Show GOLD RESERVES STORED IN impregnable VAULTS ilow how Is the united states store ot of gold stored most of it 80 feet below sidewalks in the massive steel and concrete vaults of tho th new york federal reserve bank the gold presents a fascinating eight stacked in symmetrical piles on steel shelves to steal it would be impossible the safeguards comprise steel and concrete walls walla eight feet thick massive doors complicated locks and electrical devices the secret of opening which la Is possessed by no one man but several they are devised so that in event ot of an i uprising or a revolution they could not be rushed the tha treasure Is in the bottom vaults ol of the deep foundations of the tha building no staircases lead to them the only ingress la is by elevator and the elevators are not controlled by the tha operator but from a central control room which lets the elevator down or up only on official command the controls could be put out oat of 0 commission and there would be no entering or leaving at the top la is a steel fortress surrounding tho the entrance with holes for shooting behind which expert marksmen 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 locka and machinery behind that are gates with three locks requiring three men to open them then the gold store la Is reached steel cells partitioned oft by steel mesh contain shelves on which the bars ot of gold are stacked in ordered and numbered piles as much as worth of gold in each bar some are in bricks and some in the con vent lonal ional metal pigs and ingots ingols like so much iron but the bars are smooth and deeply yellow in other corridors american gold coins and english sovereigns worth millions on millions are stacked on similar shelves in canvas sacks nol waiting so much to bo be put into circulation as to remain there like the bar gold as guarantee for the american americ c an paper bills that are issued |