Erie Trust Company, Port Hume Branch · Daily Deposits Binder · Tuesday, 22 November 1921
[A foolscap leaf from the bank's bound daily deposits register, 1921, retained by the bank until the 1929 collapse and then surrendered to the receiver. A photographic facsimile was made for H. Loomis's personal records during the routine reconciliation of 14 January 1922; the facsimile, with his pencil annotations on the reverse, was kept in the same manila envelope as pro-68 at 38 Holland Street.]
##### Cashier-of-the-day: Mr. B. Pelo · Counter 2 · 9:00 a.m. — 3:30 p.m.
(deposits in order of receipt)
- 9:14a. — Pellman & Sons, freight forwarders. Check on First National of Buffalo. $437.12. Acct. 14-002041.
- 10:02a. — The Old Settlers' Society of Port Hume. Cash. $50.00. Acct. 09-110447. (quarterly dues)
- 10:31a. — Mrs. Helen Witowski. Cash. $12.40. Acct. 14-115008.
- 11:07a. — Hume Shipping Co. — General Account No. 1. Coastwise freight, Wk. 47. Twelve checks, schedule attached. $8,114.36. Acct. 02-000003.
- 11:19a. — St. Mary's Sodality. Cash. $28.50. Acct. 09-110881.
- 1:43p. — Aldenhaven Drug Co. Check on Erie Trust, Cleveland. $1,212.00. Acct. 03-019044.
- 2:38p. — Mr. Edmund Hume, in person. Cash. $20,000.00. Acct. 02-000003½ (General Account No. 3, Hume Shipping Co.). No narration on the slip. Notes: 200 × $100 Federal Reserve Notes, Series of 1914. Counted at the counter by Mr. Hume himself; not counted by a clerk; not counted by the teller a second time at Mr. Hume's request.
- 2:55p. — A. Mendel, butcher. Cash. $118.20. Acct. 14-118802.
- 3:18p. — Northern Light Athletic Assn. Check. $310.00. Acct. 09-110919.
##### Foot, Mr. Pelo's hand, end-of-day reconciliation:
Total deposits, this counter, this date: $30,302.58. Cash on hand at close, this counter: $214,888.12, correct and in agreement with the cash drawer.
##### Reverse, H. Loomis's pencil, dated 14 January 1922 —
Examined this leaf during the routine reconciliation of 14 January 1922. Mr. Pelo at the counter, and willing to speak.
He remembers the 22nd of November. Mr. Hume came in at 2:38 with a leather portfolio under his arm. Mr. Hume counted the notes himself at the counter. The bills were tied in bands of fifty, four bands, paper bands of the Erie Trust Company's own printing.
The bands of our own printing mean the cash had been drawn from this same bank in the preceding days, in smaller denominations, and reassembled into hundreds before being re-deposited. Mr. Pelo did not say so. Mr. Pelo did not say not so. He wrote a memorandum to himself when Mr. Hume left and put it under his ink-well. He showed it to me. It is not on the record.
— H.L.