The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1907, Page 4

THE 'SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1907. " ~ For Humboldt Savings Bank THE FIRST T0 BE INSTALLED ON THE PACIFIC COAST lumboldt Savings Bank has contracted with the 1lehem Steel Company, South Bethlehem, Pa., for the construction of the latest type Harveyized Nickel cel Armor Plate Treasury and Safe Deposit Vault to crected by November Ist this year in its new uilding on Market street near Fourth. T HE acquisition of - an Armor Plate V ault by the Humboldt Savings Bank of this city 1s another forcible Treasury Vault to be installed for the Hum- boldt Savings Bank will represent the highest development of the art of vault construction, The huge plates used in the construction of Armor Plate Vaults “are all dove-tailed to- “gether, the tongue ma- chined on the edge of the plates fitted mto a groove cut on the ad- joining p]ates, wedges being dniven into place from the inside of vault, demongiration of the absolutely assuring per- fact that the prominent fect immunity against fire, earthquake, burg- lars, mobs, eleciricity or ; : any agent of deStruction. whos 2 hauds e The steel used in the trusted the Nation's construction of this vault wealth recognize the will be like that used by sreat superiority of the leading Nations of thus locking the plates institutions of the country and into ' 1 = ; securely in place and eliminating the use of bolts or screws neces- sary under the old methods of 'constructing vaults, vestibules and doors of a multitude of plates and angles bolted Harveyized Nickel Steel Armor Plate Vaults over those of any other construction. The City and Harbor the world in protecting their battleships, and the extreme hardness of the exposed surfaces of the plates provides positive together. There will be two main entrances, and the main doors, circular in shape, will have an outside dianfeter of 91 inches, an#l, although of San Francisco are secunty against attack protected by elaborate by means of drills. land defenses’ and all contrivances known in the art of defensive warfare, bu in case of failure of these defenses to resist the attack of an enemy 1t can truth- fully be said that there will still remain in the very heart of the finan- cial center of this city a veritable fortress capa- ble of resisting any method of attack and in which stronghold can be stored its vast wealth in the shape of money, securities and valuables of any description. The Harveyized Nickel Steel Armor \RMOR PLATE SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT weighing 16 tons each, so delicately will they be hung on their hinges thata child could swing them to and fro. The doors will be forged in one piece and will be construcied with de- vices for defeating the operation of electric burning. They will be fitted with bolting de- vices of the highest or- s der of mechanism and will be controlled by the most modemn auto- matic and time locks. There will also be in- side folding doors fitted with bolted mechanist(j} and controlled by com- bination locks. About 175 tons of armor plate will be used in the "construction of this vault, the inside di- mensions of which are 39 feetby 10 feet by 9 feet high, and it will be constructed in accord- ancefi with plans ar;j specifications prepar by The Hollar gom— pany of Philadelphia, Pa., which company was retained by the Humboldt Savings Bank ‘as their eng- neers. The Bethlehem Steel Company has also just taken from the Camegie Safe Deposit Company, New York City,a con- tract for the installation _of two immense Armor Plate Vaults, whick, when erected, will be AT the largest vaults in the Plate Safe Deposit and : WING wor Vo A list of some of the prominent banking institutions located in the principal cities of this Country and which possess ARMOR PLATE VAULTS manufactured bfilhe Bethlehem Steel Company is appended below: ¢ Provident Life and Trust Co..... . Philadelphia, Pa. Mercantile Trust Co. St. Louis, Mo. Western Reserve Trust Co... ..Cleyeland, Ohio Union Savings Bank............. Pittsburg, Pa. United States Trust Cou.......... Louisville, Commercial Trust Co.. ... ....... Philadelphia, Pa. Fidelity Trust Co...... +..vy.Kansas City, Mo. 'Union Safe Deposit and Tnm Co.; Pittsburg, Pa. St Blust G0 (0 Philadelphia, Pa. County Savings Bank. ............ Scranten, Pa Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. . . Philadelphia, Pa. Buffalo Savings Bank Bu“alo N.Y: Buld-‘ Clearing House Associafion. .. . . ... Philadelphia, -Pa. Cleveland Trust Co..oovvuunn.... Cleveland, Ohio " The Pacific Coast, Office of the Bethlehem Steel Co/ mpany Is Loqnted at the Flood Building, San Francisco