The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-09
WHO MAKE T1aE Best SAFES!
NOT AN OLD DoDQE!
LYILYx,e nrprv 70 uvp,,~n

NOT AN OLD DoDQE!
LILLIE's REPLY TO REaaINo.
srLAsc G. HsRHIxs, Esq.-Siy. In yours Of June
Sd, find substantiallyA reiteration Of your former
reply and attacks on my Safe, and which were
answered BY me fully In my ias.
You say that any Of your Safes will stand two
to ten hosss Of The hottest nres and have dane no..
deny that assertion distinctly, and will forfeit
$1,000 II one Of your ordinary rates viii itaad !
ten hours test Of wood ere, burned publicly, and
the books oone out tas you say) with only bindings
started and leaves discolored.
Now, Mr.. Herring, yoa know, sir, land 20 do IL
that your new ''cnAHriox" Safe, By reason Il The
corrosive nature Of your new Ailng, ausrs our THE
saEs1 InOE In ~ short time n to render se Safe
nearly worthlss--as In the case Of the Thoms,
Collier safe, Porker Nail Agency, No. rs Pearl
street, New York, and many others which could
name.
Is Safe when rusted through In many places,
20 that you can insert . common wood pencil
through the sheet iron panels, either IRE or bur-
slsr proofs Ii it il not, the number of your
champions" chat would be burned up in Gerv
trial, yield their contents to the hand Of bur
gar when tested, would number Ia this CITY BY
hundreds
You ssy that you do make and sell Burglar
proof Safes whom required, and extra price paid
for them, &C.. Now, Mr.. Herring Is 4 NO. The case
that you DULY make thick, heavy door, while the
rest of the safe Ii made Of thing more than sheet
change, which have recently filed with one Of my
best Bareiarproof Safes and as proved By the fol-
lowing certificate:
.'Dxrxorr, July18, 1857.
"This Is to certify that my office Was entered by
burglars the night Of March 80, and my ssfe, one
Of HerrinEs patent, which was recommended bv
his agent to me Is proof being inIsid with
hardened steel, WAS rubbed Of about a. 900, by
CUTTING NEARLY oxE-RALF oy ONE SIDE oUr. ArPA-
akkrLf WITH An Ak, and the safe proved entirely
worthless as against thieves.
"yours, Ao,, JB. WILsox
claim TO make the only real Burglar and Fire
proof Safe in the market. This Is an ineontro-
versble fact, and can be demons trated to the sat-
isfaction Of any person Who will take the trouble
to call 1t my Factory, Or 1t my Agency, No. Iss
Broadway, New York, and examine nd apply tests
Tor themselves. Ny Bank vault, Or Firs-proof
Bank safss, are, and always havs proved, to Be
perfectly reliable, snd not dollar was ever robbed
from them.
To settle the qasstion y to Who makes the best
Burglar and Burglar and Firs Proof Safe eombised
definitely, unaituably, ard to the satitfastion Of
the whole community, | nov subnit ~ following
proposition, viz The Mayors Of ~ Cities Of New
York and Troy shall select and agree upon seven
jurors, four 70 b. Arst-clAss mechanics and three
Of high scientific attainmsnts who hall have fall
40 suw ~s.I Al INA
shall examine the construction Of oar respective
Satsa and Locks, in and in sprss, tsss than BY
Are, ons or more o. they please, in strictly prl-
vate manner test tho lurgisr-pfosf eualisies ~
viii best sstaBiish their merits or dsmariN; exam
inc the construction Of all clsssss or degrees Of
burglar and fre-proof combined, and their annual
depreciation in value and decay; make ost their
report In full, embracing every important itsn u
infornstion Of interest 70 the public, aad decide
distinctly and unmistakabiy Who makes the besi
Burglar and combined burglar sal Fire Proof
Safe, from which decision neither party shall con
trovsrt or take any exception. Five thousand dol.
lars shall ~ PLACED in the hands Of said Nsycrs
800 BY each psrty 70 dsfray Ill expensss sxsep
~ Safes tsst4d, Which each shall furnish - 70
CURED. and tho balance, il any left, shAil ~ sx
pssded II psblishins said report In tie prieipa
| cities In the United States,
An Investigation Of this character 10 due 70 III
public that they may not be deceived ~ 70 u,
utility Of the Safes they purchase, and 70 shislt
thsn from the ruthless hAnd Of barsiAn and I'M
serupalous Sheet-Iron Safe Agents. This PROPOSE
ton 10 neither tone sided nor N oA dodes," IN
ths public and I walt your reply.
LEWIS LILLE.
| ISey, June ., 1858.
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