. Webb's New England railway and manufacturers' statistical gazetteer; containing an interesting sketch of every station, village and city on each railroad in New England, together with a statistical, historical and biographical account of their representative manufacturing establishments . located the pattern room, where workmen areconstantly engaged in cutting out new designs and bringingtheir work to the needed perfection of regularity and smooth-ness. In the next story below, are stored the finished , also, is a room for the tin workers, and a turning-roomwith its lathes. In the
. Webb's New England railway and manufacturers' statistical gazetteer; containing an interesting sketch of every station, village and city on each railroad in New England, together with a statistical, historical and biographical account of their representative manufacturing establishments . located the pattern room, where workmen areconstantly engaged in cutting out new designs and bringingtheir work to the needed perfection of regularity and smooth-ness. In the next story below, are stored the finished , also, is a room for the tin workers, and a turning-roomwith its lathes. In the second story we find the mounting-room, in which the stoves and furnaces are set up, a roomfor drying and grinding the sand used in the moulds, andmachinery for performing the nice work of finishing the ironpatterns. Here, also, we find the directors room, finishedplainly and neatly ; the sample room, containing a fine ex-hibition of the work done in the establishment; and the of-fice, which is a model of convenience. Reaching the basement, we come to the carpenters shop,in which the flasks and mould-boards are prepared. Nearby is the wire room, where the sand is brushed from the 414 Stations in the State of Massachusetts. A. J. HISCOX, MANUFACTURER OF ALL KINDS CAST STEEL HAND-CUT. LOWELL, MASS.,And No. 10 Central Street, Worcester, Mass. castings ; also a room for grinding those parts of the cast-ings which it is desirable should be made smooth. A partof this work is done in large revolving cylinders, and a largevulcanized rubber grinder, moving at the rate of 5,000 feetper minute, is also used for this purpose. The packing roomis also located in this part of the building and an elevatorcapable of sustaining four tons weight travels from the base-ment to the upper story. The engine which drives all the machinery of the estab-lishment was made by the Putnam Machine Company. Itis located in the basement, and derives its motive power froma Harrison boiler placed in a separate bu
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