| Show A triumph triumph of f me it are when I 1 was a young man in the business said mr G S whitson vice tice president of the national city bank I 1 knew a chap who was a sort of a promoter before his time that is if he had lived today to day he would ha hae have ve been exploiting industrial bombina eions As it was he did the best he could in the small way his op ties offered and had plenty of money sometimes and none at all at others he was a great fellow to talk im pres vely of his resources and his standing at the bank m bank he did have an account there and I 1 was very careful to see it was not over drawn one day he went to a simpleminded fellow who kept a grocery store and got him to cash a check for 50 the grocer sent his check to the bank the chap who made it didn dian t have a dollar to his credit so I 1 promptly sent the check back to the grocer marl ed N G in big black letters the grocer knew dimly that his check hadn haan t been paid and lie he waited for the promoter finally he came ng along a few days later here you ou shouted the grocer I 1 want wint to see you the bank sent back ba c k that check I 1 cashed for you the grocer produced the check the promoter 1001 ed it over careful ly he observed the big black N G I 1 had scrawled on it why my dear sir be he said reaching down in bis his pocket pulling up a big roll of bills and handing 50 in cash to the grocer allow me to supply the deficiency I 1 see the biffi culty all my checks are payable in gold it Is evident the bank had no gold on hand when you presented the check tor for they marked it N G which means no gold pleasant weather were having ita it good morning new ew york world |
