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DEPOSITORS CALMER. The Run on the New York Savings Banks Checked Today. NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 1893. - There was a marked decrease in the number of persons in the different savings banks this morning. The condition of affairs when the banks opened for bualness showed that the depositors had regained their confidence. The only depositors on hand were Italian and servant girls. who were scared by re ports they had heard. The only noticeable crowd was at the German Spar Bank at Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue. The depositers there were of the ignorant class. The line reached quite a distan ce on the sidewalk. At the Dry Dock Bauk. the Bowery Bank, the Greenwick Savings Bahk and several other banks where crowds gathered yesterday everything was quiet. Business was going on in the usual way. At the Green wich Savings Bank eightythree women and thirty-seven men End given notice yesterday that at the end of sixty days they would withdraw their entire account from the bank. A statement was given out this morning that 1$10,000 had been received yesterday from 114 depositors. Five hundred and thirty-two depositors withdrew $52,000. Or the $52,000 taken ont, $20,000 went to thirty depositors by check. It was not until each depositor showed that be really needed that he got what he wanted beyond the stipulated $100, President J. Harsen Rhoades said this morning: "From the accounts of July 31, 1892, we find that $28,000 was paid into the bank and $30,000 withdrawn; so you can see how it compares with yesterday. "The outlook is favorable. We shall have at least $10,000,000 in gold from abroad inside of ten days. It is already in (sight, All that the country needs is to have Congress meet and repeal the purchasing clause in the Sherman law at once and then go home. leaving everything else alone. The country needs rest and confidence will then be restored."