MONEY & BANKING: Finished Fleishhacker

In San Francisco a municipal swimming pool, zoo, park all bear the name of Fleishhacker—not only because Banker Herbert Fleishhacker was a big contributor to them, but because when serving a brief term as a park commissioner he named almost everything but the city sidewalks after himself. Generally regarded as the West Coast's No. 2 financier (Amadeo Peter Giannini, No. 1), Herbert Fleishhacker for years has headed Anglo California National Bank, seen its deposits zoom from $4,500,000 to $200,000,000. Last week his career as a banker was over.

A raucously indefatigable practical...