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EY WINNETKA TALK June 25, 1927 Officers of the Bank Occupy Space Easily Accessible to Public The administrative officers of the State Bank a n d Trust company have their desks in the southwest cor- ner of the main floor. A space has been provided there so that it is easily accessible to the public and separated from the lobby merely by a low coun- ter. Those who have desks in this offi- cers' space are: Wirt Wright, presi- dent; IL. J. Knapp, vice president; F. U. Carlborg, cashier; A. C. Lexow, assistant cashier; and J. F. Murray, assistant cashier. Walnut woodwork is used in the wall panels, the counters and the furniture. The floor is patterned black and white rubber tile. The top of the counter is black marble. Besides this particular section, there is more officers' space north of the entrance. C. J. Luther, vice president, and A. K. Scheidenhelm, assistant cashier, have their desks here and di- rect the real estate loan and invest- ment department. O M. Lagerham, assistant cashier, has his desk on the east side of the lobby. F. J. Scheidenhelm, chairman of the board, and William A. Dyche, chair- man of the executive committee, will occupy desks in the directors' room. G. H. Tomlinson, vice president, and F. O. Potter, secretary, will be found in the trust department on the third floor. Famed Craftsman of Philadelphia Creates Iron Work for Bank All the wrought iron work in the new State Bank and Trust company building was done by Samuel Yellin, the master craftsman of Philadelphia, who is responsible largely for the re- vival and improvement in wrought iron, beaten copper, and molded brass in the United States. From the shop of this blacksmith, as he calls himself, have come many notable achievements which won for him the Edward Bok award of $10,000 for 1925 to the "man who has done the most for the city of Philadelphia." An- other of the honors bestowed on him is the gold medal of the American In- stitute of Architects. His workshop, a marvel of complete- ness and efficiency, has forge after forge of the old pattern with anvils, where everything is handmade. His 200 workers have all been trained by Mr. Yellin himself to execute his de- signs in wrought iron. Nineteen years ago he came to Philadelphia from Poland and started the department for work in wrought iron at the Pennsyl- vinia school of Industrial Art. His masterpieces enhance the beauty of many of the country's finest build- ings. The largest commission he has executed was that for the Federal Re- serve bank, New York. To carry out the contract he erected a special build- ing and kept 100 men employed for two years. Next in size of his enterprises is the work on the New Packard Build- ing of Philadelphia. Other of his hand- iwork is seen on the Cunard building, New York, the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle at Yale, the memorial chapel at Valley Forge, the Pierpont Morgan estate, Long Island, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Wastebaskets under the customers' desks in the main lobby of the State Bank and Trust company are of wrought iron, made by Samuel Yellin ~f Philadelphia. New Bank Building Dominates Fountain Square ys i Photo by lLehle The new bank building occupies a most prominent position in Fountain Square and both by day and by night, when it is flood lighted, it dominates the view toward the square from almost every angle. looks east along Davis street. W. J. Smith, Architect of New Bank Building, Man of Wide Experience William Jones Smith, architect, de- signer of the State Bank and Trust company's new building, is a man of wide practice in bank, church and commercial structure designing. Out- standing among his recent contribu- tions to Chicago architecture is the Northwestern university group of buildings on McKinlock campus for which he was architect in association with James Gamble Rogers of New York and his partner, Mr. Childs. Mr. Smith has called upon a broad education in architecture and a variety of experience in the designing of the new State Bank and Trust company building. Studied in Paris Mr. Smith was graduated, A. B., at the Central High school of Philadel- phia in 1899, B. S. in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1903, and continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, where he re- ceived the A. D. G. degree in 1907. He was associated with Cass Gilbert in New York City in 1907-09, was in the employ of Holabird & Roche, archi- tects, Chicago, in 1909-12, and since the latter year, has been a senior member of the firm of Childs & Smith, archi- tects, Chicago. He is a member of Christ Episcopal church, Winnetka. He was married in Chicago, June 30, 1914, to Mary, daugh- ter of Jefferson Van Horne, a farmer and banker of Zanesville, Ohio. They have three children, William Mitche- son, Van Horne and Sidney Culbert- son Smith. He is a member of Salmagundi Club, New York, Union League Club of Chicago, Cliff Dwellers, and Little Room. The new building of the State Bank and Trust company was started during July, 1925. The photograph above Complete Facilities for Travelers Are Offered by Touring Service in Bank Information is supplied and all ar- rangements are made for travelers by the North Shore Travel service affili- ated with the State Bank and Trust company. This department, which has been operating since last July, is under the direction of two Evanston women, Miss Edna M. True and Mrs. Stella Tuthill Whipple, and Miss Catharine B. Hooper of Montclair, N. J., who acts as eastern representative. All have traveled widely and offer a high quality of personal service and counsel. The department affords com- plete facilities for travel arrangements; helps with passport preliminaries and vises, makes steamer, train, motor, air- plane and hotel reservations, arranges for the purchase of travelers checks, and offers facilities of banking con- nections abroad. It is an official agent of steamship lines, and represents all travel companies. The women directing the bureau have had unusual travel experience for many years. They served in France during the war with Smith College Relief units, Miss Hooper and Miss True serving later in France with Miss Anne Morgan's Relief unit near Sois- sons. Miss True and Miss Hooper have conducted private tours through Eu- rope for the past six summers. Mrs. Whipple made an extensive journey around the world after the war, and has been abroad frequently. They have all lived abroad, and, in their combined experience have personally covered most of the travel world. Discriminating travelers are finding this bureau useful both because of its convenient location and because of the Complete and competent service it ren- ers. Fittings on the customer desks of the new State Bank and Trust Company are made of wrought iron. 'Employ Systematic Layout in Bank for Public Convenience Important Departments Are Nearly Equi-Distant From Main Stairway Into the Lobby The center of the new State Bank and Trust company building is a point of focus from which all desks and de- partments are systematically arranged. The lobby, the center of the build- ing, is surrounded by the various de- partments. Starting in the southwest corner, there are, in order: the offices of the chairman and of the president, the general administrative officers and those in charge of loans. Then the cages follow--Discounts, Collateral, Drafts and Exchange, Returned Items, Collections, Coupons, Payroll Teller, four Receiving and Paying Tellers, Bookkeeper, Statement Clerk, Officers' Space, Savings Department, Real Estate Loans, Investments and Real Estate and Investment Officers. On the third floor is the Trust de- partment, Bookkeepers and Filing de- partment. The Travel service has tem- porary quarters on the first floor, to the north of the entrance. The safe deposit vaults are in the basement. The top of the entrance stairs gives access to the very middle of the bank lobby. From there, the public takes its business to any department; it goes through the tellers' hands, the bookkeepers and computators in what may be an approximately straight line. If such passages were charted, they might form a spider web arrangement, so direct is the line of communication of all business transactions. 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