The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-04

toilet room, and a large closet in which
are stored a supply Of the many diff
9erent varieties of handsome labels re-
Quired in the business.
In the rear of the offices is large
| room, a portion of which is taken up
| by the mammoth tanks which form a
I part of the plant for producing Pure
OKLA" palatable distilled water,
J which is one of the new features of the
! business as well as for distilling every
! drop of water which goes into the IA
/, nous cold blast ginger ale, and the
: other beverages manufactured on the
premises. All of the water used comes
from an artesian well which was
drilled through the solid rock, a dis
lance of $50 feet.
AS the water gushes from the we'll in
the sub-cellar, it is diverted at once
into the distilling apparatus, which is
heated by steam from the 125 horse
power boiler, which is also located in
the sub-cellar. After going through
the still, the water in the form of
steam Is forced through mammoth
pipe to point level with the roof of
the building. 1t then condenses and
descends slowly, taking in an abundant
supply of oxygen in the process, to the
mammoth tanks before alluded to. This
distilling plant has a capacity of 100
gallons an hour, and as 1t can be kept
in operation day and night, it will turn
out 2400 gallons day. "Pureoxia" will
be furnished to consumers in flve-gal-
lon carboys, and half-gallon bottles,
which are sterilized before being used.
From this room a large elevator de-
sends to the floor below, and also to
the basement and Sub-cellar In the
rear of the sales department on the
ground floor is mammoth storeroom.
Below this is the basement, the floor of
which Is just on a level with CONNER
cial street. so that teams can drive up
without difficulty to load or unload.
In planning the basement and sub
cellar, the utmost regard was paid to
the arrangements for absolute clean
iiness. The walls are Of marbleized
brick, and the floors are laid in solid
granolithic blocks, so that everything
may be washed down with hose and
sprinkling apparatus at frequent inter-
walls. In the south end of the base
ment Is the laboratory, where are man
ufactured all of the syrups and pure
fruit extracts used on the premises.
This is fitted up with mammoth steam
kettles, with capacity for boiling a
barrel of sugar at a time, and other
needed appliances.
Extending along the centre Of the
basement is row of machines for
washing bottles. BY a most ingenious
device, q pair OF steel fingers covered
with rubber are introduced into each
bottle, and as they revolve at great
speed, current Of water is forced in
and the bottle is most effectually
cleansed. These machines have a ca
pacity of some $4,000 bottles a day. An
other machine that attracts great at
tention by reason of It's ingenuity, gums
labels upon the bottles at the rate of
upwards of thousand an hour. An
otEer machine close by operates auto
matlcally and fastens what are known
as the crown shoppers over the mouths
of full bottles.
But perhaps the most ingenious of all
the mechanical devices is that for wir-
ing the corks In bottles. Formerly
this work had to be done by hand, and
II required an expert workman to do
40 dozen bottles day. With this ma
chine, so to 90 dozen bottles an hour can
be turned out with comparative ease.
In another part Of the basement is the
apparatus for steaming what is known
as export beer. The full bottles are
placed in compartments and subjected
TO heat OF from las to 100 degrees. This
kills the yeast germ. and beer that has
been so treated cannot sour
On the south side Of the basement is
the soda water apparatus, and the first
thing to attract attention is the Jumbo