Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-07
The Ansonia Clock Company.
The New BuiIaAngs--Nearly Completed
 Fcfrhtesn Hundred Hands.


 The New Builatngs-Eearly Completed-
 Eightesn Kindred Hands.
 The new factory of the Ansonia Clock com- pany to replace the buildings destroyed by fire last winter is nearing completion and operations will be resumed, says the Brook lyn Urios-Argus, in a month. The new buildiugs are considerable of an enlargement over the old ones, are four in number, two large and two small ones, and cover ground space of 475 by 200 feet. The entrance is on Eieiath avenue, and the work extends from Twelfth to Thirtssnth streets and near ly to Ninth ayenue.z The largest building is the one fronting on Seventh avenue It is perfectly square, 200 feet on each side, and four stories in height It is built of brick. and the mason work is very solid, the walls being about two feet thick Windows are plentiful, as light is such a necessity in the fine work, and the interior of the court yard is very spacious, so that light is abundant from that quarter. The new building stands exactly on the sight of the one that was burned, but is only -four stories in height, whereas the other had five. Fastened to the factory walls, inside the yard, are iron stair ways and galleries, broad and substantial, leading to every floor upon each of the four sides of the building, so that if a fire occur red the factory could be emptied within three minutes Iron shutters have been hung for all the windows, and very costly and complete precautions have been taken to guard against another fire.
 Upon each floor of the new building that is. each floor on each side of the factory there age two lengths of hose, each 100 feet long, which are all the time in position, and can be used at quarter of minutes notice. Besides these there are throughout the diff ferent buildings fifteen hundred automatic sprink1ers worked upon the thermostatic principle. That is that if the temperature in any one place gets above certain degree of heat, the expansion and contraction of certain metals at once starts the thermostatic ma chine, and the water is thus automatically released. These are designed for action in case fire should break out at night when there is no one present to handle the hose; and there are so many of them and the pressure of the water would be so great that it would be almost an impossibility for fire to get any sort of headway. In addition to these precautions, the factory is covered by large number of electric alarms as vel, which, when started, not only give the loca- tion of the fire and send an alarm to the of flee, sounding it upon gong, but also set the sprinklers in motion on whatever floor ii may be started in. zH's si-t F-zs
 The wood finishing building is in the rear of the larger factory It is also of brick and built in the same style as the one de scribed. It is five stories in height and 200 feet in length by 50 in breadth. There is an | immense am ount of delicate woodwork to be I used, and it will be in this building where il will be manufactured and prepared Then | between these two large buildings is the fin l ishing and vanishing shop, a three-story I building, 80 by 50 feet in size, and the foun. dry building, which, like all other structures, is only one story in height. The wood fin ishing, vanishing and foundry buildings are all new, and form large addition to the building as it formerly existed. In all it ii calculated to employ 1900 hands.