Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-05

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OF their rapidly increasing business J..
f. Bauer & Co. and the julius Fecht
Cigar Co. have leased from w r. Daum
the modern manufacturing building to
be erected on the east side of South
Jefferson street between Main and the
power house alley. Plans for the new
building will be completed this week.
and the structure is expected to be
ready for occupancy about November
!. The cost of the building will aggre-
gate $4,000.
The building will be two stories In
height with basement 1t will have
sixty-two foot frontage on Jefferson
street and will be seyenty-six feet
deep, The firms will have the same
amount of space, Mr. Bauer occupying
the north half and Mr., Fecht the
south. In the center of the structure
will be an entrance fifteen feet wide.
The entrance will be an approach to
two stairways to the upper floor and
to the Offices on the first floor. The
building will be fitted with steam heat.
electricity, gas, city and artestan
water. 1t will be finished throughout
In oak and will be modern in every re.
spect,
Feeht's Building.
The basement of the south side of
the building will be used for the stor-
age OF leaf tobacco and the machinery
for the manufacture of smoking to-
bacco The casing bench will also &C.
cupy the basement. Mr. Fecht will
have a thoroughly modern Office,
which will measure twenty-four by
thirty-one feet. In the rear of the Of
fee, which is on the first floor, will
be the cigar stock room, the shipping
room and the smoking tobacco factory.
The second floor will be occupied by
the cigar factory proper and what per-
tains to 1T. Hot and cold water, clos.
cts and cloak rooms and the convent
ence of elevators will also be found
In Mr. Fecht's side of the new building
The force Of workmen will be in
creased materially.
The Candy Factory,
Mr.. Bauer's long experience In the
candy business has equipped him with
an excellent idea of how first class
factory OF CONNECTIONS should be built
He has spent much time in planning
his new quarters, and is confident they
will be second to none when com.
pleted Twenty-seven feet by thirty
feet of the basement will be devoted
to the chocolate dipping department.
The balance offthe basement will be
used by the boilers and steam heating
plant. The Office will be twenty-four
by twenty-seven feet and will occupy
the front of the first floor. This office
will be modernly equipped, even to
individual house telephones The ship
ping room and stock room will occupy
the balance Of the first floor.
The second floor will be used for the
manufacture of fancy candies and the
packing Of fancy boxes. This depart
ment will be equipped with modern
machinery, and an increase in the
working force. An electric elevator
and small hand elevator will connect
the basement with the second floor. A
twelve foot alley on the north and
east side and sixteen foot alley on
the south side provide excellent light
ing facilities and good accomm odations
for the unloading and loading of
| freight. Closets and cloak rooms and
hot and cold water will be found on
both the first and second floors,
Enthusiastic Over Building.
| Both Mr.. Bauer and Mr.. Fecht are
enthusiastic over the plans for the
| building. Their business, within the
past year, has increased to such an
extent that better accommodations and
facilities for handling 1t became ne