The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . tments. The ninth floor is occu-pied by club rooms and a restaurant. Four passenger elevators, built bythe Sprague Company of New York City, afl^ord ample accommodation to-the tenants and visitors to the building, while freight elevators are locatedin the rear. The electric and heating plants are located in a separate building backof the main structure, and the former is one of the largest isolated plantsin Massachusetts. It comprises three direct connected units of 150 horsepower each. The engines are of the Armington & Si
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . tments. The ninth floor is occu-pied by club rooms and a restaurant. Four passenger elevators, built bythe Sprague Company of New York City, afl^ord ample accommodation to-the tenants and visitors to the building, while freight elevators are locatedin the rear. The electric and heating plants are located in a separate building backof the main structure, and the former is one of the largest isolated plantsin Massachusetts. It comprises three direct connected units of 150 horsepower each. The engines are of the Armington & Sims pattern. Thestorage battery of 2,400 ampere hours capacity runs the elevators andlights after p. m. The capacity is 4,800 candle-power incandescentlights. The switchboard is one of the finest in the State. It is made oftourteen white Italian marble slabs, and is equipped with all the latestdesigns for circuit-breaking and switches, also meters for registering of current used by each line in the building. It was built by the: Cf •*«&?. ?
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