Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-12-13
Will ENLARGE,
POTTERY PLANT
Abel Hanson Planning $16,-
600 Addition to Big Works
in This City.
OFFICES AND SHOW ROOM
$25, 900 Building to Plant a,
Fords-- Made Necessary by
increased Business.
OFFICES AND SHOW, ROOM

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Plans are being completed by Ar
chitects ]. X. Jensen and G.. w
Brooks for q modern fireproof fac
tory building to be added to plant
No. 2 Of the Fords Porcelain Works,
at Lehigh avenue and Stockton
street, of which Abel Hansen is the
proprietor. 1t is to be an attYac-
tive structure. 1t will extend west
from the present plant and will be
constructed of brick at a cost of ap-
proximately $4,000. Aside from
this $4,000 addion Ia under way
at plant No. ! at Fords.
The new building at plant No. 2
will be 234 feet long, forty-hve feet
wide and will be two stories high
The ground floor will contain three
Offices and lavatories on the easterly
end, an attractive main entrance
with spacious show room to the
left, a large wareroom and a garage
to accommodate four cars at the
westerly end The upper floor will
be used exclusively for the pressin 8
department. The offices will be
spacious and attractive in finish
There will be two general offices and
a private sanctum for the proprietor
These rooms will be brilliantly light
ed with electricity and furnished
with a steam heating system.
The main entrance will be elabor-
ate In detail. Just beyond the outer
door there will be vestibule, with
double step leading to the Offices,
showroom and wareroom, The show
room will be 1890 feet in size, and
like the offices, will be we'll finished
on the interior. The greater part OF
the first floor will be devoted to ware
room purposes. The garage will be
twenty-five feet and four inches by
forty-three feet In size and will be
fitted with regulation double swing
ing doors.
AT the easterly end of the first
floor and to one side of the offices
there will be constructed a heavy
vault, 12x12 feet in size. 1t will
be securely erected, for the purpose
of protecting from fire and burglar
ly, valuable papers, plans, and docu-
ments Of the firm. There will be no
partitions on the second floor, that
being devoted entirely to pressing
purposes.
The new work underway at the
Fords plant includes several build
ings, three kilns and new machinery.
The main new building how under
construction is 4ox160 feet in size
and two stories high. 1t is to be
fireproof In construction.
These additions have become nee
essary by reason OF the constant
growth of the firms business. At
the present time it has enough work
On hand to carry 1t into next spring.
Orders are plentiful from most parts
of the country, particularly from the
east hereabouts, from the middle
west, southern and New England
states Orders have been received to
install its wares in come Of the lar
gest buildings in the metropolis, in
cluding the Seaman's Institute, the
Vanderbilt building the Baron
Hirsch plumbing school and a post
office building in the Bronx. 1t has
also supplied urinal stalls for the
Hackensack school and the Gram
mar school in this city.
New wares are constantly being
made at the works. The start was
made with the manufacture of por-
celain wash trays Kitchen sinks
were later manufactured. Then lava
tories, later urninal stalls, which are
proving a big success and are in
great demand, and now the latest
article is bath tubs. Experiments
are underway for the manufacture
of other household fixtures, which
will be manufactured when the new
additions have been completed.
The works were founded by Abel
Hansen in the fall of 1905. Opera
tion was started In the spring of
1907 In what is now known as plant
No. / at Fords. 1t was opened with
about eighteen men. It's capacity
and general equipment was doubled
in 1910. With the completion of the
new addition the plant will
Asmade to rank the largest works Of
its&ind in this section. 1t will furn-
ish employment for from 120 to $50
men. SPfant No. 2, formerly known
as the Perth Amboy pottery works,
was taken over by the Fords Porce-
lain Works about three years ago.
Work has constantly been increasing
there until the present planned ad-
dition has become necessity. It's
construction will more than triple
the capacity of the works.
The principal offices of the con-
Germ are at plant No. 2, at Lehigh
avenue and Stockton street. The
New York showroom and offices are
at 103 Park avenue. The firm has
also offices at 139 N. Clark street,
Chicago, and at 141 Milk street,
Boston. 1t expects to have Offices in
San francisco before the end OF the
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