Excerpt from The Heart of the Commonwealth: Or, Worcester as It Is: Being a Correct Guide to All the Public Buildings and Institutions and to Some of the Principal Manufactories and Shops, and Wholesale and Retail Stores, in Worcestire and Vicinity; With Many Engravings and a New Map of the City Genuine Salamanders, or any of their contents, has ever been destroyed. These Safes are in use in 107 Banks, 49 United States public offices, 195 Railroad Transportation and Express Offices, 193 Hotels, Churches, and Newspaper Offices, in 97 Clerk's and Treasurer's Ofi'ces of Towns and Cities, and William B. Astor, Esq., of New York, has recently had one made expressly for him, in which he intrusts the evidence of his enormous wealth, amounting to over ten millions of Dollars, and says he will intrust it to no other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.