The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-10-18
Interesting demonstration OF

..lor protection which protects will
So Given Tuesday afternoon, October
~ att o'clock, in the banking room
81 81 the Dawson National Bank.
The Dawson National Bank is now
..-+oon wears old, and everyone oil
a 3., wears has been marked by pro-
sr stability and growth. 1t began
t..inoss in 1889 with $4,000 of CAPT
,a1 and today it's capital and surplus
.o sl25, 900. The two vaults were
,nodern in design and massive in con-
.+rnction, and supplemented with
h.ovv chrome steel doors equipped
,r.+b combinations and other then
I,,ovn devices for protection against
Emo burglars, mobs and treachery.
Then the officers of the bank insured
them in strong companies against fire,
i,snrpd them in strong companies
oaainst burglars, insured them against
tomnering from the inside by the
s+ronoest bonds that could be applied
70 al of the employees, and, better still,
we're careful that these employees were
men of honesty and intelligence and
deserving of confidence.
The public has shown its apprecia-
ton of such a generous outlay for its
nrotection and convenience in gener-
ols bestowal of its patronage.
Now the Dawson National Bank
eridences its intention of keeping fully
abreast of the times by installing the
American Bank Protection Company's
Double Electric Automatic Burglar
Alarm.
A safe is a misnomer. 1t is easier
70 destroy than to create. Human
hands capable of tunneling the mighty
Aims and boring underneath the
Simplon pass can with modern devices
drill through modern vaults and safes.
But electricity is stronger than human
hands. And as the automatic sprink-
1ar pxtinguishes fire through the medi-
I'm of the heat which the fire itself
Generates so does this modern cleo
trio device create the alarm and save
the property from the burglars own
|tampering.
The entire vaults, two of them
Including the safe desposit vaults, the
floors, the ceiling, walls, vestibules.
and all of the doors in the banking
house of the Dawson National Bank
|building-are covered with two thick
nesses of three-pass cold rolled steel.
Every atom of this steel lining is
charged with a heavy current of cleo
hicity from cabinet which is placed
inside of the vault, and hence is pro-
tected.
a model switch board, with it's test
bells, test buttons, automatic indicat-
ors automatic eight day clock and
combination locks, is a part of the
apparatus which makes this one of the
modern miracles. Test bells, auto
.matically testing, form part of this
system. These test the whole outfit
always when the vault is closed in the
evening an opened in the morning. If
Through the carelessness of an en-
.ploye or officer the doors should be
left open beyond the time when they
should be closed an alarm is sounded
(which reproves the carelessness.
Should an attempt be made to drill
Sor bore the door, or tamper with the
drawer bolts, or project with the
roors or any part of the whole affair,
an alarm tells the story.
Bolted through the brick wall and
outside of the vault, easily seen from
.1ne Main street side, are two immense
alarm gongs which are struck by a
Hammer; also outside of the building
q large fire alarm gong inside of
.seel house. They can be heard half
mile away. The wires connecting
@hese with the electric cabinet are Sc
{arely hidden, and it is possible even
b tear down the building without find
- them at all. Even if found and