The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

GREAT FIRE

AT THE
GUT T A P ERCHA COMPANY'S WORKS,

AND DEFEATED BURGLARIES

THOMAS MILNER and SON have sincere plea-
sure in communicating to their Friends and the Public
the following new endorsements to the claims of their HOLD-
FAST and FIRE-RESISTING SAFES. The Fire at the Gutta
Percha Company's Works was of the most intense character,
as may well be conceived from the nature of its food, Gutta
Percha, Oil, Naptha, reducing the buildings to a pile of gutted
red-hot walls. The Safe has been most severely tried, as the
letter testifies, and brought its contents out of the Furnace
without a singe upon them.

" Gutta Percha Company's Works,
" City-road, London, Bth June, 1853.
" SIRS,—We consider it only our duty to inform you of the
entire preservation'of all the books and papers* contained in
the large safe you recently supplied us with, although exposed
during Sunday last to a fire which destroyed the larger part of
our works. This is the more remarkable, as the intense heat
has in many parts melted the outside of the safe.
" We are of opinion that so successful a vindication of the
merits of your invention cannot, on public grounds, be too
generally known ; and we therefore leave you at liberty to use
this letter in any way you may wish.
" We are, Sirs. your obedient servants,
"THE GUTTA I'ERCHA COMPANY.
" HENRY FORD BARCLAY.
"To Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son,
47A, Moorgate-street, City, London."
* Including X 5,000 worth of Cash and Bills.

"Scotland-road Mills, Liverpool,. Bth June, 1853.
"GENTLEMEN,—Some time back I was indebted to your
strong Holdfast and Fire-resisting Safe for the protection of a
large amount of cash, against the violent and persevering
attempts of burglars at my steam-mills, in Woodstock-street,
and I have now the pleasure of informing you that I have
lately found the same impregnable security in the one I had
last from you for my provision warehouse in Brownlow.hill.
The floor was all trodden over around the safe, as if the thieves
had been at it for many hours, after which they got it out into
the back yard, and as it could not be picked or broken open,
they then filled the key-hole with gunpowder, thinking to gain
admission by explosion i but in which they were again foiled.
"I feel it due to your invaluable safeguards to give you this
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" I am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully,
"Messrs. Thomas Milner and Son."

MILNERS' PHENIX SAFE WORKS, WINDSOR,
AND 54, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
June 14, 1853.

GRAHAMSTON SEMINARY, FALKIRK, SCOTLAND.
MISSES WEST have at present accommodation
for One or Two BOARDERS under 14 years of age.
The Pupils at this Establishment receive an intellectual
English Education, with the most efficient instruction in
Music, French, and Drawing. Moral and religious principles
are carefully inculcated.

Grahamsion is delightfully situated in a healthy country,
equi-distant from Edinburgh and Glasgow, the railway to
which, and through Stirlingshire and North of Scotland, has a
station in the immediate vicinity.

Terms, which are moderate, may be known on application
at the Standard-office, where also a list of references can be
obtained.