Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1904 — A Solid Safe For A Solid Bank. [ARTICLE]

A Solid Safe For A Solid Bank.

The First National Bank’s new CerlesS'fire and burglar proof safe, is now in position and in regular use, at the bank. It stands outside the bank vault, and in full view from the street, and receives much admiring attention from the public. It is a novel but handseme affair, and its every appearance verifies the claims of its impregnability to the assaults ©f th© safe tapping fraternity It consists, essentially, of two huge and very massive cast steel spheres, one cast outside the other, and the inner sphere forever immovable from inside the other. But though immovable in that sense, yet the inner sphere revolves inside the other, on pivots, and at night, when the safe is to be locked, it is turned half way round, bringing the doors to the back. W hen thus closed the safe is to all intents a massive globe of solid steel with no possible opening for the insertion of dynamite and so solid that

a charge on its outside large enough to blow it through the side of the bank, would still not break it. These safes have been in use since 1876 and no case is on record of their ever having been opened by a burglar. The installation of one of them here is a oommendib e move, by that safe, solid and conservatively managed financial institution, The First National Bank of Rensselaer. It is indeed a solid safe in a solid bank. . ,

Mrs. Lewia living in the Dr. Johnson bouse on River street wants your washing at her residence. Also men’s washing and mending.