The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-27

A REmAnKABLE SAFE.-We dip the following
account of specimen Of American enterprise
and ingenuity from the New York Evening
Post, Of 22d August: 'Some time since bur-
glars succeeded, after month Of toll, in gain
ing entrance to the vault of one of our city
banks by tunnelling a subterranean passage.
Here they were toiled by q faithfully construct
ed safe, which secured the treasure. They
left behind them 10 less than half cart load
Of tools, worth good many hundreds Of dol
lars. Some bankers appreciate the value Of
sound construction, and show liberality in
expenditure that puts all the burglars arts
at defiance. The strong vaults in the new
banking house oi-Brown, Bros. d Co., with
their massive safes. made Of four inches thick
ness solid metal placed inside; the strong safe
Of the Manhattan Bank, Of the same thickness
of metal; and some others in this city, are no
table for the security they afford. ''
"Messrs. Herring, Farrell & Sherman have
Just completed safe for the Tradesmen's Ma
tional Bank of Philadelphia, which is worthy
the especial attention of bankers, burglars and
all others interested in such specimens Of me-
chanical ingenuity and skill. The safe, which
is now on exhibition at the works Of this firm,
on the corner Of Ninth avenue and Fourteenth
street, measures about eight feet by si1, and is
composed OF two burglar-proofss one within
the other-the outer safe alone Of which is four
inches thick, solid wrought iron and steel, and
the patent Franklinite or Spiegel Eisen, for
which the Messrs. Herring & Co. hold the OK.
elusive patent. The construction is as follows
First, there is ON outer safe or casting OF one
half inch wrought boiler iron. Second, q
safe of one-half inch steel bars close togeth-
er and crossing each other (being two
thicknesses) at right angles. Third, safe
Of patent Franklinite two inches thick,
interviewer with wrought-iron wires or
crossed rods, to resist forcing and drilling.
Fourth, one-haf inch safe OF steel and iron
welded and tempered against the action Of cut
ting-tools; and fifth and last, another safe Of
one-half inch boiler iron. Within the struc-
ture, and filing portion of the inside, is ano-
ther safe composed of the same materials, two
and one-half inches in thickness. While all
the different lamina above mentioned arc made
complete in themselves, they are.so bolted nnd
secured together as to add protection TO one
another aud form combined solid as whole.
The corners are all turned, revealing no joints
for the chisel or the wedge. The doors are pro-
protected by wedge-resisting joints OF late in
Yention. The bolt-bars are massive and Of
great numb:r, and these are again fastened BY
the most approved combination locks, whose
shafts do not penetrate the locks themselves,
but work them effectively and simply
by a new patent gearing. All the locks
on the safe, and there are three, are
also made on the doub principle, b that the
owner of the safe is as well protected against
being himself ever locked out through any de-
rangemcnt which alock might be subject to,
as he is against the burglars themselves. 1t
must not be forgotten that besides the usual
bolts and screws which secure the differept
strata Of wrought iron and steal and tho patent
Franklini.e together, they are still furthor pro-
tected and strengthened BY conical oi;s, tenn
pered, and nade Of steel and iron termingIol
or welded together, which are AGAIN fastened
by heavy nuts inside. An important improve
ment, which was first introduced By THIS firm.
And the inner sale, filling up . portion OF tho
interior of the outer one, Is iwo and half
inches more solid metal. m king the entire
thickness from the outside Of the outer safo
to tue inside of the inn r 20 .ess than Six
and q half inches burglar at-resi ting metal
guarding treasure 1T is proposed to securc-a
yer1table 'iron-clad indeed"
Messrs. Herring, Farrell & Sherman are rop-
resented in this city by our friends Walker,
Evans d Cogswell, No. Broad