St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-11-13
A MODEL STORE.
Brief Description of the New Grocery
Store of T.. DE- It. Fairbanks &- Co.

night of Nov. %, 1889, it was an
| nounced that a new grocery store
would be built in Fairbanks village
and that their dry goods store would
be erected on the plain" 1t was
| also announced that this plan would
| soon have been carried out if the fire
had not happened but that the fire
would now render it necessary to
| build the stores the coming season.
Accordingly Architect Packard made
the plans for the new grocery store
which was begun in April Of the pres
ent year and completed in four
months, remarkably short time for
| building so complete a store
The new grocery store is located
much nearer the general scale office
| than the old store and is a substan-
| tial two-story brick structure with
basement that is an important adj
junct to the building and large
store house in the rear. Its extreme
| depth is 90 feet and its width So feet.
Entering the building from Western
avenue one comes into the main
store which is a spacious room Sc
feet wide and As feet deep and well
stocked with all the goods that are
found in a hrst-class grocery store
Besides all the staple articles there
is good line of hardware, tinware,
soaps and perfumcries. Behind the
counters are the latest devices for the
storage of teas and cOffees and all
that class of goods. Some of the
woodwork for this line of goods was
bought in Boston where it is used 10
great satisfaction in the big whole
sale stores.
Opening out of the main store and
facing the south is Il Wcll-lighted
room for the book-keepers.
Directly beyond the front room is
another room of nearly the same
dimensions used for the temporary
storage of articles for Immediate de
livery by the two delivery wagons
which are under cover on the north
side of the building On the south
side of this room is George w. Spen-
GERS private office and q small wash
room. On the north side are two
refrigerators1 Is by 36 feet and cold
storage room. These will be needed
for the large butter business which
extends beyond the borders of this
for corn and oats, the corn bin hold
ing 1000 bushels and the bin for oats
having q capacity of 200 bushels.
In the rear of the store is the store
house which was the old flour house
in the days of the old store. This
building has been almost entirely
built over and is now as then a very
useful part of the store. The second
story has two large stOre-rooms, the
front room for general storage pur-
poses and a room behind it having a
flour room with a capacity for 1900
barrels of -four. Both the first and
second stories are sheathed and
sealed in q faultless manner.
The basement is an attractive spot
to the visitor for here is where so
much of the work is done. A side
track brings cars directly to the
building and there are two plat
forms where cars of corn, flour,
potatoes, apples or anything else can
be unloaded directly into the base
ment. In one corner of the room is
a 5 horse power Waterwheel for run
ming the elevator and the machinery
in the lard rendering room. In the
latter room are all the appliances for
trying lard. Last season 80 tons of
pork were cut up for the trade i'll
this town and vicinity. This was
accomplished in d warm winter and
in the old store, but in the coming
season Mr.. Spencer expects to do a
much larger business.
| In another part of the basement is
the boiler which furnishes steam heat
| for the store and also for the scale
offices. The small room on the north
side of the house will be used for
meat freezing room.
The most attractive room in the
basement is the apple store house
under the front store and where
! there are now 1000 barrels of fall
and winter apples. For % years
Fairbanks store has furnished this
community with apples, generally
get ting their supply from Michigan
This year the western apple crop
was 4 failure and Mr.. Spencer spent
two weeks among the islands of
Lake Champlain and succeeded in Sc
curing Il choice supply.
A little brick building q few rods
north OF the store attracted the
scribc's attention and he inquired
what rela ton that bore to the store
| He was informed that 600 gallons
of kerosene were stored there and
that it was conducted by gravity
into the general store. This con-
venient arrangement avoided any
pumping from the cellar, or any dan
| ger of fire from ha wing the kerosene
stored i'll the building.
This comprises brief description
of model grocery store and one
that is conceded to be the most com
plete in all New England Everyone
who has seen the building. with all
its facilities for doing an extensive
grocery business, is enthusiastic in
its praise and admits that E. & T
| Fairbanks & Co. have a grocery
store of which any firm in the coun-
try may well be proud
DEATH OF j. c. MORRISON.
l. {. Morrison died at the home OF
off A Marshall Wednesday morning
in his 18th year He was brother OF
the la te David Morrison who died It
Binghamton. n. Y. Oct 26. He
was born i'll Fairlee and had spent
most ofhis life in Bradford until 1864
when he came here to live with his
son-in-law. Mr.. Morrison was a
carpenter by trade and built four
sets of shops for the Passumpsic rail
road, one at Bradford. two at st.
JOhnsburv and one set of shops at
Lyndonville. He was for many years
in charge of the building department
nf l11a- 1
the p. & o. railroad shops here for a
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