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Show THE WAITERS' BANK. A Nimt Ola. of Hunker. Who I'm. ,Vh1 Tlitflr Ciiklomvra u i Vninll Clinnu,., yt A correspondent writes. "One is soinetlmos nurpiineil at the quantity of Miinll monej tvlileh a wullrr UMially carries loosel in hi poeketn and the rcatllncka with wlileli he ean gite n customer change lu the most suitable Conn (or facilitating the lecelpt of a tin. "Tills smalt change i not generally obtained from other eiiktjniicre. On the continent, nnd partlculnrl, in ller-lin, ller-lin, tho small coins arc ohtalned hv the waiters fiom a particular clius of 'hankers,' or money fhangerx, whoeon-flno whoeon-flno tlienikclu's to such operations. "Theiio Berlin 'Iwiikers' bclaKc (hem-fcolveh (hem-fcolveh etery etenlug to the tiamnny and metropolitan railway oillccs, the olTlces of the pcnuy-ln-tlie-.lot ma-elilno ma-elilno coiiipniiie., nnd niimcrout. other plnech where money U eolleeled in small coins. "Here tlioj are ready to take the small money in u.tiirn for gold, which the.p compmilefc t.n doubt tlm! it more con-tenieut con-tenieut tii'iuiiidle. "Noxl iiioriilii(f these 'bankers' tell the change at a profit of (rom one to two per cent, to waiters at the niiuicrotm reMniirnuts in the city. It h snhl that they find Hii bimieh o( liankiiig tnn. ne n .ter oontuidnit nnd prolltablo one. piirtleularjya.nie neceti t- worli. Ing t-apiial Is'tery iinall. "In ililb lo.intit, wlicre thrrp Inn niinj ,r. :,, ilmnee In (inn it ic i-. Uic liuiuuk, would piubHhly urn he u protitatile; hut in places like Tin key, where ehaiigu is always at a pieiiiltim and diffloult to obtain, the wiuiif, )r money chnngers, make no onorinnm. profit. "These llerllu 'bankers' hare men It borrowed the Idea, althoush the scarcity of small coins In that city cannot can-not he nearly so accentuated ns In Turkey. Tur-key. "In the latter place, Indeed, tlio gov-ernmei:t gov-ernmei:t is said to connive, as tliesur rafs pay a handiome sum (or their privileges." London Financial News. |