St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-02-14
OPENING MARCH 14-15.
The New Big Store and Garage of
The G. III. GOss CO., to be Thrown
Open For Inspection.

The G. III. Goss Co., to be Thrown
Open For Inspection.
The C. H. Goss Co. have just
completed a handsome three story
brick block at the corner of Central
and Summer streets. This thorough
ly modern structure has an 80 foot
frontage on Central street and a 80
foot frontage on Summer street
with an attractive entrance from
either side.
This large store has been erected
to handle the large volume of bust
which has steadily developed year by
year for the past 15 years as the re-
suit of giving to their customers a
quality article and a square deal,
also heating and plumbing installa-
lions of most satisfactory nature.
This company have for years been
leaders in the heating and plumbing
line, catering to the largest as well
as the smallest jobs of this nature,
and their reputation for this high
class work spreads over an area ex-
tending from the borders of Maine
to New York state and from the
Canadian line to the northern Mas
sachusetts boundaries.
Their stock of hardware is new,
up-to-date and complete and offers
to purchasers a much larger assort-
ment and at a lower figure than can
be found elsewhere north of Boston.
On basement floor of this block are
located the large boilers furnishing
heat for the whole plant. Here also
is found the stock department where
a large and complete stock of pipe
and plumbing fittings, cooking uten-
sils, ETC., is stored. A new electric
pipe cutting and threading machine
has been installed on this floor.
A warehouse to facilitate the
storing and handling of car lot ship
ments of piping, closet and bath
room combinations is maintained by
this company on Granite Square.
To provide desirable quarters for
company employees who wish to eat
their luncheon in the building, a
room has been fitted up with table,
chairs, ETC., adjoining the boiler
room.
On the Street Floor.
The first floor, or street floor,
presents to the human eye a most
beautiful store frontage built up of
Id1l CO1uuu6 D6IW60A WHICH,
are large heavy plate glass windows
extending along the entire frontage
on Central and Summer streets.
Back of which vast, broad,
up-to-the-minute, modernly fur
nished store can be viewed. This
big store with it's highly polished
hard wood floors, metal ceilings ar
tistically decorated, handsome cleo
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cases and new stock cabinets, with
the, overhead track cash carrying
system, is a most fascinating and
interesting sight to view.
This floor offers many suggestions
and ideas to the tasty housewife as
here is found a modernly furnished
ing ranges and all the latest cooking
utensils desired or required for
this department of the home. Here
cooking demonstrations will be CIV
en- during the grand opening days
and every lady should be present to
receive samples.
Elaborate and artistic bathrooms
also form an interesting part of this
floor, showing the latest designs and
fixtures.
The display of hardware, includ-
ing almost every article in this
line, is openly exhibited by means of
the very newest show cases and
show cabinets.
At the rear of this floor an en-
trance is gained to the work shop
where supplies and work benches
are provided for the large force of
plumbers and steam filters.
Between this great store and the
garage are located the Offices Of both
branches, through which access may
be made to the street floor Of the
garage.
The Garage.
The garage proper is 10 feet in
length with a street frontage of rs
feet and consisting of three floors
This garage was opened to the pub
lie on May 10, 1910. The marvellous
growth and development of this
plant soon outgrew it's then seem
ingly large quarters, and now the
company has been forced to occupy
the entire second floor of the new
block just completed, giving them
an additional area of space 80 80
feet.
The garage basement is used
wholly for storing cars and is es-
pecially adapted to this purpose, be-
ing kept at a uniform temperature |
during the wineer months.
The show car sales room is situat- |
ed on the garage street floor
and here can be seen the
very latest creations in mortordom-
On this floor are exhibited the 1912
this floor are exhibited the 1912
models of the famous Packard and
Mitchell automobiles. These mod
els are so exhibited that any and
everyone may make a careful and
rigid inspection from mechanical
and luxurious standpoint.
The most desirable auto storing
space on this door IL rented to local