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THE CHICAGO BANKER
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rather while he was in the act—the bell was rung and a stroke counted up. Result was just as planned and Watts paid the balls.
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was “at home” to muscular rheumatism. He was at the Illinois convention last year and made such a hit with the members that they want him as a fixture hereafter.
CHARLEY McNIDER says that when Homer Miller came out on the platform at Des Moines with President Taft it looked like Rhode Island and Texas out for a walk.
“Elsie Janis took in the Bankers Ball, at Chicago, convention week, chaperoned and escorted by the editor of this paper.”—Western Banker.
Is it a pipe-dream?
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where they do the clearing house work, to Chicago to catch the Illinois Central special to Decatur. Williams is a banker of experience as well as a bank auditor, and likes to keep in touch.
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IN savings deposits Pennsylvania national banks 1 have more them double any other state in the Union. She has more than three times all of New England combined.
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CRED I. KENT was feeling pretty good over A _ the travelers’ cheque proposition when in Chicago this week. Not a big winner as yet, but looks good for the future. A few little stumbling blocks in the way remain to be cleared for the forward movement.
TI E now is President Foreman, and we expect ^ to see the Illinois Association get a hump on itself and go out after the Dinwiddie scalp, as the biggest association. Illinois has the banks and should lead in numbers. The association is yearly certain to increase its usefulness to its
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wait his turn. The new chairman of council is a live-wire and is likely to furnish food for thought to some of the conservatives. If the Rinaman rate of a new member per working day can be kept up Illinois shortly will be carrying the pennant.
up ANKERS ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS” is its official title. Quite a mouthful of words and a hellofa-signature, and quite impossible for telephone and other directories. Why not change it to be uniform with other associations and call it Illinois Bankers Association? Somebody should iron this out at Decatur.
CENTRAL bank letters from Washington and New York in all the papers. Who’s doing it? It costs lots.
KENTUCKY has amended its constitution so that “no two members of the nominating committee shall come from the same congressional district.” Bankers associations cannot afford to “manipulate” elections as politicians do and no member’s interests should be considered where they differ widely from those of the whole membership.
ENID, Oklahoma, banks paid their assessments after all. Thus again is it demonstrated that one often hollers before he is out of the woods.
ROY KEATOR, 32 years old, indicted editor of the Weekly Middle West, a Chicago news publication, charged with using the mails to defraud, was arraigned before Judge K. M. Landis in the United States district court and entered a plea of guilty. He will be sentenced later. Kea-tor was arrested several months ago on complaints made to Gen. James E. Stuart, postoffice inspector in charge, that he had defrauded business men in different cities by representing that his paper was of general circulation, having 100,-000 readers, which was untrue. Instead, they allege the paper had practically no circulation, and that it had only its advertisers as subscribers.
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meeting. He wouldn’t •feel well for a month if he missed one of the annuals. If Andrew goes out after the governorship the boys will be with him to a unit. He’s the timber!
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“withdraw.” If the newspaper men had it to say, he could have it and keep it as long as he liked.
T ATHAM T. SOUTHER, of Springfield, on the other hand, started a boom to put Edens on the Illinois council. Souther says that the fellow who thinks Edens isn’t all right ought to see a doctor about his liver.
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hands as treasurer of the Illinois Association.
preciated in full the councilmanic connection. He was doing all he could to land B. F. Harris, the walk-away candidate, for chairman.
catur. F. P. Judson did his best to sit back and look interested. For ten years he did most of the worrying at the Illinois meetings.
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ONCE more justice has an inning. You remember what we told you of the paper, not yet even started, which guaranteed 25,000 circulation? Well, those few paragraphs, “aided and abetted,” put that fellow out of business. Chicago has a score of them and they change the names of their “publications” as often as may be necessary. Two men have used fifty titles in Chicago in the past few years. The real victims are they who purchase the papers.
YOLt know F. M. Watts of Nashville? Orator and golfer! He is a champion with the putter, and down Nashville way is considered hard to beat. When he started in at Glenview to win by a stroke a hole, one of the boys had a cash-fare register hung about the neck of one of the caddies and every time that F. M. swung—or
OHIO bankers have taken the lead in getting ready for the 1910 convention at Los Angeles. Three cars have been booked and a four-weeks’ trip will be made of it. There are a few choice spirits already enrolled for the Chicago-Los Angeles special reservations to be made through The Chicago Banker. It will be a hummer and the guests shall name the route.
LET us hear from you. Most of the busy, big Chicago bankers like a direct route and a luxurious train. Mr. Hamilton wants music and it can be had. A “one section” train with the bankers “all together” suits Mr. Reynolds, who says the baggage and express cars can “come along later.”
THOSE who go will be those who say and the route will not be selected by the railroad. When the diagrams are ready you can get on in red ink.
OHIO bankers will take in the Canadian Rockies by way of the Canadian Pacific. The party will visit Vancouver, Victoria, Portland, Seattle, Mount Shasta, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, Mount Lowe, the Catalina Island, San Diego, Los Angeles (where a four or five days’ stop will be made for the convention), Redlands, Riverside, the famous town of the orange belt, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona, the Indian village of Lagunda, Colorado Springs, the Garden of the Gods, Pike’s Peak, Cripple Creek via the famous Short Line, Denver, and a trip to the summit of Mount McClellan or a trip up the famous Moffat Road.
YOU see, this is a case of where the convention is incidental to the trip, but the Chicago special will get the best trip it can, incidental to the convention.
PENNSYLVANIA has contributed three well-known bankers to the directorate of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. They are Henry C. Bughman, president of the Second National Bank of Pittsburgh; Charles McKnight, president of the National Bank of Western Pennsylvania, and Horace E. Smith of the banking house of Charles Smith & Sons of Philadelphia.
CHAIRMAN CRABTREE made quite a hit with the candidates at Decatur by giving each one five minutes to introduce himself in a talk of that length before the council. No kicks if it wasn’t well done and all treated alike. Mr. Crabtree is just as fair as he is energetic and hence his popularity.
SOME of the members of the council might have cast several votes without more than living up to what the candidates thought were promises.
MR. HILL has a convert. The great Pennsylvania railroad is buying up scattered, worn-out and practically abandoned Delaware farms “just to show what the land will do when up-to-date farming methods are adopted.” This is a greater philanthropy than subscription to library funds. Andrew should get busy with something like this.
ANY railroad serves the public well that provides transportation facilities for the business that rises naturally along its lines. But when, in addition, it stimulates directly the forces of production it performs a higher and a better service. For the enlightened selfishness of these recent activities of the Pennsylvania our praise is unqualified. Give James J. Hill some of the credit.