The Freedmen's Savings Bank

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Identifikator:: 175265076X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129631

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Author:: Fleming, Walter Lynwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/120660560X

Title:: The Freedmen's Savings Bank

Place of publication:: Chapel Hill

Publisher:: Univ. of North Carolina Press

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: x, 170 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. The work of the commissioners

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104 THE FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS BANK of the concern,” Creswell asserted that he him- self was in the bank ‘one whole month’ and “every summer for three or four years in order to supervise.” “Mr. Leipold,” he conceded, “is a very competent accountant. I believe that he has faithfully and rigidly looked after the in- terests of the depositors, but he is the most dis- agreeable person with whom I have ever asso- ciated. His temper and manners are exceedingly disagreeable and at times almost insupportable.’”’ Purvis stated that he and Creswell were not expected to work but to “contribute our eminent respectability,” yet he had spent as much as ten days at the bank. “lI came here,” he said, “to represent the colored people whose confidence I have.” “I was there to watch him [Leipold]. I will say that the colored people, the depositors, looked mainly to me, for they had confidence in me, to see that it was properly done, and they used frequently to say to me, ‘If it were not for you we would not get a dollar.” > As for Leipold, Purvis said that he, in making such “a sneaking assault”® was “guilty of an act of perfidy so treacherous that there is no parallel in the scope of my experience of bad men and bad acts.” He had paid Leipold $500, “purely as a bene- faction,” he said, on account of his “snivelling whining about his poverty.” But he added: “There was, however, a faithfulness in the dis- charge of his duties.” Purvis also objected to Leipold’s smoking and put up a sign: “Gentle- men will not smoke in this room,” claiming, he 5 Bruce Report, pp. 80, 81. 8 That is, in complaining that Purvis and Creswell were doing no work.

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