The Brookhaven leader., 1883-03-08
a Queer Profession.


dropped a bundle. and about fifty pecul
Jar 20 Is were scattered about the street
THAT jimmy sa d a bystander
refe ring to one of the instruments. ant
the remark, coupled with the suspicion,
character of the articles, induced re
| lor er 10 in erview the man as soon a.
he had gathered his bundle again.
why, I'm SIMPLY safe-opener,"
said the stranger, that's all. You
m ght think was cracksman, but
ant. Never heard OF it? Why. they re
| in every big town. There's five OF ZEN
here in Chicago and many in the coun.
try. Sort of do-tor. you might say.
You see, when q mans out of order he
sends for physician. and you've got
horn doctors and COW doctors and all
kind of doctors. and I'm safe doctor" "
And the old man laughed and tied ur
his bundle
"a safe" he continued, "is like
ANYTHING else. It's liable 10 get out oi
sorts, aud all the safe-ma(crs have men
to put them 10 rights again. Some one
may change the combination and for.
get the new one. or II bolt breaks. or n
time lock gets ont of order, or th,eYc.
try 10 blow the thing open. or-but il
MI comes 10 oae point. They canno
open the safe. and 40 they send for mc,
and / 60 with nv tools LOOK AT the
safe INST as doctor looks at Il sick
man. find ont where the trouble Is and
go 10 work ut it. I've beon at il over
thirty years. I've got about hundred
different tools, and thcy differ IN weight
from less than one ounce up 10 twenty
or thirty pounds Sometimes stari
out 10 do n JOB II. T.: cnultrT with two
or three hundred pounds oi tools. Yes,
safe openers from Chicago 90 al oyc.
the West. I've been ous to Denver nv
self to open one, and I know IL man
that went from New York to Mexico tu
open a bank-Safc. There's safe.
iact y at Omaha now. Snd one up at
1t. Paul, an they cat in ON the trade
little, b not III ch. There plenty o
WORK. and it Il special branch Of tho
business. keeping men busy all the
time. vo got over dozen safes IN
town now {, attend tp, and two OF
three outside. Some imcs can Omen
one in CIV M nuleS. :tnnl u ..ain | have
20 work hard !or SO crii das : be ore il
opens. The hardest job ever hal wa;
up at Ees Moines 1t took mn e:ght
days, and then had to brca &; The safe
& 10 pieces. People don under
stand the comb nation business They
should chang the com )inat on lt
least ever three months, for It
wears out quickly. Then when tkeJ do
change. they should remember il. or
there will be trouble. More than half
of my work comes from people forget
ting the combination. They don
want 10 write it out for fear sore one
would get il, so they commit it to mem
ory and get it mixed. once had
case at Sigourney Iowa, where bank
er forgot, and YOU ought TO see the
dcpostors around that bank when got
thetc. ii had been clio. el Tor two DAYS
because the cash and books were III
that safe, and they thought it was
case OF break. ! went at it AMI it was
a 'brea1.' for it took me two days to
get the door /; then we 'ound that no
one knew the right combination at ALL
There was a county clerk out at Boone,
Iowa, who locked up his of.c, Satur-
day, after setting new combination
and when he tried to open the 81 q on
Monday he could not. [ got there
Wednesday and found hundred farm
ers in town and the Ioor clerk in tho
hands of the men on his bond. They
all wanted to know where the sum of
$3O, 900 was. 1t took me three da s,
but finally succeeded, and you ought
to SEE that clerks face brighten up
when the moner was found untouched.
lie swore he had the right comb nation,
but Wien we got at it showed him he
was mis- AIKEN. The old time safes arc
cas-. enough TO open, but some of these
new Ones-the burglar 10 es,' rs wo
call them-are enough 10 wear man
out. If bolt is broken we drill f!
through and raise it, but some /!
times we have TO destroy the whOie |
door before we get in. | can open any !
safe in Oh cago in forty-eight hours at |
he utmost, and many OF them in two or |
three hours Yes, sir, the burglars oc-
"a onally try to blow one open and leave |
he work lor me to complete destroying |
lie sa G 80 that il Won wora had a |
ease down at Springfield several years
t9o where the burglars left off work |
wi en- they m ght have got about $40, 900
+ they lad kept at il half an hour
ongcr They had all but one bolt open |
when they either gave up work or were
frightened away. Time lock, are not |
much lrotcction against burglars. They |
src principally designed to pre- ent dis
honest bank officials. cashiers, etc..
rom OPEN ng the doors when they have
10 right TO do so. A cracksman can
leai as quickly with me lock safe as
any other, and there IS good deal o
r0ublc when he clock inside runs
!Gwn OF get; out ~ order Then you /
nv Ia rora ami Grill ava the door
and it's Job. l tell you. don't like |
EN- for that, though many of them are
IN use just now. Yes. I've had tn ewes
Try to get me to work, but / never did. |
| knocked one fellaw down. lie got /
ac tainted with me and it was six |
months before knew what he was up /
to. He used to talk great deal about
my work AMI my tools and what sa e
had worked ON. AMI finally he pro-
posed TO open safe upon Madison |
-treet. No, SIR. I'll eat honest brea
DR. l won't cat any. And there an
)ther thing about the same sub;ee |
You never heard of man in my line |
ioing anS burglar work, not ono Tn
lnly taiRg approaching il was in th,s |
Northampton bank-robb ry, an the
he sa maa that WAS in the oh wa az
ageat of q firm, and knew all about the |
u c. but he WASH a wo' kman like NJ
No. wages ain Whit they ought TO 4 I
Only IS day It's little enoug
men that can do The work hut rs
ate, and sozthere's no use of eomr
ng. can get tire meals a a. "
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