Show COAT OF PAINT SAVED BANK clever device stopped run alt would have been D sa runs on banks as all the world snows are often stopped or restricted n the oddest ways A rich bank knew that a run was to set in on a certain monday morn ing for it bad been robbed ol 01 some postage stamps on saturday night and the robbery had been exaggerated in the newspaper reports and this run was not kept within reasonable limits the bank would ave to close its doors it had plenty ot money but not plenty ot cash it needed 2 hours time before sunrise on mond morning a man put a fresh coat of paint on the front doors of the bank on the wall panels and on the counters the re suit was that the people who made the run on monday made rather a walk of it they wanted their money but they rushed no one on the con arary they came on with caution and deliberation so careful were they lest they get paint on their clothes that it took longer to pay off one ot them than it would have taken or din arlly to pay five this is one 0 many odd tricks whereby in o 0 a bank has saved itself from wieck |