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Show UNEASE 15 sun ii bai mm Tlic-.Percenfage oi' Gain Is 22 ' 'Percent Over Same Time Last Year. i The intervention of a holiday at the first tjt lho week, usually one of the heaviest ilaj'S for bank clearings, failed to discount the increased showing of bank, clearings, over (t he showing for. tile coYiWpondlng rw'eek of last year, I and the percentage of excess was more than '22 per cent. This also in spite of tho'fncf that on one day lho total clear ings fell below the showing for the cop responding day of HI0S. The total for the week ending "September "Sep-tember 'JJL, 1000. was ir-S.SS-l.GlO.fifi as .compared with a total of only $4.177.-(iO $4.177.-(iO J .70. The nicrease. therefore, was i;i07,0li.77, or more than '22 per cent Over the . total ( for 'the corresponding week last year. ,- The total bank .clenr: jngs.for Saturday, September ' 1, were l,:7 0;S.12.4J,4. as compared with a total of-'o.uly. $S70,i3l5..'4 lor the correspond frig "day of H)0S'. The increase for that day was $.300,3.1 6.90, or an excess of nearly o) per cent. It will tiuis be seen that Ihe daily totals to-tals have been high for most of the days of tho week and that the holiday was instrumental merely in reducing the daily-average for the week.. Tliis-avcr-age on 'the basis of seven days to the w;eek was $707,801. . 11 ; on tho basis of six days to the week was $0.'0.7:j..-27, and on tho basis of live days to the week the actual number during which business was transacted was $1,11(5,-922.11, $1,11(5,-922.11, or considerably over the million dollar mark. The totals for the days of the past week and tho total for the corresponding correspond-ing days of a. year ago arc as follows: Mondav Holiday Tuesday $1,123,326.73 5 075.70S.22 YVcdncsrtav . .. .1.00.". 207. -13 790.7::i.O:! Thursday' S7S.735.52' 007.20iLjO Friday...-- 1.US.21.S.CI - -SSU-lO.fiO Saturday . 1.370.S32.24 S70.5lo.3-I Total '. ?5.3S1.G10.5C $-1.177.001 .70 Increase. $1,1 07.01 S. 77. or an excess of more than 22. per cent. |