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Show TUE WAITERS' BANK. A Nav Cla of Uniikcr Whn lrn- Aldu Thrlr Cmtomer Hh Bmnll CIiiiuku. A correspondent writes: "One i sometimes surprUcd at the quantity of small money which iv waiter usually carries loosely in his pockets and Hip readiness with which he can (rive n customer change in the most suitable form for facilitating tlio receipt of a tip. "This smnll change Is not generall obtained from other customers. On the continent, and particularly in Berlin, Ber-lin, the small coins nre obtained by the waiters from a particular class of 'bankers,' or money changers, who eon-Hue eon-Hue themselves to such operations. "These llcrllu 'bonkers' betake themselves them-selves every ecnlng to the tramway and metropolitan railway ofllces, the ofilces of the pciiuy-!n-thc-slot machine ma-chine companies, and numerous other plncvfc whore money U collected iu Kinall coins. "Here the nierendy to tako the smnll money iu return for gold, which these companies no doubt find it more con-enlent con-enlent to luindle. "Next morning these 'bankers' sell the change at a pi oil I of from one to two per cent, to wallets at the numerou restaurants In the city. It is said that they find tills branch of bnnkliifr business busi-ness a very convenient and. profitable one, particularly as the necessary working work-ing capital is ei small. "In this country, where there is so muck small change in eh dilation, the business would piobnbly not be so profitable; but Iu places like Turkey, where change it. nhvnyt nt a premium nud difficult to obtain, the sarrnfs, or money changers, make an enormous profit. ."These llerlln 'bankers' have merely bonowed tho Idea, although the scarcity of small coins lu that city cannot can-not be nearly so accentuated as in Turkey. Tur-key. "In tiie latter place, indeed, the government gov-ernment Is snid to connive, as the sar-rafs sar-rafs pay u liniultome stun for their privileges." London Financial News. |