The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1861-10-05
CITY NEWS.

The Largest Grain Wur,hou.c In thr World.
The L. S. Warehouse Company have now
wei! ADVANCED toward completion a grain ware
house u elevator, as it is technically styled,
Of a capacity much greater than that Of any
'''''''-. '.'i'.'--o"' ir tho world and which
| l. throughout IL, vast extent absolutely fire.
prof. This magnificent building /, in Brook
| Ign, near tho dock Of the Hamilton Avenue
| F,lry, and although il will not DO complete
| for two or three months vet, We will endolvor
TO inform our readers how It will appear when
it, mastery builders hall pronounce il finished
Near the end of the pier, which runs out somo
two hundred feet into the river, will stand an
eloyating tower, ninety feet in height by forty
feet in width and thirty in depth. This is for
the purpose Of raising grain from vessels which
will lie alongside the pier. Passing along the
way the grain will go, VIC traverse what is
termed a conveying gallery" 100 feet in
length, reaching from the "olevating tower to
the main tower" and through which the grain
is to he passed by move. application of the
screw the principle being like that by which
the chips Of an augor are elected while boring.
An iron tubo Of the requisite length, about
Loot in diameter, is TO be nearly filled by
screw resembling an auger, which reaches the
entire length, and is made to rcvolve by pow
eriul steam engine Tho grain is poured in at
the end, and Of course has TO follow tho screw.
at any velocity which may be given tho lattor
We Low reach the great fIe.proof build
ing itself. The "main tower raised to the
height ot l2j feet serves as the means by which
| the grain thrown from the conveying gallery
into receiving tank, is elevated to the level Of
the tops of the great tanks" or bins in
which il is TO be stored. The tower is % ioo
| inches in width and H. feet deep. by means o.
belt elevator the grain is raised to a hei ghi
OF ninety or ono hundred feet and Their,
| passed to tho "hins, either hy uon,ryarr,
similar TO the elevator, or by a system Of dil
| tributng screws with valves in their tubes
over each bin, which can 10 opened aud closeC
at pleasure. The "bius .lokon Of arc imrcns,
| cylindrical wells of boiler iron, ninety in mum.
ber, each eleven and half feet in diamet or
averaging iouy,liye feet in dopth and capable
| Of holding about 5000 bushels of grain. Tn
spaces between these huge cylinders form say
enty, two bin, -, smaller dimensions capthl
Of containing about >, 100 hushcl each. TIL
entire capacity Is therefor about 800 600 bush
els. Valves in the boiler iron floor OF each hi'
will let the grain through TO the first story
the hu.lInE " hen IL Is wanted for sl'pnout
Above tho tanks /, a roof Of CORFU gated iron
Lc, Us descend TO the first floor, bonoath til
! tai, to,
Iort he orormou, weight of tn, supoT-.r u tur.
Although the building outside ,ho : four 81,
ries, there are really but two inside the one cor
tanning the bias, about City feet in height, an
tho one in which 80 now stand, about eoyc
feet in height. The Wlola vast extent OF Ill
floor, los feet 10 inches 10y lu5 feet , niche
sc,ns 4 lCrc5, OF massive IRON columns. 1hci
are eirhty.one Of these columns each foot
diameter, based on great granite blocks, enc
3 - feet square, and supported 10y six or sevo
piles which have lcon driven into the so
"made ground to a depth Of from % to 4
feet. From column TO column stretch MOI
ster girdcrs Of iron, each weighing 2 10
lbs., these crossed again by iron beams Of ju
half that weight. Five OF these latter beam
are laid across square of their own length
making six hundred and thirty altogether s
that the enormous weight above is supporto
by almost solid mass Of iron. Tie walls al
Of brick and iron but the brickwork is in pane
merely filling the spaces between the iron pi
lars, which constitute the strength Of tho ed
fee. These pillars are II by "a inches in d
smeter and supported, like the other column
inside the building. by piles Of great lengt
driven thiehy into the ground below. tn