Show the signature expert A number of the larger banking institutions employ from one to halt half a dozen men whose sole eole duty Is to examine every cobeck that comes in through the clearing house and vouch for the genuineness of the signatures to the ordinary citizen it seems noth ing short of marvelous that a bigna ture clerk will instantly recognize the slightest alter alteration ailon in a signature with thousands of checks passing through his hands bands each day many of them drawn by depositors who sign but a few checks in the course of a year lut but an expert signature clerk can carry in his mind accurate aboto photographs of five thousand or more signatures and rarely has to refer to the signature book when not engaged with the incoming checks the signature expert spends his bis time in familiarizing himself with the signatures 0 of new customers there Is no room tor for uncertainty in his bis business in proportion to the number of checks paid by a large bank every business day the smallness small nesB of the number of bad ones that fill slip through Is nothing short of marvelous mar relous harpers weekly |