New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1927, Page 41

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 Conference room Night Depository Stanley Plocharczyk. Joseph Caliendo Industrial oreign loan ~ Foreign . Loan Department|Applications|Department|Applications Public Lobby Industris! E Conference room Girls’ locker room Stairway to | main, Floor Writing Safe Deposit _! Departmeant Entrance to Safe Deposit Department Safe Deposit Public Space identification COL‘POY\ window booths Coupon booths s One Safe Deposit boxes Cash and SGCuvitg vault Safe Deposit Storage For bulky articles Vault lobby Men's locker room Ststicnery and file room Banking Floor Wouldn't Hold All of Our Departments—So Here's the Basement We call it the basement only because it's downstairs from the main floors. But don't think it's a small, dark, cellarlike place. There is as much room in our basement as many banks have on their main floors. Here is a series of well lighted, spacious rooms gleaming with blue-veined Vermont marble walls and pink Tennessee marble floors. Elegant isn't the word for it. Safe Deposit Department Around the corner from the stairs you meet the door to the safe deposit department, with the safe deposit identification window at the right. Here is the last word in modern safe deposit protection. Like a soldier on guard, the custodian at the safe deposit identification window first checks your name and signature and box number. Then he presses a hidden button and Presto! the barred steel door noiselessly opens to you. Coupon Booth Protection Inside you see at the right a row of coupon booths where box renters can examine the contents of their boxes in absolute privacy. After you leave a booth, the door snaps shut. No one can again enter the booth until the custodian unlocks the door and looks around to sec if you have forgotten and left something valuable behind. Build and Help Build Now the vault itsclf. Note the huge steel door, 16 inches thick and weighing 13 tons. Yet a baby could move it, so perfectly is it hung As you enter the great vault you see safe deposit boxes of all . renting for as little as $3 a year. There 15 room for 10,000 boxcs. Safety and Privacy No onec—not even an officer of the bank—can enter a box unless the box renter is right there with his own private key, because two different keys are nceded to open each box. That's real protec- tion and privacy for your small valuables, But you can also storc large valuables—trunks, silverware, clothing, heirlooms, suit cases, boxes and other large packages—in our new vault. For at one side is our large storage vault Through the wall from these two vaults is another one for the bank’s own cash and securities. It is reached from the rear of the basement, and has another 13-ton door guarding its entrance It too is fire-proof, burglar-proof; and storm-proof, and wired with special electrical devices and burglar alarms. Foreign Department Now leave the safe deposit department, proceed down the passage way, and around the corner is the new home of the Foreign Department. It too is fitted with the same type of marbletopped cageless counters found on the main banking floor. Here you can buy travelers' cheques and send money to any part of the world. Employees who speak Italian, Polish, French, Yiddish, Swedish, Lithuanian, German and Portuguese assist our customers in this department. Industrial Loan Applications Here, too, are two application windows for the Industrial Loan Department. After your application is made, you use the Industrial Loan Department windows on the main banking floor. On this floor are also two conference rooms where cystomers can transact business in absolute privacy. These rooms may be used free of charge upon request. In one of them is the safe used by the All'Night Depository. For Our Employees In the bank end of the basement—reached from the rear of the main banking floor—are rest and locker rooms for the bank's employecs, a private elevator, and storage space for the bank's files and stationery. Inspect this bascment floor carefully. Have you ever seen a finer basement in a bank or a finer safe deposit department? Open Saturday Evenings 7t 9