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On the second day we procured a pass to go throvigh the 

 General Electric Works. We were not permitted to take our 

 cameras along, because the G. E. people have patent machinery 

 which they fear emissaries of a rival company will get photographs 

 of, and infringe upon. The office building of G. E. Works is 

 about the size of the New York Post Office, and has an office force 

 of about 500. The total number of people employed is about 16,000. 



They have about 120 shops where everything connected with 

 electricity is made from the minutest part to the largest turbine 

 motor. The smallest shop occupies three acres of floor space, and 

 the largest eleven acres. This building is 300 feet wide by 600 feet 

 long. 



Passing from one building to the other you see the various 

 parts of electrical appliances made and to enumerate the very many 

 different things would take up too much space — some of the most 

 notable ones are electrical mine engines which resemble very 

 much the steam engines formerly in use on the New York "L" 

 roads, large turbine motors about 20 feet in diameter and weigh- 

 ing about twenty tons each — one can see these made from start 

 to finish, as well as seeing them put to the test, because everything 

 which leaves the shops completed, must go through the test to 

 see if it works properly ; these larger pieces are all moved b) 

 electrical traveling cranes, which are powerful and strong enough 

 to lift as much as one hundred tons; all the shops are of brick or 

 concrete and fireproof. They have their own emergency hospital 

 as well as fire department. 



The third day we secured a pass to go through the American 

 Locomotive Works; this is not so extensive as the G. E. Works, 

 but yet it is the largest probably in the world ; they employ about 

 6,000 people and have about twenty shops. These are very long — 

 some as long as two city blocks; here is built everything for the 

 smallest as well as the largest locomotive in the world, as well as 

 the largest automobile ever built; space will not permit any de- 

 tailed account of the various shops. 



The balance of our time was spent taking trolley rides to Sara- 

 toga Springs where we partook of the various waters — Saratoga 

 Lake — Balston Lake — and some minor places of interest to a sight- 

 seer. 



