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0 4 1, 1 TTTP, aXOBK TIMESH SXJNI AT. APRIL 29, 1900. First All-Night Bank in the World Opens ToHmorrow i i i i i -t. i mmwlTZimi was once a man who wrote an essay 7 entitled Plea for Gas Lamps." It! was not that this writer and he was a exeat tone had any grudge against electric lights or "municipal progression, but his 'plea for the H. poor old gas lamps was that with them would go much of poetry and much of association and romance.

The feeling Mas probably the same as that which Is apt to be produced In the mind when one hears foif the first time that the night! and day bank has eJa bank which will shake off every banking tra- ditlon, convention, and many of the time-bound rulei cf banking business. I i The night and day bank will open to-morrow, and the first depositor at the receiving tejler's count er at 6 o'clock to-morrow night will have the distinction of being the first to lodge money after banking hours.and the doubtfuThonor of being Lhe ploneetf of right destroyers. rV-' Just think of It! "We who have lived all our live half' in play and sleep, half In activity, dosing our: desks every afternoon and going home to 'an easy; armchair, a pair of warmed slippers, and He Glveth. Iljs IJcIovfd Sleep over the bedstead; perhaps going to the theatre and to supper afterward- always augh lug. crying.

quarreling. forgiving like respectable human btJ ngs before opening the grim desk, in the moniUvs -Just, think of. all this" being ended and the bank teing open for business all night! Why, the bank and banking hours havy been the one safety clutch of thousands of poor, clerks and rich, employers. "Were it not that the banks closed promptly the poor clerks would have ha tojwork overtime, and the rich employers, would never have got even a little enjoyment out of life, as they, would have done, over the business they 'could have been transacting- zt a j. But that's all past now.

Banking houra stretch; from 12 noon to 12 noon, and the merchant who thinks if won't make any difference, except to his financial convenience, had better think again. Sj long-as a bank Is open he'll work; so long as he'll jwork he'll make money and lodge. and make more and lodge It; no that, with a bank open all night, the New Yorker's ambition will be like the forever postponed achievement of the man who started out to find the and of the world hell keep on traveling. We have become used, through association time and divers poets, to think of the" night as' of rest, the moon as the' Queen of Sleep and sentlmenti and the stars as her pickets. Tennyson's 'brook' made frivolous but never in poetic truth did a night wlnd or a mbonshaf In the river suggest anything but a temporary cessation from all' worldly cares.

Well, sleep peacefully to-night; open your casement and let the night breathe all the poetic nothings it has accumulated through centuries; enjoy the serenade "Of 'the clerk who takes on a godlike grace after the bank close's; this Is the last old-fashioned night; to-morrow evening 'they'll' be doing business in notes and drafts at Forty-fourth'Street and TFlfth' Avenue, while the stars weep and the nightingale chahfsf "The bafikt 'The The "bah? Ojjett klT ttihti- The5 whole scheme of things, from writing sonnets to making business appointments, wll be changed by this new order of things. Time was when a man A JAPANiLSm VIE, (Th following letter was Kanfko of New York from i known Joarnalist In Japan.) received by Mr. KUchl friend who Is a well- name of popular and. In fact, eyer-where throughout the land. But his popularity here is not as a statesman or as the President of the United States.

He Is famous as ari author, as a writer, and especially as the author-of that great book Strenuous Life." The first translation of this book appeared a year or, two ago In book form, and now another translation of the same book Is running as a serial story in a Toklo magazine by an entirely different translator. "NYe have the Life of Roosevelt." written by one of my friends, who is an editorial writer of the Yorodu Choho, and a new translation of The American Spirit." Perhaps I have to explain to you why our reading public likes that book. In Japan to-day people are talking so much of success, how to succeed in this world, how to make, a great fortune In a night, and. naturally anything which treats on such a subject seems to interest oxir people Just at this moment. -ind there are many magazines in Toklo that made stlch a wonderful sue-cess by rreachlng the 'sermon on how to succeed," Instead of making the people successful.

I know- thre are many young men-who worship Mr; "RAosevelt's book and are trying to live a stren-Bnus'life that Is, to climb up the high wall of success, to compete wlththelf fellow-men. and to knock flown the others hV order to make what they call a mccess. I do not know whether or not this was the intention the author cf this great book. Anyway, it Is considered by them as a wonderful guide of the Gay. Birds IXIE.

the only mocking-bird of the Zoo, dls-- tlnguished himself -recently, by singing for the first time in By a very strange coincidence Dixie's outburst of song happened to be for the special benefit or a group or Southern women. and children! who had oojht him out among all the hundreds of songsters that tUrong the new bird house. We've been all over tha place," said one of tfce to Samuel Stacey, Assistant Curatpr of Birds, "and not the first sign of a mocking bird fcave seen here." We have but one mocking bird. Madam," explained Stacey, "and he's all out of. sorts, some-; sits around in the dumps ail day.

with feathers puffed up like a porcupine, as for inging, why. all the combined, powers of grand opera couldn't induce that bird to even so much as ound his I Sever mind, we're from the South, and we want to see. the mocking one of the party. handsome matronly woman. Stacey escorted them to one of the general cages where all sorts ot birds kept huddled up together, the tom-tlt.

bobolink. What-not on equal terms with those princes bf and story the thrush. 'nightingale, and mocje- bird. Poor Dixie locked more, like the understudy of carerrow than anything else as he sat; perched corner resting on oot his beakstuck. m'the mess of feathers resem- 6ld a norcuDlne: More 'than this, he-fcadr no nia oft drab plumage having been lost: frora 'nat OiffeJl DEAR MR.

KIICHI KANEKO: Ml As I said In my last letter the I Theodore Roosevelt Is getting very 4n Janan in cities, in the country. An Innovation Methods, '-x; rrl i i III 1 1 i and niqht bank, "southeast corner fifth avenue and forty-fourth street, and gerardus wynkoop, vice president and executive. sold his kingdom for a special train to get me t'the city befor-r-re the bank c-loaea! And the banks, still wjlth some respect for the romantic needs of living, managed to close up Just as the flier, drew In. Then we had the thrilling tableau. Too l-late! OF PRILSID1LNT ROOSE-VLLT AND OTHZ.R THINGS AMERICAN i Anr wll.known writers that women with their old ideas, while the women have Charles Wagner's "Simple Life" is pretty pop- iular.

too. Since its first translation came last Fall In Toklo there has been much talk of the book. have another translation of the same book by a different man which recently came out. I think the author; of this little volume, who Is a plain minister Christ In Paris, must be very proud of having the jtwo Japanese translators. i We were leading some kind of simple Ufa In the past, ajnd I think too much of It, too.

Maybe It was jnot what the author of The Simple Life might call a simple life. Maybe it-was rather too primitive a Ufa. I im quite sure that the people who Introduced jand worshipped a book on "strenuous life" must 'have One on "simple life," too, as an offset of too "imuch itrenuoslty. i a a i I I learned through a dispatch that Mr. Carnegie has Iplannejl to simplify the English spelling.

I think it a lvery good idea, at, least to spend his abundant for this kind of work. If It Is not wise to spend his money exclusively for libraries. We have much 'sympathy, toward this kind of movement for the rea-'son that the English language is practically our principal adopted language to-day. We teach It from our icommon 'schools to our universities; we talk It and i-Jread It and.lt is not hard to find pretty good Eng-illsh scholars even among the clerks In our small (stores, -Is 1 not wonderful to see the growth of the Eng-illsty language all over the world? Five hundred years agd lt.vas the language of a few million people of the 'iirltisbi Islands, and to-day It Is spoken by more than the combined number of the people of France, and Italy. About fifty-five years ago Japan the English language was practically un-knownj excepting? by.

a few scholars. At that time the Dutch was the only foreign tongue which we were ssaargTssp mm mm mm sppppss mm mm mmimmmfmr mm mm mM wwpywp mm at the Zoo Welcome Spring Joyously! With One Exception iural causes, or else plucked from him by some com- 'batlvej rival. With many expressions of sympathy. Southern women peered through the cage, at the miserable looking mocking bird, until, finally 'he aroused himself to seo what Jt all meant. Had Yio at hast come In for some slight recognition there among all those shrieking foreigners from Jungle and plain? Was there yet an American left to ad-imlre an American bird? Was he the observed of observers among that gay throng of gorgeously plumed creatures from parrakeet to crested cockatoo? i Dixie squlntecl and peeped at the ladles, drew his feathers more tightly about him, sprang upon another jlmb of the sprig In the cage, and said Peep, two or three times, as if he really took more jinterest In himself.

Then, hopping away up toward the highest sprig he followed these little notes jof Inquiry with a "Chirp, chirp, chirp," then dasheJ off a few bars of "Wheetow, wheetow. whee-ee-tow," and finally let loose a gurgle of "WhiU-l-r. whl-l-l-r. Jay, Jay. Jay, peetah, peetah.

wh-l-l-r I On and on went the songster, and the faces of those Southern women became Illuminated with a light that told plainly enough that sectionalism Is not dtad. and won't be dead as long as there is a mocklpg bird left to sing songs of the South. sweet, swee-ee-t." sang Dixie, and far above the screams of the frantic parrots me-lodloufc music rang out, silencing many a songster with shame. I "Cob-White, Bob he went oft, and In a NWhich Is Without Precedent in Business but Has Been Long in Demand. a mm'-- SI.

A i -5 ar.L, There won't be any more of that. The night and day bank has not only robbed us of the sentiment of the stilly night, but deprived us of much that went to the making of good melodramas. Just think of that burglar scene! Gone, gone forever. learning. To-day the English Is studied by more peo ple than the combined number of the people who study French, German.

Italian, and all other foreign languages. I think that It will not be long when we come to adopt the English as our national tongue; at -least. I hope so. now trying to adopt the Roman characters In the placo of Chinese and Kana, which Is our alphabet. Among the advocates of this movement in Toklo we have the university professors, prominent men of and educationists.

They are publishing a semi-monthly magazine devoted to the Romanlzatlon movement, and the magazine la printed entirely in Roman alphabets. As there are many opponents of the movement of simplifying the English spelling in America, so here, too, are many conservatives oppose this new undertaking. It must come, however, sooner or later, the day when we all recognize the benefits as well as the necessity of adapting the Roman alphabet to our language. We had discussions on antl-Amerlcanlsm In Toklo quite recently. Did you already hear something about It? Well, I tell you.

it Is true that when the "Americanization of the world" was emphatically rrophesled by that hasty but very interesting Journalist-prophet. William Stead of England, some years ago, Japan, too was preparing to be Americanized. In our schools we have now. Yankee athletes; In the society we have the champions of tennis and golf which we imported from America. We have the people like Americans who walk fast on the streets; we have the boys like Americans who are ambitious to make a million In a day; we have the merchants like Americans whose business is to advertise; we have the ladles like Americans who talk and talk and talk! But we began to feel tired of this Americanized state of things, and I hear the voice which is Jiffy he had taken jup the calls of every songbird of the South, and run the gamut of blrdland.

The English nightingales In the same cage all seemed to get very busy Just then, scratching on the sandy floor. The mocking bird, silent for months, had come Into his own. Oh. but doesn't that sound like a letter from home?" said one of the ladles, and the curious crowd which had gathered about the cage laughed aloud. also If there Is one Inmate of the Zoological Gardens who does not welcome the arrival of Spring, It Is the great white gyrfalcon, the raptorial hunter of the arctic regions.

This beautiful bird is one of two of Its kind known to be In captivity, it being almost impossible to catch them, So far as Is known, no human being In recent years has ever succeeded In capturing a gyrfalcon. the only. two In captivity in the world having voluntirily surrendered themselves In some strange capricious moment. The specimen at the Zoo Is one of tha most recent additions, and flew aboard the steamef Cltta dl Mllano 800; miles at sea, off the coast of Newfoundland. It was hardly to be 4xpcted.

that Mr. Gyrfalcon would raise his ponderous body, flop his great spotted wings, and scream jwith glee at the coming of Spring. He wants no ejthereal mildness on his bill" of If he had his way he would, no doubt, call down upon Bronx pirk a perpetual blizzard. He' comes from'above the tfee line. He was born In a nest not built in the cozy corner of some broad.

wmm i i r. 1 'ftfirltCrs OAKLE1QH THORNE, PRESIDENT. But New Yorkers and their town creep on apace. They do things before anybody as a rule, and of course they had. to have-the first bank -In the world that ran all day and night.

The New Torker has succeeded already in destroying nearly-every semblance of sentiment and domesticity In hts city, but, as this has always been the nature of the New Torker; this. last straw of theaUrnlght bank should not be so very surprising. a For years, merchants, brokers, and professional men have had to lose time In the busy. hours of day to deposits. Now, they will be.

able to make up their accounts after the day's business Is over and deposit their receipts at their leisure. That making up accounts after, hours is where the clerks come in and stay In but there is one consolation for them: the day and night bank and the. making of deposits at any time will simplify bookkeeping. To hotels and visitors benefit will also accrue. No longer will the hotel clerk eye the guest and then the check, both with suspicion.

No longer will the rogue in evening dresa be able to murmur things about the slight Inconvenience of the bank being closed; and no', longer will the honest guest stand like a culprit while the night clerk passes Judgment on his character. No! The bank Is open, and the night and day has 'a system of visitors' raised strongly by one of our well-known writers that imitate everything American. And we must look into something English which is so much needed to form our national character. We certainly owe a good deal to America and the Americans, but there is no reason. why we should Introduce everything that is American.

There are many others who hold this kind of view. I should think that the slowness, the reservedness, and slm-'pllclty of the English people must be taken Into consideration when we are altogether a too rash, too hasty, too clever, too smart, and too self-advertlslns people as we are to-day. ss The. news of the death of Susan Anthony was a great shock to me. Her name is not so well known In this country as It Is In America, but for some reason I have been Interested In the cause of woman, and it was to this cause that she devoted all her life.

Possibly America may need no more of this type of woman, for one Susan had done nearly all that the American people required. In Japan, on the contrary we need this woman heroism more than anything else to-day. The movement for the securing of women's political rights here, however. Is now In progress. A few radical women In Toklo are trying to present a bill to the Parliament through the assistance of certain members of the lower house.

I am told that at least 300 women have already Joined the movement. Probably you do not know that we have now a monthly magazine which Is devoted entirely to this cause of woman, and which Is also edited as well as conducted solely by women. The woman of new Japan is suffering, for she has new education and new ideas under the circumstances of the old. She must 'fight with the old conditions with her new idea. Most of our men still treat the RweeDin elm.

but upon the summit of Greenland's Icy mountains, or further yet to the north, perhaps on an iceberg. He was a pitiful spectacle the first day the sun beamed down its peaceful benediction upon Bronx Park, for, while hundreds of Jolly birds were building their nests and singing bllthesomely in the flood of warm sunlight. Mr. Gyrfalcon sat stoically dreaming of that faraway land where the northern lights come down o' nights." The gyrfaJcon is a great favorite with the thousands of children who visit the Zoological Gardens, although he has only been there a short time. Not one of these children but has read In nursery books of the great gyrfalcons of the Kings of olden days that were sent out over the countryside to bring home a lamb for the King's dinner.

The bird has long figured in fiction, perhaps on- the very good reason that he has rarely been sufficiently In close t6uch with humanity to figure in airy other thing than mere fiction. a a a Contrasted with the gyrfalcon's dissatisfaction at the dawn of Spring was the unspeakable Joy displayed by the American eagles. Uncle Sam. Jonathan, and the whole family fairly shrieked their welcome to the season, arid positively refused to rest contentedly in the great cage that had been built for them. Out Into the sunlight they hopped and stretched their wings exactly as the eagle on the silver dollar flaunts his -plumage.

It was no doubt this pose of the -eagle that inspired the patriot to utter the toast -i New Tork money orders, to be issued by correspondent ibanks in the country, payable at any time ltb out personal identification. The bank, too. is fcon-venlently situated, being a twelvertory marble build lng two blocks from Grand Central Station, and close to the fashionable hotel section. The building represents ar investment of The capital of the bank Is $200,000 paid in. $200,000 surplus, nd a reserve fund of Oaklelgh Thome is the Presidents but the-Vice.

Gerardus IM. is the executive officer. It is to. Mr, 'ynkoof, that one must. "tot for an explanation of ihe innovation In the.

world's business transactions. jwhat manner. of man. isithls that dares to shock our Kngllsh banker cousins, the. founders of 'banking hours" and bank A' brief synopsis of his career will convince any, one that Mr.

Wynkoop Is Just the kind of man one-would expect to do this sort of thing. In the first and last place, a cowboy he has breathed the same atr mosphere In "Wyoming as that other strenuous nttr Theodore Roosevelt, j. Mr. Wynkoop 1 about forty years of age. He- was a Long Island boy, entered into business In this c4tyv and grew tired of it.

he went to. South at the time of the rustlers' war. i He worked his way over the line to Wyoming, and worked rtear the ranch where the President spent his cowboy days. 1 Gerardus when hot too busy, can dozens of stories of rustler mflees and cattle starnr-pedes. He once had; the pleasure of -riding foe his life before 15,000 steers which had stampeded Jin a thunderstorm, and also the nervous Joy of singing 'lhe cattle to rest as the lightning went down on the horizon.

Of Jackson's HoW and the rustlers who made frequent raids, and sometimes strung up a' rsnch foreman, the executive of the day and; night bank has tales enough to i Little over ten years ago, his financial career began as a Wall Street clerk at a. week. CmJjan. lt jlOOO, he entered the banking house. of the North American Trust, Company.

He. was first; Secretary; then Vice President. LLast year he was chosen Vice President of the merged-Interests, of the Trust Com pany.of American the City Trust Company of York, and the North American Trust lie then took up -the organization of the night' andV day bank. I Undoubtedly the night and day bank Is a good thing for business, and Mr. Wynkoop the man to run It successfully, but there are enough women and poets left, perhaps; to wish that he had devoted his genius to the writing of these plainsman -'stories; Still, after reading over what has been written here; there may be many who will say that New Yk's night has not been in the past such a calm.

Inviolate thing that 'an outcry should be i raised because a bank Indeed, that is the right view after a moment's'reflection. i Nearly half of New York-lives by night and sleep by' day. The day and night bank is a very lr4 Institution after all. There are times when at about-1 A. M.

a man might do Well to dodge Into a banking establishment with his roll of money. Yes. ai night bank has some weighty advantages, and; the" worst aisaavuuuiBc is iuai cAciyiijr could go get that money out again. outgrown the old-day civilization. You know there are thousands of women who are looking for independence, ready to work, butjwlthout chance.

Our colleges for women are sending out their graduates to the world by thousands every year; but only few positions are offered to them. Some as teachers and still others even as factory hands. They are too hlgh- ly educated to be driven to marry after the ofd-fash-loned way that isi. without having any freedom of preferring their husbands with their own wills. They rather prefer to wofk In the factories in order to have a little independence, liberty, and a real happiness than to marry without love and affection.

I presume that jthere in America the condition of woman must be quite different from ours. Do? the American girls marry for money, wealth, or position? The girls here. It seems to me, have a great struggle In this matter. As you know, they are now awfully particular In love affairs, and In this twentieth century civilization of iapan a marriage means money as -it does everywhere perhaps. And naturally they cannot have true love.

A man may love a woman who has some money, and a rich woman may love a man who possesses nothing. But a love never exists npw. a days between the man and woman who have no money. Maybe there are some exceptions, still It Is sure that they can never get married. Is this not an awful state of jTherefore a man has to marry a woman who has some money, and especially most women have got to i marry the-.

men who are rich without any love affalrj since there Is no chance to support themselves by working. Vre not the women here unfortunate? The Japanese Wo man of to-day should have the right to work, the right to have opportunity, and the right to have in-, dependence. IMEI DONIN. Toklo, Japan, March 15, 100C Here's to the American eagle. Proud bird Of freedom, all hallj -Whom no man could ever Inveigle, Or put salt on his beautiful It was the desire of every eagle In the flock, to soar upward to the very disk of the sun, but by the -time they had flopped their ponderous wings a or two their bodies would strike the roof of the and down they would come in a heap upon ground, screaming! wildly at their chagrin, the This acrobatic performance by the proudest ot birds pleased the children Immensely, jand there were scores of them about the cages all; the while, goodhumoredly laughing at the expense jofj the emblem of their country.

One of the pleasantest of observations to a casual visitor at the Zoo Is at the eagle cage when fond mothers take their, children there to let them catch the Inspiration of patriotism the haughty bird of freedom Is supposed; to imparts The little lessons of patriotism whispered to the youngsters by their mothers vary In -accordance with the different nationalities. It Is a-; common thing to see a woman, born herself In Germany, for In Italy, leaning over frer American-born child and-whispering something iike this: Now, there's the American eagle, the bird that protects little boys ana little girls In this couritty. That's the bird that's on the money that! buys your" food and clothing the bird you'll have to fight for If you evergo te war." ii ft i 'I ''I 'I "i i.