The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-11-22
AN AUTOMOBILE BANK
Large Safe Run on Wheels by
New York Institution.
WE'LL GUARDED AGAINST THIEVES
Both Chauffeur and Messenger on
Money Wagon Are Armcd-In-
gcnious Contrivance. to Outwit
Thieves-The Plan Is to Save De-
rositors the Trouble of Going to
the Teller, Especially at Night.

A bank Oh wheels is the latest thing
i'll New York. a bank that goes to the
people to collect their money instead Of
waiting for depositors to walk up and
leave it, says the New York Times.
The Night and Day bank, at Fifth
avenue and Forty fourth street, has
started this new way of doing things.
The other night it put in force collec-
ton system by which it's depositors are
saved the trouble Of visiting the bank
and are enabled to deposit all the mon
ey OH hand at late hour at night
without the risk of sending it to the
bank by messenger.
10 maize the collections the bank Of
fcials have had built Il specially de-
signed automobile with a limousine
body. Taking up the greater part Of
the space in the body of the machine is
a large safe, built into the automobile
SO that it cannot be removed. There
are no side doors, entrance only be;u.
possible to the section containing the
safe by front door next to the clauf-
feur's seat. The mechanism is so con-
structed that it is impossible for any
one but chauffeur who has learned
the plan to operate it. obviating the
possibility of a band of thieves knock
ing the driver OH the head and running
off With the automobile safe and all.
Each depositor who desires to have
his money taken to the bank by the
rnIIantnIG 81 {nl Il %,l,
box, numbered and inclosed in leath-
er case. In this he puts his currency
and checks, and when the machine
comes around he turns the box, locked.
over to the messenger, who gives him
receipt for the box, contents I'M
known" On the stub of the duplicate
receipt which the messenger is to take
back to the bank is a memorandum of
the boN's contents.
There are but two keys to each box.
the customer having one and The re-
ceivins te..er the other. When the
messenger gets the box lie drops it
into Il slit in the automobile safe, and
as The safe is built like Il letter box the
deposit boxes cannot lie removed save
by some one knowing the combination
Of the safe. At the bank the boxes are
taken out and the receipts checked off
with the deposit slip that has been
locked in the box. On the next trip the
box and the pass book are returned to
the depositor.
Eventually collections will be made
from Fourteenth street north to One
Hundred and Twenty-ffth street, so
that the Night and Day bank will he
able to get closer to depostors in lar
ger territory than any other similar in
st!tution in New York. The collecting
automobile will follow regular routes,
starting at O'clock making trip
among the large stores at 5, Il visit to
the theater box offices between o and
10 p. IN. and picking up possibly all the
small change that has been left in the
large restaurants between midnight
and ] o'clock.
Since the Night and Day bank start.
G.! it has been found that n number of
.epositors were little chary of send.
ing large Sims to the bank after dark
especially from some csStance. The au.
tomobile. the officials think, will effec
tually overcome this difficulty.
The machine is also designed to over
come still greater difficulty which be