The general offices of the company and a cafeteria are also
located in a portion of the top floor of this plant.
Commercial testing laboratories are maintained at all
its plants to assure the perfection of the materials shipped
out; and extensive research and development laboratories
are maintained at its Perth Amboy and Pittsburgh plants,
for in this branch of electrical development, as in the electrical
 field generally, constant vigilance (study and research)
is the price of liberty (commercial and financial success)
and the Standard Company, through its corps of specially
trained engineers, has always given the closest attention
to the needs of the industry, and while those needs have had
a marked growth in the last four or five years, the end is not
yet.

Four or five years ago, underground cables to carry current
 at 33,000 volts pressure were rare, and were considered
very difficult to make, while today they are not at all uncommon
 for some of the cable manufacturers; in fact this
company has during the last two years, made and furnished
a number of underground cables” to operate at 66,000 to
75,000 volts pressure, as the demand arose for such extraordinary
 super-tension cables, and concurrently with such
cable development has also gone the development of terminals
 and joints to match the cable. Now there is a wish, in
some important quarters, that cables for 132,000 volts
might be made available, and the Standard Company is at
work on the problem, and expects to make such cables
commercially in the near future.

This company has been peculiarly fortunate in holding
its important staff for long periods of time, and in commanding
 a degree of loyalty and attachment to its interests
which is rarely found. Thus a relatively large number of
the more important key men (as well as some of minor importauce
 at present) both in production and research, in
sales and administration, have to their credit continuous
periods of service ranging from fifteen years up to thirtyfive
 years or more, the president of the company, Joseph
W. Marsh, having been connected with it since its birth in
1882.