New Britain herald., 1922-03-31
TRUST Co. TO OPEN DOORS FOR PUBLIC Inspection Of Huge Vault and
 New Additions FUNERAL OF MRS. E. REACH
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 The formal opening of the new de- posit vault and the added equipment to the Plainville Trust company will take place tomorrow afternoon and evening. The doors Of the bank will DC thrown open to the public for .n spection from until o'clock in the afternoon and from until 9:3o o'clock in the evening. The officers and directors of the bank will be in attendance and act as reception committee.
 The Plainyille Trust company, or. ganlzed in January of 1909, under n National Bank charter. has grown rapidly and the recent demand for safe deposit boxes made 1t necessary to install a huge vault one of the best equipped in the state, according to the officials of the safe makers. The formal opening of the new building tomorrow marks the first milestone :n q successful career covering a period of IS years.
 The vault which took months to in stall, is the work of the Mosler Safe company or Boston, Mass.
 The Vault Itself.
 The vault itself, weighing Il tons, is made with solid steel lining and measures seven and one-half feet high, eight feet wide and is 12 feet deep. Once this vault is locked, it is the boast of the manufacturers that it cannot be opened, and defies all hu- man attempts to reach the contents therein until the maze of safety de- vices are released by time lock. The vault is able to withstand the most modern of safe crackers who have resorted to the method of using the oxy-acetylene torch, it is said.
 The walls around the steel vault are IS inches thick and made of concrete reinforced by a steel rail grille. To chisel through this wall would take hours, and after a hole was large enough to gain access to the steel lin- ing of the vault, it would take full A hours to torch the metal for q small opening.
 There is q concrete bed protecting the top of the vault, measuring to depth of 20 inches. This protects the vault in case of falling buildings or a shock from explosions. The vault stands free of the floor of the building and thus cannot be attacked from the basement of the bank.
 The door of the vault is locked by A round steel bolts. capable of mill lions of changes of combinations and claimed to be absolutely undecipher able.
 Inside the safe, there Is room for 1900 safe deposit boxes. These are all made of vteel.
 Officers of Bank.
 When the bank was first organized in 1909, John H. Trumbull was elect ed president; Edwin Hills, who died in November of that same year, acted | as vice president, while A. A. Mcleod was secretary and treasurer. The di- rectors then were: John H. Trumbull, | Edwin Hills, A. H. Condell, r. G. Stephenson (now dead), c. H. Calor, | F. T. Wheeler, Henry Trumbull, Charles w. Hird, A. A. Mcleod and D. G. Clark.
 The present officers, elected recent | ly, are: President, J. H. Trumbull; ] vice president, A. H. Condel Eecre- tary and treasurer, A. A. Mcleod; as- sistant treasurer, T. F. Prior, and as sistant secretary and treasurer, F. T. Wheeler The directors are: J. Il. Trumbull, A. H Condell, F. T. Wheel CT, F. H. Hills. Henry Trumbull, c. H. Calor and A. A. Mcleod.
 History Of Bank
 In 1909, when the bank was first organized, it was called, the First Ma tional bank. It then had capital of s25,OO0 and a paid-in surplus of $2.500. The stockholders, in August, 1915, were recommended to secure trust company charter. This was done and in December of the same year, the assets and liabilities of the bank were taken over under the name of the Plainvile Trust com pany. The assets of the bank at that time were: Capital S25,OOO; assets, s411,2G5. and surplus and undivided profits, $11,026.
 The bank today has commercial department in which there arc ap- 1000 persons being serV- ed. The savings department has total of 2,300 accounts. The bank al SO is informed daily of Foreign EN- change markets.
 The following Is a list of the growth in the deposits of the insti- tuition since 1909: .....
 January 6, 1909, $55,S14.00; Janu- ary 6, 1910, $9S,567,o0; January 6, 1911, $11S,517.o0; January 6, 1912, January 6, 1913, $244,- S62.oo; January 6, 1914, s261,939.oo; January 6, 1915, $3o6,7S700; Janu ary 6, 1916, $369,09g.oo; January 6, 1917, S440,956.O0; January 6, 1918, 5,5S1.00; January 6, 1919, S643,- ,52.00; January 6, 1920, $712,444.00; January 6, 1921, $S17, 7,064.00; Janu-