Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-19

pecially to the Gary Screw Door
Safe, National Screw Door Safe,
and Halls Encased and Exposed
Safe.
We, tie Undersigned, hereby challenge the
burglar proof qualities of the Cary screw
door safe now in the Durbin bank at Nc
Olure, Ohio. The Cary Safe Co., of Buffalo,
having represented and claimed this safe to Il
be burglar proof for ten hours, and we know.
ing full well that it is not burglar proof for i
One-hdtf that time, do hereby propose to put /
up in j. G. Saur's hands, at Napoleon, Ohio,
$1,000 against Cary's $l,0O0, which we will
forfeit to Durbih Bros. if we fail to open the
Gary screw door safe now in their bank in
burglarons manner f1l less than one-hdtft the
time the Cary Safe Co. claimed it to be burg
lar proof. Furthermore, We will put up a
Corliss safe against any three Cary screw
door safes, or three Nation | screw door
safes, or three Hall square door safes, now
in banks, and we will agree to open all three
of any one build before the builders of the
competing safes have made a1y practical
heddtOdy lchdtever toward opening the Cor
liss; failing in which proposition we will
forfeit 8 900 to the competing company.
The three competing safes, when opened, to
bet ONE our property. We especially direct
this challenge to the DuTbin bank, of Nc
Clure, o., to the Merchants National bank,
of Defiance, o., the Lorain County Banking
Co., of Elyria, o., the First National bank, |
of Fremont, o., the Penfield Avenue Saving
bank, of Lorain, o., the First National bank
of Ravenna, O., and to all or any banks hav-,
ing Hall, National or Gary screw door safes. |
And in case the Cary Safe Co. sell a safe to
Meeki5on's bank of Napoleon, O., we here
| by agree to burglarize ii in less than half
the time the Gary Safe Co. claims their safes
to be secure for, and failing in which we will
pay Mr.. Meekison the price of the safe.
| When we succeed: as we will, in opening the
Gary safe offered to Mr.. Meekison, we will
allow him its price on the purchase of
Cor,iss safe.
While examining the Cary safe in the Dur
bin bank at Mcclure the writer pushed into
the joint of the right hand door at the top
piece of steel as thick as an ordinary large
pocket knife blade, showing the opening
through which liquid explosive could be
poured. In this connection letter from the
Detroit Safe Co. may be interesting:
Detroit, April Bird, 1894
MEssRs. BuzzELn q BLAIR,
Chicago.
Gentlemen:-A we wired you, we replac-
ed Cary screw door safe in the Hackley
National bank, Mu kegon, Mich. We had
the curiosity to take it apart and see how it
was built. There was not bent plate in the
whole safe. The plates were cut out with
shears and screwed together, there being no
planer marks visible at the edges. In some
places you could putyour fiuger between
the plates. wedge could be driven between
the outside plate and the conner angle in a
few minutes and nitro gycerine poured in
from pitcher. You're,
| (Sigued) DETROIT SAFE Co,
Something like eighteen mouths since the
writer called on Mr.. Plantz of the First City
Bank of Pomeroy, o. There was a Cary
screw door safe standing in the bank ready
to be put into the vault, but which was wait
ing to have the overhanging hinges taken off
to admit of its entrance into the vault. The
writer made to Mr.. PlantZ, on paper. n com
petitive proposition TO put the Corliss safe
against the Cary safe. Mr.. Plantz request
ed that the proposition be written as he in.
formed the writer that Mr.. Cary had said
that the cost of the Corliss safe was the o1,Ey
re son why he did not buy one and 'show it
up" AS the writer's proposition involved
no cost to Mr.. Cary, he had no excuse for
not accepting 1t. Mr.. Plantz spent several
weeks, as the writer found upon several
visits to Pomeroy, in endeavoring to get
Mr.. Gary to come to that place and ac ,ept
, the Corilss challenge. During these visits
the writer on one occasion demonstrated
| that the reads on the Gary safe door were
50 soft that they could be, aud were, filed.
: On witnessing this Mr., Pantz stated that he
z was disappointed" in the safe, and that
) "Mr Gary must take it back and send one
: Inwhlch the door plates were too hard to
NE" The writer informed Mr.. Plaptz that
II he expected to get hard Cary door
which fitted liquid tight, as claimed by Mr..
. Gary to Mr.. Plantz, he need never expect to
I realize his wishes. On the writer's next vi :
/ 1t to Pomeroy the Cary screw door safe was
9 gone. Mr.. Plantz informed the writer that
| he had met Mr.. Cary, who had taken his safe
! back and had agreed o send another with a
. hard door which would be liquid tight at
. the threads. Mauifestly this is an imnossi-
BILE condition, for if the thread fits iiouid
tight at its top, ii is too tight to be turned
Mr.. Cary evidently recognised that he had
a shreWd man in Mr.. Plantz to deal with, as
= he has made } attempt to furnish Mr.
Plantz with safe. The writer asked Mr.
Plantz for letter setting forth the facts
Mr.. Plantz declined to give it, saying Mr.
cary had entertained him and his wife sc
royalty during the wsek Mr.. PIantz visited
Buffalo, that he had not the heart to believe
Mr., Gary had Intentionally deceived him
that MI. Cary had made the matter satisfact
ory TO hlm by taking back his safe and re
leasing him (Mr. Plantz) from any obliga
tions, and that he (Mr Plantz) believed Mr.
Oary,s statement when he said that he (M1
Cary) was mistaken as to the Corliss safe
AU WOE oottoL Jildu He nHQ OelI6Ved." IHLS
t1as after M. Cary had read the Corlts.
proposition to test safes. Mr. Cary had
very small hole to get out of and he h 8 ney
er yet tonnd that hole. 1t Itappears that NJ r
Plantz's remembrance of Mr.. Cary's hospi
tality mas left warm feeling in him for Nj r
Gary, as, If the facts are correctly stated. tn,
writer never having seen the letter ascribes
by Mr.: Gary to Mr.. Plantz which said Car,
e IS peddl ng around, Mr.. Plantz is represent
e ed 6y M Cary as setting forth that The Ca
{ safe was returned to Gary because it coulc
: net be put in the vault. The writer viii
K make an affidavit that he could put the Oar,
: safe into the vault at Planz's bank, aud al
SO that such an excuse for sreturnine tn,
q SAFE to Gary was neUer advdnced bg Mr.
/ Ptaletz, auhose only claim to the loriteT ,oa
& that He door lcos not hard and consequent,
n not according to the agreement made be
!, tlceen Ptdntz and Cary that The ,chole sof
shoutd be drStl proof. MIR. Plantz never ad
& vanced any other idea or claim to tho writ
I or. And If at this late day he has put hi
nameito letter, in any iody dtfefent from
+. the tacts herein set forth, he has wiIfully an,
Il knoWlngy misrepresented the facts as Ii
i gave them to the writer. 1t requires YER
little to establisht this. For is true, as Mi
q Plantz claims in the Cary letter accredite
I to Plantz, that he will still hold Mr.. Cary Il
his contract to furnish himtt Plantzl with
safe such as Gary contracted TO deliver t
4 Plantz, then,sthe writer asks, why did MI
] "A Plsntz, after the Gary episode, make a con
i -fract with tha 60 NJ, AZ ~