Arizona republican., 1909-03-07

the door to the bookkeeping depart
 ment, in the front of which there arc three windows. In front of the book keeping department is an apartment 10X15 feet in size devoted solely tc the savings department. This is one of the features of the banks business
 and a branch of the business patron
 ized largely by women. It is the front cage on the east side of the lobby and has one window opening into the
 lobby and another opening at the end toward the street, into the women'S rest enclosure, cut off from the lobby
 by mahogany partition a little more
 than waist high and furnished with seats, chairs, telephone and a sepa- rate check desk, conveniences for ne gotiating banking business or writing letter, if desired.
 Returning to the entrance to the safety deposit department, one is con- fronted by box booths in which ones safety box may be opened in privacy, and one of which booths is equipped with a phone for use in case it is desirable to telephone in connection with the inspection of the contents 'of ones box. Passing by the booths, lone may enter the directors room (if he has permission), and see a handsomely carpeted apartment, fur 'nished with a magnificent mahogany table, surmounted in the center by an immense electric lamp of artistic and expensive make, with a candle power that Eliminates the whole room. Chairs and other needfuls of design to match complete the equipment of the room.
 Returning to the safety deposit booths and crossing a little areaway, one enters the gate in the steel grill that surrounds the big vault. The door to the vault opens into a com partment 6x14, which is divided into two sections separated by steel grill work In the section entered are found the steel safety deposit boxes. Passing through a gate to the other section, one finds himself in the presence of the money chests and the inner safes.
 The vault door is the heaviest in any bank in Arizona It is six inches thick, of solid steel, beside all the mechanism and bolts that operate it, making the door look like it was at least a foot thick. The door is con- trolled by three time-locks. In the rear of the vault room described, Is another apartment-6.6x14 feet-sep- arated from the safety deposit and money vault by a partition wall of steel and concrete a foot thick. This opens on the side next to the book keeping department and is designed solely for the protection of the bank books. This door is of steel two inches thick, as also is the door to the second story of the vault, which is 14x14, and will be devoted entirely to storage. All the doors, of course, have the usual inner doors and day gates.
 That completes the description of the main banking room, but in the rear of it is a portion of the building. 50x526 feet, divided into apartments designed to be of great utility. There are three large rooms, a hall on which they open, wash room, the heating room and toilet. The most important of these rooms is the sta tionery" room, where all the reserve stationery used by the bank is stored. It is shelved, is perfectly dry, is lighted by a skylight, and is practi- cally dust-proof, like the rest of the structure, being cement walls and floor with close-fitting doors and sky light. This is said by many to be as nearly perfect as any room could be for such a purpose.
 Behind this, and at the alley end of the hall, is an apartment 2Ox2O, which will be called a committee room. It may be entered from the alley, and will be comfortably and attractively furnished, and be used by the bank and it's patrons and friends, to whom it will be offered when desirable for variety of purposes. For instance, it will be an ideal place for the hold ing of stockholders or directors meetings of corporations, for the meetings of foreign corporations, such as mining companies, that are re- quired under the law to meet here annually, though they maintain no offices here. That is only one of many things for which this apart ment will be found convenient. It may be utilized for local semi public or private conferences-of course, with the permission of the bank, for it is not designed to be a loafing place nor a club.
 Across the hall from this is large room, 20x30 feet in size, not now specified for any particular purpose, but utilized as a general storage room.
 That completes the description of the bank and its facilities. and it is not elaborating to say there is no finer one in the territory, probably none so pretentious, and it is doubt ful if any bank anywhere is more situated or better equip ped for the accommodation of it's business or it's patrons. The building was planned by Thornton Fitzkaugh, well known among the architects cf the country. and was constructed by