t,'y. -1. i ''' vnr ?Vt '-"' " EVBOTM PXJ3U0 pIpDOUIJr-PHlLADBLPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921 4. iLJ and Organ at'9, -9:15 and I ,. . " ' ; . - ?4?n.te"tu. WANAMAKER'S THIS STORE WILL E CLOSED AliL DAY MONDAY WANAMAKER'S WEATHER Umclilcd 1 '1 vl It lt What a Wontfafhl Stored Wanamaker' s ! I iVsJ's Every Day Is a Day Going By ; What thy hand findeth to do, do it with $y might, and do not pot off until' tomorrow ;. what should be done today, even be it true that you wore born with a disposition to , postpone, which you always taught yourself to believe was precaution, but which you have since found out to be simply plain, old-fashioned,, easy-going procrastination, ithabigP R O, When you have a (hing to do DO ITL and get it off your mind. 1 See today's new things that arrived here yesterday. Signed .301 S?, 1021. pmrnfa Interesting Facts About The Store A Great Bookstore All that mankind has done, thought or gained or been, it lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Boohs. They are the ehoian possession of N 0LOVER of books can afford to pass through Wanamaker's with out giving himself a .taste of that charm which a really good bookstore always possesses the true bookish charm that characterizes the one built up here. A many-sided store this; for with all its wide range of beautiful, luxurious and rare books the biblio maniac's delight it is also indisput ably a "popular" bookstore, having literature for every taste, from the latest novel to the rarest works of old authors arid printers. Here "many men of many minds" rub elbows, hunt their old favorites and find new. Those interested in foreign publications will find them on the tables in this bookstore almost as soon as they are published abroad, and all magazines are ready on publication day. HPHE new Wanamaker A Store occupies an en tire city block in the heart of Philadelphia, next to City Hall, covering an area 480 feet long and 250 feet wide. It rises to a height of 247 feet above the sidewalk, being twelve stories in height above ground and two stories deep below the street. Foundations extend 12 ieet below this, or 46 feet below the street. Total height From sub - basement floor to roof, 281 feet. Total floor area Near ly 45 acres, or 2,000,000 square feet. This would make a path 250 feet wide and 1 1-3 miles long; or, if laid out on Market Street, would cover its width from Delaware Avenue out to Forty-fourth Street. Style of architecture Roman-Doric. Interior construction Concrete and marble on a framework of steel. The walls of each story are carried independently. Any one of the stories could be removed without disturbing the other stories. Exterior Maine gran ite. Fire protection The building is divided into three cross sections by two fire walls running from Thirteenth Street through to Juniper'Street. These three sections are known as "Market," "Central" and "Chestnut." Openings atr three points through each wall, on each floor, are provided with double fire doors, which close automatically in case of fire. In these walls are spacious fire towers two on Thirteenth Street and two on Juniper extend ing the height of the build ing and each containing two stairways; these are always lighted and open, and are accessible instant ly from any part of the Store. Elevators Fifty pas senger elevators, located in double banks in the fire walls, and sixteen freight elevators. All are of the "plunger" type, direct hy draulic; which means that the plunger piston travels up and down through a hole drilled through the solid rock directly under the elevator to a depth corresponding with the height that the elevator travels. The plunger in each instance rests upon a cushion of water which, in its descent, it displaces, and hence cannot fall Be sides these there are ten electric dumb - waiters, The Largest Dining Room in the City From two to three thousand visitors eat -luncheon daily in the Great Crystal Tea Room of the Wanamaker Store and its adjoining rooms ,wore than lunch at any four of the largest hotels. This is the largest dining room in Philadel phia, and one of the largest in the world, covoring f!as it does a floor area of 22,000 square feet and eating easily 1400 diners at a time. It derives its name from its remarkable fighting effects, received from the rows of beau tiful crystal reflecting chandeliers suspended gmu me ceuing Between we great commns. The Tea Room is the chief of a remarkable series of handsomely appointed rooms situated on the eighth floor : The Great Crystal Tea Room, the Imperial Blue Room, the Coronation Red Room, the Golden Jubilee Room, the French Ban quet Salon and the private Mirror Room. Their windows command a splendid view of the city and the Delaware River. On the hottest Summer day a cool breeze blows through. An orchestra plays throughout the luncheon period. And "Wanamaker Tea Room fpod" is a synonym for all that is delicious in the ar,t of cookery. from he stockrooms di rect to the selling floors; and four double spiral chutes, from the top of the Store to the sub-basement all of these for the quicker handling of mer chandise. Power and light for the Store These are fur nished from the outside, by means of the gigantia Wanamaker power plant on Ludlow Street, near by. Installed in this plant are: Eight 600 horse-power high-pressure water-tube boilers. Three 500 horse-power vertical compound steam engines. Two 1500 horse-power vertical compound steam engines. Four high-duty pumps, equal to a capacity of 9000 gallons per minute, for the elevator service; the house service pumps are in addi tion. A refrigerating plant consisting of two 75-ton ice machines and other paraphernalia necessary to a high-class refrigerat ing plant, furnishes cold air for the kitchen and the fur storage vault. For the fur storage alone the ice machine produces, in cold, the equivalent of one hun dred and fifty tons of ice daily, to keep the tempera ture of the vault at the de sired point. The electric plant has a capacity of 8050 kilowatts, or 27,700 amperes, of cur rent the equivalent of 5500 arc lights, or more than 55,000 incandescent lamps of 18 candle-power. The plant is easily capable of developing 25 per cent more than these figures. The Down Stairs Store In this Down Stairs Store the need of many years has been filled for Philadelphia p e o p 1 e their need of a different kind of low-priced store from any existing, in which they might buy for little money, yet under the pleasantest of conditions, really dependable mer chandise. The Down Stairs Store occupies the whole of the floor below the Street Floor, and also its gal leries. It has three great, straight, open aisles through from Chestnut Street to Market Street, and other aisles crossing these. Light, ventilation and cleanliness were as sured by instructions to the engineers in charge to leave nothing undone in behalf of the comfort of customer and employe, ' --' s.. " Baft .lW rf, i ' li,l Ik-CKe'H I ' .rQ" ni Sms rfM Wf S iVn' I j 9S A' " ill., hi ,!'' , '! ; -I S 'l!f.i. ""'-, 4 V ' ,'f I..1 High and Airy as a mountain peak is the top of this great Store. And one feels something of the exhilaration of the mountain top on coming into it. The cool marble floors, the lofty ceilipgs, great windows, and,, above all, the ever-fresh, pure air make it a "different" kind of Store. People tell us they can shop here for hours with po sense of fatigue, whereas a very short time in most other stores ex hausts them. Nothing uses up one's vitality more quickly than impure air. The air in this store is the next thing to outdoors. On the lower floors it is completely changed every six minutes. The stale air is removed by suction as the fresh air comes in. It is not only fresh air, but washed air. It is passed through an air-wash that cleanses it of all dust and impurities. This fresh, clean washed air, together with the lofty ceilings and great windows of the up per floors, and the great air-shaft in the center of the building, give the shopper at Wanamaker's an atmosphere that is ex hilarating rather than exhausting. As summer comes on, the coolness and freshness of the air in this great building is even more apparent. Have You Seen These $75,000 Tapestries p a Hurried away from de struction in the French Revolution hanging in an old chateau in Nor mandy for more thun a century shown now in the Wanamaker Store thiB is a history in brief of the flve remarkable old tapestries that fill the walls of the Gobelin Salon on the Fifth Floor. They were woven after the cartoons of the cele brated artist, Dubreuil, in one of those Interesting old Paris ateliers, after ward merged by Louis XIV into the Gobelin tap estry works. To save them from harm or confiscation in the French Revolution they were tucked away in Normandy where they stayed until we brought them to America. The tapestries picture five episodes in the. life of the mythological goddess Diana, and are considered so remarkable for their fine workmanship, as well us their history, that they are valued at $75,000. New medallions w ere' woven into the borders after 1793. They are quite lurge, measuring from 8x12 feel to 11x16 feet, and are splendid examples of this beautiful old art of woven picture - making, which came into fashion when Queen Matilde, in the eleventh century, cele brated in needlework the victories of her husband, William the Conqueror. Lovers of tapestries will find a number of other in teresting o 1 d examples hanging about the Store in the Jewelry Store, on the Main Floor; in the In terior Decorating Rooms, on the Fifth Floor, and elsewhere. Each has a history and deserves a story to itself! 1 A, I I K ttjf t. 1 41 "1 - Jin is .1 C ml' cr 4 It a JL . )t! . M. -r? it i ., ;-(Ajty . ,i? k1, . $ nfa -ci -.Jt. --.'A-. wmilimii wli i m- .
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