. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . he oldest, is at thesame time one of the best equipped and mostefficient in the country. Its boiler room,with twenty-four boilers, its engine room,with its two pairs of Corliss, one Greeneand two Porter-Allen engines with the requi-site shafting, etc., and its dynamo room,with its thirty dynamos and all the para-phernalia incident to the electrical depart-ment, are the admiration of all who take aninterest in things mechanical and Hues, which cover a radius of five milesand which were constructed under the ad-mirable rules of the citys
. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . he oldest, is at thesame time one of the best equipped and mostefficient in the country. Its boiler room,with twenty-four boilers, its engine room,with its two pairs of Corliss, one Greeneand two Porter-Allen engines with the requi-site shafting, etc., and its dynamo room,with its thirty dynamos and all the para-phernalia incident to the electrical depart-ment, are the admiration of all who take aninterest in things mechanical and Hues, which cover a radius of five milesand which were constructed under the ad-mirable rules of the citys department, areconceded to be the most substantial audsymmetrically arranged of any city in thecountry. Its present officers are : Thomas Dolan, A. Crowell, A. J. DeCamp,.Secretary and General Manager. Directors:Thomas Wood,Henry Lewis, Richard S. Brock, o. Kroger,John Lowber Welsh,Joseph B. ,Clement I!. Newbouj,John Boyd, A. I). JlILLIARD. PHILADELPHIA AND POPULAR PHILADELPHLANS. am H. Hastings THE HASTINGS TRUSS COMPANY The Hastings Truss Company, No. 224 South Ninth street,Philadelphia, are the largest producers of Hard Rubber and LeatherCovered Trusses, etc., in the world. Established in 1S72, under thename of Hastings & Garson, their signal success is a triumph ofthat necessary combination of intelligence, mechanical skill anduntiring energy. From Buenos Ayres to Puget Sound, fromQuebec to antipodal Australia, their trusses are kept on sale bydruggists and surgical instrument dealers generally. In their special Application department orders to meet particu-larly difficult cases are frequently received from the principal citiesof South America, Spain, Portugal and even British India, Japanand China. The United States Government, through the MarineHospital Service, the Army and the Indian Department, hasfavored this Company with orders for large quantities of theirappliances. The various hernial lesions, often thre
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