Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-06-06
SECRETS OF SAFE DEPOSITS.
The Masses OF Wealth and Where il
is Stored.
A Half Million OF UoIlars Found in Fifteen
fears.-Where Moth nor Rust Doth not
Corrupt, nor Thieves Break Through and
Steal.
st. Louis Sunday Sayings

st. Louis Sunday Sayings.
With the approach of hot weather and the |
exodus of the wealthy and fash
enable from the city comes the accumNla- |
ton of valuables, such as silver plate, jew
elry, valuable papers, etc, which the eowners
do not desire to carry with them, in the |
vaults of the safe deposit companies.
'We have" said Secretary Hayward, of
the Safe Deposit Company, of st. Louis |
'about two thousand five hundred special
safes for our customers and about five hun
dred other depositors. By specials mean
safes which are rented especially to custom
ers. Other depositoTs are such as have valua-
bles of any kind deposited with us in the
general vaults and for which we receipt.
''Our deposits of valuables, in the way of
plate, family articles and personal papers,
largely increase during the heated season
when people get away as much as possible
from the heated city.
Gould estimate the value of the deposits
deposited with us? No. that would be next
to impossible. You see people who
LEAVE THEIR vALUABLEs
i'm our possession very rarely assess them at
their full value as they are absolutely sure
of their safety and charges depend more OF
less upon the amount of our liability. So
while we could give you very nearly the
amount, or, in fact exactly the amount
at which the deposits have been valued by
the depositors that would not approximate
the amount of real value.
1--WE have most perfect system of iden-
tification. We take age, height, weight,
color of hair and everything in fact which
would serve to identify an individual. After
we have as complete description as it is
possible to get we require depositOrs to sign
their names. Should any doubt arise even
then as to the identity of the party, we re-
quire that they bring some one whom we
know and who can identify them as the pro-
per persons"
"Have you
EVER LOST ANYTHING
through sneak thieves or confidence menT
"During our fifteen years of business we
have been especially favored in this respect.
We have never lost a dollars worth in any
manner or form.
'The loss of many kinds of securities is
irreparable. Such are the coupon bonds of
the United States, of the several states,
counties. towns and school districts. and of
railroads and other corporations. If lost or
destroyed these cannot be replaced. The
loser has no recourse against the govern
ment or other party issuing them any more
than for lost greenbacks or bank bills. If
stolen, securities of this kind may be put at
once upon the market and the law will pro-
tect the innocent holder in his possession
against the claims of the original owner.
"THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
has given public notice that the government
cannot protect. and will not undertake to
protect the owners of lost PONDS and notes.
He says: Hereafter, all bonds, notes and
coupons, payable to bearer, and treasury
notes issued and remaining in blank, will be
paid to t1e party presenting them, in pur-
suance of the regulations of the department,
in the course of regular business. and no at
tentiOn will be paid to caveats filed for the
purpose of preventing such payments.
1.-THE company occupy this entire build
ing, which is, in its mlterials and cOnstruc-
ton. as thoroughly fire proof as any build
ing i'm ST. Louis while. from its position, it Is
exceptionally secure from risk of fire from
| without. Warned, however, by the indis-
criminate destruction of buildings during
the great fires of Chicago and Boston the
vaults are so constructed that they insure
absolute and perfect protection against fire
as well as burglars. 1t would be, for obvious
reasons
MOST UNwIsE TO PUBLISH
the details of their construction. The pro-
| lection against an organized mob is equally
as good. Ii would take, at least, twelve
hours of steady skilled labor to get at any
portion where valuables are kept and, at
least. three days work, night and day, by
skilled workers i'm iron and steel to loot the
building. You see from this that an attacB
from a mob would amount to nothing. Be
fore they could break through the iron gates
and get into the building our safe door
would be closed and bOlted and then We
wouldn't care for any mob.
"AdjoiniLg these vaults are c0mmOdiou:
apartments, fitted up with small offices ant
desks for the examination of papers with {
separate room for the use of ladies. Com
mittees, and officers of banks and other cor
porations are also provided with an office.
"Perhaps if would be interesting for y0l
to know that the findings on the desks
tables and floors during the past fifteel
years amount to
HALF MILLION OF DOLLARS.
"Depositors come in and remove tbei
boxes TO secure some article from them, o
to examine the contents, lock them up ant
leave some valuable article or articles lyin,
, out. People are terribly careless. We max
! list of these article as you see hanging
, here i'm the receiving Office and as said W
have restored to owners something over hal
a million dollars. We have at present un
. identified articles worth perhaps sc, 900, yO
see the list at the bottom
MARKED UNCLAIMED