Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . millionsand fifty millions each. But the business ofsome of these banks of sounding andcharacteristic title is often surpassed by. 108 ) AT A liANK IN THK (TIV. 90 LIVING LONDON. that carried on under such shnple but famousnames as Llo\ds or Barclays, or again asBarings, or Rothschilds—houses \\hich havepla_\-ed some little part in European [politicsduring the last centur_\-. Each of these banks has its spaciousstrong-rooms in the basement, a large roomcrowded with clerks, special
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . millionsand fifty millions each. But the business ofsome of these banks of sounding andcharacteristic title is often surpassed by. 108 ) AT A liANK IN THK (TIV. 90 LIVING LONDON. that carried on under such shnple but famousnames as Llo\ds or Barclays, or again asBarings, or Rothschilds—houses \\hich havepla_\-ed some little part in European [politicsduring the last centur_\-. Each of these banks has its spaciousstrong-rooms in the basement, a large roomcrowded with clerks, special sanctums formanager and secretary, and somewhereupstairs a board-room. Each has its ownmethods, its own long list of customers, itsown carefully guarded secrets, its own capitalemployed here or there, its own man) are the devices to safeguardagainst frauds with regard to the from the purely artistic point of viewcheques are full of interest. The designs areelaborate, often beautiful ; and a collection ofvarious cheques might be desirable foraesthetic, if for no other, reasons. And thisapplies also to banknotes ; the difficulty inthis case being increased by the fact that itwould be locking up so
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