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stringing around the corner of William street into Exchange place. Welldressed women formed a noticeable feature of this line, while messengers from other banks turned up their coat collars along with the other depositors. The doors were opened promptly at 10 o'clock and the paying off was resumed as briskly as it had gone on for the two preceding days. Only a baker's dozen waited at the Colonial branch office, at Broadway and Ann street at 6.30 o'clock. but seven of the number had been there since midnight. The Pacific Bank man, the first one to take his place, arrived at 8 o'clock last night. By 8 o'clock this morning the string had lengthened out to sixty. There was only one woman, and the sprinkling of messenger boys was plentiful. The doors were opened promptly at 10 o'clock, and the paying off process was resumed. The run on the Lincoln Trust Company was continued again today. At 11 o'clock last night a line began forming in front of the Fifth avenue entrance to the company's offices. and by midnight it was so long as to block up the entrance to the Cafe Martin. A half dozen policemen were stationed at the point all night long to maintain order among the impatient crowd. which. by daybreak. stretched around 26th street as far- as Broadway and numbered nearly 300 persons. At the Fifth Avenue Trust Company this morning things were very quiet. There was no line of depositors and the little annoyance to that institution, according to one of its officers, seemed to be at an end.