Robinson Crusoe's father : the projector of savings banks / . , with St. Pauls in London and St. Peters in Rome. The interior of the structure is spacious and palatial. Theinterior of the dome is especially elaborate in design. Theapex of it is 110 feet above the level of the marble floor. The History of the Williamsburgh SavingsBank is the History of Success. The history of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank is thehistory of the success that comes to those who have a highpurpose in view and who go about to achieve that purposein a manly, upright and disinterested way. None but theforemost men in
Robinson Crusoe's father : the projector of savings banks / . , with St. Pauls in London and St. Peters in Rome. The interior of the structure is spacious and palatial. Theinterior of the dome is especially elaborate in design. Theapex of it is 110 feet above the level of the marble floor. The History of the Williamsburgh SavingsBank is the History of Success. The history of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank is thehistory of the success that comes to those who have a highpurpose in view and who go about to achieve that purposein a manly, upright and disinterested way. None but theforemost men in the old city of Williamsburgh and in thepresent Eastern District of Brooklyn have ever been identifiedwith the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, and the confidenceand trust which the public has placed in these men and in theirenterprise come as an honestly earned and justly meritedreward. During its fifty-nine years the bank has never once been indifficulties or suffered embarrassment, and public faith in it Robinson Crusoes Father, the Projector of Savings Banks. has never been shaken. It has entered into the life of thecommunity, and by the aid it has extended to home buildershas done more than any one other agency to develop the com-munity round about it. The venerable John Broach, who was one of its firstcashiers, wrote in his annual report way back in 1868: The bank has made over 800 loans on bonds and mort-gages amounting in the aggregate to about $2,500,000, ofwhich about $1,000,000 has been paid off, leaving about$1,500,000 now invested in 500 mortgages remaining open. The loans have greatly aided in building up the districtin which the bank is located; many of them have been whatare termed building loans, advanced as the building pro-gressed. The amount advanced, however, has never beenpermitted to exceed one-half the value of the property as itstood at the time the advance was made. In this manner numerous dwellings and several churchesand manufactories have been added to t
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