Show I Behind the Scenes in B Banking Houses 1 n I T f f W y ot t 0 N i G 7 v f. f r 1 t h l J iS' iS f i f Sr 1 X j Jc r-i r I 1 A ot-J. ot d fel 4 i 4 I. I W l I 1 I i t 1 11 J I w 1 i r f r rN rf L f y t cob A. A f N r sI i rn r of oft 1 t r 41 f ff f Y w 4 J r X i y j lX M j. j r f f w i Some ban banking king the public never neve sees The bookkeeping department where things arc are balanced rAY Ti Tw LVE Banks Bauks Going a at Top Speed When N Noon Hour HOUI Arrives Banks thermometers of the city's industry are arc running at top speed when the county building clock strikes noon Through tellers' tellers cages and md into vaults and the clearing house houser r pour Dour our cash currency and checks life blood of the city's business Office workers cut ut short their noon noonday ay meal to deposit pay checks or draw out necessary cash financiers and laborers rub shoulders lers ders within the marble confines of their only common meetIng meetIng meet- meet Ing ng ground Theres There's no rest at noon for bank The public sees the tellers tell tell- ers rs cashiers and outward evidence of business but they never get a glimpse of the Inside workings Take a check for instance You cash it get your money and that's all aU as asfar far far as you ou are concerned But its it's only a part of it The check is carried from the tellers teller's cage to the bookkeepers usually above or behind the main working floor There in rows sit the men who balance the banks bank's books The check is posted by machine machine machine ma ma- chine on a ledger The machines are so operated that a grand total is carried forward constantly and I when the day ends the amounts to totaled totaled totaled to- to must balance with what the cages and the clearing house are charged with From the banks checks go to the clearing house situated here in the federal reserve bank building where around a table each day sit representatives from rom city banks to exchange checks I It is the tellers teller's responsibility to check signatures on all an negotiable paper but the bookkeepers too keep their eyes open for anything phoney |