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Title: The Industries of Dublin. Historical, statistical, biographical. An account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Industries
Publisher: London : S. Blackett
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entur)- that the regenerated spirit of mercantile enter-prise opened to trade many of the most important marts of the worldhitherto closed to our merchants. With each decade of years came newindications, with the steady progression of success on success, of the future self in the handsomely equipped counting-house, to which is attached theprivate reception offices, etc. Passing through a passage-way, on each sideof which are offices, into the asphalte yard at rear of counting-house, andlooking round, on all sides are seen workshops, warehouses, and stores;and high above our heads are raised the Kifiy chimneys of the distillery.The Iusy hum of business commingles with the bass sound of machinery.Crossing the asphalted yard, the first building, or rather the first divisionof a long row of buildings, reached is the mechanical shop, the roof andupper floor of which are carried on metal columns, thirty feet in height,cast by Messrs. Koss & Walpole, of Dublin. Entering this department,.
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eminence of Messrs. Powers firm. Time, that mellows its products, hasbeen equally generous to its business in spreading its opcralions over thecivilised world ; and the lever that forced the hand of old Time was theindefatigable and energetic characteristics of the (oundcis, and which werethe noblest legacies that the present proprietors, Messrs. James & ThomasIV.wer, inherited. The distillery is Imt a short distance from Chiist ChurchCathedral, which was founded in 1038 bySitricus, a Dani.sh king of Dublin.I he outward a-pect of the premises is strikingly in accord with the firmsfame. The frontage in Thomas .Street is built of white Glencullen granite, andthe clear style of ils architecture lends an impressive air of superiority tothe vicinity. On entering the hall to the tight the visitor finds hini- we find it beautifully built with while enamelled bricks, and replete withevery necessary for the purposes for which it is used, viz., a smithy, fittingand turning shop, etc. It con

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