London, Feb, 27.
"gate as the Bank of England" will be a doubly apt term when the secrets of the gigantic new building on Threadneedle Street will be revealed to public gaze. Some of the wonders of the building _have been disclosed in a report issued The new vaults will be large enough to hold a thousand million sterling and will reach a depth of 60 feet and will house also treasur-ions of some of the Ithiest families of London.
Mechanical efficiency in these vaults will be the last word in modernism.
"Another feature of the new "Old Lady Threadneedle Street." will be machinery room reaching from Bartholomew Lane to Prince's Street. It, will be walled with white glazed tiles and have aluminium fittings and a granite floor. There will be spacious halls with mosaic floorings and lines of black marble pillars, each weighing five tons, 'The court room for the weekly meetings of the bank directors. is said to be magnificent, 'So careful have the builders been' to make the bank one of the modern wonders in architecture that the smallest flaws have been immediately corrected, often at a cost of many hundreds of pounds.—Reuter.
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