Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-11

! employee may leave the bank between the
| hours of reporting in the morning and of
departing when duties are finished in the
| evening. There is also private dining
! room for officers of the bank. Adjacent
| to the employees dining room is locker
room, which in turn opens into a lava
| tory, with shower bath attached. The
| only remaining corner in the basement is
given over to the heating and ventiiat-
| ing plants the improvements having IN
Guided the installation of special sys-
| tenn of pipes by which fresh air is drawn
| from an inlet on the very top OF the
| building and pumped into all departments
| of the banking rooms and the vaults.
! Adjoining the bank on the main floor
| is the trust department., in charge of
| Frederick Eichelberger as trust officer.
| This room is completely equipped Tor
I conducting its own separate business in
| the management of estates The room
| is finished in Botticini and Tennessee
marbles and mahogany, and has its own
vault Adjoining in the rear is the pri-
vate Office of President John Joy Edison.
On Mezzanine Floor.
| On the mezzanine floor, and overlooking
| the banking room. quarters are arranged
! for the bookkeeping department, and all
modern facilities. such as the telauto-
graph and pneumatic tubes for carrying
pass books, account slips. etc. are pro-
vided. In the rear of the mezzanins
| floor an entire room is set aside for the
storage of all Cancelled checks, and under
the trust companyS system no Cancelled
checks may be secured, even by the
bookkeepers unless receipt be given
the custodian of the room. The directors
meeting room also is on the mezzanine
floor, as is woman'S rest room.
Although the lease under which tenancy
will be held for some time to come Of
part of the property acquired by the
oy1,- ~, ctro he
, ing of a modern structure on the site
the trust company has secured possession
of the ground floor of the building, and
| this space has been utilized for the real
estate department, in charge of Thomas
Bradley, real estate officer, entrance be-
ing secured to the banking rooms through
! heavy bronze doors. Ultimately the 9th
street site will be cleared and a modern
structure especially adapted for the real
state department will be erected in it's
place. Then, too, il will be possible for
| the final stage fthe improvements on
! the main buildings to be completed when
windows are cut through the walls and
! light thus secured for several of the new
| rooms which cannot now be used because
of the lack of outside communication.
Committee in Charge.
The committee in charge of the i'm
provenents consisted of John b. Larner,
j George Truesdell and Thomas w. Smith.
assisted by Boyd Taylor, assistant treas
, urer of the company. The architects
were Weary & Afford Of Chicago and
| Arthur b. Heaton of this city prepared
the design for the arrangement and deco
| alton OF the banking rooms. The struc-
! tural work was in charge of the Upton
| Smoot Construction Company.
/ Organized little less than a quarter
of century ago, the Washington Loan
and Trust Company's first home was at
10th and F streets northwest. It's pres
/ was built in lSS9-1S9O, and from Il reIa-
lively small beginning it has grown until
it now has $1,000 depositors and more
than S6.000,0G0 in deposits Its capital
stock is S1,Ns1.000 and the last annual
report showed $4,000 surplus and
S1c1.Oo0 in undivided profits. The officers
and directors are: Officers John Joy Edison
son, president: Ellis Spear. vice presi-
dent John b. Larner vice president and
president: Harry G. Meem. treasurer:
!, Boyd Taylor. assistant treasurer: Thomas
| Bradley real estate onIcer; Frederick
Eichelberger. trust officer; A. s. Worth
ington; associate counsel, and j. j. OAR
lington. associate counsel; directors,
Charles B. Bailey, William E. Barker
John r. Carmody, John II. Clapp. Angus
tus Crane. jr., ]. ]. Darlington, John JOY
Edison, A. P. Pardon, A. f. Fox, John A.
King, William King. Martin A. Knapp,
John B. Larner, w. A. Mearns. H. D.
Mirick, Watson J. Newton. Theodore w.
Noyes' Andrew Parker, Arthur Peter,
Samuel L. Phillips, Joseph l. Saks. n. FL.
Shea, Louis P. Shoemaker, Thomas w.
Smith, Ellis Spear. George Truesdell, B.
II. Warner and a. S. Worthington