The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-18
NOVEL BANK
 ON WHEELS
NEW YORK NOW HAS AN AUTOMO- BILE WHICH CALLS AT
 ANY HOUR.
New FOrty story Sky scrapers Can'e Blow Avvay--The City's Ferryss"at TrafIie--Counterpart Of DseA~
 ems, asFnElno i'm Real Like'

Nev York. Nov 1.-The familiar .honL honx" of the automobile horn wifi no longer necessarily mean to sh1 <, New Yorker Took out for your lile; l If may mean simply that the Dank ls l comIne for the very latest thing here ts tbe auto bank. When a certain h. nancial institution announced its Tn" tention to keep oPen day and night ih order that patrons who wanted to make . denosit ar cash a check somewnefe along in the wee sma' hours misht u' so. old fashioned and conserVatlVe ias4 Les4 idents were confident that the linllt lt had heen reached. But they dld not
 reclson on the auto bank. It is not as might be thought from it's name hank where things are done automau- cally. but an automobile pahk on
 wheels which will call at the residence or office of customer to receive ue- posits or cash checks, the presuhfptlOIi being that New Workers in the LivUo tides of prosperity are too busy making
 roonav to stop even to bank 1t. Each denositer who desires to patronize thls gasoIine bank Is provided with metal
 disnatch box, to which there are ohIy tu,c keys. one in his possession and one with inc receiving teller or the .DlN DahN from which the auto is sent out Wneh
 the auto bank calls the customer slilP il.p. iv hands over his dispatch box receives
 racaint for ft and sees 1t placed in inc safe in the auto bank. On the next trfp the box Is returned to nm likewise if hd wishes to draw money
 for A nay roll or personal needs' all s ne
 has to do Is to telephone Tor the auso
 hank to come around his way COT iections and disbursements are to p s's
 made i'm the territory from Fourteenth
 strect to 125th street, so that a large
 amount of ground will be coVered'
 Ooul,tJess the next best thing to own
 ing m auto will be to patronize an auto hank. in order that an imposing ma
 chine may be seen occasionally staho st
 ing in front of ones door, fatrons %
 h nS;,,ever are not allowed to ride. the only occupant of the car being the arm
 ea driver and messenGers-
 rt has come to the point now wnere it I'd necessary to tie down New 1ork sky scrapers to keep them rom oloW- ing away-or at least blowing over Tn the past with the ordinary buiialnk
 of merely twenty or twenty-five stor- Sas Its weight of several thousand tons on each square yard of ground under it was thought to be sufficient to hold
 It steady against all the Winos ot heaven. ..and consequently no provision
 yvas made to withstand an uplitunB
 strain. since 1t was figured that noun ing would come along to lift them any
 
 sky soraper matters are changed Al- ready two buildings are under way which will tower into the smoky att
 mosphere 630 and 625 feet respectlVey -or something over forty stories Tn each case On a building Of this sort the wind pressure will pc enormous, esneciauv on the upper half which will stands out naked and unprotected by the surrounding buildings. Therefore if has been deemed necessary to liter allv tie them down by means of new device employed for the first time in the history of construction In this city. An ingenious arrangement OF three and one half inch steeI rods s 10 be employed which will be embeded | to A deDth of nearly fifty feet in the concrete which forms the caissohs rest | ing on the solid rock eighty-five feet l befow the curb. The rods, four in number are made up of ten foot sec i tions each with a giant anchor on the
 bottom, converge at the street levei ana running up into the columns of the buiIding for a distance of i've hundred feet where they are bolted into posi- tion. The strength of these rods Is ample to counteract the effect of the most severe storms. But if the build lings cannot move, some people are
 wondering whether the day Will come
 when the island will move instead and cruise out into the bay using It's sky ! scrapers for sails.
 one third of all the passengers on
 steamships in the United States are
 carried on ferry boats across the oNrth
 River. No less than lO700O,OO0 people cross from shore to shore of this busy stream every twelve months-a num-
 ber greater than the total population of the United States by at least twenty ] five per cent. During the most of the time i94 ferryboats are busy carrying
 hack and forth 300.000 passengers a
 day which Ca equivalent to saying that about thirty~two boats are ale iways crQssipE this tTeam ct once. Thls