Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-06
Lilies Reply to Yale, Jr.

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II will be noticed that Messrs. Yale 4 Co..
challenge Is like ours, except whore we say,
"'oih tools adapted to a burglars aSs," they
change it to ''l0ithOut iVuring the lock-
Has burglar any ouch scruples about in
jUring, provided he can do it ss we propose,
with tools adapted to his use2" We leave
a discerning public TO decided With regard
to Mr.. Sargent's certificates obtained here, it
will be noticed that he made aud signed him
self the first one, and the only other one 10
Mr.. Reyes, of which read the following:
CLEVELAND, Nov. 5th, 1851.
hereby make tho following statement in
reference to tho Lock upon the Safe of E. N.
Keyes, Esq, and by permission, refer to him
for its correctness:
That Mr.. Keyes and myself examined the
Lock, and discovered that it had not been
properly locked, being set upon only ttoo fig
ares, although it was supposed to have been
set upon three, and all persons familiar with
our Lock know that it is not fully locked
unless set upon at least three numbers, and
our present Lock must be set upon four in
order to obtain the full benefit of its combi-
nations.
(5igned,) r. P. MYERS.
Messrs. Yale & Co. make a great amount
of capital out of quotation taken from
private letter Of Mr.. Lille, in which he is
made to say, 81 have never warranted Safe
fre-prOOf, or Lock burglar-proof."
But do any of our com mpetitors warrant
their work as above2 Certainly not ! for all
manufacturers concede, and every person of
common sense knows that no Safe can be
made i0hich cannot be burned up or opened,
in q sufficient length oftime, and that the
only difference in Safes and Locks is in the
length Of time, that one kind or manu.
facLure will stand test longer than another.
This Mr.. Lille warrants his work to do; and
in the same letter he says, al have tested
my Safe and Lock with other makers, aud
know mine to be the best in use." And in
his circular he says ''those purchasing these
Safes are at liberty, by giving me due
notice of time and place of trial, to test them
by fire with any other safe of the same size,
and should they not prove superior I will
refund the money"
1t will be remembered by all who have
read this Bank Lock controversy, that, as
shown by certificates of Bankers, lOe hare
neUer exceeded tl0enty minutes in opening a
Linus Yale, Jr.'s, Bank Lock, while our
competitors do not claim to have opened
our old ones in less than four hours, and
Mr.. Lille offers to stake FIVE thousand dol
lars lin his challenge) thatthsy cannot open
his nci0 ones.
We have confined our certificates to Bank
Safes and Bank Locks, and all attacks by
Messrs. Yale & Co. on our Merchants Fire
Proof Safes are wholly gratuitous-out of
place-and done to prevent a retort by us
on them, as they are not competitors in that
line, and they do not make them, at least
never saw or heard of one during the seven
years past that have been iu the Safe bus
mess; therefore Mr.. Sargent's challenge "to
point to a single instance where L. Yale,
Jr.'s Locks or Safes have ever failed at the
hands of a burglar or in fire." falls TO the
ground, for as never heard of one of their
fre-proOf Safes could never have heard of
its having burned up. Messrs. Yale & Co.
only make Bank work, and hereby chal-
lenge Mr.. Yale-Mr. Sargent, or any other
competitor, to show that a dollar was ever
lost out of Lille Bank Safe, "old or ne,0,"
and we have more in use than any other
manufacturer. E. J. WoOLLEY,
Agent for L. Lille.