The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-30
ORNAMENT TO THE CITY
New Jersey Title Guarantee
and Trust Company's
New Structure
Completed.
DESCRIPTION OF TIE INTERIOR
One Of the Handsomest and
Best Appointed Banking
Houses in the State.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERIOR
Houses in the State.

Every person who has passed up anc
down Montgomery street during the pas
year or more has stopped on the block
between Warren and Washington streets
to admire the handsome structure whieE
the New Jersey Title Guarantee ano
Trust Company has just completed. Its
artistic architectural beauties lave at
tracted the attention of all, and the gen.
eral verdict is that it was of the best
of the very few really handsome build
ings in this city. Few of those who have
admired the artistic exterior have any
idea OF the interior. Everything that
money and artistic ingenuity can produce
has been utilized to make this one o.
the most complete, commodious and at
tractive structures of its kind in the
State.
AS you pass through the handsome YES
tibule you enter the large bank room.
The floor is laid in an artistic thing which
you cannot help but stop to admire. To
your right is a large space rallied off by
an attractive pattern of grille work, in
which Mr.. J.. E. Hulshizer, Jr.
the active ms of the COM
pany, with his clerical force, has
his office. Beyond this and sep
arated from it by a broad aisle, is tbs
banking room proper. This is enclosed
by an oaken counter, artistically carved
resting upon a base of highly polished
marble. The room is complete In all its
details and is as near perfection in its
line as is possible. Big thick, heavy bars
stop your further progress until a mar
on the other side slips back a massive
bolt and you pass into the safe deposit
department. Here a new steel vault, II
addition to the one which the company
had before it enlarged its building, has
beer. erected. This, like everything else
IS complete in all its parts. 1t stands
perfectly alone, hat is, nothing adjoins
it. so that the Waterman can see every
one of It's six sides; the bottom and tor
as well as the four sides being visible.
Burglar alarms connect it with Police
| Headquarters, SO that the instant any at
temptis madeto enterthe vault it is known
to the police at once. Inside of the new
vault are a number of small safes, each
one fitted with pressure bars and two
combination locks. All the appliances for
safety and security of the new vault are
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a plate of thick glass on the inside OF
their doors reveals the wonderful mech
anism of the powerful locks which keep
them secure.
Around two sides of the vaults are
small rooms, furnished in oak and ell
aborately furnished with rich. leather
seated chairs and desks for the use OF
the ~lessees of the safes in the vaults
There a man or woman can retire, look
over their securities, clip coupons and
attend to any other business they may
have on hand. These rooms or compart-
ments are all perfectly lighted and ven
tilated. In fact. it might be well to say
here. light and air are the chief charac-
t~eristics of this handsome building. A
large air shaft, lined with white en-
ameled bricks, carries the light to each
floor and leaves it at the banking room.
In addition to this the upper floors, be-
ing entirely free from other buildings,
have windows, and plenty of them, on
three Sides. The electric appliances are
also complete.
An electric elevator, with all the latest
improvements, carries you to the second
floor, which is devoted entirely to rooms
of the directors of the company and to
rooms for the meetings Of the various
corporations Incorporated under the laws
of New Jersey which have theil
home Offices in the building. There
are three of these meeting rooms,
all finished in carved oak and
handsomely furnished. The handsomest
room on this floor. however, is
the fourth. which is in the southwest
corner. It is large and commodious and
finished in deliberately carved oak, with
a mantel and fireplace which are really q
work of art. Around the cornice are
electric bulbs Of ground glass. which at
night battle the room in a light almost
equal to that of the sun.
The third floor is devoted entirely to
the Title Guarantee Department of the
company. Across the rear half Of the
floor is the title plant room. Here in
steel fireproof cases, with double steel
shutters, is the most complete set of
title records in the county. The title to
every piece of real estate in Hudson is
here complete, and in a short time a
man can ascertain whether his title is
clear or clouded. In the front are the
offices of the executive officers of this
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chief, and his assistants are Messrs Kent
Stearns and Interest. The remaining two
floors are occupied by large airy rooms.
which are at present not in use.
This handsome building, which is truly
an ornament to the city, is a monument
of the sagacity and business acumen OF
its efficient officers, who are:-Abram @.
Garretson. President; William H. Corbin,
First vice-President; George #. Perkins,
Second Vice4President; j. f.. Hulshizer,
Jr., Secretary and Treasurer; John Glen
dorf, Title Officer; Directors, Abram @,
Garretson. Charles L. Corbin, Frank
Stevens, William G.. Bumsted, Edward F.
G. Young, De Witt Van Buskirk, Earle
Insley, George f. Perkins, William II,
corbin, John A. Walker, Frank II. Earle,
James B. Vredenburgh, Spencer Weart,
Lawrence Pagan. Edward L.. Young.