Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 19

The New United States National Bank Buildin BANKING IMPRESSNIO GIVEN FROM INSIDE New Home of the Umited States National Bank Expresses Soli- darity in Every Detail. “EVERLASTING METAL" No finer banking house exists than the new building completed by the United States National bank with a frontage of 110 feet on Farnam and seventy-six feet on Sixteenth street. It was opened formally by a recep- tion last night Concrete, cement, granite, marble, ‘bronze and steel combine to produce a structure of massive strength and striking beauty MUCH Consider the bronze, the “everlast- | ing metal,” in the bdullding The main entrance is through two sets of very heavy bronze doors and en- trance to the main banking room is through one set of massive bronge doors. The grill work of the tellers' cages, name plates and ldmp pedestals outside the buflding and the doors and grill work of the savings department are all of this wetal. Tavernelle Clair marble, brought from Italy, is used exclusively in the main ‘banking room. The fourteen massive pil- lars and the bank counters are of this marble, while the walls and counters in the savings department are of white Ver- wmont marble. Solldity of Structure. Some idea of the strength and solidity of the building may be gained from these figures of materials used: Three thou- sand barrels of cement, 2,90 tons of sand, 3,300 tons of crush stone, 600 tons of iron #nd steel, four carloads of Maine granite, twenty carloads of Indiana limestone, 250,000 comman brick made in Omaha, 1 000 Stroud’'s white sand lime brick for facing and 30,000 square feet fireproof til- irg. The foundation walls, forty-two inches thick, are lald thirty feet under ground end are of reinforced concrete. . Beauf elegance, richness, splendor are apparent everywhere on the interfor. The lobby of the main banking room is of ‘Tennessee marble laid in ‘tiles. The rest of the room is covered with a composi- tion cork of mosaic design. Caen stone, imported from France, is used on the walls of the main room, toned to blend with the marble. On the south side of the main lobby is a public waiting room, president's pri- Vate office and large consultation room, beaides a large roomy apace for offi- cers’ desks. This part of the bank is The Elevators ! In the New United States National Bank Building! Kimball Bros. Company . Council Bluffs, Towa. These are m nl\.lla push- button eleval um wor i) ey This is the safest economical use in does :ny wil ST iy ‘purposes. Send for l-(w- o Kimball Bros. Company Council Bluffs, Iowa. VRIS TR NSRS © GRS ¢ QRS ¢ GARSL o WS G0N 1 SETED » RIS Offiice: Room 5, 1505 Howard Street, OMAHA Furnished the Crushed Stone, Washed Sand, and Portland Cement , Used in This Buildi ¢ R ¢ ORS¢ R ¢ SUBESDE ¢ REEESS § CARRGES ¢ GEEEINT O GG TP ¢ SREE NG | GTINEY § CIRSSS ) et OMAHA finished in old Eaglish onk and the fur. niture is espeotally designed to match The east and north sides are finished in quarter-sawed white oak stalmed to! match the other. Old Kaglish Onk. The walls of the directors’ room ape paneled in imported old English oak, beautifully hand-carved. The table in this room is fourteen feet long and four feet wide, made from a carefully se- lected log ih erder to have a perfectly atched top. The pedestals are hand- carved out of a salid plese of wood. Fourtean chairs are carved to match the Three cheek desks in the main lobby are notable, being carved out of selid blocks of marble. Tops are of Fremch plate glass, three-quarters of an inoh | thick, surmounted by handsome bronwe | | electroliers. There are three solid marbio | setteos, carved in the same design and upholstered in leather. Turniture used throughout the working #pace was especially designed for great- | est banking efficiency. Tight Fixtures Harmonize. Artificial illuminatton ts all by indirect lighting and the lighting fixtures were specially designed to harmonize with the architecture. Two hundred of the -latest improved flush switéhes with many special con- trolling devices wers used to meet the requirements of the bank. There are thirty: specfal electric buzzers with two epecial annunclators and severml unique | speaking tube arrangements, besides tabie and are leather-upholstered | 1next is chrome steel, SATURDAY M \\ 1915 The bank is equipped with two electric |#levators, besides two stairwave safes for holding the bank's cash twelve steel cheste for the bank's securities and The skylight which floods the building lother valuable papers, and 2,000 safety with light runs nearly the entire length |deposit boxes for rental to the publ of the bullding and is designed of beau- | That the building meets the highest tiful art metal glass, roh In color. hopes and ideals of the bank officlals | { In wirfg the building three miles of |indicated by the following statament Steel conduit tubes and over eight miles ! made by Victor B, Caldwell, president of {of rubber-covered wire and cable were the bank | used The harmony of design and coloy and Rtk Noont for Women the dignity of the proportions of (he A rest room for women (s provided and banking room are (deal. To the architect is beautifully furnished. In the men's [alone is due the entire credit for the | part of the bullding a shower bath, fin- | bullding, the banking room. and wil the tehed in white tile, has been installed, | A6signing throughout the interfor. in A wonderful ventilating system .draws |cluding the general scheme of tone and alr from the outskie, through two sheets |decoration. How wonderfully well he of water, thus removing dust and dirt |has Succeeded has been confirmed to us and putting the proper amount of mols- ture into It. In winter the air will be heated by passing through heat colls {regulated by thermostat. Foul air Is {forced out of the bullding by funs. The wonderful vault, than which there | |18 no more up-to-date one anywhere in the world, has been described before. | Reinforced concrate forms its body and | 1it is Nned with three lavers of the most | impenetrable steel that sclence has pro- duced, ench an inch in thickiess. The first layer is oben hearth steel, the wnd the third of | open hearth steel. All three are m.u-ul and screwed together, making the vault absolutely burglar and mob-proof. door fs twenty-seven Inches thick eight feet in diameter. Eight Safes Within. The finterior of this vault contalns, The and thirty-six telephon: WD © SR o A o CWATNE © AMFETEY 6 ERAUER 0 CRTINIR o SRGIND o @RS among other things, eight m: | on several oocasions by distinguished vis- | quarters at St. ftors who are well known critics of areh- would leave with the one thought {Ing—impressed upon his mind ftecture It was Mr Henninger's idea that the inaide of the banking room |#hould refiect the exterior in such a way that whoover entered the building bank WHEAT AND CORN MOVE UP HALF A CENT IN OMAHA Reports of a heavy export demand for wheat resulted in an advance of one-half cent per bushe! on &1l kinds of grain ex-| cept nats, which weve unchanged to one- | And Omaha receipts were cars; the prices ranging around fourth up. Wheat, thirty-one oats, thirteen $1.55 to 81,56 for wheat the Interior Omaha t. The Execution of Finishing of the New U. S. Bank Bldg. Done By ; Henry Lehmann & Sons 1305 Farnam Street Practical Painters and Decorators Painting and U. S. BANK Of Course We Furnished THE GLASS for the New We Gladly Furnish Estimates Midland Glass & Paint Co. 11th and Howard Streets, OMAHA BUILDING corn, fifty: 72 to A cents for e8¢ | corn, and 3 to 52% centa for oats. ALL GALV. IRON Copper Tin Work and Ventilation on the U, S. Bank Bldg. done by BJORNSON SHEET METAL WORKS 218 North 1iSth Street 1 ‘| 3 ; g g g | | | ! | | | | ; | | i | | o g.. over the yards ain 19 g 1s a Credit to Omaha 'NO CASH IN SIGHT ’al\d at Ralston stopped long enough [ctric offioials preferred to rematn on tieir none of them coming up tewn dur- at the Missourl Pacific doss wot in-|IDE the evening. They explained that the v-ma to do much In the way of undertak.| WoTk of the day had been very trying i new work this year is apparant from |And that they were tired and needed rest he assertion of Vice who contends that President Robertson, the last put Missouri Paocifio Officials Spend the [closed with the road having |v||'|; ::m o OldGSt’ sult on the Court Records is Brought to a Close rway in the surplus Robertson #ald Vice President Night in Omaha and Look Over the Belt Line | No Money Hxten 1 100,000 00, requites an expenditure o to keep up our system and anotl o0 to meet obligations, so that v A party of Missouri Facific rallway [ oo that with but $74.00 in the ,o{rlm\ll most of them from head-|tuna for the Louis and headed by |carrying on very much new work or make Alexander Robinson, recently ap-|¢Xtensions’ | As to the viaducts that have been so pointed first vice president, on a |long talked of on the west side of the train made up of private cars, arrived (¢iry at points where the Belt Line crosses REMAIN IN THEIR PRIVATE CARS | in* Omalia shortly after 8 n'rlmx‘nw Omaha streets, Vice President Rob- Thursday night and remained until 7 ertson asserted “Work that has been started will be velook ve y morni when, o'clock vesterday morning, WhEN, [ ..ies and completed, but nothing saw leaving the Webster stroet Statlon, |\ pe undertaken until business fs bet- | they went south, continuing their|isr and we have more money In signt tour of inspection of the lines of the| Mr. Robertson places all the blams for syatem Ithe poor business conditions upon hostile - - legtalation, both stata and national, con- The Missouri Pacitio officials went | (ltiOh PO HEMIE of much 'eststa over the Crete and Auburn branches |tion rates, both treight and passenger, to St. Joseph. Enroute 10 have besn forosd down to & point where Omaha Thursday night, they spent |there is no longer any net revenue 'n the some time in South Omaha and along | “OVduct of & railroad. Although invited to the Hote! Fonte- the Belt Line. Returning, they made |, ..\, ““:“m" of Assistant Genera! another inspection of the Belt Line, Freight Agent Malocolm, the Missour! Pa year there Is little hope of | An injunctioh secured twenty ! CAN [forbidding the Prospect Hill Cemetery adjoining property at ¥or this rel burial grounds. Records show that ', 88, 1900, ‘07, ‘08, the attention of the district ceurt vears ase TPl | goetation from using & steip of ground Thirty-second and Parker stroeta for cemetery purposes has [sust been dissolved by District Jjudge |Bcars. Jease lowe, first mayor of Cmaba; Nathan Stevens and Martia R |Pruitte were plaintiffa in the suit, whieh 1# the oldest case in the district court in which proceedings are still pending Danger of pollution of wells in the neighborhood, which was the original grounds for the injunction, no longer ex- {ists, according to Judge Sears, becaus: city water is now used cxclusively there on the cemetery assoclation won its long-continued fight to extend its occupled i 1805, this case ‘M oand fent room aquick with » Bee Want Ad can be rentedquickly o “Vor Tent and cheaply by & O GRS 5 BTN W DR -—oua_omo Houston | Toronto Montreal ~ Salt Lake City . ¢ (A @410 © TS 0 SRS ¢ € T ¢ o § S © SR § S § S - ) § S § LA © S § S | GRS § SRAS Soveti » GaRie - WRAEe § EUT 4 S - e o o ST Structural Iron and Steel Work on the New U. S. Bank Bldg. was Furnished by Paxton & Vierling Iron Works Munufacturers of Structural and Ornamental Iron and Steel Office and Worke: So. 17th St. & U. P. Ry. C. J. VIERLING, Pres. LOUIS ‘VIERLING, Sec'y & Treas. A J. VIERLING, ¥+Preo. & Mgr. OMAHA ames Stewart & Company lncorporaled CENERAL CONTRACTORS Lighting Fixtures in ? the U. S. National ? Bank Building were all furnished by Burgess- Granden Company F.R. VIERLING, Ass’t Mgr T WD ° WS » S O B R | iw“.namoo-h« Couamm ¢ SanAEn o e . EWRND o SRS | EMBED ¢ G