The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-12
WHO MAKE TIL BEST SAFES
NOT AN OLD DODGE!
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NOT AN OLD DODGE!
LILIES REPLY TO uxRRNo.
sILAs c. HERRING, Esq.--sir: In yours OF June
3D. find substantiailys rsiteration Of your former
reply and attacks on my Safe, and which we're
ons'csred by me fully In my last.
You say that any Of your Safes will stand two
TO ten hours Of the hottest 6res and have done SO.
deny that assertion distinctly, and win forfeit
$1,000 IL one Of your ordinary safes will stand
ten hours test Of wood ere, burned publicly, and
the books come out las you say with only bindings
started and leaves discolored.
Now, Mr.. Herring, you know, sir, fand SO do ~
that your new CHAMPION" Safe, by reason ct the
corrosive nature Of your filing, Rusry OUT rHE
sHEsr IAos in 90 short time TO render tae Safe
nearly worthless-as in the case Of the Thomas
Collier safe, Porker Nail Agency, No. 70 Pearl
street, New York, and many Others which could
name.
Ia . Safe when rusted through in many places,
30 that you insert . common wood pencil
through the sheet iron panels, either fire or bur
| Elar proofl IL it is not, the number Of your
| "Champions" that would be burned up in . fery
trial, yield their contents to the hand Of bur
glar when tested, would number In this city by
hundreds.
| You say that you do make and sell Burglar
proof Safes when required and an extra price paid
for them, &c. Now Mr.. Herring is Il not the case
that you ouiy make . thick, heavy door, while the
rest Of the safe Is made Of nothing than sheet
| iron-as was II. Bronson safe In Merchants Ex-
change, which have recently filed with one Of my
best Burglar-psoof SAFES, and proved BY the fol-
lowing certificate
| "DErKoir, July IS, 1857.
"This is'to certify that my otice was entered BY
burglars the night Of M1yeh 80, and my SAFE one
OF Herrings patent, which WAS recommended BY
bis agent TO me ~ proof being inlsid with
hardened steel, was robbed OF about $4,000, by
CUTTING NEARLY Sa.aALR or oSR SIDE our, ARA
RESrLr Win ASAx, and the safe proved entirely
worthless As against thieves.
| "Youn, 10, JB. WILSON,
claim to make the only real Burglar and Fire
proof Safe in the market. This 10 an insontro-
vertbe fact, and be demo NJ rated to the sat-
tfaction OF any person who will take the trouble
TO call ct my Factory, or at my Agency, No. lsg
Broadway, New York, and examine nd apply tests
for themselves. Ny Bank vault, or Fire. proof
Bank Safes, arc, and always have proved, to b
perfectly reliable and mot dollar was ever robbed
| from them.
To settle the question as to who makes the best
Burglar and Burglar and Fire Proof Safe combined
definitely, unalterab!y, and to tho ssttfaction Of
the whole community, / now submit the following
proposition. viz The Mayors u the Cities Of Now
York and Troy shall select and agree upon ssysa
jurors, four To be frst-clAss mechanics and three
Of high scientific attainments who thall have full
power to investigate and settle this question. They
shall examine the construction Of our respective
Safes and Locks in use and In storea test them by
6re, or more As they please, In strictly pri-
| vatc manner test the hurgar.proof qualities ~
will best establish til cir merits or dement's exAm-
/ Inc the construction Of all casser or degrees Of
/ burglar and hre-prcof combined, and thsif annual
| depreciation in value and decay make ont their
report in full, embracing every important itsn Of
Information, Of interest to the public, and decide
| distinctly and unmistakably who makes the best
Burglar and combined Burglar and Firs-proof
Sale, from which decision neither party shall con-
trorer. or take any exception. Five thousand dol
lars shall be placed in the hands Of said Mayors,
800 by each party 70 dsfray all expenses except
the Safes tested, which each shall furnish - re-
quired, and the balance II any left. shall b ex-
pended in Publishing said report in the pricipai
| cities In the United States.
An investigation Of this character is due TO the
public that they may not be deceived n to the
utility Of the Safes they purchase, and to shield
them from the ruthless hand Of burglars and mn
scrupulous Shcet-Iron Safe Agents. This PROPOSE
tion il neither Zone sided nor an old dodge" and
the public and wait your reply.
/ LEN As LiLLlE.
Trey, June 8, 1858.
| full Aasortment Of
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