The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-18
In the Hotel Lobbies.
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T. H. Adams, of vineennes, Ind, reg
istered at the Hamilton yesterday.
Mrs. E. L. Drake, of Alva, Q. T., reg
istered at the Manhattan yesterday.
Mrs. Angel. of Eureka, Kan, is visiting
DR.. Basham and wife at the Hamilton.
Cleo D. Burnette and wife, OF yelling
ton, were al the Manhattan yesterday.
Dr. and Mrs. 2. II. RCggles, of Gin
cinnati, Ohio, are putting up at the Carey.
c. H. Patterson. of Independence
Kan, was at the Hamilton yesterday.
J. D. Hibbetts, of Oklahoma City, is
staying at the Hotel Carey for few
days
j. NJ. Helling. cashier Of the Coats State
bank, is stopping at the Hamilton while
here for the convention.
W L. Stevens. of Kansas City, claim
agent fer the Missouri Pacific, was at
~the Manhattan yesterday.
>. J. Nelson, president of the street
railway, registered at the Hamilton yes
terday from Fort Wayne, Ind.
W. NJ. King, of Sedalia, Mo, with the
Aultman-Taylor Manufacturing company.
was registered at the Manhattan yester-
day.
George a. Havey, a banker of Kansas
City. is stopping at the Hamilton while
in the city attending the bankers con-
vention.
W. o. Jones, of the National Park
bank, of New York. is stopping at the
Hamilton while attending the bankers
convention.
Miss Marguerite Herrig. of Wellington,
came up to visit her father and her
aunt, H. Atkinson on Waco avenue,
yesterday
J. F. Allen of the Oriental bank of New
York City. is stopping at the Carey. He
Is in Wichita to attend the meeting of the
Kansas Bankers association.
Mrs Mary C. Burton, president of the
First State bank of Ness City, is stop
ping at the Hamilton while attending the
bankers convention.
B. B. Breed, an implement man of Ma
con, Mo, is in the city and is registered
at the Hotel Carey. Mr.. Breed is here
partly on business and pleasure. He is
well known in Wichita.
c. Q. Chandler. of Medicine Lodge, is
stopping at the Hamilton while in the
city attending the bankers convention.
Mr.. Chandler is president of the Kansas
National bank at Medicine Lodge, Kan
j. G. Donaldson. a representative of the
American Bankers Protection company
of Minneapolis Mimi, is staying at the
Carey and attending the meeting of the
Kansas Bankers association. He is dem
onstrating patent burglar alarm which
is manufactured by that company. The
mechanism of the burglar alarm is con-
nected with and installed in connection
with the vault of a bank The slightest
tampering with any part of the vault
will Immediately set to ringing numerous
electric bells which can be heard for a
distance of one mile. so powerful is the
current attached to the alarm. There are
no wires to be cut by expert safe blow
ers and the current is all transmitted
ateG by a clock and is in working order
only when set for action. For instance.
the alarm is to be set on watch at 6
O'Clock in the evening. Surprising that
the cashier has shut the vault door but
failed to lock it. When the hands on the
clock point to six the alarm begins to
ring. Small buttons containing the names
of the different parts of the value drop
and tell which part of the vault is not
properly adjusted. An attempt to blow
open a vault equipped with this alarm
would result in an explosion which would
undoubtedly kill the burglars and anyone
else in close proximity To the vault at the
time