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NATIONAL BANK OF CALIFORNIA. One of the Solid Moneyed Institutions of Los Angeles. Its Conservative Management Deinonstrated During the Flurry. An Executive Committee Which Gives Close Attention to Details. Depositors' Interests Carefully Guarded. While one of the youngest of the banking institutions of the city, yet it is one of the most solid and substantial. Its officers and directors are men of large experience and well known ability and their careful attention to the details of the business and courteay to their patrons has built upa business of which they justly feel proud. Their conservative management was well demonstrated during the last financial furry that visited this and other cities on this coast by the fact that they withstood the shock of a three-days' run, paying in coin every depositor who called for his money, and at the end of the disturbance had on hand more than twice the legal reserve, and that without having called in any of its loans. It has been among the first to grant assistance to other banks, and more than one institution owee its life and present exisence to the timely aid furnished them. Its executive committee gives close attention to the details of its business and examines particularly all paper offered for discount, requiring the best of security in all cases, preferring their fuods should remain idle rather than make any questionable loans. To those requiring the services of an institution of this kind, the Bank of California offers its services, believing that stability, careful attention to the wants of their customers and courteous treatment to all will merit a share of the business of this community. The president, J. M.C. Marble, is accredited with being one of Los Angeles' shrewdest business men. O. H. Churchill is its vice-president, a most careful and active man. W. L. Graves, second vice-president, a former Fresno banker, who has been able to retire from active business, is a selfmade man, and A. Hadley, the cashier, is a gentleman in whom every citizen of Los Angeles places trust and confidence. He came to Los Angeles after 25 years' experience in the National Bank of Lawrence, Kan., having left there to come to Los Angeles on account of his health.
