. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . d seven wings, six of them beingfifty-two by thirty-six feet and one fifty-two by forty-four feet,each of these being devoted to the setting up and delivery ofmachinery made in the corresponding department, and areall furnished with powerful cranes for handling the heavierarticles, while between the wings are spaces for the tempo-rary accommodation of castings used in each from the east side of the main building are fivesmall wings, twelve feet square, suitably fitted up as offices 208 FITCHBURG, PAST AND PRESENT. for the fore
. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . d seven wings, six of them beingfifty-two by thirty-six feet and one fifty-two by forty-four feet,each of these being devoted to the setting up and delivery ofmachinery made in the corresponding department, and areall furnished with powerful cranes for handling the heavierarticles, while between the wings are spaces for the tempo-rary accommodation of castings used in each from the east side of the main building are fivesmall wings, twelve feet square, suitably fitted up as offices 208 FITCHBURG, PAST AND PRESENT. for the foremen of the various departments. The largewings are furnished with folding doors opening into a road-way which extends the whole length of the shops to themain line of the Fitchburg Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel linewhich passes by the southern end of the companys works, sothat a machine, when complete, can readily be transferred tothe cars and freighted without delay to its destination. Atthe extreme south end and connected with the main machine. WORKS OF THE PUTNAM MACHINE COMPANY. shop is located the blacksmith shop with its forges and heavyhammers. The power used in driving the machinery of the works isthree large, powerful, automatic cut-off steam-engines, oftheir own manufacture. Parallel with the main machine shop, and divided from itby the roadway on the west side, are located the several ironand brass foundries, pattern and box shops, store-house, andother buildings for various purposes, all arranged systemati-cally for the saving of labor and convenience of supervision. IRON INDUSTRIES. 20U The classes of machines manufactured are known andtermed machine shop and special railroad tools. It may bementioned as an indication of the extent of their business,that the first two fully equipped machine shops in China werefurnished throughout by them with engines, shafting andhangers, lathes, planers, drills and other tools complete. For fourteen years after its incorporation, unt
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