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Show STARTING RUNS ON BANKS. Small Incidents Serve to Alarm Depositors De-positors "use of Bank of England. A queer r ii on the savings bank In the Olietio district of New Yoik cltj has lecalK-d others of the same sort. Heie Is one A good many years ago in London an old woman fell In front of u hank and broke her leg. A crowd gathered and the report got about that theio was a run on the brnk In a very brief space thero lealh was one A dlsnstious run on the Dank of Kngland In the time ot the Preten ' r In the eighteenth cen-luu cen-luu wns prevented by an Ingenious delay When Prince Charles was iiiiu- hlng -i London depositors wcro In a frnr.i'e huirj to draw out all they hn i In the 'tank of Knglnml. Every call was in"', but In sixpences and shtlli' rs St long did these coins take to count and so prodigious were the loads of bullion which had to be car-lied car-lied that public confidence was restored, re-stored, mid news of the retreat of (lie hlghhinilerH coming to town, the sttua-'ion sttua-'ion wns saved. |