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Show BANKERS FAVOR POSTAL BANK iN'ew York, Aug. 12. Plans for the installation or the postal savings bank - system in New York and Brooklyn postodlces are being rushed here under un-der the personal supervision of Postmaster Post-master General Hitchcock. It is hoped to hate the banks In operation by November. No-vember. As yet It has been impossible for the postal authorities to form any accurate ac-curate estimate as to what amounts will be entrusted to the postal hanks by frugal New Yorkers. Postmaster General H.'tchcock Is optimistic. "I believe," he says, ' that when we really get to wnr. the postal savings bank pioposltlon will prove one of the most popular features of the present national administration. The department depart-ment is making every effort to sec r-. quick and successful operation, are goiag to try the plan In son;' the big Alices first. We have befc.-e us all the practical points of its operation oper-ation abroad. Ultimately we shall have have a postal saings bank wherever there Is a postoflice. "Since reaching New York I have discovered that most of the opposition was developed when the proposition first was suggested, and has disappeared. disap-peared. Now many hankers nrc heartily cn-operating with us. Bankers Bank-ers generally seemed to fear that it meant serious injury to their business. busi-ness. Now thev are gradually coming around to the belief that it will not endanger it at all, but, on the contrary, con-trary, will release incalculable amounts of money which the poor in j particular., have been hoarding be-' be-' cause they were afraid to bank It." i |