The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-07

public acquaintance with which fully tested OF
the way over 1 was most courteously received
then I announced my desire to go through the
factory for the purpose Of comparing it witr
others in which had been. was told that
might so through alone If 1 preferred, or a young
man. familiar with details, would be assigned as
my guide, or If I would take my chances the
members of the firm and heads Of departments
would pass me from one to the others.
I chose the latter, and with the senior member
of the firm started out on that tour of inspection
which 1 felt certain, as soon as I entered the
handsome portal, was to prove me q false pro-
phet.
Are you much bothered with visitors:"
I'VE have a great many, but don't consider
them a bother. We are proud of the fact that
people consider our establishment worthy of a
visit"
who planned this structure was almost
my first question.
THE interior was planned by the members of
the firm so that every unnecessary step should
be spared and that everything should be just in
the right place. The position, size and general
character Of each department and room being
settled upon and the whole combined into har-
monious entirety, the services of a capable arch
itect, Mr.. Charles S. Ellis, were called into play
TO worl, up the purely technical details of con
struction. And the same with the exterior; the
members of the firm decided upon exactly what
they wished and had the architect elaborate the
details for the builders to work from"
How targets the present building:''
Our lot is 240xG6 feet and the building covers
20Sx66 feet comprising six stories, each ofwhich,
as well the basement, is of the full size of the
building, SO that there are devoted to the pur-
poses of manufacture, accounting and sale a
floor space of about one hundred thousand square
feet, or about two and a half acres every portion
of which, as you will see, is not only well lighted
from without, but is in addition literally sup
piled with the incandescent electric light"
How many hands can you work here:'
THE building has capacity Tor 2O00 employees
outside of the counting-room.
ANY outside hands or home workers.
NO; practically all the work is done on the
premises
MODEL ESTABLISHMENT.
Guided by one of the firm went all over the
great building in the order in which the goods
60, in being received, stored, made up and
shipped, ana quote his running comments.
You will see" said my guide, that there is
every little distance on the wall of each room
hose all ready to be pulled out and put in ser
vice. Each hose is attached to special fire ser
NtNC pipes llldb dIb uSSu IOI ~ OlltT DttpOSt
and which are supplied by a fire pump driven by
an electric motor and which can throw so gal
Ions minute, so that We make assurance
doubly sure We are not running any risks.
Our business is too well established to make
burning out desirable or profitable"
Every part of the establishment is in connec-
ton with every other department by new sys
TEN of electric and acoustic intercommunica-
ton.
THE military appliances on every floor for the
use OF the employees are cCmEiodioUs, convenient
and thorough in every particular, Offering
marked contrast with the usage in other eStab-
ishments and eFincing on the part of the firm
Il watchful interest in the health and welfare OF
their employees, from the highest to the least
important.
No building in the country is more literally
supplied with incandescent electric lights, there
beng no less than 900 sockets and pendant
lamps which Will thoroughly illuminate every
portion of the floor space; and any person stand
ing in any part of the room at night would be
able to reach out ana find q lamp within arms
length.
We have our own electric plant, built by the
Sprague Electric Motor company, New York,
and generate our own electricity for power and
lighr. Every machine of the many in the place
is driven by the same invisible current which
supplies the artificial light in dark and rainy
weather; for on any fair day when it is light
enough to see out Of doors there is in any part
Of this well-illuminated establishment sufficient
Daylight TO work by.
II want to impress upon you, said my con
ductor, that all these improvements ard con
veniences are simply to save time, not to crafty
a whim, however laudable it might be- ofhaving
Of the kind in the world. Whatever can be pro
vided to save time ana expense has been put in,
no matter at what cost, for time is an important
factor in this business, where orders are often
received at 4 in the afternoon for goods to be on
the train which starts at that same evening"
"A most admirable piece OF bragg Worthy Of
Barnum! Reminds ne of the firm which said
that il saved s., 600 year in ink alone by order
ing its clerks never to cross a ! nor dot an l.
well, truth is sometimes stranger than flc-
ton. On one occasion u few weeks ago q sales
man took at O'Clock or Thursday evening.
from a New York house an order amounting to
S28 OOO, conditioned on its being filed within
twenty four hours. Our stock was SO large and
our facilities so perfect that all the goods were
on the train'at that evening ana for sale the
New York counters the next morning al ..
v.-sTEIN, BLOCH s. cos Way
1.-The piece goods are delivered in the rear of
the building. First going to the cellar, where |
they are opened and accounted for, they are
next taken to the piecegoods stock rooms on
the third and fourth floors where We will now |
60"
In reply to a query my conductor said:
while We use large quantity of imported |
goods in fine work, We take the very best pro |
duct OF all the leading American mills, and the |