Electric bells and tubes afford telephonic communication with every department. Steam heat radiates throughout the entire building, and a reel of hose attached to a water supply pipe is in readiness upon each floor in case of fire. The length of steam, gas, and water pipes throughout the building is estimated at five miles. The telegraph call-box signals for the messenger, and the telephone, aids in the execution of the advanced method of reducing the detailed requirements of a large business to a perfectly controllable system in its management. The engine supplying the motive power for this establishment is located in the basement. With exception of this room, partitioned off for the engine, the entire space of the basement of this large building is used for receiving and storing raw materials used in the manufacture of both straw and fur hats. Here the visitor's imagination may indulge in a wide scope, and his thoughts wander away to many foreign lands, for in this store-room are found the products of nearly every country in the world. China is seen in its strong and durable straw plaits; Japan, a new and formidable rival, shows its handsome goods; far-off India contributing its products, while England, France and Belgium send their choice plaits; Italy, Germany, and Spain are represented, as also South America, Canada, and our own United States, while the Hawaiian Islands make a pretence at competition with the world in the making of straw plaits, by submitting creditable specimens of their native products. Furs for making derby hats are also here, sent by Russia, France and Germany. In observing the firm's connection with countries quite encompassing the entire globe, some idea of the extent of this business may be realized. Thus a fair description is here given of a thoroughly equipped hat factory existing in Baltimore, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the reader may realize by comparison the advance of improvement from the last decade of the eighteenth century to the commencement of the last decade of the nineteenth century. THE END. The Hatter and Furrier PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT _7 Washington Place,--=NEW YORK=_, Is the LARGEST AND HANDSOMEST HAT AND FUR JOURNAL IN THE WORLD, and the only journal in its line that gives full and reliable information upon the trades represented by its title. Each number comprises Editorials upon the Trade Styles and Colors, Treasury Decisions, Reports of Meetings, Original Correspondence from Trade Centers, etc., etc. The FASHION PLATES issued each season are superior in design and execution to anything of the kind in this or any other country, and are alone worth the full price of subscription. The =FUR DEPARTMENT= contains special information and reports upon all matters connected with this important industry. All patents of interest to the Hat, Fur and allied Trades are published and illustrated as soon as issued. =ALL FOR $2.00 PER YEAR.=