First National Bank - San Bernardino, CA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Run Only
Bank Type: national
Bank ID: 3527
Charter Number: 3527
Start Date: May 27, 1887
Location: San Bernardino, California (34.108, -117.290)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 9b6cc6c0

Response Measures

Accommodated withdrawals

Description

Newspaper report (Los Angeles Daily Herald, 1887-05-30) describes a run that was met by the bank paying out required funds; no suspension or receivership mentioned. No explicit cause given in the article.

Events (1)

1. May 27, 1887 Run

Cause Details: Article does not give a specific trigger for the run (no rumors, bank-specific failure, or correspondent distress mentioned).
Measures: Bank paid out all required withdrawals; assistance/coin offered by Los Angeles banks (not needed).
Newspaper Excerpt: The run on the First National bank at San Bernardino on Friday came to an ignominious end, the bank paying out all the money required.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. May 30, 1887 Los Angeles Daily Herald Los Angeles, CA

Article from Los Angeles Daily Herald, May 30, 1887

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Article Text

News Notes. Lewis Morrison opens to-night at the Grand in A Celebrated Case. A long list of letters uncalled for at the Los Angeles postoffice is published exclusively in the HERALD this morning. The sparring exhibition to-night at Mott's Hall between Cleary, Golden, Bradstreet and others bids fair to be an interesting affair. Mr. Scipio Craig is preparing to start a newspaper at Redlands, San Bernardino county, to be called the Citrograph and be an eight-page weekly. To-morrow evening the Philharmonie Society of St. Paul's church will give a character concert at the schoolroom in the rear of the Olive-street church. The admission will be 25 cents and refreshments will be served free of charge. The run on the First National bank at San Bernardino on Friday came to an ignominious end, the bank paying out all the money required. The Los Angeles banks offered plenty of coin, but ii was not needed. It seems to be a bad time to make a run on a bank in South California. Robert Ingraham, a night watchman for Lankershim, and P. R. Frolich, an ex-officer, found the door of Hellman & Haas's store on Los Angeles street, open yesterday morning at 3 o'clock. An investigation did not reveal anybody on the inside and Mr. Hellman was notified and locked the door. This being a legal holiday the courts, banks, etc., will be closed. The City Council will also adjourn. The general delivery at the postoffice will be open from 9:15 A. M. to 12 M., and the registry office from 9:15 A. M. to 12 M. The money order office will be closed all day. The carriers will make their usual forenoon delivery. The volume of travel was so large yesterday that the train which came in by the Sunset line at 7 P. M. was so heavy that one locomotive failed to pull the ears up to the station on a wet track at a slow rate of speed, and another engine as a pusher was required. to move the train to the place of landing passengers. To this train another sleeper was added for San Francisco. When will dull times begin?