The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-03-13
Big STEEL VAULT
Weighing 10000 Pounds For the Bank
Of Maysville Is Being Shipped
to This City For In
stallatiOn.

The great steel vault, contracted for
by the Bank of Maysville with the
York Safe & Lock Company, has been
completed at York, Penn'a., and is
now being loaded on cars for trans
portation to this city, where it will
be erected in the banks newly i'm
proved building.
Before awarding the contract for
this vault, the banks officers made a
patient and thorough study Of the
various types and makes of vaults re-
Gently built and installed for the big
financial institutions throughout the
country.
The paramount object and determi-
nation of the banks officers being to
secure for the bank and its depositors
and patrons the latest and best posi-
BILE protection from burglar or mob
violence, they visited number OF
these institutions and carefully in
spected the vaults there in use.
Further, they visited the works OF
several of the largest and most re-
sponsible vault builders with the view
of selecting the one employing the
best mechanical appliances and pos
sessing the best equipment for pro-
ducing work of this character. The
standing of these builders was in
Lvestigated, as were their regulations
/ for fidelity in the execution of con-
tracts and the measure of satisfaction
given the banks for within they had
done work.
1t was found that such institutions
as the Clearing House of Associated
Banks-the Federal Reserve Bank
the Guaranty Trust Company-Chase
National Bank-Equitable Building,
all of New York, had recently install
ed vaults built by the York Safe &
Lock Company. All the mammoth
and massive vaults in the new build
ing at Washington, d. c., occupied by
the United States Bureau of Engrav-
ing & Printing, were found to be of
the York Safe G. Lock Company's
make. And in other of the larger
cities it invariably appeared that the
largest banks and trust companies
were using York" vaults.
When the works of the York Safe
& Lock Company were visited, it was
easy to understand that company's
success in securing such large con-
tracts, some Of them running upwards
of quarter million dollars for a sin
gle installation. The company's pro-
gressive methods-the ceaseless eff
forts Of their mechanical engineers to
invent new and improved mechanical
devices by which to foil the burglars
and dynamiters. together with the i'm
mense size of the company's plant and
its unrivaled facilities all unite to
give this company commanding
place in its line of business.
1t was to this company that the
Bank of Maysville intrusted the con-
tract for building its vault, and the
justification for the selection is found
in the character and splendid appear
ance Of the work now being shipped
and soon to be installed for the Bank.
Some idea of the massiveness of
this vault can be gained from the fact
that over seventy thousand pounds of
steel and other metals, costing many
thousands of dollars, were employed
in its construction.
The entrance door is Of the circular
type, and its weight alone, with its
lambs and vestibule, is upwards of
thirty thousand pounds.
The freight cars which are to carry
the shipment were run over a special
ly built switch into the erecting shops
of the company, and there the var
ious parts Of the vault were carried by
great travelling cranes to and loaded
upon the cars.
After the Bank has installed the