Show r r GOLD RESERVES STORED IN im impregnable VAULTS how Is 4 the united states store ot of gold stored most of it 80 feet below aide sidewalks walks in the massive steel and con concrete concree cret vaults of 0 th new york federal reserve bank the gold presents a fascinating sight stacked in symmetrical piles on steel shelves to steal it would the safeguards comprise be impossible I 1 steel and concrete walls eight feet thick massive doors complicated locks and electrical devices the secret of 0 0 opening which Is possessed by no one man but several they are devised so that in event of ani au uprising or a revolution they could not be rushed the treasure is in the bottom vaults of 0 the deep foundations of thoi the building no staircases lead to them the only ingress is by elevator llevat or and tho the elevators are not controlled by the bhoj operator but from a central control room which lots lets the elevator down up only on official command the chaj controls co could uld be put out ot of com j mission and there would be no entering I 1 or leaving at the top is a steel fortress surrounding joun ding the entrance with holes for shooting behind which expert marks m men n stand at the bottom various locked doors lead along the corridors to the ponderous steel vault door weighing many tons which is operated by time locks and machinery behind that are gates with three locks requiring three men to open them then the gold store is reached steel cells partitioned off by steel mesh contain shelves on which the bars of gold are stacked in ordered and numbered piles as much as worth nouh of g gold old in each bar some are in bricks and some in the conventional vent vent ional lonal metal pigs and ingots ingols like so much iron but the bars are smooth and deeply yellow in other noflie r corridors american gold coins and english sovereigns worth millions on millions are stacked on similar shelves in canvas sacks no waiting so much to be put into circulation a tion as to remain there like the bar gold as gia guarantee rantee for the american paper bills that are issued |