Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-25
STORED IN 4 SAFE PLACE.
GAZE DEPOSIT VAULTS AND THE
THINGS PLACED N THEM

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The Safe Deposit company b . feature f
metropolitan life that has Dce even partial
counterpart in small communitieA Is hAd
It's origin in the popular demand for ahsoasss
security such a even the sti6sss and mos
cousrrvativs banks cannot aivayso6sr
Drawing patronage from every elias Of tn
dividuals, its income b guaranteed BY evefy
hne Of industry, and the solid institutions q
the country are assured a dividends - looG
- thrifty merchanfs, mandfacturers uhop
keepery and artisans are found Who cultivate
thrifty habifA
For safety they q nearly approximaes
What their mama Indicate - anything mum
dane can The public has not been slow to
realize this
The drawers, vaults and ssorage rooms in
the safe deposit vaults are utiliDsd for every
conceivable purpose. For IN annual eonzad-
Grafton, which may Be- Is low Is Is or -
high as $50, one becomes the absolute pro
prietor 81 place in which 70 put away vAlu-
ablss, where moth and ry,se doss not corrups
and where thieves 60 not break through and
steal
ALL KINDS OF PRR1oEA
The character OF people Who hit in and out
Of the vaults where Treasures that would
awaken the envy Of . Nontezuma are hid, b
Is varied as can b conceived, and the nature
Of their business Is Is divergent Is their cir
cumstances are different and their ideas Of
values vary
The business man. to whom running &c
counts and a check book are o convenience, Il
the greatest patron Of banks; not 20 with ths
safe deposit customer. He NAV be, and often
is. the proud possessor Of bank account, but
not necessarily. Indeed, there are doubles
those who rent apartments In the safe deposit
vaults. who. 30 far from being able 70 draw
money from banks At will. often have to
hustle TO raise the Is annual rent.
Coin collectors rent the boxes: stamp
crapks are among the customers, and II ths
interior Of every drawer could b exposed to
view tomorrow many . package Of faded
letters held together with blue ribbons tied
in little love nots. would undoubtedly mutely
testify to romances too tender to trust from
under lock and KEY. How many Of them
are read. reread, folded up again with sigh
and again pushed in their gloomy recesses,
not forgotten Dy tnelT OWNER a. he cfOWuS
YOU into the busy streets and sees the busy
world hustle by in hanson cabs and cable
cars. All, who can say: how manyi
DANES OF high degree and young ladies
with liberal allowances who have had their
bread buttered for them all their lives, hire
the boxes and their incomnxs and outgoings
give the place an air Of refinement that Is in
Spring.
II.
vantages become more manifest another class
of customers may lie expected to materialize
and they will be bore to the business.
Hangers on to the fag end Of commerce will
doubtless. in time, hire boxes for the sole
reason of gaining a quasi standing in the
vaults that they may be seen there by the
well to do business world. The man whose
capital is his mother wit and his place of
business the club will not be slow to catch on
to the fact that IS paid for . safe deposit il
An excellent OUTLAY, and he will 80 invest,
proyidei. of course. he can raise the flyer.
THE SYSTEM.
The system is simple enough, but the eau
ton exercised to protect customers 50 ne,ig-
ed about that instead Of the danger Of loss
being reduced to a minimum it is absolutely
eradicated.
The renter Of a box is given kew to it and
another kew to the same box is held by the
company. These are the only two made. and
il they are lost the services OF q locksmith
must be called in and the lock broken.
The doors to the vaults are massive iron
concerns which are secured by time locks. and
even the officers Of the company cannot Oh
tain admission outside Of hours. Supposse.
however. that they could. and. by a stretch
of the imagination, beyond the horizon of the
nossible S1ppose an irside combination were
formed To rob tho dep,sitors IL conld not he
done for the reason that not an officer OF the
compauy know. which boxes contain yalua-
bles and which do not. A drawer that rents
for AZ wear has n cap.citv tn hold sal) an
in poverpnen. honds 81 the deromination ~
A. 00O each. one that rents for s15O a va.,
might contain naners of no value whatever
sxrent IN tho owner
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oxcent nv means n, a password and idantif,.
cation The name ia Of no ne IN tho coro.
nanv and tbev trv IN forget n ne .oon - !.
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