. l the buildings had been built withheavy brick walls, strong enough to sustain theweight of the floors, some of them being as thickas thirty-six inches. In this new building, it was decidedto use a steel frame with light walls, after the fashion of the modern sky-scraper, and with large windows to give all thelight possible. This building has been completedand is fully occupied. It is of slow-burning con-struction throughout, equipped with rapid eleva-tors and modern in every detail. The top floor isused as a brass foundry, equippe
. l the buildings had been built withheavy brick walls, strong enough to sustain theweight of the floors, some of them being as thickas thirty-six inches. In this new building, it was decidedto use a steel frame with light walls, after the fashion of the modern sky-scraper, and with large windows to give all thelight possible. This building has been completedand is fully occupied. It is of slow-burning con-struction throughout, equipped with rapid eleva-tors and modern in every detail. The top floor isused as a brass foundry, equipped with the mostmodern appliances. The additional space alloweda rearrangement of the departments in the mainportion of the plant, which relieved the congestion,and has given every department room enough tocarry on its work in comfort. New times, new methods, new manners !There had been for several years occasionalrumors of combinations of hardware manufac-turers, which had been as regularly denied, untilit was generally believed that P. & F. Corbin would.
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