. The Pharmaceutical era . THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. [June 28, 1900. ^ TRADE NOTES, ^ Manufactiirers Annoanceiiients, Notices of NewGoods, Stteclul Offers, and General Informa-tion for Enteriirlslng Drogr Buyers. A3IERICAN ENTBItPRISK IX LONDON. On Monday morning I had a walk over Messrs. Parlie, Davis & New Premises in Queen Victoria street (No. Ill), the widest street inthe city of London, and which intersects Cannon streetopposite the C. & D. office. Tlie premises are the thirdoffice and warehouse which the world-known Americanfirm have had since Mr. F. M. Fisk came to establisha Europea
. The Pharmaceutical era . THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA. [June 28, 1900. ^ TRADE NOTES, ^ Manufactiirers Annoanceiiients, Notices of NewGoods, Stteclul Offers, and General Informa-tion for Enteriirlslng Drogr Buyers. A3IERICAN ENTBItPRISK IX LONDON. On Monday morning I had a walk over Messrs. Parlie, Davis & New Premises in Queen Victoria street (No. Ill), the widest street inthe city of London, and which intersects Cannon streetopposite the C. & D. office. Tlie premises are the thirdoffice and warehouse which the world-known Americanfirm have had since Mr. F. M. Fisk came to establisha European branch of the business in London. Thisthird establishment is a flve-floor-and-basement build-in? which the G. P. O. occupies as a headquartersbranch of the Savings Bank, and to Messrs. Parke, Davis& Co. it was peculiarly well adapted because the floorswere practically undivided, thus enabling them to putin the fixtures without the expensive preliminary struc-tural alterations so common to London. The artistic. SKETCH OF NO. Ill QUEEN \ STltEET, E of the office is the first thing that strikes one onentering No. 111. The regulation heavy outer door ishere replaced with a handsome hammered-iron gate,and the glass door is of light oak with metal scroll-work in front of the glass. The light oak is seen tobe a feature of the fittings as one proceeds. Let mesay before going further that the basement is used asthe receiving and despatching department, and the groundfloor as the principal warehouse where town and countryorders are attended to. There is a lighting idea in thebasement which is worth inspection by those who haveto borrow light from street gratings. In this easethe gratings are filled with familiar prism glass, but anessential part of the scheme is a pair of glass doorswith small squares of glass pressed into slanted moving these doors to a certain angle the glasscatches the light from the prism overhead and deflectsit from the 45 degree angle int
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