St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-08-23
TmE DOORS "F TIE vAULrs.

There are four doors 10 be opened.
one after the oilcr. before We can enter
tie safe Each one uf these doors weighs
two iuns. AMI contains two locks oi dit-
icrent patterns, \ lever Is 50 arranged
that. after the doors are closed. four large
iron bolts are thrown across the door
way. resting in sockets. which have been
made in a pillar OF wrought iron, l: a
thief should succeed in cutting the hinges
of one OF these doors. usually considered
TO be the most vulnerable point, the door
would not drop down from lis place, and
nothing would be gained Like the dca-
cons one-horSe SHAY, these doors are
made aS strong in one part as IN another
and the hinges show no signs OF weak
ness. 1t will take a fearful earthquake
10 shake them down
CURIOUS LOCKS ON TIE VAULT.
No good idea can be given the reader
of the locks and their operation, bui :.
general remark may be OF Interest. The
first door has one of Dolrs Eureka
locks there Is no keyhole for this. and
the outside combination wheel Is divided
into the letters OF The alphabet, the nine
units, and fractions of figures. The
combinations which may be made by
this arrangement are endless. and no
one can open the lock, showing hack tie
bolts. unless he knows the words. fig-
ures, and fractions which has been used
in locking the door. Even If a person
was so fortunate as TO Get from Mr.. Bind
sail the combination, he must have an
acquaintance with the lock 10 know how
TO manipulate If correctly. The second
door contains an lSllam lock. which Is
altogether different from Dold'S lock.
The third door has l.. Gales Monitor
lock, and the fourth door contains
Gales double Treasury locks. From
one of these doors, after If has been fas-
tened, portion OF the lock il taken of.
and put under lock and key in some Sc
cret place. Without this il would be
useless TO attempt TO get into the safe.
INTERIOR OF THE SECOND NAUlI.
The second vault Is much larger than
the first one described. but just as diff
cult TO get into. There are one hun
dred and twenty cases In this room where
gold can he put and sealed up AT the
time We looked into The vault there were
ninety tuns, or forty-'ive millions Of dol
lars in gold slowed in the room and TWEEN
ty millions in paper The greenlacks,
as they are paid into the treasury, are
put up IN packages of one thousand bills
each, all of the same denomination 4
package of one dollar bills contains one
thousand dollars. of five dollar bills.
five thousand dollars Of five hundred
dollar bills, FIVE hundred thousand dol
lars. In one small box we were shown
SIX small packages. each of which con-
tained one million OF dollars. Money is
handled in the Treasury building in a
wholesale manner, packing trunks stand
ing about full of it, large willow bask-
cts on wheels beng used TO carry II in,
&c The sight of il becomes so common
that the clerks employed regard it with
the utmost indifference handling II as
they would so much brown paper
The vestibule of The second vault Is
called the black vault, and contains the
cancelled obligations of the L. S.-a tun
or two of paymaster's checks. All these
books and checks are carefully preserved.
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