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complete outside tank and hydrant system gives adequate protection, in addition to that of the Cambridge Fire Department, with which  the buildings are connected by an automatic alarm. The automatic sprinkler system is installed throughout, and a fire brigade, composed of  eighty employees, is kept in constant training. In one of the buildings is a machine shop where a force of machinists is employed in making  necessary repairs and alterations. There is also a large paper warehouse in which some five hundred tons of printing paper are usually on hand. In this connection, some idea of the size of the business may be gained from the fact that the Press uses from 2000 to 3000 tons of paper a year.

The large and sunny offices occupy the second floor of the eastern wing of the main building. Here the heads of the various departments, with their corps of assistants, clerks, book-keepers, cashiers, and stenographers, have their desks. On one of the walls hangs a three-quarters-length portrait of Mr. Henry O. Houghton, Senior, painted by Robert Gordon Hardie in 1895, and presented to the Press by its founder. Leaving the counting-rooms, let us follow the manufacture of a book in all its stages.