The Victor Safe & Lock Co. Catalogue 1902

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Organized 1885.

Incorporated 1887. Incorporated under the la.ws of the full

paid

.

up

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.

St8te of

Ohio, with

capital stock, $200,000.00.

THE

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Victor Safe & Iiock Co. 819, 821, 823, 825, 827, 829 BROADWAY, FULL BLOCKS ON NINTH

ST., E. CHEAPS1DE, W. CHEAPSIDE & CANAL STS.

CINCINNATI, OHIO, U. S. A.

TRADE

MARKET

Foreign Agencies: CHRISTIANIA, NORWAY ODESSA, RUSSIA MILSPE AND SOLLENGEN, GERMANY 300 REGENT STREET, LONDON, ENGLAND CASILEA 514, SANTIAGO, CHILI, SOUTH AMERICA CASILLA 758, VALPARAISO, CHILI, SOUTH AMERICA CITY OF MEXICO, MEXICO PUEBALO, MEXICO CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO HERMOSILLO, MEXICO MONTEREY, MEXICO • PORT ANTONIO, .14 MAT CO VICTORIA CRESCENT, NANAIMO, B. C. HAVANA, CUBA SANTIAGO, CUBA AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND HONG KONG, CHINA PEKING, CHINA YOKOHAMA, JAPAN . CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Thos. S.

Officers:

W. E. Arnold

•

President and General Manager.

Spivey

W. C. IIattersley

.

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Treasurer. Secretary

The Victor Safe & Lock Co Cincinnati, O.

To Visiting Friends In

:

visiting Cincinnati

salesrooms, located at the squares

corner

will find of

our

factory buildings, office, and

Broadway and Ninth streets, only six

from the Post Office Building.

Chester Park, one

you

Norwood, Madison Ave.,

or

Take Gilbert Ave., Avondale, Hyde Park Electric Cars, any

of which pass our works. If you want a little exercise, walk two squares east on

from Post Office will have

no

Fifth street

Building and four squares north on Broadway, and you

difficulty in locating us. The Victor Safe & Lock Co.

.

HUGH MILLCP. PRESIDENT

THE VICTOR SAFE AND LOCK CO. S. W. SMITH, Jr. VICE PRESIDENT

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W.Y. DAWSON. CASHIER.?

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THE VICTOR SAFE AND LOCK CO.

A

The best

■

.

Complete Office Outfit.

selling combination in office furniture

ever

offered to the

public.

THE VICTOR SAFE AND LOCK CO.

7

Important Notice. OUR business being founded on merit, we have never objected to honorable competition; in fact believe in the

adage, that “competition is the life of trade,” and that when honest compe¬ abroa,d, it stimulates and deveiopes a demand for safes. Moreover it keeps us keenly the alert for improvements in our methods of manufacture, and for measures by which we

we

tition is on

may

give the buying public best satisfaction.

policy to treat the public and Dosely allowed

an

line of work.

Nor have

agent or

responsibility, but have

a

we

competitors,

our

representative in

It is

a

matter of

business methods.

any

on more

than

one

our

would have them treat

business it has byen our We have never pur-

us.

capacity, to speak slightingly of

allowed any competitor to

dearly for libelous methods towards

pay

From the beginning of as we

speak disparagingly of

occasion, called them up with

us.

a

us

a competitor, or his where we could place

short turn and made them '

>

great comfort to us to know that the public is unanimously in favor of honorable

We wish

we

could say the same regarding some

of

our

“would-be” competitors. We

frequently receive complaints from persoris handling our safes, that rival safe agents, who care nothing truth, honor and justice, resort to mean and disreputable tricks to prevent sales, even where they

for

cannot make them themselves.

Through better

a

jealous desire to injure

our

agents, who are able to make lower prices,

or

supply

a

grade of goods, they will resort to the meanest falsehoods and slanders to create unfavorable

impressions regarding our safes. familiar with the tact that

we

Our advantages are our own in the manufacture of

our

This of course can only work injury with persons who are not

manufacture

and

safes.

are

more

protected by

fire-proof safes than all other companies combined. a

long list of valuable patents covering every detail

It is to the interest of the public to suppress vicious and dishonest

The purchaser wants the best work that get, and he wants it at the lowest possible price consistent with first-class work ; therefore we request that any one interested in the purchase of a safe, if he is considering a proposition or bid with us, in competition with other makes, that in the event rival agents make vicious and derogatory state¬ ments regarding the quality of our manufacture, that they be requested to make such statements in a manly and business-like way, making their companies responsible for the statements, giving us an opportunity to refute them- It is not sufficient that they make the statement on their own responsi¬ bility, for they are representing other manufacturers. A refusal on the part of any such slanderer to make his company responsible by signing its name by himself as agent, will brand his statements as methods

he

on

the part

of salesmen representing manufacturers.

can

false and malicious. our

If he is honest in his statements, he will gladly give us an

opportunity to clear

On the other hand, if he is malicious in his intentions, we should have the opportunity damaging statements, and compel his company to pay us damages for their having made by one of their agents. We want no orders for safes that cannot be obtained by strictly honorable methods and honest

reputation.

to refute such

been

competition.

Our responsibility is ample guarantee for

any

statement we make.

The Victor Safe & Lock Co.

MAYOR'S OFFICE, CINCINNATI. John A.Caldwelu mayor.

The Mon. Jahn A. Caldwell has since’become Lieutenant=Qovernor of Ohio.

THE VICTOR SAFE AND DOCK CO

NEW POST

OFFICE

9

BUILDING,

Washington, D. C.

Furnished Throughout with Victor Vaults.

THE VICTOR SAFE AND DOCK CO.

IO

CAUTION!

24567831...———III

This matter Is original with us. It has more than once appropriated and used by other Safe Companies.

Advice and Instructions for **»--< VERY salesman should know something of the article he is trying to sell, in order to present to his ^

he is most overcome

"VjS) prospective customer

a plausible argument. familiarity with the subject, no matter how quick witted he may be, he is liable to spoil many a sure sale. The fact must not be overlooked, that as a rule the country merchant is better posted in a general way as to prices and values than the salesman who only represents a single line of goods. This is necessarily true as the result of the daily teaching he receives from salesmen representing every line of business. Owing to this fact, a salesman is liable to find his supposed easy yictim better posted on the line of goods he is trying to sell him than he himself is. Nothing will spoil his prospects quicker than this state of affairs. Furthermore, he might have been posted on the subject, by a competing agent representing the same kind of business. In which event the salesman may find it an embarrasing duty to meet some pretty strong arguments against his own goods. No matter how false the statements concern¬ ing his goods may be, an impression is made upon the mind of the merchant, and before doing business with him he will demand not only a refutation, but a reason¬ ably good argument to prove his own sincerity. This is where a knowledge of what to say is absolutely Without

some

essential. If he

can convince him that he is maligned and back with better prices he is his customer. If he can not the merchant will have nothing to do with him. The unfavorable impression is already made and he fails to

this up

remove

it.

at

likely to give and the essential

do not need can

a

not afford

would rather night.

How to Sell Safes. knowledge of at least our part of the safe business, to enable the salesman to an¬ swer the arguments he is liable to encounter in trying to make sales.

First Find If he is

a

Man who has

no

Safe.

business man,

professional or otherwise— you may depend upon it, he needs a safe and feels it more than anyone else. Something prevents his buying one. rt is your duty as a salesman to find out exactlv what this something is, and until you find it out and remove it, you an not make a sale. It may be due to a single cause, or .1

may

a

be due to

a

combination of

reasons.

The

reasons

oapers

home

one.

carry my

books and

busy to talk to you about a safe. have made other arrangements for a safe. can get a special inside price on a safe through am too

a

friend.

going to buy a second-hand safe. prefer the “ Podunc” safe (or some other make.) I don’t know anything about the Victor Safes. Many very singular reasons are sometimes given, but the above are the ones most commonly met with, and with these overcome, a sale as a rule is certain. We will take these reasons up one at a time, and fit an argument am

to each.

No. I.—I Do not need

a

Safe.

be honest in making this statement, but as a rule, it is only an evasive answer. It is possible, however, that he has never had the need of a Safe im¬ pressed upon his mind by a convincing argument, in which case the salesman has almost a sure thing. A

man

Reasons

may

why all Business Men should have Safes.

Every business man should have a fire-proof Safe large enough to hold all of his books and papers, if not for the relief of his own mind, for what he owes to others. It is purely selfish for him to consult only his own con¬ person who credits him or to whom is a wise business man, every piece

We furnish here sufficient

yon to

safe.

venience and wishes in the matter.

/

for

ones

are :

scrupulous as to what they say regarding their com¬ petitors. But there is no question about it, the truth wins in the end. No matter how mean a thing a salesman says about his opposition it should be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It is morally right and proper to expose any concern that is a fraud, or that adopts unfair means tomakesales, or that makes it a habit to make misrepresentations or false statements concerning competitors in their line. It is right to expose their agents and their methods, but it is highly improper to distort or exaggerate small tilings to the injury of competing agents, especially where the chances are that it will do you no good. This is petty and un fair competition. After a strong and manly effort on your part has failed to make a sale, don’t stand in the way of some one else who can make it. over

0

Selling Safes.

desire to urge here that as a rule salesmen are not

We

been

He owes it to every

he gives credit. If he of paper coming into his possession, through a business transaction, be it for cash or credit, will be preserved. The smallest piece, if destroyed, might cause him endless trouble and expense. If these books and papers are worth saving, they are cer¬ tainly worth insuring. No Insurance Company will insure them against fire or theft, therefore Fire and Bur¬ glar-proof Safes are made. The purchase of a Safe is the simplest, cheapest and best form of insurance. You in¬ sure your property against fire which costs you a yearly premium, and take the risk of being beaten out of your insurance. You purchase a Fire-proof Safe and pay but one premium in a lifetime—the purchase price—and have absolute protection. All the leading Fire Ihsurancc Companies now refuse to insure a business man’s prop¬ erty unless he has a Safe in which to keep his books and papers. In fact all the companies are adopting this rule; for, by these records alone they determine the basis of settlement for insura Here is

nae

claims.

probably a most important business secrel that should be general property. Many of the leading wholesale houses give instructions to their traveling men to notify them of every customer, to whom they have been selling goods who has no Safe. Many merchants will now know why houses that have long given them all the credit they asked for, have, in the past few years cur¬ tailed this credit and gradually tightened their terms. They are simply following in the footsteps of the Insur¬ ance Companies and forcing their customers to protect themselves as they should. This is the only way in whifih

THL VICTOR SALL AND LOCK CO. to break up a slip shod way of doing business. sale merchant is,not by this assuming

The whole¬

guardianship over his customers, but adopting a measure of self protection. The merchant may say: “ I keep well insured for the protection of my creditors.’’ What good will this insur¬ do if he fails to collect it.

ance

Statistics show that liti¬

gation ensues in every case where all papers and books are destroyed. It is claimed that this is absolutely essen¬ tial to keep down fraud. This may be true, but it is certain that only one case out of nineteen, results in full insurance and but one out of ten is successful in getting a satisfactory compromise, while the costs and expenses absorb a good portion in every case. The foregoing alone should convince every business that he must have

man

a

Safe.

But there

are

other

rea¬

fully

as strong. Our courts throughout the land have their dockets filled with cases where litigation is sons

the direct result of the destruction

loss of

legal docu¬ books are destroyed, accounts are dis¬ puted. Notes are lost; in nine cases out of ten, you will never be paid. Receipts are destroyed and the chances are that you will have to pay an account the second time. Your bills are destroyed, and new ones being sent you, you have no means of telling whether a “ few dol¬ or

If your

ments.

lars " have been added

or

not.

Deeds and mortgages are

destroyed and the cost of replacing them will double that of a Safe. Money, Jewelry, Postage Stamps and other valuables are destroyed, they can only be replaced by the sweat of the brow.

If your burning out leads to all this, you consider yourself the most unfortunate person in the world. Your business friends however, take a different view of it, and say “ To try to do business without a Safe is now con¬

to him.

He has not had impressed upon his mind that it is considered almost criminal to be without one, there¬

fore the argument in No. 1 will serve a here. But, another important thing must

good purpose be considered It is highly possible that this man has not been offered extra inducements to buy. Probably Safe agents have not felt inclined to give him any time, but have asked him to pay all cash down. It is therefore an honest con¬ viction on his part that he can not afford to buy. This state of affairs is absolutely in our salesman's favor, for the p’.ces and terms he is sble to offer him, completely changes his mind and he finds that he can illafford to do without

having Safes,

No fixture adds the

dignity to an office or business bright new Safe does. It is always indicative of progress and prosperity. A new Safe will advance any business man’s credit twenty per cent. A good test of this is to buy a Safe, put it in a conspicuous place and watch the impression that it makes upon those who see it for the first time; especially traveling salesmen ; see if they do not shake your hand longer and harder, and insist upon selling you more goods than they have here¬ tofore been selling you. They at once see the progress and purpose in your no longer trusting your papers and a

books to the old wood desk.

Your records are worth

therefore must be more valuable than heretofore, you show some ambition in business. The moment you buy a Safe you are trusted, lor it indi¬ cates that you are systematic, that you are projecting into the future and providing against business calamities,

protection

now,

therefore should be

a

safe

man

with whom to do business.

We do not have to urge

the truth of this, the same impression is made upon every man who sees his neigh¬ bor getting a Safe, he feels that his neighbor is prosper¬ ing. While many other reasons for buying a good Safe could be urged, the above are all sufficient to convince any man that a Safe is an absolute necessity and that he does need

one.

No. 2.—i Can Not Afford One. The can

reason

is a selfish and inconsistent one. If he Safe, he can not afford to do business. In of ten, however, this answer is honest. He

not afford a

nine

cases out

Safe.

Home at This

really believes that a Safe would be an expensive luxury

Nigh'

is an admission that a Safe is badly fully appreciates the value of his books and papers, but through economy he nightly makes himselfa target for footpads—actually risks his life for his books. If it were known by life insurance companies that he made a habit of thus jeopardizing his safety, he could not get insurance on his life, as hundreds of cases are recorded yearly of assaults and murders committed exactly under these circumstances. A singular law of fate causes him to forget to take his books home on the very night his store burns, consequently he has taken all these risks for years for no purpose. This is indeed poor economy. His answer is therefore only a clew to a sure sale. needed.

answer

He

No. 4.—I

am

Too

Busy to Talk to You

About

Other Good Reasons for

that

a

No. 3.—I Would Rather Carry ray Books

sidered criminal carelessness.

room

fl

This

man

is not in

a

a

Safe.

humor to talk business, but with

caution you can

ascertain the truth of the statement. If you really find that he is busy, don’t bore him, but leave him something to look over, and bide your time when you can find him at leisure. If he has merely tried to get rid of you, use your ingenuity toget him interested, and systematically work up to a sale. First get him into a better humor—your experience as a salesman should enable you to read the character and disposition of the man sufficiently well to find his weak point in a very few minutes. Until you find this weakness you will not be able to break through the determination not to buy a Safe, which is formed in his mind the moment you intro¬ duce the subject. After giving you the answer, he knows that to take up and discuss the subject with you will be a direct admission that he was only trying to evade an encounter.

This is also

an

admission that he is afraid

that you will make it so plain that he should have a Safe that he will have to buy, consequently your main effort must be to

inveigle him into an acknowledgement that actually hangs heavy on his hands. Then he is in a condition to tell you why he has not provided himself with a Safe. • He will invariably take refuge behind No 1 or No. 2, where you-can, three times out of five, land him. Never look upon a customer as a victim ; con¬ sider that you owe it to him as a duty to make him pro¬ tect his papers and books, for the relief of his own mind as well as to protect the interests of his creditors, his debtors, and his family. It is a friendly act for you to sell him, and a reciprocation for him to buy. The great time

benefit he realizes from the sale

soon

small amount he knows you have mission out of the price he pays for

compensates for the

been paid the Safe.

as a com¬

i

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’THE VIC’TOR SAFE AMD LOCK CO. Our salesman will have

No. 5—1 Have Made other Arrangements for a Safe.

he meets with

Never, under any circumstances, interfere where a accomplished and an order has been given.

sale is actually If you

induce

a party

to countermand

an

order given,

you are party to a dishonorable action, and we would not care to have you make sales for us. This answer does

not, however, always mean that an order has been given. purely evasive. It is always safe to decide that an order has not been given, for as a rule, if he has given an order he will jump at the opportunity to compare your It is

prices with those already made him. There are excep¬ tional cases, where parties after ordering do not want to learn that they could have bought cheaper Sven in these cases, however, they tell you plump out that they

not take

an

old Safe into

instructed not to consider

is needed.

The first step is to find out what he means by the assertion. It is possible he has just been convinced

by

a

Safe

man

that he needs

up to the very point of salesman that he would

a Safe and has been worked buying, having even said to the

buy of him. The salesman not having the quick discernment to notice this left him to consider the matter and feeling actually under obligation to take

a

safe of him.

Under these circumstances it is

perfectly legitimate for our salesman to step in and con¬ vince the party that his is the proper safe to buy. It was a fatal step for the first salesman to have left him to con¬ sider, for it is morally right for you to sell him so long as he has not actually given a bona-fide order. Usage has made this a law among salesman.

No. 6.—1

can

Get

Safe

Special Inside Price Through a Friend, a

a

on

The

special inside price and friendship racket worked, and every salesman has a party on the hip when this answer is given him. The special inside price is what catches him. If 3^011 offer him bet¬ ter inducements, the friendship influence disappears at once, and he is your customer, as no one else can com¬ pete with you on prices or terms. No. 6 need not trouble yon in the least. has been well

No. 7.—I

am

Going to Buy

a

Second-hand Safe.

This is the next

thing to buying no Safe at all. It is by far better to pay a little more and buy a new one. 11 is the salesman’s duty to convince theparty that this is true

Reasons

Why It is Not Proper to Buy SecondHand Safes.

There is

way to prove up the record of a second¬ hand Safe. It has always been the custom of theolder Safe no

companies to refinish safes taken in exchange and put them out as new Safes. It is possible that the Safe has passed through a fire, in which case it would not be fire¬ proof. Hven if the Safe should look comparatively new and bright, it is possible that it is worth no more as pro¬ tection against fire than a wood box would be. Furthermore, if he should buy a second-hand Safe, and should find that it did not answer his requirements it would be almost impossible to sell it, therefore it would be a dead loss in the end. The slight difference in price of a new Safe over that of a second-hand one, is altogether in the favor of buying a new one.

I

our

shops.

All salesmen

are

exchange of any kind. If he can get a nice new Safe, lettered with his name, at the same price that he was willing to pay for a second-hand one, he will not hesitate to buy.

No. 8.—I

have ordered. Answer No. 5 is always favorable to the salesman, from the fact that it is an acknowledgement that a Safe

everything in his favor when

party that has made up his mind that a second-hand safe is good enough for him; for in the first place the price he is able to make on a new Safe is much below any price at which he could buy the second¬ hand Safes of any other make. And he is absolutely cer¬ tain to get a new safe when buying the Victor, from the fact that we never take old Safes in exchange We will a

am

an

Going to Buy a Lock Co.’s Safe.

Safe and

I don’t know anything about the Victor.

The polish up his armor for an encounter with a rival. He may, however, feel every assurance of victory from the start. This man needs a safe and is going to buy one. He likes another make. He will listen to what you have to say, and down you wherever he can, notwithstanding the fact that you are trying to save him some money. He will dispute your word, will question you, will doubt you, and will resist you to the end. Don’t allow him to put you off until you have argued the sub¬ ject clear through. He can not escape in any other man¬ ner, unless he absolutely ignores his own interests. You have everything in your own favor. No other responsible Safe-company can successfully compete with you. We will anticipate what information you will require to meet any arguments he may advance. If you convince him that the Victor is as good, or better, than the make that he has thought of buying, anddhat you can sell to him cheaper, he will buy of you at once. You can hardly hope to sell a man a Victor Safe unless he has some knowledge of and confidence in thecompan3' making them. You will therefore be called upon to give the financial standing and equipment of our Company salesman must

now

The Following Fact" Will

be alt Sufficient.

The Victor Safe and Dock Company is incorporated, having a full paid up capital of 5)200,000. The stock is all held by a few of the best known business men of this city, who

are

members of the Chamber of Commerce and Board

of Trade

and identifiec with other of

in this

the

largest

con¬

city The business through this manage¬ ment has been probably the most successful that was ever developed in this city, and especially in the safo line, our average monthly shipments now being 1000 Safes, one hundred per cent, greater than that of any other company in the country. The Victor Safes are manufactured under along list of valuable patents, covering the improvements which have enabled us to outstrip all the other concerns. These inventions not only involve the different elements of the Safe, but also the machinery and tools necessary for their quick and inexpensive construction. The plan of the Company has been to develop in the Safe manufacture an interchangeable plan of the highest order. Toward this end we have equipped our factories with every conven¬ ience in the way of special machinery. Massive machines for cutting and trimming plate iron, which weigh from 5,000 to 8,000 pounds, or four toys; punching machines that weigh from 3,000 to 5,000 pounds, which punch one' cerns

1

THE VICTOR SAFE AND LOCK CO. inch holes

through plates one lathes, the tools of which

inch in thickness

; ponder¬ complete an article with a single cut • dye presses, which stamp out dials, tumblers, plates, keys, lock cases, etc., etc perfect at a single drop : boring and drilling machines that make the necessary holes for rivets and screws with the rapidity of light¬ ning; gang punching machines that make all the holes on one side of a box plate at a single drop, or sixty holes per minute. This not only enables us to greatly cheapen the cost of manufacture, but makes the work the best and most perfect that can be manufactured. In addition to the improved machinery, our pattern stock is the best in the country, being all metal patterns. In making this new pattern stock we have provided against all the objectionable features found in old pattern stocks. Other companies do not feel willing to discard the old style machinery and buy new at an enormous expense. They cannot change their old pattern stocks without changing the whole system in their factories. There is but one way for them to get out when they meet us in competi¬ tion, that is to create prejudice against our goods. When parties are posted about our Safes, agents simply say, "We cannot compete with the Victor,” and in this state¬ ment they tell the plain, unvarnished truth. We do not want to appear egotistical by exploiting our own virtues, but when this is necessary as a measure of self-defense, we will trust to the public to place a proper construction upon our statements. Another very essential advan¬ tage operating in our favor. We pay cash for every¬ thing we buy, and thus secure an extra discount for cash of two to five per cent., a handsome profit in itself. We pay every dollar we owe in the world on the tenth of each month. We do not hesitate to say that no other Safe company in the country does this. Our bank, the Fourth National, of Cincinnati, O., will corroborate the state¬ ous

,

ment

that

we

have

never

asked for

an

accommodation

since

commencing business. We take pardonable pride making these statements, from the fact that our rivals have repeatedly stated that we were bound to fail, selling Safes so cheap. We have not only kept our heads above water, but have prospered beyond our most sanguine expectations, and demonstrated beyond any question that our theory of “ Targe sales and small profits” will in

win in the end. est and

We have had to contend with the mean¬

most dishonorable

opponents. The other Safe companies have systematically circulated through their agents all kinds of malicious statements regarding our company and our goods. We have attended to our own business and quietly made ourselves masters of the situ¬ ation and leaders in the fire-proof Safe business.

Our 1st. That

than

they do of any other make. Our books show that ship 100 per cent, more fire-proof work than any other Company in the world—and the largest manufacturers in the world are located here, as the truth of this is easily verified, it certainly does not reflect to their credit. It is true we only have to scrape together about $150,000 a year to pay out as wages and have other corresponding ex¬ penses for materials, rents and incidental running expenses to look out for. But according to their way of figuring, this trifling amount should cut no figure in the cost of making our Safes. we

2nd.—That We are

in his branch of the business.

department

5th. That the Victor Safes We will take them up one

executive

Buy Parts Ready Made. This is

entirely untrue. We not only make every part of our Safes, but also make our own locks. We are amply equipped with Dye Presses, made from our own patterns especially adapted to our work—and dies made in our shops by our own workmen. We do not believe that there is another Safe Factory here employing a firstclass sleel “ Die Sinker,” and we know that they have their locks made outside of their

own

factories.

We can,

if necessary,

give the names of the Lock manufacturers furnishing them. We make every part of our own Locks, as can be seen by anyone who enters our shops. We do not buy a single finished part from anyone. We save every middle profit and are considered the closest manu¬ facturers in

our

line.

4th.—That We Buy the Cheapest Materials and Make Cast Iron Safes. Let

are

not fire-proof.

at a time and defend our¬

us see

1st.-They area

small concern, we are a

standing reproach Railroad Company running out of here they carry a larger number of Victor Safes

any

will slate that

a Small Concern, under Light Expense.

are

about this.

The same kinds of materials

used

by all responsible Safe Companies, therefore a difference in quality can easily be traced. The principal materials entering into the construction of Standard Fire Proof Safes are as followsPlate Iron, Iron Castings, Brass Castings. Rivets and Screws, and Fire Proof Materials and Wrought Iron Angles. are

Comparison.

selves,

If we

our

3rd.—That We Ape Not Equipped to Make All of Our Own Work, therefore Must

we

make cast iron Safes.

them, for

We hav* in

high priced assistants than any other Office in this City engaging the same number of people. These assistants, are not miscellaneous persons picked up when wanted, but are men of long experience, and are familiar with every detail of the Safe Business. Our workmen will vouch for the statement that they have never lost a week since they have been with us. Our Factory runs full time, from one year's end to the other, and our workmen never leave us for this reason. Every other Safe Factory in the City has been shut down or only running half time during the summer months for years, and, during the depression of’93 and ’94 they worked only an average of half time and with but few employees. more

we are a

2nd. That

to

Employ Cheap Labor.

willing to wager any amount and open our books to prove, that we pay better wages .0 every class of labor, than any other Safe Company in this or any other Furthermore, that we employ a higher grade Country. of workmen. Every Superintendent and Foreman in our Factory is not only a practical Safe maker, but an expert We

Competitors Say.

small concern under light expenses. employ cheap labor. 3rd. That not being able to make our own work com¬ plete, we must buy ready-made parts outside. 4th. That we buy the very cheapest materials, and

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We

supplied with Plate and Sheet Iron by the two leading Rolling Mill Companies here. Mitchell, Tran¬ ter & Co., and Tne Globe Rolling Mill Co. They also furnish all the other Safe Companies. There can be no difference in the quality of this iron, so the only pos¬ sible way in which we could use cheaper Plate Iron would are

THE} VICTOR SATE AND tOCK CO.

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use thinner iron than the other Companies. A comparison of the iron both at these mills and at our Factory shows that we use from one to two gauges heavier in every Safe we make, than is used by any other Safe Company for the same sizes. We stand ready to prove this assertion at any time. So much for the Plate

be to

Iron.

Iron

Castings.

Here is a very important point for consideration. All of the old Companies have combined against us to run down any improvement over the old way of making Safes that we adopt. We have recently found it necessary to

bring a damage suit for $25,000 against one of the oldest Companies here, for saying that we made cast iron Safes, and that

our

Safes

were not

Fire Proof.

We will make

a

showing the flimsy grounds on which they base this malicious libel. Every Company makes the door frame and jamb of cast iron because it is the only statement

material to use in first-class work. Probably the greatest fault to be found in Fire Proof

proper

Safes to-day is that the filling swells and opens the seams and joints sufficient to warp the angles, and in fact dis¬ tort the whole structure. This invariably results in the door being thrown out of plumb, causing both the door and the bolts to bind in hundreds of cases. The doors can not be opened or closed or the bolts thrown. We do not have to argue this point; everybody familiar with Fire Proof Safes knows the truth of it.

We Overcome this Serious

Objection by Certain Departures from Old Methods.

We

use

the heavy

outside wrought iron angles front

and back.

The Next Item is Brass

Castings.

J. R. Kinsley, leading brass founder, will show in stock

an

immense

quantity of our castings made from

hard red brass worth from two to four cents

more

per

pound than that used by nearly all the other companies. Good brass is the cheapest in the end.

Rivets and Screws. They are alike with all the companies. The American Screw Co., the largest in the world, supply us direct from their factory.

Fire Proof Material! The fire

A Secret Out.

proof filling is the cheapest part of

a

Safe.

barrels per year, and buy it at the same prices as all the other companies. Any company claiming a secret process for making its safes fire-proof is a humbug. There is, however, a right way and a wrong way to com¬ bine or mix this filling, and we have demonstrated that we know the best way by the fact that we have no damp, musty or swollen safes. To prove also that they have made it pay to keep the public in ignorance of these facts, they advocate thick walled safes, while they do not hesitate to make safes with only three inch walls when occasion requires it, and put their names on them as usual. The other companies have always regulated their prices by the weight. The thicker the wall the greater the profit. We, in making our prices, figure in the fire¬ proof filling at what it costs us, the same as all other material, and charge a legitimate profit over the actual cost of material and labor. Anyone may examine our bills and pay-rolls and prove the truth of these statements. 25>000

We have here stated in plain terms that we not only do not use cheaper materials, but better. It is so easy for interested persons to investigate and find out the truth

of these statements that

we

could not take the risk of

misrepresenting the matter even if we were inclined to do so. Our being able to undersell other companies is not such a great secret if examined into carefully, We can carry out labor saving systems that could not be utilized in other factories. Each man in our factory has but one piece of the Safe to work upon all the time, he therefore becomes an expert. This is the secret of the interchangeable plan. Any one piece will fit any Safe of its size( We save in labor alone by this plan thirty per cent, of the cost of making a safe over the old way. It is utterly impossible for other companies to com¬ pete with us in price without they copy and imitate us, or make shoddy and imperfect safes. The quicker they temper their pride sufficient to acknowledge this and quit slandering us, the soonerwill they return to an honor¬ able way of doing business.

5th.—That the Victor Safes Are Not Fire-Proof. Up to for

a recent

Safe agents

date this has been a common statement to make concerning our Safes. We

recently sued one of the old companies for $25000 for this libel, and the result was that nearly every company noti¬ fied their agents not to continue making the statement. We have been assured by-most of the companies that all unfair opposition would cease. If any agent should say that the Victor Safes are not fire-proof, ask him

to make the statement in black and white

over

the

name

of the company he is representing. so will prove him a falsifier and

His refusal to do a

slanderer. We should

like for any concern to

show where their to more severe tests than ours have. We have, by fair dealing, placed ourselves on record. We have duly earned and proven up on this record. Our prices are better than those offered by other companies, why are we not entitled to the control we have secured of Safes have been put

this branch of the business ? It is

a

simple matter to put

made to the test.

Ever" safe company uses the same brands, made by the same mills, and furnished under the same contracts. We use

...

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more

statement we have folly for a man to pay of Safe, simply because he has every

It is therefore

for another make

heard it mentioned before the Victor. We are duly rated by all the Standard Mercantile Agencies, and it is an easy matter to find all the respon¬ sible Safe Companies. We would urge the importance of buying Safes only of responsible concerns, even if orders are not given to us. In conclusion we will say, we have insisted that our Safes are better than any other make and sold for less money. The older companies have been very careful not to allude to such improve¬ ments in our Safes as double hinges, handleless bolt works, locks, with handle and dial' combined, and quite a number of other very valuable improvements over other Safes. Their oversight on these points is laughable. With the foregoing facts, we think our salesmen will be properly equipped to make sales. We would suggest to salesmen that it is fully as important to establish the reliability of his customer at' it s to impress him with our

responsibility. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO.

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Complete List of Victor Patents Occeipber 29,

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Jbpe 7,

1887.

October 11,

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1887.

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NoVeipber i,

October 2,

1885.

1887. •

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1888.

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Japbary 22,

1889.

Jbpe 18,

1889.

May 20,

1890.

Jape lO,

1890.

Jape 16,

1891.

September 6,

1892.

NoVeipber 15,

1892.

Marcl* 7,

1893.

July 24,

1894.

April li,

1899.

^bgbst 1,

1899.

October 24,

1899.

October 24,

1899.

\[arelj 13,

1900.

5^b£>tISt 14,

1900.

Jbpe 11,

1901.

These patents cover

the most valuable improvements that have

been made in either fire-proof or burglar-proof safes. Our patents also cover the improved machinery which we have built to facili¬ tate their manufacture. It is this feature of our business which astonishes competitors, who are still making the old style safes with antiquated machinery, and drives them insanely jealous of our success. This spirit of ever

fire and

jealousy often

causes

them to

use

dishonorable methods to sell their goods when competing with

us.

rfe

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THE VICTOR SATE AND LOCK CO.

The Victor Combination

Simple in construction; The We

i

.

4

Lock.

not

get out of order. strongest and most durable combination lock made.

use

it

on

can

all sizes and make every

See opposite page for a full

part of the lock ourselves.

description of lock

and outside view.

6

the victor safe and ROCK CO.

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The Victor Combination Locks. We use the VICTOR ROCKS on all our safes, and would no other. In perfecting' it, we have made a careful

use

study of all other makes, and avoided the objectionable

features found in them. The principles involved in the Victor are years in advance of others. Limited space will allow us to cite but

Other safe companies advertise

particular feature.

one

extensively what they call a detached handle.

We go We combine the handle and dial in When our safe is locked it has no handle. Nor can a handle to operate bolts be formed by any one excepting the person who is entrusted with the combination of the lock. In forming the combination to open the safe, the dial, after bringing the tumblers into proper position, engages the '‘driving disc” with the bolt

much further. one.

lever, and forms same leverage

a perfect handle with as found in the old

identically the style, clumsy

handle. We are required to pierce our doors but once for spindles, where others must make two openings. An unlimited number of combinations can be set up on The Victor Lock. Our

new

device

for changing the combination instanta¬

neously is

a very ingenious invention. One of the greatest drawbacks to combination locks has heretofore been the

necessity of taking the lock entirely to pieces to change

the combination. We are now enabled to set up a new combination in less than three minutes, without removiug

from the lock proper. granted a patent on this valuable improve¬ ment, and use it now on all our locks. We send with each safe printed instructions for operating the locks. a

single

screw

We have been

Patented June 7, 1887. Patented Oct. 2,

1888,

No. 2 Victor Safe. THREE-TUMBLER NON-PICKABLE COMBINATION LOCK. Dimensions.

Outside,

21

in. high, 14 in. wide, 16 in. deep. Approximate Weight, 225

Inside, lbs.

11

in. high, 7% in. wide,

in. deep.

Retail Price, $30.00

Sub-treasury, 4x4x7, with duplicate flat keys. One drawer and book space. 11x4x8% In addition to furnishing ample room for papers, it will take in with ease several books, 11 inches high by 7 inches wide. This No 2 Safe is our great Farmers' and Household Safe. We have recently put in special machinery and tools with which to make this size in accordance with new plans of construction, for which we were granted letters patent June 18th 1889 Thousands are now being sold ip every part of the world. We have fully awakened the farmers and housekeepers to a realization of their needs, and have brought out this size especially to meet their requirements. No manufacturers in the world can sell this size at anything like as low a price as we can. A SECRET OUT

fire-proof filling is the cheapesipartofa safe. Every safe company uses the same brands, made by the same mills and fur¬ The

nished under the same contracts. We use 25,000 barrels per year. Any company claiming a secret process for making its safes fire¬ proof is a humbug. There is, however, a right way and a wrong way to combine or mix this fill¬ ing, and we have demonstrated that we know the best way, by the fact that we have no damp,

musty or swollen safes. To prove made

that some concerns have

it pay to

keep the public

in

ignorance of these facts, they advocate thick walled safes, while they do not hesitate to make safes with only thin walls when occa¬ sion requires it, and put their names on

Other

them

as

usual.

companies have always

regulated their prices by the weight. The thicker the wall the greater the profit. We, in mak mg our prices, figure in the fire¬ proof filling at what it costs us,

the same as all other materials, and charge a legitimate profit over the actual cost of material and labor. Anyone may r-xamine our bills and pay-rolls and prove the truth of these statements.

OPEN VIEW OF No. 2.

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No. 2^ Victor Safe. THREE-TUMBLER NON-PICKABLE COMBINATION LOCK. Dimensions'.

Outside, 26^ in. high, IG}4 in. wide, 17K in. deep. '* “ 10 Inside, 13 “ “ 9 ‘ Retail

Approximate Weight.

Price.

400 lbs.

$35 00.

Sub-treasury, 5x5x9, with duplicate flat keys, and pigeon hole under sub-treasury Book space, 12^x4x10. It is sufficiently roomy for quite a large business, holding ledger, journal and cash-book of standard size, with room for other small books. Sub-treasury, drawer and pigeon hole furnish more room for money, papers, etc , than is really necessary in an ordinary business. Drawer

ury.

Our company these small safes.

any

other reliable

is the only

We make no charge for We letter the name

safes.

the door in shaded

one

furnishing

Either size made to order by company would cost $50.

lettering on

names on the space above

gold bronze.

Send

name

in

print if possible. We will not be names on

responsible for not lettering safes, unless we are plainly requested

to do so in the order.

Outside

measures

of all the Victor

Safes

include wheels.

PERSONAL. We have reached that

business where

we

make

point in

our

our work seri¬

ously tell upon the trade of all the other safe companies. In fact they admit frankly that they can not compete with us. They call this a demoralization of the fire-proof safe business. We regret to have to record that all of these

com¬

panies which are supposed to be above any disreputable tricks in business, have resorted to means to counteract our rapid monopolization of our branch of the business, which no reputable concern should adopt in any emergency. They have knowingly allowed their salesmen and agents to circulate the most damaging statements the Victor Safes, some of

regarding

them

even

going

so far as to instruct their men what to say. What we have accomplished

has been done honestly, and we have not infringed upon the rights of anyone in developing our business. We make

nothing but what is rightfully ours by invention. We are amply protected by letters patent.

If

we

have invented im-

Erovements which enablecost us than to make rst-class work at lower here¬ a

tofore, we know of no business law or custom to prevent us taking advantage

of our own opportunities. They have had fifty years in which to accomplish the same, if they had any desire to benefit the public, but have failed to do so. We

have.probably hurt their business in a legitimate way, but have correspond¬ ingly benefited the general public. We are therefore entitled to fair treatment,

and will have it. We were forced to sue OPEN VIEW OF No. one of these companies for $25,000 dam¬ ages for malicious libel, and most of the companies have assured us in black and white, that they will not allow their agents to continue this abuse. The statements are still being made, however, and we that interested parties to whom safe agents make depend upon an honest public to protect us. We request, therefore slanderous statements regarding our company or our ask such agents to make the statements m black goods will and white over the signatures of the companies they represent. A refusal to do so will at once brand the statements as false and malicious. Such a statement will give us an nbhn* iunity to

piace responsibility and refute any damaging charges made,

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THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO.

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No. 3 Victor Safe. FOUR-TUMBLER NON-PICKABLE COMBINATION

LOCK.

Dimensions:

Outside, Inside,

High.

Wide.

Deep.

29 in.

18 in.

18 in.

15 in.

10 in.

10 in.

Retail

Approximate Weight.

Price.

500 lbs.

$40 00.

Sub-treasury, 5x5x9, with duplicate flat keys tray. Drawer and two pigeon holes under sub-treasury. Book space, 15x5x10. This safe is one of our leaders. It gives to the professional man ample capacity, not only for books and papers, but for instruments. It is sufficiently roomy for quite a large busi¬ ness, holding ledger, journal and cash book

and metal cash

of standard

size, with room for other small books. Sub-treasury drawer and pigeon holes furnish more room for money, papers, etc., than is really necessary to an ordinary business. No. 3.

We

also

recommend

household

for

CLOSED.

No.

3

Purchasers

use.

fully justified in paying the slight difference in price over the are

smaller sizes. We

are

them in

placing hundreds of

residences

all

over

the

country. We

guarantee that the corners of

safes will not spread, nor the

our

doors sag. can

No other safe company give the same guarantee.

fBSPff agents for other com¬ panies speak ill of our safes, please have them put the statement in

black and white in the

name

op

the company

they represent. Their refusal to do this will settle the

matter.

All that

substantial

we

ask is that

responsibility is back

No. 3.

OPEN.

of any statement made to justify our making a defense. Gentlemen

much;

our

—

Our

place

was

books and papers

getting onto our feet again.

Lena, Wisconsin, March 27, 1891. burned in October, and our Victor Safe was white hot in the fire. 1 can say this were not damaged at all. We want another No. 1 or larger size now, as we are Yours truly, HALL & PELKEY.

THE VICTOR SAFE AND DOCK CO.

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No. 3^ Victor Safe. FOUR-TUMBLER NON-PICKABLE COMBINATION LOCK. Dimensions:

Outside, 31 in. high 20 in. wide, 21 in. deep. Inside,

17 “

“

Approximate Weight■ 600 lbs.

12

“

12 14

“

Retail Price> |50.00.

Sub-treasury, 5x5x9, with duplicate flat keys. Drawer and two pigeon holes under sub-treasury. Book space, 17x7x12. This safe is well suited 1o the wants of mer¬ chants and dealers whose requirements are limited. It will receive a large set of books of standard sizes, and the drawer and pigeon holes are ample in size. We guarantee it will give satisfaction in every

respect. A MORNING BLAZE.

Burning of the L. S. & M. S. Freight Depot, Tecumseh, Michigan, October 23,1890. The morning slumbers of our citizens were rudely broken yesterday morning about half-past four o’clock by the1 clang of the ftre bell and the shout of “fire.” The tire proved to be on the prem¬ ises of the Lake Shore Railroad Company, and in the freight depot. No. 3h CLOSED. When discovered, the fire had already got a good start, and by the time the first comers had reached the scene, nothing could be saved from the building except a few articles of freight, the grain carts and freight trucks. It was exceedingly fortunate that there was no wind, so that the flames mounted straight upwards. Even as it was, the surrounding buildings began to smoke, and Slayton’s buildings west of the warehouse were in the flames when two streams of water were finally directed upon them. The passenger depot, across the tracks, was also in danger for a while, but the fire boys did good execution, and soon had all surrounding property safe. fire

Had it not been for the

system,

other

buildings

would doubtless have burned. The company lost all the

belongings of the freight office, including all account books and papers. Notwithstanding the fact that 15 fire-proof safes were in the depot and proved their quality. Here was a re¬ markable illustration of the value of such things. Anyone of these safes would have saved the books and papers. The Victor Safe and Lock

Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, had shipped 15 of their No. 2 Farm¬ er’s Safes to this point, and they had not been removed 1 from the depot. The company’s agent arrived here on the morn¬ ing train and examined the safes. They were red hot in No. 3} OPEN. v,he fire, yet they opened with¬ out difficulty, the combination working perfectly. The interiors were as clean as when they left the factory; the varnish on the cabinet work not being blistered. This is a strong recommendation for the safes, as the fire was an exceedingly hot one. It was an unusual test, to have so large a number tested in the same fire.— Tecumseh News.

THE VICTOR SAFE AND LOCK CO

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No. 4 Victor Safe. four-tumbler non-pickable combination lock

Dimensions.

High. Outside, 33 in.

Wide. 22 in.

19 “

Inside

Approximate Weight. 800 lbs.

14 “

Deep. 22 in. 12

Retail Price. $60 00

Sub-treasury 5x6x10, with duplicate flat keys and metal cash tray. Dra-wer and two pigeon holes under sub-treasury. Book space,

19x9x12.

Special inside iron door covering entire safe, with duplicate flat key lock. This is our great postal service, express and railroad safe, also county official safe. front of

We reach

an

excellent class of business

with No. 4.

Many offices requiring large safe capacity are now adopting the plan of providing each desk with our No. 3 or No. 4 safe for the special books, papers, etc. belonging to it. We have originated this plan, and it is proving highly satisfactory. We have adopted it in our office, and each desk is provided men

a

with

a

Victor Safe.

The Union Central Life Ins.

Co., of thid city and the largest financial institution in the West has just placedfiveof our No.5 safes at the desks in. one department.

No. 4 Closed.

This cut

represents interior

arrangement of No. 4 safe per¬ fectly. Inside door being par¬

tially opened to show books. This safe is our special pride, and we are shipping thous¬ ands of them to all parts of the World.

OCT. 2

oor Steel Chest Open and Triple Timer.

We make

a

full line

of Screw Door Bank Safes and

can

huild Chests of

special size to be placed in fire-proof safes.

V

THE VICTOR SAFE AND LOCK CO.

V

The Best of All Bank Safes.

I

THE VICTOR SAFE AND DOCK CO.

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v

/T At

We

furnish

can

our

Burglar=Proof Chest" in

latest any

improved "ScreW=“Door Steel

of

our

regular Fire-Proof Safes.

PRICES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION

We construct these Chests exactly like

!Banit Safes.

See the following

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the new ScreW=Door

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If Safe Agents of other Safe Companies have criticisms We Will

to

consider it

statements ours

a

of the

Fire and “Burglar “Proof WorK

great faVor if our attention is called to the

they ma'ke.

IShey dare not

they have to

company

say

compare

their Work With

and Will spurn

in blac% and White over the signature

they represent and give

Every honest business

says

our

adverse

here at home; it is, therefore, but fair that they be as%ed to

put What

it.

ma%e regarding

any

any

man

With responsibility.

man

us an

opportunity to meet

Will second this request of

Who is not Willing to back

up

ours,

What he

THE VICTOR SAFE AND LOCK CO.

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PLANTERS STATE CAPITAL Fred H. Quincy, Pres’t.

W. T. Welch, Cashier. SAUNA,

BANK

$50.000.00 T. W. Roach, V. Pres’t. Frank R. Spier, Ass’t CashieR. KANSAS.

April 25, 1900. The

Victor

& Lock Co.

Safe

Cincinnati,

v

Ohio.

Gentlemen:The

21

Screw Door

Safe made

for

us

•since

Feb.

17th,

and is giving us perfect satisfaction

We have no hesitancy in saying

every respect.

fine

the

safe

is

has

ever

been

our

The

triple Yale time lock works to perfection in

that

every

in

as

a

piece of mechanism

as

it

pleasure to examine in this line.

way.

We door

byr

Company in January, has been in use in our Bank

your

in

No.

take

safe

this

to

great pleasure anyone

line, which

We

desiring we

in recommending a

your

screw

first-class article

fully believe your safe to be.

beg to remain, Yours

very

trluy,

PLANTERS

,

By

STATE BANK,

A.dA^ Pres * t.

the victor safe and lock CO. JNO. N. HAMILTON,

LAWRENCE. Vice-President.

p...,,.., President.

W. H. HUBBARD.

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H. L.

RUTHERFORD.

Cashier.

(K,

'(MM Qp

Assistant Cashier.

jBmJc.

Jnmk11

(J. 4

Safe, and on the night 4th, 1890, burglars my store and tried

of March

entered

.

to crack the safe. They drilled holes in the door and blowed it with powder twice that we could tell and prob¬ ably more, but failed to get the door to yield. We can well recommend the Victor Safes to. be fully' as good, If not better than other makes. If you are in the

market,

you

£*

«■

wfo eru.

£

4 tom/C

c-e

.

d*

Ia^

could not do

better than to order tor Safe. Yours truly,

a

Vic¬

H. C. WRIGHT & CO.

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THE VICTOR SAKE AND LOCK CO.

The Victor

Safe and Lock Co., Cm., O.: little safe I bought of you was in my factory on the fifth, floor when it burned. The safe fell through into the cellar and was there five days in the ruins before we could get to it. It was in a very hot place for three days, and the fourth and fifth days there was a line of hose playing water on the burning debris. When we found the safe it was face up. On opening it on its Dear Sirs:—The

in reply that the fire caught at midnight, and at the was a break in the water-main, there¬ fore the fire made great headway, destroying our entire building. As soon as the safe was cooled off after the fire, we opened it and removed books, papers, etc., found them to be just as well preserved as if there had never been a fire. It was a very hot fire and the safe was thoroughly tested. Yours truly, PAGE & PRESCOTT. say

time of fire there

combination the books and papers were in good condi¬ tion excepting that they were water soaked caused by the hose

having beeu turned on the safe while in the drying them out they were in prettv good shape and the figures could be plainly read. The day ruins.

1893.

After

after the fire the safe

The Vidor

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.: Dear Sirs:—It has beeu a long time since I have written you, as the business has been very dull here, but as luck would have it, the Lord blessed us with a big fire. An old frame building two stories high, which has stood for forty years, burned to the ground. In it was one of your small safes, a No. 3. It was in the middle of the building in the hottest part of the fire and stood the test well, preserving all its books and papers; not a thing on the inside was scorched, not even the carpet on which the books rested. I had three men talking safe to me to¬ day. What I want to know is, how cheap can you sell me a No. 10, and what the freight charges would be to this town? This practical test of the Victor Safe will en¬ able me to sell quite a number. Please send me a large supply of printed matter, and oblige * Yours truly, E. M. PARCELS,

but all left the town.

was

a

I shall

never

hesitate in

recom¬

your

The safe is

as

fine

on

the inside

as

it

was

when it left the

factory. I will send you a testimonial in a few days if you wish, when I was there the proprietor was not at home. The Victor Safe in this town and vicinity is well known and has a good reputation. Yours truly, S. H. & J. N. GRAHAM.

most severe one and every

Thornton, Miss., Dec. 12,1893.

Oregon, III., Nov.

21,

The

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.: one of your safes which recently passed through a very hot fire. There were only a few papers in the safe, for I had carelessly left my books on the desk while going out to dinner. It was while I was away that the fire occurred. There were eight barrels of machine oil close to the safe, which made it very hot in¬ deed. When we opened the safe the inside was all O. K. on

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.: Gentlemen:—You will likely want to know howtnjf

and stamps contents

were

DR. CHAS. C. THORNTON.

the inside which

negligently left exposed while going to dinner. My loss on the fire amounted to about $3,000 with only $1,000 insurance. Please send me another catalogue and prices, fori shall soon want to buy another safe. so

Wacousta, Mich., Dec.

Lucile, Miss., Aug. 28, 1899. Safe and Lock Co

, Cin., O. ■ Gentlemen:—The small No. 8 Victor Safe

purchased from you last February went through the fire in June, when everything in my store and residence was de¬ stroyed except the safe. The books, notes and mortgages were preserved in just as good condition as when first put into the safe, not scorched or soiled a particle, and I am still using the books in my store. Enclosed find order for a larger Victor Safe, which please have forwarded promptly, and oblige, Yours truly, J. B. SHARP.

4,

1893.

fThe Victor Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.: Gentlemen:—On the night of August 30th the Victor Safe bought of you went through the fire of my store. The safe was in the hottest part of the fire next to the oil

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in the safe. The fire was a very hot ohe, but all preserved. I shall need another safe at an early date. Please send me catalogue and price listf I lost everything I had, for I was carrying no insurance;1 under these circumstances I hope you will make me a low price. Yours truly,

Dear Sirs:—I had

and I wish that the books had been

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safe came out in the fire here December 1st, which' oc¬ curred at 12:30 p. m. It had money order books, money order and postal note blanks and some jewelry, papers

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surprised at the contents not being destroyed. Yours respectfully, M. D. HARRIS.

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Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.: Gents:—Please ship us a No. 4 Victor Safe lettered B. Stamphly. I saw one of your No. 4 safes that went through a very hot fire in the burning of a drug store. It preserved all its contents without even being stained.

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Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.: I desire to certify that the Victor Safe I bought of you stood a severe test in a fire which occurred in my store house in McGee, Ind. Ter., on November 30, 1898, and that the contents after fire were intact, and that I can cheerfully certify to the fire-proof qualities of the one was

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safes, for I think they cannot be beaten when it comes to going through a hot fire. You may feel at liberty to refer to me at any time. Yours truly, W. H. BARNETT, No. 307 Main St. mending

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men were as

hive, and when I told them Iliad a little Victor in the bottom of the ruins, they all laughed and told me I never would see it again, that it was burned up, etc. These agents did not have a word to say after seeing the result,

McGee, Ind. Ter., Dec. 13,1898. Dear Sirs:

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Whitefieid, N. H., Oct. 9,1899. Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.:

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room.

The front door of the safe

fell

its back, when^the floor gave away,

locked, but it and conse¬ quently the door dnjfnot come open. It brought through the books and papers in good condition. I can certainly recommend the Victor Safe to anyone desirous of pur¬ chasing a safe The fire was so hot that it cracked the glass of a building four rods away. Respectfully, C. H. MANZER, Dealer in Drugs, Groceries, Paints and Oils, ,

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Troy, Ala., July Gentlemen:—Our Victor

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Rich Hill, Mo., Dec.

1890.

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Leitchf ield, Iril 22,1SC0. Safe and Lock 1 o., Cin., O.: Gents:—I had one of your safes, bought of you about four years ago, and had a fiiie oil the 8th of this month. My books and papers c::mc out in good shape, and I add my testimonial in behalf of the fire-proof qualities of the Victor Safes. Yours truly, HOMER E. HART Baldwin, Wis., Nov. 16,1899. Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.: Gentlemen :—We had one of your small safes to go through a recent fire. When safe was opened everything was found in perfect condition. Please send us your new catalogue. SETTERGREN & PITTMAN. The Victor

Gentlemen:—Burglars attempted to get into my No. 5 safe. They adopted the old and usually successful plan of breaking off the knob and driving in the spindle, but failed to throw the bolts. They drilled several holes in the door and tried to reach the bolts in this manner, then gave up the job. The safe contained all the Post-Office property including $700 in cash and stamps. Yours truly, A. D. DIBBLE, Postmaster.

Equality, Ala., Nov. 26,1890. Gentlemen:—I had the misfortune to have my postoffice burned over my Victor Safe, which I bought of you a

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few months ago.

Everything I saved was in the safe. preserved its contents well. Respectfully yours, W. M.

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residence. It is a great relief to my mind and I would not now be without one of your safes for ten times the cost of it. Yours truly, F. W. WILSON.

Scbena, Mich., Dec. 26,1890. :—My safe passed through the fire all right, preserving my books and papers in very good condition. It was too small to hold all of my books, consequently I lost all those I left ou t of it. I want a larger size. Yours truly, P. F. KNAPP.

Chillicothe, III., Dec. 2nd, 1890.

Nothing to Operate Bolts.

Gents :—One half the business

East Bernstadt, Ky., April 17,1891. Gentlemen:

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using

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Yours

truly,

heavy loss. LITTON & McNEILLS.

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Shipshewanna, Ind., March 19,1891. February, 17, 1891,1 was burned out. My Victor Safe was well roasted. It was red hot while in the fire, yet it preserved all my books, receipts, notes and money in excellent condition. I am now convinced that all your safes are absolutely fire-proof, for this was the number 2*4 size. Yours truly, WM. CRAVER. Gfntlemen:—On

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undersigned saw and carefully examined the by Mr. Wm. Craver when itwas opened

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after the fire and must confess

our

astonishment that

brought its contents through such a hot fire in the fine condition in which they were found! The Victor Safe & Lock Co. can safely challenge any company to show stronger evidence of the fire-proof qualities of its safes— there can be no question or doubt regarding the Victor. it

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& CO.

portion of this City ni£ht of Oct I 31st, including the Post Office and its contents My books and papers were in a Victor Safe which was well tested. It brought them through perfectly. Please send me lowest prices on all the sizes. Yours very truly, E. A. MITCHELL, burned

one of your Victor On the night of April 6th, 1891 burglars entered our store apparently with the sole bbject of burglarizing our safe, as nothing else was in£lepted. They completely failed to get into it, notwith¬ standing the fact that they made every effort to do so. We attribute this failure to their first breaking off the dial which left nothing with which to operate the bolts. our

ARCHER, Postmaster.

Dear Sirs

Chatham, Ont., Canada, Jan. 26,1891.

Safes in

A. C. BRADLEY.

Green River, Wyo., May 2, 1891.

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truly,

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tVhen I got

safes in

4th, 1890.

Gentlemen:—My frame store house and stock was totally consumed by fire on the nth of November. I can heartily recommend the Victor Safe as being fire-proof. My safe was in close proximity to 200 pounds of lard an d within 6 feet of a tank filled with coal-oil; in fact in the very hottest part of the fire. All my books and papers came out sound and clean, the wood-work inside of the

fire and

Yours truly,

Gentlemen:—I had one of your

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Quebec, Canada, Oct. 1st, 1891. Gentlemen:—I have just received my safe. I cannot fully express my great satisfaction. It is a beauty, a jewel. Every Physician should have one. I had no idea that I would get so good an article for such a small amount. Refer to me at any time you wish. I will al¬ ways have a good word for the Victor. Yours truly. Dr. Y. A. LaMOTTE.

Big Island, Va., Jan 6,1890. Victor Safe is in my office and opens up in number one order. I am more than pleased. It is the best, handsomest and lowest price safe I have seen. One of my business neighbors paid twice as much for his safe and acknowledges that mine is worth two of his. You cannot help but succeed. Yours truly, S. B. STEGER, General Merchant. My No.

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Peking, China. pleased with our Victor Safe. It makes a splendid impression here. Yours truly, REV. W. H. CURTISS. We are much

One From Governor Jarvis. Greenville, N. C., Feb. 26th, 1896. Safe and Lock Co., Cin., 0.: Gentlemen:—I am pleased to say the Victor Safe you sold me some five or six years ago, preserved intact all of its contents in the late fire in Greenville, on the 16th inst. The safe stood at a point in my office in the Opera House Block, that must have been one of the hottest parts in the great conflagration. It contained papers and other things of value, when It was taken out of the ruins and opened some twelve hours after the fire, everything in it was found to be safely preserved and in good condition. I cheerfully make this statement of facts in recognition of the valua¬ ble service rendered me by your safe, and you are at liberty to make such use of it as you may see proper. Yours truly, THOS. J. JARVIS. The Victor

Thos. J. Jarvis was Governor of North Carolina for six consecutive years ; was U. S. Minister to Brazil for four years and served one year as U. S. Senator from North Carolina after the death of Senator Vance.

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Tennllle, Ala., November 22,1892. The Victor Safe and

Lock Co., Cin., O.:

Gentlemen :—Yours to hand. In reference to the safe ) bought of you, will say that the building which con¬ tained the safe was burned on the 6th inst. The insur anceagent inspected the remains to-day, and contents of the safe. Everything was found all right, and papers and books in good condition. This is a remarkable test of the Victor and will certainly result in selling a great many safes in our town. Yours truly,

W. W. PRYOR.

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MADE.

Taken from a sole

personal letter written by Daniel F. Beatty, manufacturer of the great Beatty Organs and Pianos.

Washington, N. J., November2, 1892. The Vidor Safe

and Lock Co., Cin., O.:

Gentlemen:—Safe received yesterday. She is a“dandy ” Thanks for promptness in making shipment. You may refer any one you please to me, and I will always give the Victor Safe a good send off. Yours truly, DANIEL F. BEATTY.

good, old, honest Quaker: Chicago, Ills., November 28,1892.

Bern P. O., Green Co., Wls.,

July 2, 1892. Safe and Lock Co., Cincinnati, O. : Gentlemen :—I take the pleasure to inform thee that I purchased, the 14th of May, 1889, a No. 4 Victor Safe, No. 7247. The 11th of May last, our house, two-story high, 32x45, was lost by fire, and my safe stood in the severest fire. But I did not try to open it before the third day after the fire, and I could not move the dial. I got a pair of pincers, so I could turn it, and the lock worked all right inside, and I found to my greatest pleasure that all my documents were in good order. I ask thee to please send me thy catalogue, and how much will be the charges for a new safe. Respectfully,

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C. O. EIDSMORE.

New Comerstown, Nov. 28, 1891.

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.:

Gentlemen:—The two No. 3 safes which you sent me the 17th inst. were duly received, and I am very much

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pleased with them. H. F.

Yours truly, KOELLING, No. 484 Henry street.

One from a Canadian Brother. St. Roch, Quebec, October 14, 1892. The Victor

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., 0. : Gentlemen My safe arrived yesterday. It is in good condition. This long journey of 900 miles, taking into consideration that safe arrived in good condition, is one of the best evidences of its strength and superior quali¬ ties. The door and lock works smoothly. The finish ot the safe is tasteful and

rich, and the wonder to me is how make your business pay—that is, how you do all,selling your safes at such low prices. Some of'my acquaintances have told me, or it is the opinion of

you can

business at

The Victor Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O. : Gentlemen fire of Saturday

McKinney, the net work

were

The Victor that went

through the big

last

was your No. 4, and was sold to J. H. grocer. The carpet and the interior cabi¬ not

even

scorched, and everything in the

safe was well preserved. The fire burned from 2.15 p. m., until 6.30 p. m., and in the cellar directly underneath the room in which the safe was located,were stored twentyfive barrels of linseed oil, which burned all around the safe, making it one of the hottest fires I ever witnessed. This test of the Victor Safe was one of the most severe that could be possible, and this will be a good recom¬ mendation for your safe. I will no doubt be able to sell a great many safes in this town. Please send me a full

supply of printed matter.

Yours truly,

some with whom I have talked on the matter, that a safe like this would cost here in Canada from $80 to $100. This is what I think also. One of my friends. Mr. Geo. Valliere, is going to order another one of your No. 4 safes. I have oiher parties whom I will see, who have promised to

buy Victor Safes. You may also take the liberty to refer to me if you desire. I will certainly always have a good word for the Victor. Yours truly, D. LA MOT HE.

Mayfield, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1892. The Victor

W, D, SWAN.

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.:

Gentlfmen:—The No. 6 Safe that I

purchased last

December, came all right and was placed in the office January 12th, 1892. The building is two stories high and used for cutting mittens and gloves, and fjofn'some unknown cause took fire in February and burned to the ground, together with the contents. The Safe stood in the north-east corner of the ouilding, under which were nearly two tons of coal, and I was told that the safe was red hot. We live three mijes from the shop and knew nothing of the fire until the next morn¬ ing, when we went to work and found things in ashes On account of its being such a hot fire I supposed the on

Fall River, Mass., The Victor

December

2,

1892.

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.:

Gentlemen : —We received the safe to-day and are much pleased with it and do not see how they can be made at the price at which you sell them. Yours

REED BROS.

truly,

contents of safe

would be lost, but to my surprise on was in good order. Someone the Safe after the building was burned

opening the safe, everything Brazil, lndM Nov. 21,1892, The Victor Safe and Lock Co., Cin

O.: Gentlemen :—I received my safe to-day. T am more than pleased with it. It is a little “daisy.” Would have bought one long ago if I had known they were so cheap. Yours

truly,

,

threw water

on

down, thinking they would cool it off and this caused several small cracks, but it did not effect the preserva¬ tion of the contents of safe I most heartily recommend the Victor Safe. I enclose herewith draft for a No. 7 size, which please ship at once, as I need the safe badly, Yours

truly,

WM. H. CHRISTIE.

CHAS. J. PETERS. Clio, S. C., Mar. 4,1892.

Pottstown, Pa., November 23, 1892. The Victor

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., O.

SOMIESKY, Trustee, W. C. No.

92, P. O. S. Of A.

Safe and Lock Co., Cin., 0,\

Gentlemen to

Gentlemen The safe for W. C. No. 92, P. O. S. of A., arrived, and at our meeting of the Camp on Monday evening last, everybody was agreeably surprised at the neat and handsome appearance, and also at the cheap¬ ness in price, and all of us heartily recommend the VictorSafe. Yours truly, R.

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test.

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One of your No. 4 Safes has been put It was red hot for about two hours.

There was a large crowd'present to witness what I said and they all said, ^Everything inside of that safe is gone.” As soon as we could get to it, we pulled it out of the ruins and allowed it to get thoroughly cooled off. after which I worked the regular combination and opened the door and found the papers and books in the safe un¬ harmed. I can sell a great many of your safes in this

vicinity. Please send me printed matter at once. Yours

an extra

set ot catalogues and

truly,

J. A. WOODLEY.