Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-11-15
AL1 Kinds or PERSONS.

cumstances are different and their ideas of
values vary.
The business man, to whom running &C.
counts and a check book are COW venience, is
the greatest patron Of banks; not SO with the
safe deposit customer. He may be, and often
is, the proud possessor of a bank account, but
not necessarily. Indeed, there are doubtless
those who rent apartments in the safe deposit
vaults, who, SO far from being able to draw
money from banks at will, often have to
hustle to raise the IS annual rent
Coin collectors rent the boxes; stamp
cranks are among the customers, and If the
interior Of every drawer could be exposed to
view tomorrow many a 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 by their owner as he crowds
you into the busy streets and sees the busy
world hustle by in hanson cabs and cable
carsa All! who can say: how many7
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 incomings and outgoings
give the place an air of refinement that is in
spring.
As the safe deposit grows older and it's ad-
vantages become more manifest another class
of customers may be 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 quasi standing in the
vaults that they may be seen there by the
%1<J H,,os.
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 is
an excellent outlay, and he will so invest,
provided, Of course, he can raise the fiver
THE SYSTEM.
The system is simple enough, but the eau
tion exercised to protect customers so hedg-
ed about that instead of the danger of loss
being reduced to minimum It is absolutely
eradicated
The renter of box is given key to it and
another key to the same box is held by the
company. These are the only two made, and
if they are lost the services of 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 OBJ
tain admission outside of hours. Suppose,
however, that they could, and, by stretch
of the imagination, beyond the horizon of the
possible, suppose an inside combination were
formed to rob the depositors, it could not be
done, for the reason that not an officer of the
company knows which boxes contain valua-
bles and which do not. A drawer that rents
for IS year has capacity to hold $50, 600
in government bonds of the denomination Of
$1,000 each; one that rents for $50 year
might contain papers of no value whatever
except to the owner.
The depositor cannot enter the outside door
except by means of password and identifi-
cation. The name is Of no use to the COM
pany and they try to forget it as soon as
man has rented his box, as they do not care to
know whose valuables are consigned to their
keeping.
Many Of the drawers that had not been let
were taken out and shown the reporter and
their system of double locks explained. and
then the utility Of two keys first presented
itself.
Cut off from the vault where the smaller
drawers are, one above the other, sunk into
the walls Of solid rock, and running along
the corridor nearly the entire length of the
building, are the coupon rooms, little secluded
hooks, not unlike tho stalls in an oyster
saloon, where the delightful pastime of ssclip-
ping" can be indulged in safely and without
intrusion.
The reportorial mind received here and in
up stair vaults an impression Of the solidity
and security Of the place, but it was not till
the underground vaults and storage rooms
were visited that its impregnability was
fully realized. Here stock Of valuables, bog
ed, wrapped and in trunks were to be seen,
and the thorough ventilation to prevent mold
or mildew was not the least interesting
feature. 4 s5
It is impossible for any one to learn what a
particular depositor may have in his box,
but nevertheless the safe deposit is not q bad
place to go to study human nature, for there.
as elsewhere, eccenTicities Of character will
come to the surface. st. Louis Republic.