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SILLY RUNS ON BANKS. New York Savings Institutions Crowded With Depositors. WOMEN WANTED THEIR MONEY. People With Small Sums Got Scared and Hastened to the Bank to Get Their Savings-Foreigners Were Hard to Reason With Did Not Like to Take Gold. NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-At all of the banks here an unusual number of nervous depositors want their money. More than :hree-quarters of these are women. At the east side banks, where the depositors are mostly foreigners, the run is heaviest There is no alarm among the savings banks officials over the situation. They all declare that they are more than able to meet with their cash balances the demands that will now be made upon them. They expect that the excitement among the igaorant depositors will subside by the end S of the week at least. r This confidence on their part is warranted by the actions of depositors at the banks. At many of the banks the amount of money paid in did much to offset what f was drawn out. At one of the largest a banks the amount deposited was almost S one-half as large as the amount drawn out. S So far as is known, all the savings banks is in the city except two or three put the time clause into effect before the day closed. is There were strange scenes around the a banks during the day. At the Emigrant n Industrial Savings bank, in Chambers d street, there was a crowd of from 200 to 400 % depositors all day. The great majority of them were poor women. and a very large d percentage of them were Italians. The bank had not availed itself strictly of the r time clause, but they paid the small depositors in full. il They Objected to Gold. c At this bank, as at all the others, the officers had clerks out among the depositors an explaining to them the foolishness of their t fright, and these emissaries induced scores of those ho had come to get their money to go away without it. All those who insisted on drawing as much as they could h were paid half in greenbacks and half in n gold. It was a somewhat remarkable fact that nearly all objected to the gold and at asked that it be exchanged for the paper n money. ne At the Franklin Savings bank on Eighth le avenue the crowd of depositors vhowanted 10 to withdraw their money was very large. The time clause had there been posted. ne President Archibald Turner said that he thought the excitement would all be over in three or four days, as it was confined ce only to the poorer and more ignorant de positors. he The Broadway Savings institution. the ne Irving Savings institution and the East nt River bank had only about 12 time notices served upon them and no great rush of people at any time during the day. The Harlem Savings bank had a crowd, but er the drafts exceeded the deposits for the od day to the amount of only $18,000. Everybody was accommodated with all the money he wanted if he could show a good reason for withdrawing it. on How a Run Started. There was printed in a Jewish paper on Saturday morning that the "Neb. State bank." meaning the Nebraska State bank. Iso had closed its doors. This caused a senseless run on the State bank at 378 Grand se street, which was kept up all day. The Polish and Russian Jews, who are the depositors in the Grand street State ns bank, did not know what "Neb." meant. ill They came to the conclusion that it was a typographical error and that the bank reap ferred to was their bank, and when it was he opened there was a rush of depositors to ed draw out their money. It was impossible of to reassure them, so the officers simply repaid out every account that was called for and prepared to stand a run. nd About all of the Brooklyn savings banks insisted on the rule requiring notice of the nd withdrawal of deposits, but only in case of ag, demands for over $100, and smaller sums ng were paid out freely. There were crowds before the window in of nearly all the banks when they opened rs' for business, but there was no evidence of he panic. There were complaints heard of the enforcement of the 30 day notice rule. but n't there was very little excitement, and the isspecial policemen who were detailed at the banks had nothing to do but to keep peofor ple in line. Furniture Dealer Gives Up. mCLEVELAND. Aug. 1.- H. J. Moriarty rill furniture dealer, made an assignment. P. the M. Spencer was made assignee and roughly a estimated the liabilities at $20,000. bA Springfield Bank Assigns. SPRINGFIELD. Ills., Aug. 1.-The Spring ou field Savings bank, with a capital of $25, res 000 and deposits of about $100,000, made at ayassignment. he Leather Firm Suspends. ou, BOSTON, Aug. 1.-F. A. Loring & Co. the leather dealers, of 132 Lincoln street, with mR tannery at Woburn, have made an as signment. ng A Providence Bank Wants Time. do PROVIDENCE, Aug. 1.-The Merchants to Savings bank called for 90 days' notice or deposits to