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Show I DID BUSINESS IN MILLIONS I ' But at Clone of the Day's Proceedings Bankers Couldn't Produce $40 In Currency. I One dlscoverft more different sorts i of odd things In New York than apy- ( I where else In the world. For example, j ' writes the New York correspondent ' of the Cincinnati Times-Star, there is ', a banking house downtown which ac- 1 cupiee almost an entire floor in one i of the most exclusivo business struct- J , ures This banking houBe handles j nothing but "big" business. Nothing I less than a $1,000,000 transaction can 1 t secure the attention of the Henior 1 i partners. They rather fancy taking complete charge of a great bond is- sue, which gives their letter writers j almost free rein in tying ciphers to numerals. About the time tho market mar-ket closeB a fleet of honking motor j cars fills the Btrect beneath, waiting I for the various partners to ' home, 1 John " The other day a man came I in with a ?40 due and payable, addressed ad-dressed to one of the juniors 1 I "And I wish you'd let me have the . 1 currency," said he. 'T'm off for the seashore and need a little change." 1 The junior partner said, "Certainly " And went through his pockets. He 1 had loss thr.n ?t Ho walked into the ' glass partitioned room inhabited by the next junior with a request for ' cash The next junior had $11 and i was on his way uptown. The Junior partner tnea tne seniors, rspne was In. Then he called the head clerk and asked him to cash a check for tho I sum I "Sorry, sir," said the head clerk, "but there Isn't $-10 in the vaults So that' a boy was sent to a bank on the street level and the money obtained ob-tained The explanation Is, of courBe, tjiat such an establishment has no need for actual cash in the transaction transac-tion of Its buBlneBs. But It is rather queer that a banking house of such magnitude should be stumped for 40. |