Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-21
THE CARPENTER ORGAN co.

ALL READY FOR BUSINESS IN THEIR NEw PLAT.
STREET BUILDING HOW THE SIX FLOORS ARE
OCCUPIED NEW MACHINERY, NEW STYLES OF
ORGANS, AND GENERALLY PROSPEROUS OUT.
LOOK.
The Carpenter Organ company has this
week completed its removal 10 its now factory
on Flat street, and is now rapidly getting in
shape for settled business The new build
ing, whose generous proportions show to ad-
vantage as seen from the lower end OF Main
street, ID six stories high, and is occupied ex.
cluaively by the company. On the first floor
is the mill room or cutting-up room, whore
all the heavy machinery is placed and the
rough lumber Is cut up and started on its
way to be made into handsomely finished Or
gan cases. On the second floor are the Office
"a tidy, cheerful, pleasant-lOoking apartment
the work room, packing room and setting.
up room. The case making room occupies
the third floor, with large supply room di-
rectly over the office. The fourth floor Is
devoted TO action work and the inspection
room. The tuning rooms and finishing de-
partment occupy the fifth floor, and the sixth
floor is used for storage and finishing. An
elevator at the east end OF the building
runs from the basement, which il used for
the storage OF oils, varnish, veneeTs, etc
through TO the sixth floor.
large amount of new special machinery.
of the most approved manufacture, has been
placed in the several departments on the LIST.
I'd, Sd and 4th floors, designed TO improve the
quality OF the company's work, and TO increae
the productive capacity at the same time. One
of the most valuable of these machines ia a
new Whitney scraper, bought at a cost of
$1,000, which turns out the wood work OF the
cases all ready for the finishers hands. The
motive power Of the factory is furnished by
an 80 horse-powe Harris Corliss steam en-.
CINE, and the building is piped throughout
for steam heating.
Being now established in its new Quarters.
the company will henceforth devote itself ex.
olusively to the manufacture of complete or.
gans The connection with parties in Maine
to whom actions were formerly sold in ex-
change for organ cases, has been broken of,
and hereafter the Carpenter action can be-
obtained only by the purchase Of complete
organs made by the company.
New reed-board machinery has been put In
by the use OF which the concern will make
Its own reed boards, and will also be able to
supply boards for other manufacturer. The
Whitney reeds, made by ]. ID. Whitney &
Son Of Brattleboro, than which there arc
none better, will be used.
Under the new departure which the new
factory and all the new appliances named
have now made possible, the Carpenter organ
company will at once bring out several new
and attractive styles of organs, the designs
Tor some of which are now ready to be shown.
While the capacity for manufacture is largely
increased It's aim will not be to compete with
cheap work, but 1t will hold itself strictly TO
high grade of production, aiming to make
every instrument one that will stand the test
OF time and use. The company has a large
foreign trade permanently established and
has recently completed western business
able.
The new building is oommodious, substan
tial, well lighted and gives every necessary
facility for pushing forward a prosperous
business which is already we'll established
while the company is backed by ample cap.
ilal to make It's efforts a success.
BrattlebOro claims, and Justly. 10 be the
leading organ manufacturing town of the
world. 1t has facilities for turning out more
instruments than any other town or city.