The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-16

The steam engines, with six tubular boilers,
for
GENERATING STEAM
for heating the building and for running the
machinery, are also in the cellar. A cup
board elevator runs from the cellar to the
roof and will be used for taking supplies up
and down, and dischsrging ashes, etc. On
the first floor proper the Phoenix Fire In
surance Company will occupy the whole OF
the Deg side OF the building, vita the front
on Broadway. The second floor is not yet
rented. The third floor viii be occupied by
the executive officers OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company. The
principal offices on Broadway are
deliberately fitted up for the
president and his secretaries, and the offices
on Dey street will be used by the vice presi-
dents and their clerks, with special rooms
for the electricians. The fourth floor will be
occupied by the counsel OF the company and
other law firms. The fifth floor will be
taken up by the general superintendent, the
district superintendents and assistants, and
the auditors department.. The sixth floor
contains the batteries OF tie company.
There are 900 cells in the main batteries,
which weigh in all about 40 tons, and
there are supplemental batteries weigh
ing ffty tons. This battery room
is Immediately below the operating room,
and all the main wires are led into 1t and
through the ceiling to the desks OF the oper-
ators above. On this floor the messages are
copied and addressed and sent down stairs
to the delivery department. through the
pneumatic tubes. The copying presses are
run by steam, and the invention is owned
by the company. There are cloak rooms
with wardrobes and all the modern appur-
tenances and conveniences on this floor for
the female operators. The operating room
occupies the entire seventh story. lt IS 20
feet in width by $50 feet in depth, and % lee
in height from floor TO ceiling. The peculiat
ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTION
of the upper stories leaves this room wholly
clear, and it is furnished with 81 tables, each
fitted for four operators, with ample space
for the ''switch board" and other apparatus
for connecting and disconnecting wires lead
ing to all parts of the continent. The cell
ing is elegantly frescoed. and the fixtures
are tasteful and appropriate. The eighth
story will be occupied by the Assoc
ciated Press, with rooms for the general
agent ana the examining committee. The
ninth story will contain the dwelling
rooms of the janitor and the kitchen ana
lunch rooms. Luncheon will be provided
for the operators az noon each day, the COM
pany having found by experience that it is
| cheaper TO provide the MONDAY meal, and
| thus control the time of those employed at
this hour of the day, than to
| permit them to 20 outside OF the building
to the neighboring restaurants. The
tenth story will be used for store rooms,
Although the building is thoroughly fire.
| proof, Is tubular wells about so feet
deep have been sunk in the cellar, and with
these is connected a Worthington pump,
capable of furnishing 300 gallons of water q
minute, and of torcingit beyond the top OF
the building. In case o. fire In the adjoin.
ing buildings these wells would afford al
most perfect protection without dependence
upon the supply OF CrotOn water. The build.
ing was erected after plans furnished by
George B. Post, architect, and with the FIX
lures and plot Of ground has cost 81 200, 600