Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-11-21

Eg far "honk honk" of ihc automobile | horn will no longer necessarily mean to the New Yorker "look out for your fife IL may mean simply that the bank tx coming. for the very latest thing here is the auto bank. When a certain financial institution an nounced it's intention to keep open day and night in order that patrons who wanted to make deposit or cash a cheek somewhere along in the wee. sma' hours might do SO, oldfashioned and conservative residents were con
 fdent that the limit had been reached. But they did not reckon on the auto bank. It is not as might be thought from it's name, bank where things are done automatically, but an auto. mobile bank on wheels. which will call at the residence or office of cns toner to receive or cash cheeks, the presumption being that New Workers in the uood tide of prosperity afc too busy making money to stop even io bank it. Each dcspositor who drsiics to patronize this gasoleuc bank ls pro vidcd with metal dispatch boX, to which there are only two kcys, one in his possession and one with the rcceiv. ing teller of the bank from which the II. calls the customer simply hands over his dispatch box, receives a receipt for it. and sees it placed in the safe in the auto bank. On the next trip the box is returned to him. Likewise if he wishes to draw money for a pay roll or personal needs, all he has to do is Co telephone for the auto bank to come around his way. Collections and disbursements are to bc made in the territory from Fourteenth street to l25th street, SO that n large amount of ground will be covered. Doubtless the next best thing to owning m auto will be to patronize an auto bank, in order that an imposing machine may be seen occasionally standing in front of ones door. Patrons, however, are not allowed to ride, the only occupant of the ear being the armed driver and messengers.
 It has come to the point now where It IS necessary to tie down New York E skyserapers to keep them from blow. Ing away--or at least blowing ovtr. in the past, with the ordinary build 'ngs of merely twenty or twcnty.G, c stories, it's weight of several thousand tons on each square yard of ground under 1t was thought to be sufficient 10 hold 1t steady against the winds of heaven, and consequently no provis. 'on was made to withstand an uplif,. ing strain, since it wns figured that nothing would come along to lift them anyhow. But with the coming of the new skyscrapor matters are charged. Already two buildings are under way which will tower into the smoky at. notphere 630 and 625 feet, rcspcc. tively-or something over forty storie, 'n each case. On n building of this sort the wind pressure will be enor. nous, especially on the upper half, which will stand out naked and unpro. teeted by the surrounding buildings. Therefore it has been deemed neccs. sary to literally tic them down by means of . new device employed for the first time in the history of con. struction in this city. An ingenious arrangement of three and one.hali inch steel rods ia to be employed which will be imbeddcd to . depth of nearly 90 feet in the concrete which forms the caissons resting on the solid rock s5 feet below the curb. The rods, four in number, arc made up of 10 foot sections, each with a giant an chor on the bottom, converging at the street level and running up into tn, columns of the buildings for a distanc, of 800 hundred feet, where they a-, bolted into position. The strength o, these rods is ample to counteract tn, effects of the most severe storms. But if the buildings cannot move, som, people are wondering whether the da, will come when the island will nov, instead and cruise out into tho bay using the skyscrapers for sails.
 1 One.third of all the passengers O, steamships in the United States ar
 carried on ferry boats across th
 North River. No less than l07 900 GOO people cross from shore to shor of this busy stream every twelv : months--a greater number thau the tc ltal population of tho United Gkate. h,