Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-19
BOWDITCH. WEBSTER & CO.,
CITY DRUG STORE.

small, and each part Is moulded NOR
tised and finally fitted together. after
which the frames are nailed by four
wooden plugs.
Then the frames are taken across the
street by the overhead road. to the g;az-
ing department, where three men put in
the glass in 4 manner that would make
the average glazier grow green with
envy. The frames are first treated with
a printing coat Of paint before going 10
the slazier. A young man places putty
on the sides where the glass goes, 10 pre-
pare it for the glass. \ second man
places the glass in the frames ana puts
in the brads, while the third man puts
the putty along the outside and finishes
the work After this the windows are
washed.
Down in the basement of this place Is
found the great stOrerOom for the glass
Every box contains about 80 square feet
OF glass and there were at one time five
carloads Of these boxes in the cellar. The
breakagc of the glass is reckoncd at
about five per cent.
in regard TO the Size he frames are
made all the standard sizes but the pop
ular window is the three light one. where
the lower frame is one light ana the up-
per contains two. This is one of the
things that has changed with time. The
doors that Mr.. Bangs says once sold for
$50 when he first went into business.
now sell for $l.J0. OF course they have
higher priced doors but that is the ord-
nary door. The binds are also very
cheap. Al these supplies are bought IN
the West. but there has come a report,
in the past few days, that the price OF
the doors has advanced quite little. so
perhaps they can be manufactured more
chcaply here than there.
The dry-room where the flooring stock
is kept is a place shcathed on the inside
with tin and pipcd so that it can be made
s{inlng hot Then in the basement is the
place where they are equipped for box
making of all descriptions. They are
hoping the Augusta shoe factory VIII re-
open soon. thai they may furnish the
boxes.
The power for this plant is supplied by
A 80 horse power engine that is Il beauty,
ana is as strong as it looks. A little
dynamo furnishes the light fer the plant.
And just a word about the fuel. The
greater part of 1t comes from the differ
ent machines. From every machine over
the saw is a hood into which the sawdust
ana shavings is blown, being forced there
BY the air from the blower. This saw
dust is conducted into a general diStrib
utter that takes the dust from the rest,
ana blows the coarser into the furnace,
that is in the boiler.
In this department is the automatic
saw filing machine that files the small
circular saws
The attic is devoted TO the storing of
the surplus stock Of which there is now
but little, as they are behind on their or
ders and cannot hope 10 catch up with
them for a month, even by working their
hardest This factory was burned several
years ago. as the Augusta people will re-
member, and at that time there was
about $4,000 worth of stock on hand with
no insurance The factory would stand a
good chance of being saved now with the
complete fire system they have. 1t would
indeed be blow TO the East side and to
Augusta in general, 10 lose a factory that
employs 50 hands and uses yearly. nearly
>, O0o, 900 feet of pine in the manufacture of
60, 600 window frames and 10000 sashes
besides dealing out an immense amount
of lumber.