| Show WIN sal MEM MW 1 I mm MUM S B BOYS SAVED SANET 23 THE THIE d BANK B A N K JF 15 now york youngsters showed loyalty to penny savini institution S X X M arm job A rile rita said the 0 other ther that hie his favorite book or one of his favorite favorit books wae was I john halifax Ge gentleman and that everybody who read it should do so go it had bad been objected to the atory story among other things mr rile said that euch such a it berf performance ermance as that of the hero in stepping a run on the bank by put tine ting hlf bit own gold into it was an action so se unnatural and impossible aa as to be ft a serious fault in tho the book so mr alis told a etory story a bit of very modern modem history to furnish a parallel and that in to a very unlikely quarter dolc on the east elde side not long ago a settlement uett lement was founded and the ladles ladies developed a powerful influence over certain little gangai ganga of boys rather evil boye boys the ganga gangs took the settlers into favor by degrees and the wildest gang notorious marauders of fruit stands and pests of the tile police held out longest but they too came in at last and were much influenced for good now a leading feature of f this settle ment was an institution called a penny P provident rov ident bank I 1 in which the girls of the neighborhood deposited their spare coppers not tho boys the boys used their coppers otherwise one da a rumor got abroad that the settlement wae was about to move then followed a run on this penny provident bank all the little girls came and stood in line and called for clr morera moc 1 and the appeals and ef arguments 0 had no more effect than similar appeals and arguments of bank direct ore ors have with older people when there Is a run so the ladles ladies were die tor for the pennies were going cut of the bank aa as fast as water out of a sieve stove just then that same wildest wildes sang gang it ot of boys tho the last to come under the influence of the settlement hove in sight and discovered what was going on presently they vanished into alleys streets bouses houses back rooms of saloons places unknown somewhere and anywhere they got together nil all the bennies they could beg or borrow borro and then tle gang came to the bank and for every penny tho fIght frightened ened girls took out the gang deposited another pinny in its place and so stopped tl ti run new york times |
