The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-11

 VAULTS SAFE
BELIEVED HALF BILLION DOL LARS IN SECURITIES KEPT IN
 THEM WILL BE SAVED.
More Than s5o,ooo,ooo Have Already Been Recovered From Ruins of the 6uildlng-Will be Week Before
 Others Are Open.

New York, an. 10.--More than $50.- 100000 in stocks and bonds were re- covered from one of the smaller vaults in the burned Equitable Life Assurance Society Building late to- day and t probably will ba week perhaps longer-hefore tie great vaults of the society and the Mercan- tile Safe Deposit Company give ID their half billion or more in securities. Further examination of the gaunt, ics- shrouded building, swept on Tuesday by fire, showed more lconcmsively this afternoon that the vaults are still intact. In the opinicn of those who made the inspection their contents will suffer little, if at all. But. bur- jed as they are, under hundreds of tons of ice and debris. ii may be matter of weeks before it will be advisable to open them.
 Meanwhile securities yariously es- timated in value from half billion to billion and half dollars, cannot be reached.
 Special guards have been thrown about the building and day and night they will keep watch to see that no unauthorized persons enter fife f;iss;;iss.
 The smaller vaults of the Mercaii- tile Trnst Company were the ones reached this afternoon, As socn as t was seen they could be entered, fifty clerks were dispatched from the bank CTS Trust Company. few blocks away, to transfer the securities Be tween sb0.ooo,to0 and s7l. .QQQ.ooa In stocks and bonds were removed
 The Bankers Trust Company owns shs Mercantile Trust
 Efforts to estimate the value of the securities stiIl in the vaults Is mele guesswork. It is known that the EaiutabIe securities are close to $20Os- 100000, and those of the Hartman estate, In the vaults of the Mercantile safe Deposit Company. are understood to approximate s125.00Oo GOO. It Is al- so said that Thomas r Ryan has a.. proximately sl00.oo0.00o in securities there, and the Gould estate 6 similar sum.
 The Mercantile Safe Deposit Com pany refuses to give out any list of those having boxes and furthermore, has no knowledge of the amounts it's clients stored away.
 It was said at George Gould's of flee this afternoon that Mir. Gould had felt some anxiety about the se- curities but had received assurances that there would be no damage or loss.
 The Mercantile Safe Deposit Con- pany issued statement saying that not only was everything in the vaults safe. but that in some places the paint on the vaults had not even been blistered.
 Alexander Miiar, secretary of the Hartman lines, viewed the ruins to- day to ascertain if possible. if the vault and safes of the line were in- tact MT. Millar thought that they were. including the big vault con taining the lists of the railroads SC curity holders. which have been re- ported lost
 No trace had been found tonight of the body of Battalion Chief William Walsh. Nor had the body Of William Campion. chief of the Mercantile Watchmen. been recovered, although It is partly in sight.
 Menace to nearby property from the shaky walls of the gutted build- ing was officially recognized late to- day by the fire department which ordered a sixteen story office build Ing across the narrow width of Ce- dar street from the Equitable struc- ture, vacated.