Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-11

Richmond heaters equipped with Il
section boilers, which were installed by
| j. II. COgan & Co. The coal for heat
! ing purposes is taken in from the Com
mercial street side of the building by
means of a specially constructed chute.
| The electric lighting was installed by
| the Bennett Stoddard Co. and the
| Tungsten burner is used throughout
| the store. The goods are all taken in :
| to the store from the Commercial; street
side and arc distributed to the differ
| ent floor by means of the elevator.
| The store has one of the finest gar
ment rooms in the State on the second
| floor, located on the southern side and
| devoted entirely to ladies' suits and
ready made coats and furs. In the CEN
| ter are to he found shirt waists and
| ladies muslin underwear. The north
side is the home of the infants depart
ment ladies' fianncllCt goods, sweat
ars, wrappers, etc An entrance to
| this floor is also provided from the out
side stairway to accommodate those
who may desire to reach this floor
without going through the, store. on
closets for employees, also Il public
resting room, which is finely u,niShed.
Stairways running around the elevator
well furnishes easy access to each floor
| for those who do not care to take the
| elevator.
The southerly Of the three stores of
which the remodeled building is COM
posed was the Old Fuller Drug store
while the center was formerly the
! American Express Co. block and the
northerly store was at one time the
, F. A. & c. II. Brick dry goods store.
/ The third floor in what was the north
crly store is used for duplicate stock
| and here goods are also opened. This
| floor was orce the old Masonic hall and
| the old decorations of the ceiling have
remained unchanged. The alteration
room is located on the southwest cor
ner of the third floor and here from
! four to six ladies are employed in
! charge of Mrs. Eta Abbott, the COM
petent reftter employed by the con-
Germ. A smaller fitting room joins the
alteration room.
! The new Russell & Weston store
marks the oath wear of the business
! The two members of the firm, Wilbur
F. Russell & Nathan Weston began
! business at that time in little store
under the Conv House now occupied as
| a fruit store and in 1890 their business
had SO branched out that they pur-
chased the F. A. & G. II. Brick dry
goods store. occupying only the first
| floor of the Brick block. A couple of
years later they came onto the second
! floor, taking the offices formerly oc-
cupied by f. w Whitehouse. attorney
| Nine years ago the concern bought the
American Express 20. block and the
present year the third building was
added and all three stores combined
into one modern building. Nine years
/ ago the concern was Incorporated I'M
der the name of the Russell n Weston
. Co. and Herbert l.. Merrill added as
one of the directors. Mr.. Merrill who
| has full charge of the second floor has
/ been with the concern for 1e years en-
tering. its employ when boy. The
concern has at the present time % peo
! pie on its pay roll
modern workshop located to the
south of the Kennebec county jail upon
the old stable lot has just been COM
pleted at cost of about $4,000 and is
now ready for occupancy. The work
shop is 30x50. outside measurements
and consists of two stories and a base
ment. 1t is connected with the. Jail by
an underground passage 60 feet in
length through which the prisoners will
pass in going to and from their work.
The basement is to be used as stable,
the first floor as a storeroom and the
workshop proper is in the upper story.
The workshop is planned to accomo
date l2O men if necessary, and already
II prisoners from other counties have
been transferred to this workshop. The
contractor who built the workshop is