New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ales. Inrear of the office building is the machine and blacksmithsshof), three stories high and 60 by 30 ft. in dimensions. stories high. In this building are different machines formanufacturing hollow and red bricks, the upper floor beingused for drying. Attached to this building is the steamdrying room, 100 ft. by 42 ft., fitted with 14,000 feet ofsteam pipes. The bricks are transferred by machinery tothe drying room, where they remain 48 hours ; from thencethey are taken to the different kilns, of which there are six,40 f
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ales. Inrear of the office building is the machine and blacksmithsshof), three stories high and 60 by 30 ft. in dimensions. stories high. In this building are different machines formanufacturing hollow and red bricks, the upper floor beingused for drying. Attached to this building is the steamdrying room, 100 ft. by 42 ft., fitted with 14,000 feet ofsteam pipes. The bricks are transferred by machinery tothe drying room, where they remain 48 hours ; from thencethey are taken to the different kilns, of which there are six,40 ft. long and 24 ft. wide, with a capacity of 250,000 brickseach. The fire brick and tile department building is 350 and 240 ft. wide, three stories high. I his building isused exclusively for the manufacture of fire brick, blocksand tiles used in glass and gas works, blast furnaces, rollingmills, etc. The building contains a Hoffman kiln and sixsquare down draft kilns, with a capacity each of 40,000 to60,000 fire bricks. In this building is all the machinery. HENRY MAL RLR & SON. FIRE BRICK WORKS. The blacksmiths sho]) has two fires, and the machine sho])one lathe and two planers, with all necessary tools ; in thelatter shop is the electric dynamo room, furnished with adynamo of the Thomson-Houston pattern with a capacityof 500 incandescent lights of 16 candle power. The hol-low-brick building is 175 ft. long and 87 ft. wide, five storieshigh, and contains a Hoffman continuous kiln of 140 ft. inlength and 40 ft. in width on the lower floor. The upjierfloors are used for drying fire])roofing material ; four ele-vators transfer the material uj) and down. Attached tothis building is a shed 205 ft. long and 40 ft. wide, forstorage of fire clay, with a storage (?ai)acity of 5,000 brickmaking machine building adjoins this, also threestories high and 27 by 30 ft. in dimensions. ihe red brickdepartment building is 142 ft. long by 42 ft. wide, and three used in manufactu
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