bitter complain had been poured into his ear by persons who ha thus hastily taken action regarding their account At the East River Savings Bank and the Bower Savings Bank statements were made by officia that business yesterday was similar in charact to that of the previous two days, gold averagir from $3,000 to $5,000 daily. At the Bowery Bank was said that many of those who had withdraw their savings belong to the class of Russian Jev living along the Bowery. These are always the fir to take fright on the slightest provocation, at withdraw their accounts, for which reason they a looked upon by the banks as unwelcome customer In the present instance It was noticeable that returning to reopen their accounts most all broug gold, showing how thoroughly they had prepare to protect their interests in case of the election Bryan. The Manhattan Savings Institution. at No. 6 Broadway. the Union Dime Savings Bank. Broa way and Thirty-second-st.: the Bank for Saving No. 230 Fourth-ave.: the Harlem Savings Bank. Third-ave. and One-hundred-and-twenty-fourth-s all reported a marked and wonderful change in bus ness. In all these institutions the excess of depo its over withdrawals since Tuesday has been larg amounting in some cases to as high as $30,000 in single day, many of the deposits being in gold. The officials of savings institutions in general a of the opinion that this unprecedented condition affairs will continue for several days If not tw weeks longer, when business will resume its no mal status. One official of a leading bank made the stateme) the f-in c there, by