Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 67

Annual Number OAKLAND TRIBUNE January, 1912 HPS! MM mi OAKLAND 'V ffnTx, At' if fTrMfVV'r I far; 1 a iiift ill! OAKLAND (Established 1875) (Incorporated 1908) Oldest National Bank in Alameda county. United States and Postal Savings Bank Depositary. Capital and Surplus $600,000.00 Safe Deposit Department. Capital 300,000.00 Deposits $2,475,000.00 i OFFICERS: OFFICERS: P. E.

BOWLES GEORGE D. Vice-President and Tjust Officer Q. D. JACOBY Cashier P. E.

BOWLES President L. G. BURPEE, C. MOREHOUSE Vice-Presidents E. N.

WALTER Cashier S. H. KITTO, N. WALTER, I. H.

SAN Assistant Cashiers 1 DIRECTORS E. A- HERON H. G. MORRIS E. W.

RUNYON P. E. BOWLES L. C. MOREHOUSE G.

D. METCALF L. G. BURPEE W. H.

TAYLOR A. L. STONE NEW TIDE PREDICTING MACHINE. THE FARMERS MERCHANTS SAVINGS BANK fzTp jt 'xJ 'C '''Iff' rW iT I III f-f 1 i 1 -iifff: i L1; 1 Unci Sam's new tide prophet ia a machine which outclasses all human competitors; it is capable of doing in one day work which formerly required the services of sixty-live computers. It was Invented by E.

G. Fisher of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and is used, says the scientific American, to predict the height of the water at any instant on any date from one to two years in the future for every port In the United States and seventy of the principal ports of the world. This information Is issued in the form of a book by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Tide predictions are based on local as well as astronomical conditions that influence the rise and fall of the ocean. At every port in the world there Is an Instrument which indicates these fluctuations by a curved line on a.

sheet of paper, and from a long series of such observed curves computers nave evolved the average of each component at each place. The formula upon which this perfected machine Is based Includes thirtv-seven of these components. There are a set of gears to represent the sun's influence, another to take the place of the moon, various other sets which act for the movements, and still other sets which speak for local conditions. The machine looks like a huge printing press. A frame of brass, steel and iron occupies a space evelen feet long, six feet high and two feet wide, and from the dial Indicators in the front to the opposite end it Is a maze of wheels, gears, pulleys and chains.

There are 100 gear wheels and pulleys in the machine. These are arranged in two main sections, one representing the time, the other the height of tide. Two chains, each permanently fastened at one end, run through each section, and their free ends are attached Indicating devices. The operator beginning a set of predictions adjusts the eccentrics connected with' each set of rears. By turning a crank he causes the wheels to rise or descend, thus lengthening or shortening the free end of the chain.

This variation appears on the dials at the front of the -machine, one pcinter showing the height of water in feet and tenths; the other the day, hour and minute of the occurrence. An electrical device stops the machine whenever a high or low water is indicated. While the operator is recording these figures, the machine ts doing a still more detailed work. A. strip of m.

itM, ttMitJajuissiilirsii il W1' i 1111 i ii i i v. A itiiiii iMsssaissttiHawwrssTrnir'!" The Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank, at the southeast corner of Franklin and Thirteenth streets, has the only structure in Oakland devoted exclusively to the housing of a banking Institution. The building, handsome in appearance and classic in design, is strictly Class built of Mente stone, and Is the height of an paper six inches wide and 180 feet long la moving auto peniordlnary three-story building. matlcally across the face of the machine, ana while Is marking the hours and exact times of highest and form the A. B.

A A. L. Stone Company, contractors. The officials of the bank are Edson F. Adams, president; Sam Bell McKee, vice-president; George S.

Meredith, cashier, and Frank C. Martens, assistant cashier. 's The deposits of this bank, at close of business December II, 1110, were ll.M.m.lT. and on the same date In 1111 were $1,575,815. It, showing a gain in deposits In 1111 of being an Increase of 27 per cent for the year.

The Farmers and Merchants'! Savings Bank Is a savings bank, and as such has savings, accounts. and special ordinary accounts; the latter sub-' Ject to check. Its loans are made on real estate and approved collateral. The bank has the Improved safe deposit system, with Interchangeable key locks, affording absolute security against duplicate keya It ia the only safe deposit vault in Oakland having this system. The Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank was organised In 189S, and until June, 1110, occupied quarters on Broadway, near Twelfth street.

The board of directors of the bank Include Edson F. Adams, capitalist; Sam Bell McKee, the prominent attorney of this ctty; George Meredith, Frank C. Martens; A. W. Schafer, a large land owner; D.

Bates, rice-president of the Piedmont Construction Company, and Andrew Stone, one of the Stone brothers, who lowest waters, another pen la tracing a curved line which shows the gradual rise and fall The Information turned out by this machine la sought by the marine engineer who wishes to calculate for Improvements, and the bydrogrtphio surveyor who Is Ing plana for future surveys, as it enables him to know the depth and time or high and low water on any date a year or two In advance..