an engine, of 100 horse-power, built by
the American Engine Co., Bound Brook, N.J. It drives all the machinery
of the establishment, including drug mills, pill machines, packing
machinery, a large number of printing presses, folding machines,
stitching, trimming, and many other machines, located on the different
floors, and used in the manufacture of medicines, books, pamphlets,
circulars, posters, and other printed matter. On this floor is located
steam bottle-washing machinery, and also the shipping department. Here
may be seen huge piles of medicine, boxed, marked, and ready for
shipment to all parts of the civilized world. A large steam freight
elevator leads from this to the floors above.

MACHINERY.

[Illustration: Postal, Advertising, Wrapping and Mailing Departments.]

In addition to the power engine just mentioned is a 25 horse-power
upright engine for running the dynamo for electric lighting, with a
capacity of three hundred (300) lights. This engine and dynamo were also
manufactured for us by the American Engine Company of Bound Brook, N.J.
There is a small dynamo with a capacity of one hundred (100) lights used
during the day to light safes, vaults, dark closets and hallways. All
the offices and rooms of patients are supplied with electric light, as
well as illuminating gas. An automatic Worthington pump is also located
in the basement. This supplies the elevator and sprinkling system. The
sprinklers come into play only in case of fire, when they are
self-acting. This pump at its best is capable of forcing nearly two
hundred gallons of water a minute. There is no place in which pure water
is more desirable than in the manufacture of medicines. Our New York
filter could, if such a large quantity were ever required, furnish the
Dispensary with one hundred (100) barrels of pure water a day. Just
beyond the south wall and buried several feet under ground is a
boiler-shaped tank capable of storing ten thousand (10,000) gallons of
medicine.

MAIN FLOOR.

The main or second floor of the Dispensary is entered from Main Street,
through a hall leading from the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
On this floor are located business offices, counting-room, the
advertising department and mailing rooms. Large, fire-proof vaults are
provided for the safe keeping of books, papers, and valuables, whilst
the counting-room and offices are elegantly finished in hard woods, and
present a beautiful and grand appe