The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-11

when he can put it in the savings bank
and get or S12 per cent by so doing.
IT Is the same with securities Two
thirds OF them are registered and can be
Kept safely anywhere. The rest are chief
~ used as collateral by merchants. in
getting loans from bankers With teweIry
the average owner prefers to keep them
herself
Who are then, the chief patrons of
the safety Yaults?"
All sorts and kinds, from servant girls
10 silver kings; from crack-brain inven-
tors to conscientious old lawyers. I sup
pose one-half Of all the lawyers. rich
and poor alike, keep a box in some vault.
Here they preserve wills, agreements. i'm
portant documents and records of value
10 clients. They are not afraid of having
them stolen, but they are afraid of fire,
OF careless clerks and of accidents
we nave one lawyer on our books, a
Very fine old gentleman, who is the coun-
sci for probably 100 old families. and with
US ne Keeps all Of the family papers. Were
they stolen tomorrow it would not be
worth one cent to the thief, and all 1t
would do 1t would put the families to
much bother and trouble. This attorney
does this and pays the expense simply
TO keep up his record as a careful, con
scientious practitioner Many authors
ana literary men are on our list and thew
Keep their own manuscript and those of
famous writer's. l am not posted as to
the number, but 1 know that there are
several hundred manuscripts locked up in
our safes.
WEALTH OF WIDOWS.
"A large number Of our customers arc
widows and tho guardians of orphans.
Some Of these are wealthy, some are
poor, while the majority belong to the
Il
know Of. 1t Is that Of a widow with five
little children. When her husband died
she collected his life insurance and in
vested 1t in good securities She has
about $4,000 in bonds and mortgages,
which pay her about $1,000 a year. Ali
the deeds and certificates along with
souvenirs Of the dead man and of one
child, whom she lost in babyhood she
keeps In a small box for which she paws
$40 year. She could keep those things
at nome, but where you have lots of
healthy children playing around the
mouse they are always liable to disturb
things Of this sort, mislay and even lose
them.
Inventors, like most men of genius
are eccentric, and always make much
fuss over their letters patent, their as
signments and agreements. We have
about thirty of this class that 1 know Of
cAAS Wy SelEAC oS MUCH pAOdSuT0 III look
ing at their documents as a. schooIboy
does in pulling out his first watch.
The most extraordinary customer we
ever had was a professional thief. He
was a model patron, quiet and well
dressed, polite and retiring, who had a
box for a number Of years. No one sus.
pected his real character, and it was not
until he was arrested and convicted that
we found out he was a professional in
crime. At the same time he paid the in
stitution very high compliment by hon.
orlng it with his trade. He was an expert
in regard to safety and liability to rob
berry, and he picked out our place as be.
ing the one that he could trust most OF
all.
Another class Of customers consists
men and women who keep the certificates
issued by mutual benefit societies and IN