Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-08-14 | Page 1 | More Big Cities to Get the Banks

MORE BIG CITIES TO GET THE BANKS Postal Savings System Will Be Extended; Ex-tended; Oompleto Success of Plan So Far. WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. Encouraged bv the successful trial for two weeks of postal savinps system in the .great poFt-offlccs poFt-offlccs of New York. Chicago. St. Lou s nnd Boston. Postmaster General Hitchcock Hitch-cock has decided to extend the . systein rapidly to all iho larec cities and today designated as postal savings depositaries Kansas City. Pittsburg. Detroit, Buffalo. Sa" Francisco. Cincinnati. Seattle, Indianapolis, Indi-anapolis, Denver and Portland, pre. The deposits In New York. Chicago, St. Louis and Beaton for the first five days amounted to $110,000. at which rat the m al deposits for tho four cities would ri o nt to about $7,000,000. There aro uUogcine -120 large city postofflccs of the first class and It Is the purpose to have them all designated as postnl savings depositaries de-positaries before the first of the year. with few exceptions the postomcos of the secoml class, of which there are about 1G00. already have been designated ami verv shortly the designation of third class offices will begin,