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Show EASY TO GET MONEY. NO NEED FOR BUSINESS MEN TO CARRY CURRENCY. Banks Always Ready to Accommodate Men Whom They Sire Up as Being Right Some Experiences That Prove tho Fact Somebody happened to refer to tho exposuro of tho up-to-dato "creopor" game as It was recontly conducted In Fifth avonuo. "And thoy got $600 from ono man," remarked oco of tho group of speakers speak-ers In nn up-town apartment houso a night or two ago. "Well," Interrupted tho gray-haired man opposite "all I can say Is he de served to lose It. No man has a right to carry that much money around In his clothos." "I agree with you," said his vis-avis. "Twenty-flvo dollars Is ns good to mo as twenty-five hundred. I find that sum enough at all tlmos. I novor earry more." "What would you do If you happened hap-pened to need a bigger sum In nn emergoncy?" asked ono of tho party. "You might find yourself In a hole" "Not at all. I can always draw a check yes, and get It cashed, too." Soveral of tho men prosent agreed with tho speaker. "Itls tho easiest thing In tho world to get monoy," continued tho man who had Introduced tho subjoct "At least I'vo always found It so. And I havo found It especially slmplo when I was abroad. Only last year J was In London Lon-don and ran short of funds. Well, I s'lmply walked Into a bank thero nnd asked them If they would cash a check for me. T was referred to tho president, nnd ho saw me readily enough when my card was sent In. "When I told him I needed n couple of hundred dollars he Immediately agreed to let mo have It. Hut hoaald ho would llko to cnblo over to see If It was all right not that he doubted me, but just as a matter of form. 1 told him If .that was necessary not to mind. It wasn't worth whllo. Whereupon Where-upon ho took my check, told tho cash-lor cash-lor to glvo mo the money, bade mo a plo".snnt trood day, and the Incident was closed." "You havo an honest face," remarked re-marked ono of tho smoking-room 'group with a laugh. "Yes. And thoy must bo easy over there," vouchsafed another. "Oh, 1 don't know," put ! a third, "I had practically tho snmo experience experi-ence In California n yoar or two ago. A banker thero advanced mo n hundred hun-dred dollars on my check without any porsonnl Identification whatsoever. Theso people evidently get to be tho keenoBt posslblo Judges of human nature, na-ture, that's nil thero Is to It." Soveral other members of tho party thon romombered similar experiences, nnd tho gonoral conclusion was that the original speakor was right In nverrlng that no man nocd carry a largo turn of money In his pocket. These woro all business men, but of no special prominence. No ono of them would bo recognizor on slr;ht ns a public man, a financier or capitalist. And as thoy had no Inccntlrn for other oth-er than truth-tolling their exposition of tho enso with which money may bo obtained seemed as Intornstlng as It was surprising. Now York Times |