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Show Immigrants and Cashiers. People who do business with newly ar rived immigrants notice how quickly .they begin to become Americanized. This tendency, in fact, causes no little inconvenience to the cashiers of savings banks, which have many immigrants among their depositors. Some of the larger institutions of this kind hav many hundreds of depositors, and it is necessary to exercise the greatest care in seeing that the signatures on orders or checks for money are exactly the same as the one which is kept on reference. refer-ence. A Hungarian, for instance, when he opens his account, will sign his name "Josef." In a short while he finds trouble trou-ble in withdrawing any money because ' he has changed his name to "Joseph." Heinrich, in the same way, becomes Henry; Pierre, Peter; Dorathea, Dora, and so on, The paying teller gets no rest until he has the signature which is kept on record Americanized. New York Tribune. |