Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1910 — SAFES IN BIG HOTELS. [ARTICLE]

SAFES IN BIG HOTELS.

Valuables Kept in Them by Gnoete for Years at a Time. A woman walked up to the counter of a fashionable kfotel and asked for a package of valuables which was In the safe. "If 1 had not wanted one particular thing I suppose I should have left tho package where It was for another three years,” she said to the clerk. “Yes,” said the clerk In answer to a question after the woman left, “that packet had really been In our safe for three years. Why, we have all sorts of valuable papers. Jewelry and even money that are intrusted to our keeping for years at a time. People seem to prefer a hotel safe to a safety deposit vault. One reason perhaps is that It costs nothing. Another Is that the standard of hotel clerks has Improved* “It is astonishing the amount of jewelry that people keep In hotel safes. Of course the ownejs have originally stopped in the hotel, but they go away, .leaving their valuables, and I have known such persons to be gone as much as two years and never make an inquiry about their property In that time. “To show you how much confidence people have in hotels and their employes I might mention that the other day a man came in here and put Jour 11,000 bills in an envelope, wrote his name on the latter and asked me to put it in the safe. Not long ago another man actually did the same, thing with seven SIO,OOO bills.” The clerks of several other hotels talked In a similar strain without any outside suggestion. “I’ll bet I have handled more than a million dollars’ worth of Jewelry today," said one. "Look here,” and he opened the safe and piled six or eight big Jewelry cases on the counter, but hurriedly put them back. “In one of those I know there la over $200,000 worth, and what I showed you waa only a few of what the safe contains.” —New York Bun; The only reliable confidant In the world la your pillow, and look under the bed before you confide In your pit low. - -