The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-05-25
WASTE or TIME
FOR THE BURGLAR
Vaults Of Banks in the Large
Cities Are Safe From
Their Attacks.
HEY WEIGH MANY TONS
Charge Of oynimate Needed to Effect
Entrance Would Wreck the
5uildins-1eavy Water.
proof Doors.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Merchants
are robbed: the safes OF country banks
that carry "a surplus OF perhaps $4,000
or $4,000 are often riddled by burglars.
How IN ~ that the millions quietly re-
posing within the doors OF scores OF
banks In the larger cities are never
attempted? For Il In n fact that during
the last twenty-five years no attack.
successful or otherwise. has been
made on any bank vault In the United
States in cities OF over $4,000 inhabit-
ants. Most OF the bank robberies occur
Ing today take place In towns OF $500
To 800 Inhabitants. In the larger cities.
where the treasure really II, no one
even attempts To rob bank. Why Is
thls3
Money can protect money. That Is
the whole secret. The country banks
depend on safes costing perhaps n few
hundred dollars: great city bank
spends perhaps $4,000 for It's burglar
and nrrproof vaults. And these vaults
are proof. They are absolutely unas-
sailable. The guarding OF n banks
money has been reduced TO such n
science that "A banker, having once
taken the proper precautions. never
gives the matter n further thought.
though he has millions OF dollars with
In his doors.
The fireprooflng for n large vault
can be constructed for from $4,000 to
$4,000. IL In the burglar proof steel
lining that brings the cost of vault
construction UP to the six figure mark.
Heavy Waterproof Doors.
Think OF a steel door weighing twelve
tons or a hinge alone weighing one ton.
When the door consists OF ten inches OF
drillproof steel plate. plate tapped on
plate. do you wonder that even the
DARING esN NJ al
III Such "A great door usually has some
four and twenty-five or three inch steel
bolts. which shoot out automatically
in four directions as soon as the door In
closed. The entire closing OF the door
II absolutely water tight. The closing
has actually been tested one whole
night under water. The closing II one
OF the tongue and groove" variety.
and the groove II packed with pack
ir:.
This formidable door II furnished
with a time lock that can be set for
any number or hours and that cannot
De opened until the hour for which II Ii
set arrives. The door is furnished with
perhaps three duplicate timers. so that
n two should fail to work there would
still be one to open the door.
Inside the great door massive graf
ing. called the day CRATE. gives access
To the vault. To this chamber. which.
with it's four-inch walls OF drillproof
steel. In worthy OF Vulcan himself. only
the active officials OF the bank have en-
trance. Here are the tellers' safes.
whore they keep the money for the
days business.
Piles Of Gold and Notes.
Here are bags OF gold. 5000 In each.
piled up like 80 many bags OF buttons.
each bag being securely tied and sealed.
Here are packages OF bills stacked up
like bricks. The ones and twos iu 81 900
packages and the tens and twenties In
$4,000 packages. The bills la each OF
these packages have been counted. tied
up and sealed by two persons in the
presence OF each other so that the bank
can guarantee the amounts as given on
the labels without recounting. Here.
inside the tellers' safes. are Compart-
ments where the collateral received for
loans tn dcpositors IL kept.
But this In only the outer division OF
the vault chamber: beyond II IN another
massive grating dividing the vault into
two rooms No single official can pene-
trate To the inner shrine. and one OF
the two officials necessarily present
must be n director OF the bank. Here
Is the holy OF HOLES. where rcposc the
reserve funds OF the bank-millions OF
gold and paper money. The reserve
funds are kept Ia safes on which locks
are timed To open every morning, 40
that II necessary the bank tellers could
have the money ut a moments notice.