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CROWD AFTER NEW PENNIES Policeman Had to Route Boys Besieging First National Bank NEARLY EVERY BANK HAD THE COINS TODAY Announcement that the new Lincoln pennies had been received by the First National Bank and the National Bank of Delaware resulted in a run upon those banks by persons desiring the new coins yesterday afternoon. As soon as the first edition of THE EVENING JOURNAL was issued at two o'clock and the newsboys read that the Lincoln cents had been received they descended uop nthu two banks. Particularly did the boys swoop down upon the First National Bank, and between two and three o'clock there were two hundred boys at one time in and about the bank building clamoring for the pennies. Many of them were accommodated for awhile, and Paying Teller Oscar Gouert was kept busy exchanging the new and shining coins for old money. Finally the crowd of boys became so great that it interfered with the regular business of the bank and impeded the movements of regular patrons of the institution, so President James P. Winchester directed that further issues of the coins be stopped for the afternoon. A n crowd called at the bank all of this y morning, but the pennies were being issued only to regular patrons. The es bank had issued 75,000 pennies up to noon. or So large and clamorous did the crowd of boys become at the First National Bank yesterday afternoon that a poV. liceman had to be called to drive them W. away. The National Bank of Delaware did not experience so large a run for new n. pennies yesterday or to-day, as they e, were being issued only to regular on patrons. Practically all the banks and trust he ncompanies had the new pennies to-day, but in small quantities, and they were ay being issued mostly to regular patrona and in the regular course of business. Before nearly every institution there was a delegation of boys trying to get the new pennies to-day, and the paying tellers were kept busy refusing the requests of the lads. They importuned every person entering the banks to get E them "some of them pennies." Many of the newsboys sold the Lin with eepts, orday at a rate of tw for five cents to those desiring then as souvenirs. To-day many of th 1 new coins had lost their lustre. is well that they do, else somebod would be trying to put through a new cent for a five dollar gold piece upon gan some unsuspecting individual. Some o ike the Italian street venders of ice cream the refused to accept the new pennies from afthe newsboys, thinking they were mmedals instead of real money. out