The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-31

this room is the room Of the chief clerk,
Avery Clark. f. G. Fiske, the land
A., and claim agent, also has his headquar-
tiers IN the room. Adjoining MI.
| Flske office Is the large water and
| nre-proof vault of the company, where
all the corporate deeds, records Of the
company and it's leased lines land til
Ties, agreements, leases, maps, lawsuit
| papers, claims, insurance and tax pa
| pers are filed. The walls of the vault
are about three feet thick and are alb
! solutely fire and waterproof. If the
| records which are contained within It's
walls should be destroyed, the company
would be all at sea, and would practi-
cally have to begin anew. All the i'm
portant records of business transact
| lions of the company are filed there,
and altogether there are over thirty
thousand envelopes containing papers
relating to different subjects. The IL
brary bureau system of filing is used,
making it possible to find any desired
record in the vault in about half min
ute.
Right next to this vault is the vault
OF the treasury department, containing
the many millions Of dollars Of the COM
pany. The treasury department is
composed of three large rooms, viz. the
cashier department. statistic depart
ment and the private offices of the
treasurer Twelve besides the treasur
err are in the two departments, The re-
ce1pts of the company last year were
about $36000,000 and this year Treasur-
Ell Squire said the receipts would reach
above $40,000,00O
N. A. Wilcox, the general freight
agent, has two rooms on the second
floor, one given to his chief clerk. Di-
vision Freight Agent Cogswell, Special
Freight Agent futile, Advertising
Agent Bromley, General Manager
Chamberlain, Passenger Traffic Mana
ger Conner, all have offices on the Sec
ond floor. These officials each have
three or four clerks and two or three
separate rooms The entire fourth
floor is occupied by the accounting de-
partment, of which Comptroller Koch
ersperger is at the head, S. G. Fleet
wood, f. B. Bartine and j. Mackrille
are auditors of different departments.
Over half the people employed in the
building are with this department,
The chief of the electrical depart
ment, N. H, Heft, is located ON the
third floor. In the basement of the
building the batteries which operate all
the clocks on the system are stored
Hundreds of them are lined along the
shelves, and the time in every station
and office on the whole system is exact
ly the same, being worked by the same
generator. The batteries are SO ar
ranged that they can never turn each
other out. The great elevator is run by
electricity and is absolutely safe from
any accident. 1t is the largest passen-
ger elevator in the city.
The pay department is under Pay
master George w. Little, now in Eu-
rope, and is situated on the first floor,
near the south entrance on Meadow
street. All the help In the building,
excepting the officials receive their en-
veopes Saturday night, and the pay
master and all bis assistants are kept !
very busy dealing out money, for when |
they are not in the building they are on t
the road somewhere in the paymaster's |
car.
The offices of W. A. Waterbury, F. C. |
Payne r. G. Curtis, j. p. Hopson,
George A. Morton, are all located on
floor ore.
On the third floor are the offices of
Henry A. Bishop, F S Curtis w. III.
Elliot, r. f. Pratt and r. f. Pratt, Jr.,
w. S. Compton and N. Fl. Heft. These
men employ on an average of six as
;istants each.
The public office hours at the building
ire from until g.