Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-11-06

bapk floor. Side steps also lead down TO
the offices below. The interior OF TINS
yestibule will be faced with enamelled
brick and made light and attractive. In
the basement will be office-rooms, running
as far back as O strong steel grill extending
TO the ceiling. in front OF the storage
vaults of the Virginia Safe-Deposit and
Fidelity Company. These vaults Will be
accessible for heavy packages by a INT
from the pavement on Twelfth street, ana
rest on foundations of their own, entirely
independent OF the building.
In rear of these will be the boiler-room,
with fuel-bins and ash-pits, to be supplied
and emptied from Twelfth street through
openings in the glass-payement lights, and
next to this a store-room tor supplies. con-
Meeting by q dumb-waIter with the kitohen'
on the third floor. The basement will have
layatories for the use of the employees Oh
the building.
THE FIRST FLOOR.
On the first floor are to be situated offices
for the Planters National Bank on the left
and for the Virginia Safe Deposit and FL
deity Company on the right, the space al;
lotted 10 each institution being enclosed
by pannelled marble counters. with orpa-
mental ratings above. and divided into
APARTMENTS for the various tellers. book
keepers, clerks. &c. A lobby to the left
OF the entrance will be reserved for
check-desks for the accommodation OF
the patrons of the bank. On the
right will be the Office of the vice-presl-
dent of the Deposit and Fidelity Company,
and continuing down to the grill IN front
of the vault will be the various offices OF
this company. Beyond these on the right
will be four coupon-stalls for the conve-
nience of customers. and next lavatory.
e 10 ,nn1afinn Al the nafTnna OF
the institution.
In the rear, elevated above and over
looking the main bank floor, will be the
Office of the president. accessible from u
side entrance on Twelfth street, recep-
tion-room in the middle, and office adIoin-
ing on the right for the presidents private
clerks. These rooms are TO be lighted by
a court in the rear of the adjoining build
ing.
DIRECTORY AND DOCUMENT ROOMS.
On the floor above these offices and in
the rear of the vault on the first floor will
be board of-directors room, document
room, and dlning-room for the con-
yenience of the employees of the instltu-
ton. Above this, on the third floor, will
be a room for the storage OF documents
and kitchen where meals Will be pre-
pared for employees when their duties are
such as 10 keep them iioui foins uoieo
On the fourth floor, again, will be lott for
the storage of such documents or the ln-
shtution as have accumulated IN the past
years and which have to be kept con-
venient for reference.
The space over the vault on the first
floor will be made available and accessible
by stair case Ill the rear leading TO the
upper stories. and contains desk-room for
the general book-keeper and such other
clerks as are not required on the main
floor. and who can easily be communicated
with from the cashiers Office by speaking:
tubes laid in the concrete flooring, and
similar facilities are afforded for commu-
nication between the presidents and
cashiers rooms with the offices on the
main floor. The building is to be lighted