The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-19
administered. After a brief rest Mr.
Giblin said:
Trapped BY a Spring Lock.

Giblin said
Trapped BY Spring Lock.
81 was sitting up last night with my
Wife, who has been very i'll, when an
employe of the hotel informed me that
the Equitable building was on fire.
When l arrived at the building there
were no flames, but plenty of smoke.
l hurried into one of the vaults to get
some valuable papers, followed by one
OF the night watchmen. The vault
has a spring lock and I left my KEYS
outside.
When the man and | started to
leave the door swung shut and we were
both prisoners. The smoke was awful.
We shouted, but it seemed we were
doomed. The other man was alive up
to half an hour ago, but just before I
was carried out he tainted and I think
he must be dead"
Mr. Giblin was taken to the Hudson
street hospital. He was very weak,
but in no immediate danger.
The offices of the Hartman lines.
winch were in the building, were be-
ing moved to 165 Broadway. Every
thing had been moved save the papers
in the legal department. Many valu-
able records, including the autobio-
graphy of e. II. Hartman, We're there,
and it was believed that these and
other valuable records were destroyed.
Business Halted by Fire.
Banking and brokerage business
was halted for a time by the fire and
the governors of the Stock Exchange
met to determine what action should
be taken with respect to deliveries of
securities purchased yesterday. The
decision reached was that transfers
may be suspended for a day by mutual
consent.
The clearinghouse in the Chase Ma
tional Bank was closed and temporary
quarters were opened at the chamber
of commerce.. Depositors and bank
customers of the burned-out trust COM
panieS, as well as those of financial
institutions located in the neghbor-
hood of burned buildings, were unable
to reach their banks, being held back
by the police lines.
An officer of the Equitable Life AS
surance Society said that the society
had duplicates of every record which
were stored in a building several
blocks away from the burned struc-
ture. The fire, he said, would not af-
feet the company's business with its
policy-holders throughout the country.
Vaults Are Intact ~"-
Officials of the Mercantile Safe De-
post Company said the vaults were
intact, and not cent would be lost.
President Lovett, Of the Hartman
lines, said that, as all of the Union
and Southern Pacific securities held
in the treasury were kept outside the
city, the monetary loss to the rail
roads would be small, Mr. Lovett said
that the extent of Inconvenience suf-
fered because of the loss of records
will, of course, depend on whether the
vaults on the third and fourth floors
have been destroyed. The records re-
ferred to include these of the comp
troller's department, the treasurer's Of
flee and the transfer department.
President Day of the Equitable call
ed a meeting of the executive commit
tee at the cOmpany's new building in
Greenwich street to consider the mat
ter of securing temporary quarters. Of
the 1900 clerks employed by the So
ciety, about 600 were in the main
building, while the others were engag-
ed at work in the Greenwich street
building.
The offices of the Equitable Trust
Company luckily escaped the flames,
but were damaged by water, as were
the offices of August Belmont.