The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-01
1NcREAsEp sAFEaUARps
Against Thieves and Fire Improvements q
Ills Exchange Rank,


During the past two weeks the Ex-
change Bank, one Of the oldest and most
popular banking institutions in the city,
has been undergoing number Of marked
improvements, The exterior has been
repainted and the Offices frightened up,
The most important and substantial i'm,
provement, however, has been the putting
In Of new doors to the vault, These doors
are OF the very latest and best make and
make the vault and It's treasures as near
fiTe-prooi and burglsr-proot as human In
genuity and skill can make them. They
take the place OF an ancient door that Is q
yeritahle relief one that would have
made burglars heart glad, opening It
would have been such al easy Job had he
ever had q chance to get at 1t, The old
door had very curious lock and key that
In their day were undoubtedly regarded
as the acme OF security, The new doors
were made by Farrell 4 Co, oil Phila-
delphia, and from Mr.. j. b, Moore, their
clever representative who has Ruperln-
tended the fitting in Of the doors, the fol-
lowing particulars were learned; The
outer door Is single one while the inner
one is double door. The three doors
with the yestibule weigh 10 600 pounds
the outer door alone weighs 5000 pounds,
aud the bolt work 1000 pounds. The
outer door is four inches in thickness and
composed Of four layers. The arst
or outside metal Ia Cold-rolled
boiler iron, then comes layer OF
high and low steel, more Cold.rollad boiler
iron and then Frankllnite. The inner
doors are three inches thick aud made Of
the same metals, put together In the
same manner as the outer door, Thieves
tibule lining is also made in the same
manner and is three inches thick, Both
the outer aud inner doors are provided
with rubber paCkings, which, when the
doors are closed under the vault, are Gb'
solutely air tight and make 1t impossible
for any explosives to be blown In any
crayiCe that might exist. The outer
door Is provided with two CON;
binatIon Hooks that can be used
Jointly or separately, and tue door Is so
constructed that q time lock can BIO put
on any time. In case one OF the combl'
nation locks, or both, should be drilled out
or blown of, although to do either Is an ap'
parent impossibility, an automatic dog 10
released that still holds the bolts in place.
The inner door has q single comb.
nation lock. All OF these locks are sus'
Ceptible OF millions OF changes, The
outer door has twenty revolving bolts, aud
Is hung on double lever hinges, II is really
wonderful the nicely with which all the
parts are adjusted and the ease with
which the mechanism can be operated,
The finish il very artistic. Tho bolt work
is highly polished aud plated aud enclosed
behind plate glass doors. Inside the inner
doors is q heavy ornamented barred door
that closes with spring lock and Is in
tended to guard the contents otthe vault
during business hours.
A burglar to get inside the Exchange
Banks vaults will now either have to
work his way from the street through
two feet nine inches oil stone work or go at
tho doors with enough tools TO stock a
machine shop, for what would cut the
iron would not cut ANY OF the other metals,
and what will cut the steel will have no
effect on any OF the others. The Tnbbers
prevent the use OF explosives. Itby some
miracle q burglar after working q week Or
so should get inside the vault he will
have to get into y sale similarly con-
BtruOted, Inside OF which is box built In
the same manner, in which is kept "the
stuff" The bank officials are highly
pleased with thOir improvement and will
be happy to show aud explain 1t to Wis.
itors. There Ia but one larger vault door
In the country and that is in the Lincoln
National Bank OF New York.