The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-03
TRUST COAT Home
Commercial Begins Business
In It's Fine Building On
Exchange Place.
APPOINTMENTS SUMPTUOUS
Every Accommodation for Gus
tomres With Special At
tsntion to Ladies.

The Commercial Trust Company Of New
Jersey is now in Its permanent offices "a
the fine building erected by it on Ex-
change place. Business was begun at
ten O'clock this morning, and all day
there was stream of callers to inspect
the offices and congratulate the officers
The bank parlor Is large, airy, light
and extremely handsome chamber. 70
the left, on entering there are elegantly
fitted up rooms for the president, vice
president secretary and treasurer, gem
eral waiting room and one for ladies.
The furnishing of these rooms is sump-
tuous indeed Antique rugs are spread on
the floor, and the tables, chairs and
desks are of highly polished oak The
general waiting room, for those who de-
sire to see the officers whose rooms a6-
join it, is fitted with books, stock-tickers
and files of newspapers.
A feature of the offices is the room
for ladies. In it there is separate wir-
dow communicating with the cash cage,
so that ladies who have separate ac-
counts with the bank or otherwise are
saved from the inconvenience of having
to stand in line with the men in the outer
office to draw or deposit money.
The ''cash cage is one of the best Of
its kind and fitted up with the latest re-
qurements. Beyond it is the main
clerks office, and there in it are several
things not often seen in similar institu-
tions. Each clerk has the books he keeps
directly under his desk in a steel fire.
proof safe, with book rolls. There are
telephones throughout the bank parlor,
with a large switchboard giving connec-
tions to almost every desk, so that no
time may be lost in ascertaining BUSH
ness data by the principal officers. At
the rear of the banking room proper
there are large rooms for directors
meetings, records, ETC., all furnished in
the handsomest style.
Then directly at the end of the main
corridor of the building are the safe de-
posit vaults, made of chilled steel and
equipped with formidable array of lock-
ing devices and other apparatus to keep
away undesirable people who try to break
through and steal and have no regard for
the pronouns meum and tuum.
The lock boxes vary in size and of
course price. They range from M-inch
s. box to $500 box big enough almost to
store all Tiffany's Jewels in it. The pas
sage between the tiers of boxes are light
ed by electricity, mirrors and refiectors
so that although in vault it is as light
as day. There is still work to be done on
these safe deposit vaults, 50 they will not
be entirely completed until October l.
President ]. w. Hardenbergh, Vice
President Robert s. Ross and Secretary
Oscar L. Gubelman had busy time of it
this morning showing visitors through the
offices and there were all sorts of COM
pliments paid for the taste and judgment
displayed by these gentlemen in the ar
rangement and equipment of the bank.
Many are the branches of business
transacted by the company. In addition
to paying interest on regular check ac-
counts and on certificates of deposits, it
loans money on approved securities, acts
as trustee under corporate mortgages and
registrar and transfer agent for corpora
tions; acts as executor, administrator,
guardian and trustee for individuals, and
furnishes letters of credit and inter-
national cheques payable in all parts of
the world. Everything in fact comprised
in that elastic phrase, "a trust company 9
business"