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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1910)
Till; OMAHA SUNDAY I IKK: NOVKMHKK 1,1 1!10. CTT3 The City National Bank is now Open for Business in its New Location in the New CTT3 77 n 777 A 77 V) A 77 7 7P U) A BHiiiinmHrfB IkUV fcilMJB i 11 it h y i JJi) 1 I as ( vhere it vill be pleased to receive its Omaha friends and visitors from out of the city. i V77v ' 7 ' ;1 . n t - . s .it:, in i in J IS 4 .1' 0 t' 1 M'Hsri'. - f i, 1 ;t h t7l?h 1 HtNl! i 1 J 1 t - 1 s V 1 , I 1 3 j : I 1 ! H 1 s 1 1 I 5. i .. r 1 5 i tea '! l-( l -! . L-J --L.7 w 1 : Ml 1 i 'jf ' 4 Jl t J J i f ii - . .fit. tin h i . u 11 i-i H 3 Ht. i: i -ir i"r fr r 1 'ii.' I ' 1 i ! (.() J L w' k .1 y r r M -H tj If 1ft . r ;h , :; i i Jl -1 t1' II -7 tr If T r ,5 : i :: is ( i 1 " ' "-r. luftlW1tlfr W ' . , , . . t I , i i i. '.llllMWW " 1 mWP PTTV MATTHMAl RAMlf OmnJ,,, U X. - U X ' X. M. A- 1 1. M. M. A. i. X m. 11 A W X V J 1.1 V1S Ul Villi l.Cll 1 . 1 r1" department of the Omaha Loan & Trust Company in 1884 and incorpafatcd iri 1888 a the Omaha Loan & Trust Company Savings liank, with Hon. A. U. Wyman, former U.&. 1 reasurer, as President. The stock of tKo savings bank was purchased In November, 1901, by a syndicate organized by John F. jiok, who later .became pretddent of the bank, which office he has held continuously since. Under this progressive management the deposits were increased from $149,000 to over $1,000,000 and the number of 1 depositors from YoO to more than 7,000. " Ti ii Ti T? TT 17 T7 V Tl 7 1: I'll jf .: .v7' fy' AZ j V 1 ill I ! ! I IIIIW HIIIIHIIMHIIIIIM T i Ml.... . ll I I 1 HPHE CITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING is owned by the City National Bank Bu Iding Company, a Nebraska corpora tion, and the stock of the company is practically all owned by Omaha men. ; The,; deposits Lave 'prac.ticaJly doubled during the past fifteen mouths, and the depositors have increased to- almost 9,000 persona.' v -. ' Now, entering its new offices, it affords to its CAistomers every facility and accominodation requisite to a ;.tjiodern, well-equipped. National Bank; a commercial department; a savings department; and a women's de " partment for the exclusive use of women. This latter ia entirely secluded and includes a waiting room, lavatory, writing desks and all the facilities necessary for their accommodation. The location' of the bank is central, at the busiest corner in Omaha. The lobby of the bank is level with t! .l ...... it. 1 ... i A II . . L . .1 1 1.. 1 1 i i l ' . i . n .11 i ouuruiu Birfti ;i iiurui-y tirwi euuimtH auu uu euirauuo u uie - saieiy ueposit vauiis irom tue oanK " lohhv iith nlsn nfforiled. . The bank is equipped with a massive vault of manganese steel, which has jculiar projKTties, and is war runted to stand the test of fire, flood, earthquakes, or the a-ssaults of mobs. The office furnishings are of ma hogany, modern and of the latest devised convenience.' The interior is of mahogany and marble. The City National Bank exterds to the public a cordial invitation to visit and inspect the new rooms. The handsome building, beautiful banking room, new safe deposit vaults and other equipment, we feel, are worthy of your inspection and will be of interest to you. The architects who designed and superintended the construction of this building were Messrs. llolabird & Koche of Chicago, who have designed many of the best office buildings in the east during the last twenty years. 1 The .James Black Masonry and Contracting Co., of St. Louiswere the general contractors, and they hava erected many large buildings. George & Co., are agents for the building and their offices are on the ninth floor. Mr. Frank E. Mayer, formerly manager of the First National Bank Building of Chicago, is manager of the City National Bank Building, with office on ninth floor of the building. Facts About the Building Distance from street curb to roof, l!0'J feet. Height of smokestack 230 feet. Height of flagpole from street 252 feet Boiler room twenty feet below the street level. The building rests on forty-eight steel columns set on reinforced concrete foundations. Material used in building is as follows: 2,022 tons of steel, 7,388 tons of concrete, 5,9'jO tons of brick, 3G0 tons of terra cotta, 3,370 tons of hollow tile, 1.143 tons of plaster. About 1,150 cars were required to transport the material for J the building, of forty-six trains of twenty-five cars each. The woodwork throughout is solid mahogany. The building contains 2,2(7,M0 cubic feet and has a little less than three acres of rental area. The marble used in the building would lay a sidewalk four feet wide over two miles' long. Small shops on the second floor with plate glass fronts on the corridors, are a feature of this building new to Omaha. . The building was constructed in about ten months. The building is open for inspection from the sixteenth floor to the sub-basement. t M l I1 fr3 A u g-.... .j f- l 1 L ITU,W n JL J (31 i . o CO In 0) nol TfP f lf sis I s f 1 1 ! I W.l