. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nt. We know our readers wouldlike to take a peek into the place, ani>therefore show some pictures of it niafledirect from phototfraphs. You understand that the office is on thefifteenth floor of the Home LifeInsurance Building, on Broad-way, and directly opposite theCity Hall and the New York en-trance to the Brooklxn four windows in the mainoffice look out on the citv fromChambers street, toward The four windows ofthe private sanctums look outover the roofs of six and sevens
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nt. We know our readers wouldlike to take a peek into the place, ani>therefore show some pictures of it niafledirect from phototfraphs. You understand that the office is on thefifteenth floor of the Home LifeInsurance Building, on Broad-way, and directly opposite theCity Hall and the New York en-trance to the Brooklxn four windows in the mainoffice look out on the citv fromChambers street, toward The four windows ofthe private sanctums look outover the roofs of six and sevenstor\- buildings and across theNorth River (Hudson), City and Hoboken. Up this great waterway alljtheEuropean steamers come andgo, a sort of a perpetual dress pa-rade for our benefit. Whenthe photographer located hisgun, the White Star steam-er Majestic and the CunarderI-Hia)tia were broadside on inthe stream, but by the time hegot ready tliey were gone andthe stream as bare of floatingpalaces as a duckpond. Thisview was taken out of the win-dow of Mr. Hills private Office of Ancu-s Sinclair. M.\ix Office,Looking fr ).m Pun ate Offices. 30 The general arrangement of the mainoffice, as seen from the entrance door, isshownon this page. On the cabinet (for drawings) in the cen-ter of the room can be seen the mailing lists, where the names of the sanctified arerecorded. The mailing room is fitted with shelvingfor holding copies of the paper, stationery,etc. (Inlv the transient mail is handled here. The regular mail amounts to sometons, and is sent to the Post Office direct bytrucks from the bindery on William street,where the paper is wrapped. Our en-graver, Mr. Donnell, occupies one end ofthe mailing room, where he has agood light and is far from themadding crowd. All the furniture in the offices isfinished in oak, and every modernconvenience is had for the correctand expeditious execution of thework in hand. The detail of workconnected with the maili
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