The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-26
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eve Large Blssks sss Aatlreed Pur.
peses On Lexingssn and Bcurth Ave-
nues-New Loeomotive Ana Machine
shop or the HsrlsA RailroAa Company
On Fourth Avenue-Their Ingenious
Mechsnical APpliances-Damens ions
and Arrangement OF the Engine House.
A Glance Through Both Buildings, Sc.
me New York and Harlem Railroad Company have just
completed very large and deliberately appointed brick
Suiding upon Fourth avenue between Forty third and
Forty Streets to be used as machine shop for
sAs repairing and building OF locomotive engines for the
road The main Orders twelve by fourteen inches,
noor beams three by twelve inches and pine door psnks
three inches thick.
INTERNAL ARRANGEMENT. tN
me basement stands below the street grade, and is
built with granite walls, having heavy iron doors The
hoor above of the first story is lined with Orders and
beams Of ron and is arched throughout with brick The
easement thus thoroughly reproor and capable OF
sting from within without the hercest connagraton
contains everything at all geneatve Of fire explosions
nd hence all disasters of the kind precluded
the general building and its valuable contents
ars concerned.
In the south end OF the basement situated the ope
rating engines and boiler There two engines of
approved STYLE They manufactured by the Putnam
Machine Company, Massachusetts, and arranged so
70 be disconnected IL required, and will operate
together singy with equal safety and facility tho
sxieences convenience Of the shop require The pat
Tern 10 partially original. II has double horizontal
cylinder twelve and half inches long by thirty
inches with poppet valve and is driven by gear from
Aywhee shaft All its parts are located and managed
With such mechanical ingenuity and exacness tina, IL
works quite noselessly Each engine is rated at thirty
hnvne huth 10th n pacitv of mir
large locomotive boiler stands separated from the
engines by thick wall. This capacions and powerful
boiler with hundred and thirty fues is eleven feet
seven inches long by two and half inches in dia.
meter The fire box is six feet in length by four six
inches in width; length ALL twenty feet; dame
Ser Eve feet It has steam blower Of Bacons patent
and fire dnmper Of Noyes patent and donkey pump by
s's xS.ss Higgins Is. ,o,., ~, ..,.,,. -, -
street Is an extensive vault for coal and other matters
heavy packages as axee, OIL &C, are lowered raised
y r. g "a ing from sne street Grade IN Inc
aled with wheels and casngs-an immense quantity OF
which must be kept on hand ready to remedy all wants
and requirements Of the whole stock on the road Loco
motives Of some six eight different makes used,
and this necessitates an infinite variety Of castings
THE FIRST STORY.
The first floor Is used the purpose Of repairing
Motive engines The engines enter rail branch by
do northeast corner and taken by ingenously
constructed square gliding table through the centre OF
the building, until they placed their respective
tracks In the there is extensive elevator
twelve by twenty five feet-capabe OF lifting 10
whole esabshnent is a newly designed machine, stu
Ated the main door and designed to all the
IRON and wooden materials and machinery which are
elevated with swfness and safety the manufacturing
rooms is by nine feet In size and capable of
passing ten tons There is 10 possibility Of accidents
IL works upon stationary rack, on upright shaft,
and In of the breaking Of any OF the machinery
= other accident, IL cannot fall perpendicular rod
adjacent TO the shafts connects with the appliances tho
sop and controls the motion. By the aid Of this the
elevator can be stopped at any point even by
Nc PLATFORM The designer, trip through the United
States previous TO drawing the plans examined every
elevator In the country well the best European
models, and studied TO combine several motions in
md save power whe by other combinations all danger
Of Me or limb wonld be preciofed.
cUHiOUs DEVICES FOR MANUFACTURING IRON.
In the south END OF this story there is blacksmith
W by s m ea% s,' his
department. there are several curious devices for
lng and manipulating iron. An atmospheric hammer
Hotchkss' paten capable Of striking from one half
pound 70 fifteen hundred pounds each blow and from
enc 70 two hundred blows per minute, is easily man
aged by single mechanic and Is operated by foot.
Psddle which commands action by applying strain 10
hose belt machine combining the properties Of both
Shsre also driving wheel lathe Of ON approved pat
MISREPRESENTATION AND PROVISIONS AGAINST
The second story OF the edlHce is used-the north end
Or machinst shops, the other as copper and brass
sooms In which there eight 70 ten operatives In the
northwest Of this floor there suit Of Offices
QesA BY the machinist and for drawing purposes
Shs master machinis. Is thus continually in possession
% Ne state and location Of the stock along the road
eaA enabled 70 judge correctly Of oil accidents and 70
appH immediate remedy. The
THIRD STORY
~ for carpenters, painters, &c., one end being
ssoshcu. With exhausted steam The vonslason i 20
lesct that mechanics suffer scarcely any nom the heat
vvse when bard at work There are water closets and
Wnsh rooms on each story. Crcton hose connection
. eh door, with necessary apparatus enables The occu
49, 70 put out a. once the most sudden or critical
fks upper portion Of the building was completed BY
Sssenct the mason and other important work'on the
lelldins The entire structure mechanical appliances
-, we're designed and the conssrucon sppsrhtsnded
SaasaAent or the Harlem Railroad.
- stands The building decidedly credit 70 Fourth
evenne. II cost with machinery, ono hundred and
THE ENGINE HOUSE.
0secsy IN the rear Of the engine msnufactory and
~ for ons h.
engines q thib end Of the road Ills large structure,
from g IL, ' ss si
SrsS ssst By two hundred and twenty feet along the
sss q sSSS s IL: The a.
eenssons thus greater than thoss Of any busing In
~ ps q hs United States and supposed V Be- gesssr
4 GENERAL pEsc1rrrson.
~ building 70 consist OF two sectionsths outer
Dus story In height the Genital two stores and the peak
Sang niy feet high II Is 70 be built or brick the cen.
~ portion 70 DO supported by Howe russes standing
eGht fourby eight brick pe twenty feet high forty
feet nom the centre and fertyour feet apart with
diagonal braces OF WOOD BY nine inches and up
tight iron rods onsha inch in diameter placed ten feet
eren said centrss "A trusses are placed spon these
ofeen feet from the centres The span Of the truss
enc hundred and fourteen feet The whole weight OF
che building rests upon the Howe trusses, which
capable Of sustaining i've 70 six hundred
Gems, being three times that imposed upon them.
The central roof il TO be covered with slate the outer
q nat portion by patent pebble roo6ng The whole
exterior be nreproof trusses be boxed and all
taseroF woodwork painted with Areproof paint, with
view 70 render the inner portion rs near freproof
practicable There around the interior Of the build
log circular Croon water pipe Of IRON four inches In
ehmeer having opening every een feet for Croton
hose connection.
The locomotives enter thirty 1--WE feet from the north
ens corner and received in the centre OF the build
ng on an iron turntable OF Lathrops patent, hyfve
yet In diameter, and working upon iron centre pm.
They are then placed their rasneciiya tracks