Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-28
$4,000 BUILDING U! |
For Commissary Store
house and Bakery
At National Home 70 !lll' Mll Soon
Be- Completed.
Building First Class In All II.
tquIpmeats- --Thfse Story.

The new cOmmiSSary store house
and bakery being built by F.. A. Doe
Amesbury. Mass. contractor ant
costing nearly $4,000 is nearly com.
pleted and will be occupied i'm abou
| three weeks. The building is o.
wood. three stories high, and is s4xs;
1T. and 80 it. high. setting on con-
crete foundation. The entrance t
the Office is at the north end through
vestibule with door at each enc
and three arched windows in the side
adding very much to the appearance
On the west side there is large plat
for for the receipt Of supplies, a double
door entrance to the receiving room
and a small door leading into the balt-
cry. The entrance to the stairway tC
the civilian employees dormitory is or
the east side. There are several
ventilatng shafts running up through
the building allowing the hot air tc
escape from the bakery and other
rooms. The building is painted yell
low with white trimmings.
The whole basement is covered by a
concrete floor, under which is laid
about $50 IT. q drain tile and there
is driveway~through the center in
all connected with the sewer, making
it sanitary store room.
On the west side are about a dozen
bins for the storage of all kinds! OF
vegetables. The floor in these bins
are two by three with " inch air
space. On the other side in the north
end, is a large cold storage room for
perishabfe goods. The coffee roast
ing room is next, and the apparatus
for this will be moved from the old
plant.
On the first floor 'front.', west side, is
the main office, a fine large room fin
ished in natural wood, hard wood
floors and steel ceilings and two hand
some chandeliers. outside at this
corner is the team scales for weighing
all supplies stored in this building.
On the other side are two cold stor
age rooms, one 30x17 feet for meats
and the other 12x17 feet for butter and
eggs The floors in these two rooms
are of non absorbent material These
cold rooms open into the butcher shop,
room 29X16 feet which is to be
equipped in first class manner for
handling these supplies. To the west
of this is the large room for receiving
and delivery of supplies, and an ele-
vator runs up through this room from
the cellar to facilitate the handling of
the supplies stored here. A meat track
also runs through this room from the
front platform to the refrigerator.
The south haff of this floor is used
as a bakery and is equipped with all
the latest devices. The first machine
in the corner is the dough mixer. and
directly over this on the second floor
is the sitter and -four bin. holding
about 20. barrels. The -four comes
down into the automatic scales. and
into this mixer Just back of this
machine, is the water tempering and
measuring tank which has scale
attached. and the water is conveyed
10 this mixer. through a large pipe
All this is driven automatically and by
electricity The cough next goes
through the kneading machine and
into the dividing machine. which car
be set for any sized loaf. next into the
moulding machine, and then the
ioaves are put into pans and carried
to the raising room. which is heated to
the proper temperature by pipes OF
steam coiled about the walls. There
is also in this bakery cookie ma
chine, a cake machine and an egg
beaten, all being j. II. Day Company $
make.
The ovens are on the east side OF
this room and person should see
them to fully appreciate their eapa-
biiities These ovens are two con
tinuous bake-ovens of the double deck
type, the upper or bread chamber Is
i12x10 feet interior clear space anc
the lower or cake chamber is 7X9 feet
| interior clear space.
The entire width of the ovens Is
about 2Sx16 feet and feet high anc
they set on a heavy concrete founda
ton. There Is a steam or hoe water
apparatus connected with each over
and is used for spraying the bread as
| il bakes thus keeping it soft and do
| ing away with the crust that formed
under the old method. There is also
an electric light attachment that car
! be turned into the oven allowing tht
bakers to see their food as it bakes
| About 26G0O common brick were uSeC
| in constructing the interior and some
| 900 white glazed bricks were used or
| the three outside walls. At the real
are the coal and wood rooms and the
ovens are fred from this side and al
ashes and waste material are dump
ed into concrete receptacle under the
outer edge of building under the fiooi
and can be taken away by the teams
without the usual dust and dirt as
formerly. These ovens We're built BY
Albert Schaller. oven makers Of ROch-
| ester. n. Y, and are excellent piece Of
workmanship.
On the second floor at the northeast
end is located the ice-chamber ex-
| tending over the meat and the butter
and egg rooms and is filed from the
outside. an endless chain arrangement
having been constructed so that the
| ice teams can drive up to the door and
unload and fill the chamber without
any trouble There is an air shaft
running down from this room to the
cold storage room in the cellar where
| many kinds of perishable goods are
kept. The rest of this floor will be
used for the storage Of all kinds OF
| food stuff.