The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-02-14
BANK MOVES
INTO ITS NEW HOME
Big Financial Institution Goes Into Magnificent Quarters
in the New Empire Building Where it Will Occupy
the Finest Banking Room in This Section of the
Country-A Home of Imposing Elegance.

!
ing today from the quarters il has
temporarily occupied the last three
years in the Oak Hall building ON
Main street to its magnificent new
quarters in the Empire building.
Telegram Square. and Thursday
morning the Institution will open up
for business in the finest and most
sumptuous banking room In West
Virginia and one of the finest In the
entire country.
Stately Magnificentc.
When one enters between the mas
siye solid bronze doors of the palatial
banking room he is awed by the
stately grandeur of the capacious In
terion. There is magnificence that
is solemn with dignity. impressive
with elegant richness and imposing
with gorgeous yet unostenta-
tious beauty. There is an expression
of a mighty strength, firmness and
stability that stirs one with fas-
cination as well as a profound ad-
miration.
Solid Bronze and Marble.
That which first commands the at
tention Of the visitor after con-
templating the general effect of the
room is the marble and bronze par
tition which separates the working
room from the public lobby. This
is composed entirely of solid marble
and solid cast bronze. The lower
part is panelled with the famous
Pavanazzo Italian veined marble and
bordered at the floor with black vein
ed marble. The upper portion is of
white statuary marble with windows
Of the solid bronze casing fitted with
handsome French plate glass. These
fixtures are deliberately though ele-
gantly embellished with solid bronze
ornaments top and bottom and at In
tervals in the top border there are
electric lights in pretty bronze fix-
lures and ground glass globes. The
fixtures and their appurtenances
were installed by the Union Equip
ment and Bronze Company, OF New
York, and the officers OF that COM
pany refer to them with pride as
they consider them one of the finest
and most artistic they have ever pro.
duced.
A Mammoth Vault.
The next striking feature is the
mammoth, three-story. burglar, fire
and explosive proof vault built by the
Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company.
of Hamilton. o. This massive affair
is one of the strongest vaults that
human ingenuity could devise. The
basement floor Is utilized for storage
purposes. the second floor for
money and safe deposit vaults and
the third floor for book vault.
There are two monster doors on the
second floor. one opening ON the
south side for the safe deposit room
and one opening into the working
room for the money vault. These
doors weigh i've tons 10000
pounds) each. Both doors are SINH
lar in construction and are hung on
huge goose neck crane hinges OF
solid Bessemer steel. They are COM
posed of layers of drill proof chrome
and BesseEer, steel aSe and one-half
inches in thickness and faced with
jiggered brass. There are twenty
four one and one-half inch bolts
!! which lock each door securely in
place and these are operated by a
spoke wheel on the front of the door.
The doors are controlled by triple
Yale time locks.
Layers of Steel.
Outside, the vault is cladded en-
tirely with half-inch oxidized steel
cladding. The money and safe
deposit rooms are lined with three
layers of steel, two being OF drill
proof, chrome and one of Bessemer.
Between the outside cladding and
inside Innings there is ten inches OF
!. reinforced concrete with steel chan.
mel bars. The money vaults con.
tain two Herring-Hall-Marvin safes
of like size that are burglar, fire and
explosive proof. There are two
hundred safe deposit boxes within the
safe deposit vault. The whole of the
big vault Is 1sx1oxso feet in dimen
sions.
The big vault is artistically finish
ed and over the big door to the
money room there is a very hand
some solid bronze archltrave which
adds very much to the general ap
pearance.
] Beautiful Decorations.
| One hundred and fifty electri,
lights suspended In handsome bronze
fixtures and encased In ground gIas.
globes give the artificial lighting 10,
the room. The ceiling Is beautifully
decorated In subdued golden yellow
with pale green Embellishments hand
II painted decorations and trimmings Of