Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-14
A PEEP AT THE VAULTS
Of Ono of New Yorh's Safe Deposit Co.-.-
 panies-The Guarded Millions.

0f Ono of New Yorlx's Safe Deposit Cc--.-
 panies-The Guarded aIillionS.
 They entered by door leading from the broad and wonderfully arched hallway of the Equitable building and encountered a very self possessed gentleman, who admitted that the report about the hundreds of millions was true, and said that as secretary of the com- pany they were for the time being in his care. He didn't look like @ man who lay awake nights and worried, and when the reporter asked him if he did not at times experience a twinge of fear lest some one should wrong fully appropriate few of the millions, he smiled confident smile and said:
 "Come with me for awhilen
 A half dozen sturdy men in uniform saluted the party before it reached massive door way formed of alternate layers of steel and iron This was the entrance to the vaults The door was at the time swung open, but a substantial iron wicket gate, locked and bolted, and behind which were other men in uniform, barred further progress.
 ''These are our arrangements at this point during the day." explained the secretary. "You hear that ticking (pointing to a shin ing glass inclosed bit of mechanism inserted into the center of the great door); that is a time clock. When the door is closed at the end of business hours that clock is set for S:45 the next morning, and no human being can get into those vaults until the hour named. Then certain of these many and seemingly complicated bolts are mechanical ly released by the clock. But that does not open the door. There are two combination locks as well, and two officers of the company have to be present to unlock these. There is a similar door, similarly guarded, at the other end of the vault. You will sec what small chance there is of anybody get ting in here at night when tell you that, besides the walls of the building itself, tho separate walls of this vault are composed of thirty-six inches of solid masonry, re-en- forced on the inner side by six inches of steel and iron. But even if anybody should sue ceed in such an impossibility as getting in. his difficulties would only have begun. Look here," and the secretary led the way into the electric lighted vaults. "You are right in the midst of those hundreds of millions now, but what can you doi'
 A nasty glance about convinced the re porter that his chances of laying hands on any of the treasure were very slim indeed There were thousands of double and trebls locked inner vaults before him. Some oi them were not much larger in front view than the letter boxes in the postoffice, whilt others were of the dimensions of bank vaults The small ones rent for S15 year and thu biggest ones for S1 500 year, but a burglar would have about as hard a job getting ai the contents of a little one as at those of big one. It is so utterly hopeless job that nc burglar has ever yet attempted it. Ever though he got in he couldn't by any chanct have more than minute or two to work in because an infallible system of burglar alarms would announce his presence to tn watchmen outside, who are kept wide awake by the necessity of going from place to plac' all night, pressing the electric buttons to sn nounce the fact that they are on deck--NeV York World.