Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-03
s3,OOO,0OO.0OO CASH
SHIFTED IN NEW YORK
Route of Money on Broadway
Guarded by Sharpshooters,
as Trust Co. Moves.

New York, Oct. 3.-While hundreds
of persons were passing through lower
Broadway yesterday, not realizing
that anything out OF the ordinary was
going on, $4,000 600, 900 in cash and
securities OF the New York Trust
Company were transferred from the
yold main office OF the company at 26
Broad street and the Liberty branch
to new offices and vaults at 100 Broad
way. The transfer. necessarily slow
because of the great care that had
10 be exercised, was begun at 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon and was not com
pleted until dark last night.
The route along which the carefully
guarded vans were escorted was alive
with special policeman, city patrolmen
and many city detectives-every man
armed. In scsfroldings and other van
tage points along the way men who
were crack revolver shots were hid
den to aid in protecting the vans as
| long as they were in sight.
I'VE 'ssed everything but poison and
mustard gas" said an officer of the
company, laughingly.
1t was by far the largest transfer Of
valuable papers and cash in many
years. When the subtreasury was
closed and the gold there transferred
to the Assay Office. it was moved
only across an alley. Yesterday the
securities, valued at hundreds OF mill
lions. were moved more than three
blocks without a hitch and with only
a few outsiders knowing what was
going on.
One of the vans was driven through
the street at infrequent intervals ard
for a few minutes was drawn up in
front Of the Broadway office. Two po-
licemen were on the seat with th'
driver: two were in the rear and tw7
guards were inside the van. The little
wooden boxes were hurriedly taker
into the building through a lane OF
guards. The unusual sight halted q
few passersby.
Only two boxes were moved at {
: time. The securities were checked a!
, they were put into tin boxes by officer
: OF the bank; then the tin boxes wer'
9 locked and put into wooden boxes
D which also were locked. The officer
, gave the keys to two OF the guard:
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= fer. and they in turn handed over tn
e keys to bank officers when the boxe
r were carried into the new vault a
100 Broadway. There the boxes wer
unlocked and the contents checke
again. Nearly every officer Of III
= trust company was on duty some tim
during the day, working in shifts.
This vault is said TO be one OF II
:. most carefully constructed and guar'
ed receptacles in the whole Wa
Street district. 1t is a two-story vaul
the lower part being filed with secur
ties for which the company is trustee
the upper floor contains small saf
in which securities handled frequent
are deposited,
3 The vault door is of a type used
"a only a few of the largest institution
It. in the city. The combination lock
si- not in the door itself. which is
i slab of steel nearly two feet thick. b
is at the side, SO there is no possibili
'er Of it being smashed by even the me
90 up-to-date safe cracker. Around Z
= vault is a narrow passage in which
ce watchman is always on duty. A grs
IA ing over glass in the floor gives
a view of this circular sentry post.