The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-02-21
81, 100000 BANK
FOR J. P. MORGAN
Finest Private Institution in the
World Gotham News

New York, Feb. Ell. p. Morgan &
company will have the finest private
banking house i'm the world when the
company enters the new building at
Wall and Broad streets.
Besides all of the best features of
the most modern office structure, this
will have private sleeping rooms and
baths for members of the firm and a
terrace on a level with the top floor,
where on pleasant days meals may be
served in the open, or where the firm
members may take little recreation.
IL will he only four stories high and
will cost $l.O0,O00 or $4,000, 900. The
banking floor will be the largest in
any private banking house in the
world covering $1,000 square feet. In
this great area there will not be pill
lar nor post, these being unnecces-
sary by reason of the floors above be-
ing suspended from the roof.
1t is said the plot on which the
structure will be erected is worth i'm
the nelghborhood of $4,000 900. This,
added To- the cost of the buildings,
makes the banking house the most
valuable property in the world occu-
pied by single business concern.
The feature of the lowest basement
Is the foundation of the vault, which
will be thirty feet square on the in
side. This foundation goes down to
rock bottom and will be of steel and
nnt Gi1 1n nT no M I'm ic
an armored steel wall with a space be-
tween the two. BY an ingenious ar
rangement of mirrors. the watchman
can see around the entire vault from
any corner
Police Disclosures.
The unsavOry disclosures OF police
graft still continue and day after day
new evidence is obtained which con-
firms the suspicion that all the men
called to account for grating so far
were really only small fry" mere
tools of the men higher up" Ii has
not yet been publicly disclosed who
these men at the head of the grafters
ring really are, but the net is draw
ing closer and before long a big sem
sation Is liable TO be sprung by the
district attorney. Several new indict-
ments have been found recently. but
the heads of the ring have not yet
been reached.
Five Cases at Same Time.
Justice Kelly. presiding in the
Queens County Supreme Court, estab-
lished record the other day by try
ing five cases at the same time. all of
them growing out of an accident. In
the fall of 1910 Edward Murphy and
his two children were riding in a light
wagon on Harvard avenue, Hollis
when their vehicle was run into and
smashed by trolley car. Each of the
three persons filed an individual suit
for damages against the street railway
company and Murphy. in addition,
sued separately for the loss of labor
Of his children. The aggregate claims
were $4,000. No objection was made
to Joint trial of the five cases and
the street railway company admitted
its liability. The jury fixed the total
damages at s2,710.
Band Of Safe Blowers.
During the last four or five weeks
a band Of burglars and safe blowers
has been operating extensively and
successfully in various parts of the
lower east side. Scores of stores and
Offices were broken into. safes were
opened with promptness and In a
businesslike manner, flats were en-
tered and robbed Of everything of val
ne. but not in a single instance did
the police succeed in making an arr
rest or even in finding any clue to the
perpetrators Of these crimes. Not even