Evening gazette, Saturday, March 26, 1898 · page 2

 

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SA VING THE PEN N IES.
How SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE ABLE
TO HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT.

The System Has Been in “‘ncration for
Eight Tears in a Small Town in the
Western Part of New York State and

Constantly Shows a Gradual Growth.

The system of school savings banks
as operated in the Clean, N. Y., public
schools is a subject that cannot but
be of intense interest to almost every
class of readers. It touches closely so
many homes, so many families and so
many individuals that the brief out—
line here given of what is being done
along this line will be read with in-
terest by all. ‘

The school savings bank was intro-
duced in the Clean public schools eight
years ago, and to—day the depositors of
the school bank number about one
thousand, or nearly one—half of the
total number of pupils registered. in
the six city schools. ~

The school bank is under the gen-4

eral supervision of the‘Superintendent.
No extra efforts whatever are made to
force the deposits, and what growth is
shown from year to year is natural
and substantial. The deposits are re-
ceived from the children in their re-
spective rooms, and are turned over
to the office. Wednesday of each week
is the day for depositing, and the
amount placed in the bank each week
by the individual pupil may range
.from one cent up to $10. Not over
$10 will be received from any one
pupil each week, and no one is allowed
to have a bank account exceeding
$100. This is the limit of individual
deposits, and the fact that several have
reached that limit speaks well for the
' system. The average deposit from the
|six schools from week to week is be-
tween $60 and $70, and the average
from each pupil runs between sixteen
and twenty cents per week. The rate
of interest paid is 4 per cent. per an-
num, the interest payments being made
quarterly. The requisite for drawing
sinterest is that the deposit must be at
. least $5 and must remain in the bank
gthree months.
P The so called hard times seemed to
'have no effect upon the school bank,
and though no special effort has been
imade to increase the deposits during
6the past six years, their growth has
1 been encouraging. The time at which
‘ythe heaviest draft is made is during
the (bicycling season, when checks of
from $60 to $80 become frequent.

There are many instances on record
where the money thus placed on de-
posit has been of practical value to the
,boys and girls, and letters are con-

fstantly received from parents telling

of the purchase of clothing, shoes and
other necessaries, made possible by the
existence of this fund. It has also
been noticed that many well to do
families have their children practice
the economy taught by the bank, and
at the same time obtain a practical in-
sight into the methods of banking and
the care of a bank account.

The method of checking out the
money is very simple. Each pupil has
a pass book and is provided with an
order blank which must be filled out
with the amount for 'which the check
is to be drawn. This order is signed
by the pupil and must be approved and
signed by parent 01;. guardian. ~Upon
presentation of this order at the Su-
perintendent’s office, he draws a. check
for the required amount on the First
National bank of Oiean, where the
school savings bank funds are kept.
This check is of course endorsed and
cashed in the usual way.

The checks are not payable on the
.day drawn, but on the next banking
day following. There is a provision,
however, that in. urgent cases they
may be paid on sight on presentation
to the Superintendent. The pass
books are presented to the teacher
every time money is deposited or
withdrawn, and at the end of every
quarter they are left with the super-
intendent for examination and credit-
ing interest. The regulations pertain—
ing to the bank are subject to change
by the board of education. '

The school bank’s certificate of de-
posit with the First National bank
to-day shows $5,325 on deposit and
drawing interest. .Besid'es this there
are sums under $5 simply on deposit
that amount to considerable in the ag-
gregate. The amount on deposit last '
year at this time was $4,835, showing
a gain of $490 over the total of a year

 

ago of interest drawing deposits. The
total three years ago, in 1895, was
$4,500, which shows a gradual advance
Of almost $1,000 in that length of time.
—Olean, N. Y., Herald.

 

Remarkable Cure of a Cataract. I

A remarkable accidental cure of a
cataract comes from Baden, Mo. Mrs.
Carl Hoefller had suffered for four
years from a cataract and oculists had
tried in vain to remove it. The othen.
day, while she was in the kitchen,
working around the stove, some hot
grease pepped up. into her face, one
drop striking her in the eye.

The eye was badly burned, and the
woman at once bound it up and kept_
applying tea leaVes. When she re-
moved the bandage she found that she
could see as well as ever, the burning
grease having.removed the cataract.
—-New York Journal.

‘They tell of a judge in Bennington,
Vermont, who, having spoken of buy-
ing a. safe, was interviewed by two
rival agents, each of whom had so
much to say in favor of his own par-
ticular safe that the judge was quite
at a loss which to buy. In a happy
moment he thought of a burglar whom
he had himself sentenced, and going to
the jail he obtained this uexpert safe- I
breaker's opinion, and then gave his
order. ‘ . I

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STRANGE SCAVENGERS.

How the Markets of Charleston, S. (1.,
Are Kept Clean.

Charleston, S. C., has the most prim
itve and pectiliar scavengers in the
world. Hundreds—it seems thousands
——of carrion crows or buzzards, in the
very early morning, swoop down upon
the historical old city from the tall
palm or palmetto forests which skirt
the western suburbs.

In the waking hours any passengers
entering Charleston on the Columbia
express can see huge black lumps fall
from the trees about. They never hit
the ground. Out in the open these
black lumps gather in a struggling
flock and flop their way over toward
the custom house. They are buzzards.
While the twilight is yet gray these
vulgar birds go to the city market and
infest it for an hour or two.

A stranger who did not appreciate
the health value of these buzzards is
liable to kill one ofé them. Then he is
liable to be fined $10, for the city does
not allow its curious scavenger birds
to be destroyed with impunity.

The Charleston market is a noted
place in the South. It runs from Mar-
ket street to the water's edge, and is
the main thoroughfare for the crowd
of pedestrians who come and go from
the harbor boats. It is a novel sight
to see the hurrying feet of workmen
treading their way carefully among
these wild birds gathered there by the
hundreds like domestic chickens, they
stand about, and, like domestic dogs,
they watch for every piece of waste
as it is dropped’ from a meat block.
One would hardly think, as he pushes
the big birds out of the way, that
these same feathered things roost in
the forest, and are tame nowhere else.
In the markets they never attempt to
steal meat. from the counter.

Going through the three or four
blocks of the big market one morning

the writer counted over 300 of these,

buzzards walking about as nonchal-
autly as though it was their own poul-
try yard. They will not got out of
your way. They fight every dog or
cat that attempts to run in opposition,
and will scramble with a man or child

who competes wtih them for a fallen

scrap of meat. But they keep the
Charleston markets clean. perfectly
clean. As a result of their thorough
scavenger work this is the cleanest
and hcalthicst lllC-ilt market in the
world.

In consideration of their assistance
in keeping the city clean the muncipal
council has made it an offense to in-
jure or kill one of them. An oifende-r
not only had to pay $10 fine, but usu-
ally gets a free lecture on the laws of
health and the value of the buzzards
as assistant members of the local
board of health. By an hour after sun-
rise. the birds have all left the city.
It is for this reason that the visitor
to the city, who usually gets up after
that hour, and strolls out. later. ncvei
sees this extraordinary sight of wild
birds acting as market scavengers.—
Washington Star.

 

f. AN OCEAN TROLLEY LlNE.

For Carrying Lumber Aboard Largo
' Schooners.

An ocean trolley line. which reaches

nearly a quarter of a mile over the
sea, conveying either passengers or
merchandise, is one of the curious
sights to be seen at Bear Harbor, on
the Pacific coast, not far from San
Francisco. While the ostensible ob-
ject of this strange trolley is the carry-
ing of lumber from the rocky highland
aboard the big schooners which form
the ocean terminus of the line, dozens
of lumbermen rideina basket attached
to the SUSpended cable on a wheel.

Of course, there is no electricity used
in connection with this novel trolley.
The power of gravity does most of the
hard work. The lumber schooners
come from the Mendocino County
ports. Until a year ago they were
loaded by the slow process of lighters
plying to and from the wharves. By
the new trolley system lumber in any
quantity can be carried from any isl-

and, point over a long and high rail-

road bridge to a sort of cage, where
the wooden cargoes are stacked, and
thence to the deck of each ship. The
trolley line is thrown from the lumber
cage to the vessels by means of a rope
shot from a mortar.—.—New York Even-

. ing Journal.

Educated Tinker-s Needed.

A leading Austrian paper calls atten-
tion to the fact that Bulgaria would
olfer a much larger market for agri-
cultural machinery if there were some
reliable repair shops for such machin~

. ery in the country. If there is but the

smallest repair work on such a mi.
chine to be done nobody can he found
to do it, and in many cases German
experts have been called for. The
Economical Society of the Bulgarian
capital has submitted a memorial to
the government asking for the state
appointment of some 75 to 100 capable
mechanics able to do this kind of
work. The ministry supports this
scheme, and decided that these me-
chanics should have to instruct in the
first place the rural population in the

application of improved agricultural ,

machinery and implements.

This impetus will doubtless. result in
a large increase of the imports of all
kinds of agricultural machinery—Phil
adelphia Record.

 

No Money in It.

Miss Van Rocks—So you asked
father, did you? And did« he talk
business?

Lord De Liverus—No: he said all he
could give was his consent—'- ’uck.

 

An X-Bay Joke.
First Doctor—Good photograph. isn’t
it? . . ‘
Second Doctor—Fairly good. Wat»
here the letting a little I think."

 

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