The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-05-18
HILO is TO HAVE UP To- DATE BANK
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Institution To Be Modern In Every Detail

When the doors: of the First Bank of
Hilo are opened to business on January
j, 1918, there will be shown to the
banks customers, and the general pubs
lie q banking chamber and set Of offices
that win not be outdone by any bank
ing institution in the Territory OF Ha-
waii. says the Hawaii Herald OF May
IL. The present business house known
as the Emporium viii have disappeared
and the First Bank Of Hilo win be in,
stalled in its new home! The cost Of
the alterations and furnishings will run
into thousands Of dollars and every
thing viii be in up-todate style. w
Mr.. y. j. Reed, Of the Waterhouse
Office Outftters Company, Honolulu,
has just signed the contract with the
bank for all the reconstruction of the
building, the decoration of il and the
providing of all the Office furniture,
both for the bank and the First Trust
Company, which will occupy a suite of
Offices in the same building. Mr.. Reed
is going ahead along certain plans that
win, as outlined, prove TO be simply per-
feet from banking point of view. He
has submitted his plans and specifica-
tions to the bank 5 directors and they
have been approved. The plans now go
to the mainland, where the agents of
the Warehouse company will get busy
on the proposition of forwarding the
furniture, vault doors and other neees-
sary articles TO Hilo. 'WfHs% |tts
The new bank premises will open onto
Waianuenue Street and the present cor
ner door will be built in. The main
door of the bank will be a beautiful
piece of metal work and it viii be sur
mounted by fine canopy. A side door
for employees will be provided on Bridge
Street. All the present show windows
of the Emporium will be raised quite a
distance and the banking chamber will
receive plenty of light through them. .
Entering the main front door of the
bank, one will find himself standing on
a marble floor space. To his right will
appear the Office of the cashier and as
sistant cashier and, before reaching
them, a marble counter will be encoun.
tered. The Offices will be furnished
throughout with metal fixtures and
there will be no wooden desks, tables or
chairs. A system of tube chutes will
connect the offices of the cashier and
the assistant cashier with every section
of the main Office. The .eonveyors will
connect with the tellers' cages, the
bookkeeping department, the savings
department, the note department, and
also with the trust company's main
Office. Any document that might be
wanted in any department can be
dropped in this chute and be delivered
within few seconds where needed.
There will be double system of chutes
so that sending and receiving can go on
at the same time. "....' r..
The tellers cages will be Of the most
up.to'date type and the grills will be of
metal, while the lower part, below the
counter on the outside will be of mar
Bile with koa tinishings. The desks,
trays and other things so dear to a
bankers heart will all be Of metal.
Behind the tellers cages will come
the bookeepers' department, and the
clerks will be ranged up along the wall
that will divide the bank from the trust
company. The bookkeepers will not
have to carry their books TO the vault
when their work is finished, for metal
trucks that run along rails will be pro-
yided. All that will be necessary will
be for the books to be placed on the
trucks and shot down the track TO the
vaults. ~,
Two Burroughs bookkeeping ma