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THE CHICAGO BANKER
July 3, 1909]
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the author of the article in June 5th Chicago Banker, on the folly of the safe opening contests as conducted by rival manufacturers. We are mighty sorry that his name was inadvertently left off and twice before have attempted to repair the damage. Now that his article has been taken up by the safe companies which want to do business on business principles, we more than ever regret it, but have supplied the name wherever possible.
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wise safe men say so also.
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the big A. B. A. convention, in Chicago in September. The clearing house committee has shown the usual foresight in deciding to give out information through one source and that one “of cultivated taste.” There will be a ball at the auditorium, which will cause many temporarily discarded dress suits to take on new importance.
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and that the only Gillette of the mighty First was forced to appear in borrowed raiment of many hues. Tag them in advance, or, might we not have a committee?
script for this paper and we hope to “explode” it as soon after July 4th as possible. It isn’t all fireworks either. Every banker will find merit in it.
Bankers Association for print but he has “heretofore refused to give out my address for publication until after its delivery, and cannot very well change my decision at this time.” This used to be the disease which afflicted the youthful chapter orators. Too sacred for profane copy cutters but, being young and ambitious they soon learned modern ways and uses. No trouble now with the bashful.
Cashier.
mentioned are Jas. A. Lotta, Charles E. Warren, William Livingstone (being urged by his friends), L. A. Goddard, C. H. McNider and J. T. Tierney.
THE First National, Fort Wayne, is putting on airs in their new banking rooms in the New Shoafif building. The First is in the A class in Indiana and the enlarged quarters were made necessary by growth of business. J. H. Bass is president and H. R. Freeman, cashier.
HAVE you noted the statement of the First National of Fond du Lac? All the way on the high speed. Deposits in June, 1899, were $549.31577; m June, ’04, $849,546.14 and June, of this year. $1,145,717.52. James B. Perry is president and Ernest J. Perry, cashier.
J AMES T. BRADLEY, cashier of the National Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, subscribes to “due depositors, on June 23d, $22,726,-232.51. He seems to have lifted the “hoodoo” of the ex-comptroller’s regime.
LE. STEVENS has found it profitable to • send out in his bank mail a neatly printed and gummed sticker as follows:
PLEASE PASTE	SEND ALL
IN YOUR	OTTUMWA. IOWA.
COLLECTION	COLLECTIONS TO
REGISTER	OTTUMWA NATIONAL BANK.
ONE more little push on the rear wheel and the Mechanics American National, St. Louis, will cross the thirty million in deposits mark. It’s a combination force of big business men and skilled bankers, the safest kind of an organization. This is the “Hill Bank,” of which T. S. Calfee is cashier.
JUNE 23d statement of the Commercial National, Chicago, shows that the long put for fifty millions in deposits “hung on the edge of the cup,” the real figures being $49,735,392.82. That is going some.
DEPOSITS $32,338,562.62 and cash and sight exchange $15,219,613.61, are two important items in a little folder sent out by G. W. Gal-breath for the Third National, St. Louis, on June 23d.
SECRETARY GRAETTINGER of Wisconsin increased his membership 26 during the year. This can be attributed in part to the admission of trust companies to the society of the elect. There are 618 banks of all classes in Wisconsin and all but 143 are members.
CHARLES G. DAWES and his associates are said to have purchased the Wilmington (111.) Gas Co. Mr. Dawes has the reputation of being the most expert gas man in the country, and a gas deal which isn’t submitted to his critical judgment before going elsewhere is a rare bird. There’s millions in it when you know how.
ONE look at the monogram of the Drovers Deposit National, with its geometrical arrow “direct” to the point, one would not suspect that R. T. Forbes does his bogey golf with a driver so crooked in the shaft that it can’t keep still in the bag. But he does.
WT. FENTON, back from Europe, is • “on the job” again at the Republic, as witness this from the cover of their latest statement:
Lying at the foot of Lake Michigan, which drops like a pendant from the great water-chain that extends from the heart of the continent to the Atlantic coast, Chicago is the tollgate, the workshop and the bank of the greatest empire under the sun. Within the lives of people already born, Chicago should be the largest and richest English-speaking city. Great as has been its growth, its broader development will begin when the completion of the Panama Canal shall have given it central control of the world’s trade channels, from the railways of all America to the water-routes of all the seas.
IT pays to be chairman of the big council, if one is an industrious man. The First National at Nashville, F. O. Watts, president, has gained almost a million in deposit since the Denver convention. Now, let everybody get busy.
IT is said that George L. Ramsey of Montana wouldn’t be averse to serving as Mr. Watts’ successor, if properly approached. Then there’s Texas with Edwin Chamberlain, who would look the part without a make-up of any sort. Others
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