The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25
RIGHT In FRONT.
The Biggess Enter
prise In Utah.
Z.C.M. /. SHOE FACTORY
A Tour Through the Hive Of
Busy Bees.
TWO HUNDRED EMPLOYEES.
Salt Lake Completes with the Werid
and Asks No FavOrG-The
Years Record.
TWO HUNDRED EMPLOYEES
Salt Lake Completes with the Werid
and Asks No FavOrE-The
Years Record.

are you? | think 1t is about time such
an enterprIsing paper as THE HERALD
should visit the biggest enterprise ID
Utah, and say little about it in its
columns. l think the fewer prelimin
aries we have the better, so let US dive
in, and 1 will show you the building,
and shall be thereby able to give you a
better idea than by talking in this
Office.
ION June 22d, 1887, our worthy and
respected superintendent, General
Eldredge, met me on the ground floor
of the Coop, and said: 'RoR e, have
just made up my mind that it would be
policy for you to go east, and investi-
gate the best plans, most economical
and most modern of factory buildings
suitable to our circumstances and land.
What do you say?' All right, MIR.
Eldredge, will be ready day after to-
morrow On the day mentioned off l
went, speeding for Boston. Having an
introduction to some of the most ex-
perienced heads in modern building,
among whom | may mention Mr. Taft,
the secretary of the Wooden and Cotton
Companies, and General Howard L.
Porter, OF Concord, n. H., 1 had the
privilege of visiting between sixty and
seventy factories of all kinds, ranging
from Boston, Mass, to Concord, n. Il
was five weeks away, spending the
whole of my time in viewing factories,
and taking items of what 1 considered
the best possible plans. Here you see
the result of the work, together with
the experience of Mr.. Eldredge, who
was thoroughly conversant with the
principles pertaining to a good, sub
stantial building.
1 want to get through your head
THIS STYLE OF BUILDING.
You will notice that we have proiec- |
ton on the east side, which We call |
tower. In this tower are the stalrways |
and entrances to each work room,
dressing rooms for each room, water |
closets and elevator. You will notice |
one fact about this building remarkable |
in this western country. namely, that |
1t is entirely On the mill construction |
system. In every ten feet of sLace we |
have two windows. The weight of the |
building is on these pilasters, which you
observe running up the side-they are
arch from the bottom, which makes
the structure very strong. The Orders
are resting upon these pilasters and |
rock cobbles laid in the wall, so if ever
a fire should break out it would not
disturb the main walls of the building.
You observe that there are no joists 10
this building-these iron caps, or shoes
you see, which weigh about 600 pounds
each, are on the top of every pillar,
which are sixteen feet apart, and the
Orders that run through and across
the building rest upon these iron shoes,
which, as before remarked, are on the
top of every column. There are FIVE
floors. We will begin in the basement
this basement is used for storage
room, engine room and machinist s
workshop. 1t has fine cement floor
ali through which makes it perfectly
dry, so that any kind of stock can BE-
kept il without any danger whatever.
The height of the ceiling is eight feet
six inches. The next floor has ten
foot six inch ceiling, and is ust for
sole-leather room, bottomiDg-rooma ana
findings room, the second floor for
floor for cutting, fitting, stitching and
freeing rooms and the fourth floor for
the clothing factory. Now we have
reached the roof, which [ consider is
the finest in the United States. The
fire wall is three feet high and two feet
thick at the top. The roof is made of
threeinch plank, grooved and spline-
driven down a four-ply felt, tar and
gravel-the pitch is superb. There are
four WAYS to run water off, and the four
ply roofing comes up eighteen inches,
so there is no fear of any amount of
snow or water packing in in any way
and causing a leak. l believe this roof
is good for fifty years. For light, ven
tilation and convenience for work peo-
pie. many eastern manufacturers have
pronounced this building the most
perfect they have seen. The plans were
got out according to the items gath
cred IN the east, and then prepared by
Messrs. Dallas & Hedges. Watson
Brothers did the masonry; Robert Bow
man, of Watson Brothers. superin- |
tended the carpentering work; Davis &
Howe made the castings, which weigh
about Is, COO pounds, and David James
d Co. did the plumbing. Yes, it is, as
you remark, new idea of steam fit
ting. 1t is all overhead. This over
head system Is quite modern, and is s
now being adopted in all new buildings.
particularly in factories. The pipes are {
out of the way, no dirt nor dust can {
conRregate, nor any fear of being sus- {
pended from the ceiling; and it has i
been proven beyond doubt that to :
place them a certain distance from the '
ceiling the heat all over the room is /
normal-iti is the same tempera ture one
foot from the floor as it is one foot from
the ceiling, which makes it very pleas
ant. Another great point in overhead
heating is that leaky pipe can soon be
noticed, and thereby Immediately fixed,
whereas if the pipes are near the floor
the leak cannot be found which canses /