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Show Xx Where Wealth Is Stored :t 1 Stupendous Safes Used by American Billionaires for the Care of T j Their Securities. 4- A-Aa AAA. A-A.A.A.A.AA AAAAAAAA. A, A A-A-A., A-A-A.A. A.A-A. A-A-A.A. A.A... Many persons who have been amazed amaz-ed during the past few days at the holdings of stock certificates that represent rep-resent millions of dollars by some of the magnates of Wall street have more than once wondered where on earth the stacks of certificates are stowed away over night. Some of the certificates are passed clay after day in their business deals from owners to owners who have not strong underground under-ground vaults. Nor do all firms on the "street" have vaults above the average av-erage kind. Be that as it may, from this time out the millions in bonds and certificates certifi-cates and other "street" valuables, as well as valuables owned elsewhere, in this city and other cities, are to be stowed away in a safe in a deposit company in Broad street, which has just been put in commission. It is the biggest safe in the world. In this safe are already deposited more securities se-curities than In any other one place in the world. Wealth untold is represented repre-sented there by stocks and bonds, jewelry and silver plate. Here also repose the wills of many of the biggest big-gest millionaires in America. So vast are the financial interests concerned in this safe that the board of directors direct-ors in charge of it is made to repre sent every faction of the financial world. John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, the Vanderbllts, the Rothschilds, Roths-childs, the Harrimans, the Goulds, and other large interests have personal per-sonal representatives on the board. The door leading into the safe Is a tremendous piece of mechanism. It is circular.eight feet in diameter, and twenty-four inches thick. It weighs twenty-one tons. The hinge of this big door weighs 7,000 pounds. The door and vestibule weigh fifty tons, and yet so nicely is the door balanced on ball .bearings that a baby might close It with the gentle pressure of Its tiny finger. The safe is fifty-three feet long, thirty-eight feet wide, and nine feet in height. The walls are four feet thick. The interior is fitted up with 2,000 boxes, but 3,000 more will be added as they are needed. Formidable For-midable as the mechanical appliances for safety are, they are not depended on altogether. Day and night men guard the big door. They pace back and forth like soldiers on guard. Three times in the night a third watchman walks through the corridor corri-dor to see that the sentinels are attending at-tending to their duty. If ever a burglar burg-lar gets anything out of the safe Wall street will go out of business. |