The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-27
AT sARGENT's FACTORY.
Extensive Additions and Improvements
 to be Made

Extensive Additions and Improvements to be Made.
 | An enormous increase in the bulk of business done by Sargent & Co.,, the To- cal manufacturers of carriage and oth- CT hardware, particularly In the export trade, has made it necessary that ex- ready enormous factory and also that number of important changes be
 made in the buildings already in use.
 The principal building to be erected will be six stories in height. It will occupy the site of a famous old struc- ture erected in 1891 and known as the
 Pavilion. It was for many years used
 as a hotel and was the principal resort
 of the kind in the city at that time and
 it frequently had as guests wealthy
 plantation owners from the West h.
 dies. Many well known personages
 have spent more or less time in this
 building when it was a hostelry. The
 structure is entirely of stone and has
 for a number of years been used by
 the company as their box factory It
 is on the corner of Wallace and Water
 streets and<on the north side of Water.
 The new building to take its place will
 extend along Water street for a dis
 tance of 260 feet In the course of a few years it is intended that this build ing will be extended until it occupies
 the entire block from Wallace to East streets. The box factory will be in- stalled in the building as soon as com pleted and any unused space will be de- voted to general storage. The basement of this building will be an extremely deep one and the five stories above it will have high ceilings, affording plenty of night.
 Immediately across Water street, or on the south side, corner of Wallace street extension, there are at present a number of small wooden buildings. These are soon to be carted away and a new five-story structure of brick is to take the place. This building will ex- tend along Water street toward East for distance of 145 feet Immedia tely in the rear of this proposed new i've story building and on the wharfage ground will be erected another one story building, which will be devoted to the purposes of the boiler and machin- cry, the sawmill and the woodworking especially that part which Is used to turn out hardwood handles and other wooden articles. This build ing will be 250 by 50 feet. All of these buildings are to be as nearly fireproof l as possible and to be modernly equip- 1 ped and constructed in every particu- lar.
 Resides these new buildings some ala borate additions are to be made to | the buildings in use at the present | time. In fact, some of the additions | are in the course of construction and | others will be as soon as the necessary which has been ordered ar ives One of the additions is that to he south foundry. This new addition s to be 151 feet long, so that when add d to the present foundry that part of he factory will be 453 feet long and 100 eet in width. Another story, the sec md one, is being added to the old brass on Wallace street.
 On account of the difficulty in secur- ng the necessary materials it is quite likely that the work of erecting the pro- ,osed new buildings will not commence until about the first of September.
 It is said that the outlay to complete II this work will be over half a million Lollars.