NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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The Oldest Banking Institution in 
Salem. 
The opening of the new Mer- 
chants’ National Bank building in 
Salem, last week, gives to this sec- 
tion of Essex County the finest 
banking building in Essex County. 
In fact, it might be said that the 
construction of this new, distinctive, 
modern bank building, with large 
fire and burglar proof vaults of the 
very highest grade, combined with 
much increased space, gives the cus- 
tomers of this old bank the oppor- 
tunity of doing their banking busi- 
ness in one of the handsomest and 
best appointed banking rooms in the 
state. 
The building is a one-story high 
vaulted affair, with a large dome 
window letting in a flood of hght 
from overhead. On the right as one 
enters the spacious room, are the 
president’s and  cashier’s desks. 
Then comes the consultation booth, 
and beyond that the book-keepers’ 
stalls. On the left are the stalls for 
the assistant cashier, check teller, 
bank teller and receiving teller, re- 
spectively, all seperate. 
In the rear, on the ground floor, 
is a ladies’ room, with every con- 
venience. An interesting feature of 
this room is an old mantel, formerly 
in the Choate house. It is 150 years 
old. On the opposite side of the 
building are ten customers’ rooms. 
The two large vaults in the rear of 
the building are the most modern 
that could be obtained. The two 
doors on each vault weigh 20 and 
5 tons, respectively. One vault is 
for the use of customers, containing 
640 safe deposit boxes, and with a 
eapacity for 1500. There are eight 
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safes for the various tellers and 
room for as many more. 
In the basement of the building 
are vaults for storage of silverware, 
ete. The locker-room is also down 
stairs. Up-stairs in the rear is a 
directors’ room, in which there is 
another historic mantel, taken from 
the Lot Alden house. The fixtures 
of the building are patterned after 
those of the old North church. 
The directors would be pleased te 
have North Shore people visit the 
bank at any time. 
An Oregon editor once got a big 
advertisement from a place which 
sold nothing but oysters. The place 
had just opened, and while the pro- 
prietor was willing to advertise he 
didn’t have the cash to spend; so the 
newspaper man took a card which en- 
titled him to $10 worth of oysters. 
“A few days later when a tramp 
printer strolled into the Gazette of- 
fice and wanted a job,” relates the 
editor, “I had nothing to offer him, 
but told the man he might sleep back 
in the composing room, and as he had 
no money to buy food, I gave him 
the meal ticket on the oyster parlor. 
I didn’t hear from him again for 
more than a week. 
“One day he came into the office 
looking a bit drawn and worn. ‘I 
don’t want to seem dissatisfied with 
what you’ve done for me, Mr. Car- 
ter,’ he said, ‘and I’m willing to ad- 
mit that the luscious bivalve’ is a 
wonderfully fine bit of food; but for 
heaven’s sake, can’t you get an ad 
from a ham and egg emporium ”” 
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