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The girls fill a quantity, machine measured, into each bottle. The
bottles are then closed and packed. Packing cases of wood are bought,
not made on the premises.
There are two beautiful canteens and recreation rooms, one for each
sex ; food is cooked here for the employees. The employees number :
males 51, females 49. The lavatory accommodation: males 7 w.c's.,
1 urinal and 6 basins: females 5 w.c's. and 9 basins. The w.c's. are
of the pedestal type, each in a separate compartment, ventilating into
the open air. The urinal is a modern trough of white glazed earthenware.
There is both hot and cold water.
The only criticism in this really admirable place is that the large
bottle-drying hot room is dusty on the walls : these walls will be cleansed
when work stops for a day or two at Christmas. This factory deserves
to be shown to visitors to Deptford as a model, from our point of view.
13. Colour Printing Works.
Historically these premises are interesting, the front building being
originally the entrance lodge to an estate. Milady used to drive
through and round the grounds. Her house, now pulled down, has, of
course, been replaced by streets. Passing into the open ground between
the front building and the main factory building, there is an old well.
The factory is a large one-storey building, given up to litho printing.
There are two large machine shops, the artists' room, and several small
shops where different processes are carried on. The factory is very
well lit and ventilated, the latter being effected by skylights and
windows. The whole is extremely clean and abounds with expensive
machinery. The main work of the factory lies in designing and
printing posters for advertisements, some of which are undoubtedly
works of art. We saw an artist engaged in drawing a "Come-toBlackpool"
Poster, 96 inches by 104 inches, in different sections.
This drawing consisted of the head of a beautiful girl who was looking
through a pair of binoculars. The vision she saw was a panoramic
view of some of the sights of that noble and salubrious Lancastrian
town. There were many others, mostly faces of ladies smoking some
brand of cigarette warranted to captivate the fancy of the observer. In a
word, the whole process is this: a sketch is made on paper and this is
transferred to a large flat stone. From this stone prints are made on
the machine, giving the outline of the picture. In some cases there