The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-11

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but IL wouldn't be at all easy. You
would have to pass through q great
many iron gratings, where a large
number Of responsible employees
are assembled, to get at him. You
would go in company with some Of
fetal, and there would not be more
than two or three of you go in at a
time, where there would be half a
dozen good men to deal with you if
you didn't act right. II you sue
ceeded in getting away with all
these, you wouldn't have time to get
out before the whole Treasury watch
would be on hand to receive you.
If you had "pals" in the corridors
ready to join you in fight with
these, and you killed them all off,
the District police force would have
time to get there before you could
and if you were very hard to
whip, a file of soldiers and q gatling
gun might be brought to bear on
you, by way of recruits.
In this way the money and bonds
are safe during the day. In the
night the vaults are locked up with
time locks that can't be opened
again till morning, and all the clerks
and officials are away, the building
being left to force of watchmen,
who patrol the corridors as police
men do the streets of the city.
There is constantly some one at
each door, and the rest walk about
the corridors, one being left, how
ever, in constant guard over the
vaults. Their strength is supposed
to be enough to resist any assault
that might be made upon them long
enough to allow plenty of time for
the whole force of watchmen, and if
need be, such aid as they might call
in to reach the scene of the attack
and drive away the assailants. Of
course the vaults would not be i'm
penetrable if burglar were given
enough time, but whole night long
of undisturbed work would scarcely
suffice for the most expert to get in.
OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF TUNNEIING.
A gang of burglars might get
house across the way, and tunnel
under the street and up under the
vaults, but they would have a very
big undertaking. They would have
to dig under the foundation of the
building, which is four or five feet
thick, and nobody knows just how
deep under the ground, and when
they went to come up they would
strike their heads against about a
foot and half or two feet of solid
cement, as hard as rock. If they
got through this and struck the
bottom of the vault, they would
come in contact with about nine
inches of chilled steel and iron
plates, which could not be drilled.
They would then either have to strip
this, which it would take days to do
or blow it up with dynamite. Could
all this be successfully done, they
would find themselves in the i'm
mense silver vault, which contains
nothing but silver dollars, of which
they could not carry away enough
to pay the actual expenses of their
work. The stock of silver there
would not benefit a burglar. This
vault is large iron room, whose
| cold walls and silver lining would
chill burglars blood. 1t is fifty
four feet eight inches long, thirty
feet eight inches wide and nine feet
five inches high. Besides this, there
are about six vaults in that vicinity,
but not to be reached by mining.
In one of these is about $3.50, 000,-
600 in currency, such as burglars
might pack away in their carpet
bags and carry off. This is about
the only vault that is worth their
trouble; but they don't know just
where it is, and if they did they
would find it the most difficult to
get into, as they would have to cut
through two powerful safes before
they reached its walls, which are as
hard as the hardest. - Washington