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Show Clerks Under SarvMllaue. "Do you see that man ou tbe other side of the streti'" said a friend who is employed in a downtown bank, while we were walking leisurely up Broadway one evening last week. I glaucod at the man to whom my frieud referred. "He's a detective," he continued, "aud he is following us or rather me. You seem surpriaed, but it is a fact that every bank in tliis city bus one or two and sometimes three private detectives whose sole duty ia to keep truck of the doings of employes. It seems to be my turn to be followed now, aa tlus mun has been dogging me since yesterday. The watch will continue for several days longer, and after reporting to the bank he will be assigned to follow aoino one else. "Not long ago one of oar expert bookkeepers book-keepers sent word to the bunk that he was ill and could not come to tho office, but the same day his rvaignation was requested. re-quested. The fact ia, he hud spent the night before in dissipation, and the bank, having been informed of this by its detective, de-tective, his dismissal followed. "Being dogged about like a criminal is not pleasant. But what can we dn'r When protestations are made against it the bank officials assure us that we are mistaken, that they do not hire men to watch us. Of coorse you can't expect them to admit it, but every bank clerk can tell yon that such is the case," New York Herald. |