The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-08
IN new QUARTERS
Central Trust Company Rooms
to Open Saturday.
In RemOdelIing and Furnishings
$4,000 Has Been Spent.
MARBLE is MOST ATTRACTIVE
Solid Mahogany Woodwork
With Finely Equipped Offices.
Vault to Hold 1920 Safety De-
post Boxes Cost $4,000.

The new quarters of the Central
Trust company, 100000 Topeka
financial concern, will be completed in
the remodeled basement of the Central
National bank building this week and
Saturday morning the most beautiful
banking room in Kansas will be open
to the public. More than SIS, 900 has
been spent in the remodeling, furnish
ings and decorations in this room of
1000 square feet. Undoubtedly it is
the most attractive quarters of its kind
in the west.
The feature of the new Central
Trust headquarters is the imposing
that could be purchased in this coun-
try and rivalling the famous Italian
surfaces. This marble alone has been
put in place at an expense of SIS, 900
The designs are an everlasting study
in mirages of lines and curves. The
Iangel wings in this variegated surface
at the top of the Kansas avenue stair
way are considered one of the won
ders of hard surface Quarrying. The
Alabama product is a new find and
is considered the most notified in the
country today. Landscapes, marines
and even human forms can be detect
ed in the quarry findings.
Another feature of the Central
Trust quarters is the Lounge" This
is room located in the northeast cor
from the corridor and from Seventh
street 1t is equipped with a fireplace,
with Spanish 1eathered furniture and
floored with a taupe velvet rug. over
the mantle is an oil design of the
Central Trust monogram. The lower
half of the walls are of mahogany
panel with the intervening surface of
Tiffany blend decorations. Above the
panel the wall is of tiffany blend
decorations of lighter shade. The
room eventually will be a financial
reading room and library.
Latest in Vaults.
The Central Trust vault. when fin
ally completed. will accommodate
1900 safety deposit boxes. At present
$50 boxes will be in place. The vault
is a room 13x17 feet and was built at
cost of $4,000. Thirty thousand
pounds of steel was used in the con-
struction and the walls range from
eighteen inches to five and one-half
feet in thickness, making the vault
absolutely burglar and fireproof. A
polished steel front is an attractive
feature. An outside burglar alarm
will be installed. The vault when
complete will cost $4,000.
A ventilating system changes the air
5000 feet per minute in the vault and
ladies' rooms.
AT the right of the main stairway
from the Kansas avenue entrance and
| the Central National bank in the Cen
trail Trust headquarters is located the
office of the president, ]. r. Burrow,
widely known Kansas banker and cap
italist. To the left of the stairway is
the marble paneled office of j. r.
| Burrow, jr., vice president and treas
urer, and at the head of the banking
department. With ]. r. Burrow. jr.,
will be the office of I. S. MacFarlane.
vice president. Mr.. Burrow, jr., has
I0h h. of hn RI mo T1f a
advertising and publicity. The savings
and safety deposit department is I'M
der Mr.. MacFarlane. Down the cor
ridor at the first corner is located the
office of Chester Woodward and his
secretary's department The next Of
flee is to be occupied by c. w. Mer-
riam. The real estate loan depart
ment is next in line under charge of
C. B. Merriam and F. D. Merriam.
New Bond Department.
| The trust company soon will open
a bond department. fully equipped,
officers announced today.
| The ladies' room is located to the
right of the main entrance. The par
| Tor is equipped with Queen Anne ma
| hogany furniture, velvet velour up
holstered, ivory-yellow walls and a
velvet taupe rug.
The woodwork in the quarters thru
out is of genuine solid mahogany and
the lights are of verde antique. The
floor is of tile and the north walls
are of three-fourths glass, prism up
pers, giving a beautifully lighted room.
A marble and plate glass check desk
in the center of the lobby is an invit-
| ing affair.
The main entrance to the Central
National bank and the Central Trust
company quarters on Kansas avenue
will be one of the attractions of the
city. Manufacturers declare it the
most pretentious between Chicago and
the Pacific coast. 1t is to be of bronze
Kiosk 3 H feet in depth and extending
from the front of the building wall to
the property line.
The Central Trust company. which
merged January 1, the Merriam
/ Mort ga ea comma ny of Tnreiro ana