The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-01
BROADENING OUT.
Additions to Woodward &
Powell Planer Co.'s
Factory.

Prosperity Is on a long visit to the
Woodward & Powell Planer Company.
His hat and coat hang on the rack, and
his stay, from all present indications;
is to be indefinite. He is a welcome
guest and has been assigned to the best
room in the house.
The firm has outgrown the present
quarters on Cambridge street, and is
now having constructed by Contractor
e. j. Cross what promises to be the
most modern workshop in the city. 1t
is to be built from plans drawn by Ed
win T. Chaplin and Charles D. Parker,
the mill architects and engineers, in
the State Mutual building. From cell
lar to roof ii will be in every way a
model building of it's kind, and certain
ly without superior among the factories
of Worcester,
The contractor put up his batter
boards yesterday, and the work will be
pushed ahead as rapidly as possible,
The main building, 1872 feet long and 81
feet in width, faces on Webster street
near the railroad bridge. 1t will ex-
tend back to the tracks of the Boston
and Albany Extending out on the
SO feet long and 3S feet wide. This will
be equipped in a thoroughly modern
manner and contain the engine, boiler
room and store room for coal. There
Will be a brick chimney s. feet in
height
Direct connection with the railroad
Will be secured by a switch line run
ming into the yard of the shop.
The cars from the railroad to the
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scales. The shop itself is to be on the
gallery plan, and this will greatly ia
cilitate the work of transportation. A
ten-ton electric crane will be fitted up
and so arranged that 1t will commun-
icate directly with any floor of the
building
The light equipment will be electrical
throughout The offices are to be on
the Webster street end of the shop, and
from the plans it is easy to determine
that they will be first class in every
particular. They will be located on the
second floor. Directly above the offices
in monitor top will be spacious
draughting rooms with complete blue
printing arrangements.
The light, according to the plans, will
be abundant, not only in the draught-
ing room, where it is absolutely neces-
sary, but all over the building. The
structure is TO be two stories high with
a large basement, but the building will
be so constructed that in the event of
more room being necessary, the firm
| can easily put on additions. With an
eye to future development, plenty of
land has been kept in reserve for this
purpose.
One of the most important features
OF the new shop is the lavatory in the
basement Every workman is to have
his own locker, soap and towels. some
thing that will be absolutely unique in
this city, where, in the shops for the
| most part, it is a case of take your
| chances in the cleaning-up line.
| The company has large foreign as
| well as domestic trade, and orders keep
| coming in every day. The foreign
trade was largely built up by A. M.
Powell, who has made two business
| trips to Europe, penetrating as far as
| Moscow in the almost hermit empire
of Russia, where a man has to inform
the police and secure a passport before
| he can change his residence from one
house to the other. or even from an up
| per to a downstairs fiat in the same
l building.