The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-10-06
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George Adams with q force OF men
started Ethe excavation work this
morning for the aarge p5Iice building
to be constructed by the watson Com
pany, of this city at the corner OF
Main and Jeffersen streets The ex-
,cavation is TO be tsRentEtfouE feet
deep and the building VIII stand 149
feet above the level OF the street The
frontage on Main street Will be ninety
feet and seventy pafs fsJenerson street.
The material to be used in the con-
structlon will be Indiana limestone
and brick.
The building vixen oompdeted VIII
/ be the home of the West Virginia de-
parTment of the c6nsoltdation Coa1
Company, the NatioEiaI Bank of Fair
mont, the Fairmont and clarksburg
Traction Company and the Fairmont
Gas and Light Company.
There wild be two floors below the
street level. The snb:basement Wiz
contain the heating, pumping and ven
tflation apparatus.
In the basement proper will be the
storage rooms for the bank, tle tac-
tion company and coal company, the
wash rooms, bath rooms for the en-
gtneerinE department, the Stationery
department, rooms for the engineers
instruments and general storage
room. te
The NationaE Bank OF Fairmont will
have spacious quarters on the first
floor. The banking room will be six
ty-eight by thirt3-two feet. The cash
ier and vice president win nave prt-
waite Offices on this ttoor. TIE work
room Eor the bank force will be large.
The safety deposit vaults will be nine
by. fifteen feet and the bank vaults
win be ten by twenty 6our feet. The
entrance to the bank will be ON Main
street.
On the first floor also wiH be the
offices of the Fairmont Gas and Light
Company. Also the ticket Office. the
waiting rooms and .the baggage rooms
of the Fairmont anu harrisburg Trac-
ton Company.
The main entrance Will be ON Main
street at the corner next to the Bon
Ton. There will be two elevators at
the right OF the entrance, also stair
way.
ION the second floor will be the Of.
fees dIt the Fairmont and Clarksburs
Traction Company. Here will also be
an assembly room for the monthly
meeting of mine superfntendents and
nther meetings. A library for the en-
ploys OF the company will be fitted
up.
On the third floor will be found the
purchasing departments quarters
On the fourth floor the legal de-
rartment will have its offices. The
ofices of Ex-Governor A. B. Fleming
and Messrs. J. 2. and 9. L. Watson
will be on this floor.
C. w. Watson, president OF the Con
sonda4Ion Coal Company, and the
manager oi the West Virginia DEPART
ment OF the company will have Offices
ON the fifth floor. The telegraph and
shipping offices will be on tails floor.
The auditing department will be on
the sixth floor. The largest room IN
the DnEuanS Will DC. CAS "SA-~
Of the auditing force. The consulting
engineer, the assistant CONSULTING en-
Elneer, the chemist, the power and
mecaanicaI department will be housed
on the seventh floor.
Tie eighth floor viii be taken up
by the engineering department.
The deck house will be, on the roof.
It will be forty-seven by sixty feet
It will contain the photograph de-
par4ment. The equipment Tor this
room will be able to turn out 500 hluu
prints in a day.
above the deck house will be the
think nouee. Here the weather bu-
reau win be stationed and 1t will have
elevator appliances ami two tanks
ave by eleven feet which will furnish
the water supply for the building, In
an there will be one hundred and six
rooms in the building.
william Miller and Sons, OF Pitts
burg, are the builders. Joseph Stew
ems, of this city. Is overseeing the
work Tor the Watson company.