Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-04
New Bulld,ng.In Worcester.

| in process of erection is the free public
library building, on Elm street. The basement
story is completed and the work is already
commenced on the next story. 1t is to be ar
imposing edifce, of brick 60 feet vide, by II
in depth, and two stories in height surmount
ed by a French root. The mason work i:
being done by Alvan T. Burgess, and the
carpenter work by H. and A. Palmer, accord
ing to plans furnished by Charles Kirby, O
Boston, formerly of this city. The whole i;
calculated to cost inside of $4,000
The gas light company have made grea
progress in the additions to their works on Lin
coin street. When completed they expect tc
furnish more than double the amount of gas
and of a much purer quality than heretofore
An extension OF sixty-two feet is being made
to the retort house. in which are to be put five
new retort benches, each bench to contain
five retorts. In the present retort house
which is of the same length, are seven benches
I of three retorts each, so that when the works
are completed, the company will have forty
six retorts in all, against twenty one now in
operation, increasing their capacity to furnish
gas correspondingly.
The purifying room, which is seventy feet
in length, contains four PURIFIERS, and there is
room sufficient in it for four more, when they
shall be needed.
The office is to be in the lower story of the
south end comprising an additional structure
of forty two feet front and two stories in hight.
This will make the whole establishment, which
is of brick, $50 feet long, fronting on Lincoln
street, and 80 feet wide. In the upper story,
over the office, is to be the station meter
room, laboratory, and workshop,
! The coal house is to be 16S feet long by 35
wide, and calculated to contain at least 1900
tons OF coal. Through it runs a railroad track
for the convenience Of transportation. A
branch of this track connects the lime kiln
with the purifying room, the lime being made
upon the premises Two thousand tons of
coal are consumed yearly at the establishment.
The new chimney is 1856 feet in hight and
contains 100000 brick
The laborers are now busily engaged in
making the excavation for the new gas tank,
which is to be Y teet in diameter and % feet
deep, and calculated to hold 10000 cubic feet
of gas, with facilities for holding 10000 feet
more, whenever the wants of the city shall
render necessary the manufacture of so large
an amount of gas. This immense cavity in
the earth for the new tank is to be lined with
five layers of brick at the bottom and four lay
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draulic cement. In this operation 100000
brick will be required. The company already
use two tanks, each As feet in diameter by 16
feet deep, holding 10000 cubic feet of gas
each. One is located on the premises, and the
other on Green street. The mason work in
all these operations is being done by Mr. Mar.
shall Mills.
The county commissioners have recently
erecteda chimney 100 feet high at the jail, to
connect with the new steam apparatus for
cooking and warming, which is about to be
put into that establishment. There are now
1l6 prisoners there, 10 of whom are awaiting
trial.
Messrs Mcfarland & Co., proprietors of the
Maeable Iron Works, at Washington square,
are making an addition to their establishment
to accommodate their increasing business.
They are erecting new brick building adj
joining their counting room, to be occupied by
their pattern department.
Messrs. S. G. and C. G. Reed, carriage
wheel makers, on Cypress street. are putting
up another building, so feet square and two
stories high, to accommodate their increased
demand for more storage room, rendered ne.
cessary on account of their more extended
business
Hon. Stephen Salisbury is erecting very
elegant green house on his premises, sixty feet
long by twenty two feet wide, at cost of some
$500 or $1,000 1t has an arched semi circu.
lar roof, and has attached to it a high chimney
and potting room, u by IA feet.
Among the many private dwellings being
erected, or about to be erected in various sec
ions of the city, are those of Gov. Lincoln,
on West street; two houses by Luther Ross,
east of Lincoln street, near Paine's grove that
of the Messrs. Bigelow, carpenters, on Mount
Vernon street. near the Dread institute that
of Loammi Harrington, on the corner of Main
and Sycamore Streets and an elegant and sub
stantial double house by Messrs. c. and W.
Whitcomb, on the corner of Oxford and Chat
am streets, at an expense of some $4,000 or
$4,000. Besides these are many other build
ing operations of various kinds in different
localities, too numerous for detail