The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-23
A PULMoToR INSTALLED.
At Office of Consolidated Co. for Use of
the Public of Barre.

With the completion yesterday OF
minor additions to the interior OF the
public waiting room, the work OF ar
ranging the Offices of the Consolidated
Lighting Co.. ON the south side OF u,
Aldrich building was finished. n
since the company occupied
quarters for the first time latt>S Che
winter, carpenters and artisans have
been engaged in the work of fitting up
the place in the most approved manner.
Now the company undoubtedly has the
finest suite of Office rooms OF its kind in
Vermont and with the recently opened
waiting room for the accommodation Of
patronssall provisions are made for car
rying on the Barre end OF the business
with minimum OF hindrance and in
convenience.
Conspicuous among the appurtenances
which go to make up the equipment of
an up-to-date electrical Office is the
Draeger pulmotor, which arrived at the
Barre headquarters yesterday. The pull
motor is designed to create artificial
respiration in extreme cases of asphyx-
iation, drowning, or smothering by
smoke, etc. The instrument has con-
ceded merit and has been used effective
y all over the country. Its purchase is
a part OF the Tenney corporations pol
icy of furnishing pulmotor in every
town where it has Offices. Entirely
gratis, it is available to be used for any
one who stands in ned of it. The pull
motor is to be left in the main Office
whenever it is not in use and may be
secured at any hour of the day or night.
Physicians f1remen and others have
been given permission to employ it
whenever an emergency arises.
The Consolidated Co.'S hearquarters
are divided into the public waiting room
on the Main street entrance, the public
lobby, entrance to which is gained at the
corner door, the main business Office, !
the cashiers room. accessible either |
from the front lobby or the waiting |
room, and enclosed in partition of (
grill work, Superintendent C. F. Millars |
private Office on the Elm street side. a |
business office and laying-in room for
the linemen at the rear, and well |
equipped lavatory The entire basement |
of the south side is devoted to storage
purposes, with a sizeable room par
titioned off for a stock deposit
A total floor space of 200 square
feet is utilized by the company on the
ground floor. The woodwork is finished
in natural birch with furniture to
match. In the waiting room, where
New England public pay station was
opened yesterday for the first time, four
,mple settees have been installed for the
OF the waiting public. Par
.itions separating the public station
rom the business offices are OF grill
work and plate glass,
Tho superintendent's office had been
qupped with fiat top desks and it is
here that the company's Barre volt
meters, recording meters and frequency
,lectric push buttons which commun-
ate with every section of the Offices
md even opens the doors leading to the
iublie lobby, operates from the super
ntendent's office. Every room is lighted
" the indirect system. the rays being
effected from the ceiling with result
ng elimination OF all shadows. The !
lghting system is not the least interest
ng feature of the new quarters and has
cen the subject of much favorable com
aent from visitors. la
Along the walls of the public rooms |
; well as the business offices are hung a
nlsrged photographs Of the corpora ]
ions holdings in central Vermont, the
election OF pictures includes the Burns i
lonument. the state house at Montpel- 7
n, j X. Pirie quarries, Boutwell,, b
lilne 4 Narnum quarries power plants
nd power sources at Middlesex, Bolton, p
Iarshfeld, Montpelier. and the Cory, h
rost & Deavitt plants. so called, on the 9
There are also interior views !
several power stations and a large
icture of the company's car barns. The
ictures were made by A. N. Troup. i
Pretentious lamp and fuse cabinets d
re also located on the first floor. In (
he lamp cabinet are all OF the size and "
stem lamps used by the company and A
icilities for testing them before they G
ave the Office On Elm and Main B
reefs, the offices have an aggregate of j
senty-iive feet of window display. each
splsy space measuring three feet in
idth. They are bordered by brass rail
gs and draperies of green velour. At 1
e present time, the company is DEM
istrating two types Of meters to which
e attached carbon and tungsten lamps, nj
e idea being to illustrate a striking al
mparison of the saving involved in 81
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