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Show GRIT OF HUNGRY GIRL WINS HER GOOD BANK JOB Her Mettle in Face of Trials Attracts Attention of Financiers. New York. William K. Knox, president presi-dent of the Bowery Savings bank, read In a New York paper tlmt Miss Nannette I'revost, nineteen, of Denver, who coliupsed from cold und hunger one night at West Uroadway and Chambers street, was going to stil'k it out in New York even if she starved to death doing It. Anyhow, she wasn't going back to Denver. "That's the sort of girl I like to hear about," said Mr. Knox. So he culled John Macl'herson, head of the hank's personal service department, and told him that he thought somebody ought to do something about it. Mr. Knox and Mr. MacHierson ngreed that It would be a good Idea to see that the girl got a home where she could rest, with good food and plenty of sleep, until she was strong enough to get a Job. Get Her a Job. "And we'll do more than that," suld Mr. Knox. "When she does get strong again we'll see that she gets a job in this bank. There's always a Job for a girl with that nerve." Mr. Macl'herson hurried over to Rellevue hospital, where Miss I'revost pale and thin but pretty, In spite of it, lay on her cot vowing that she would never go buck to Denver. At the hospital hospi-tal they told Mr. Mncl'hersou thut yd) Atifsf SS, km r A Policeman saw Her. two other banks hud beaten him to It and had offered to take care of the, girl. But he outbid them. He got Mrs. Macl'herson on the telephone and she ngreed that their home at 410 Riverside drive was fully big enough to accommodate Miss I'revost for us long as she cared to stay. "Bring her right up," said Mrs. Macl'herson. Mac-l'herson. Miss I'revost, however, must stay In the hospital several more days, probably a week, before she can go to Riverside drive, l'hysicians explained that anybody, particularly a woman, who goes without food for three days and wnIRs the streets hunting a Job all thut time, needs a little time to regain re-gain strength. Was Full of Hops. Miss I'revost, an orphan, came to New York soon after she was graduated gradu-ated from high school In Denver. She left the I'ennsylvaaiu station with $00 In her purse and statements saying thut she was a capable stenographer. She was full of hope. But the $U0 went fast and it seemed that New York had more stenographers, with excellent ex-cellent references, than could be used. The last cent went for a cup of coffee and a roll Sunday morning, and from then until late Tuesday night, when a policeman saw her keel over In n doorwuy she went on her nerve the same nerve that hns gut her a home on Riverside drive and a job when she Is strong again. "I know pretty well how It Is," said Mr. Macl'herson last night, "for I came here from Scotland twenty-eight years ago, when there wasn't a cent more money coming from home. A Broadway Broad-way hotel manager they're supposed to be the coldest propositions In the world with the exception of a bank told me I needn't hurry about paying my bill, but to go out and make good. New York won't let anybody starve If It knows It, but the trouble Is that lots of times, as in Miss I'revost's case, New York didn't know about It until It was almost too lute." |