Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-17
Price Four Cents.

duction bins for wheat and middlinos which supply the rolls on the floor below with ma terial. On the left we perceive evidences that although the mill has but just started, it has succeeded in turning out a large quantity ot four, elegantly branded barrels being piled up to the ceiling and many rows deep.
 Pursuing our investigations further we rise like flour dust to the fourth or purifying floor Here in the east end we find several large iron structures, looking like immense boilers turned up on end, twenty of them, we are told, being used as middlngs bins and four as flour bins. These bins are truly novelties as they are the only iron flour and middlings bins in use in any mill in the United States Back of these bins on the Seventh avenue side Of the building is being prepared lunch department, where the proprietors and clerks will take their monday lunch.
 The west end of the fourth floor is occu- pied by eight Richmond brush machines six chilled iron smooth rolls, twenty five Stand ard purifiers and seventeen sections of the Washburn patent dust house. Four large Sturtevant fans exhaust the air which has been blown into the dust house from the pu- rifiers, where the dust is arrested by flannel screens, and the air returned in it's normal condition to mingle again with the air in the mill.
 The fifth floor being reached, one begins to wonder at the immensity of the building and to wonder what the capacity of the mill may be. In response to the question of capaci- ty, we are informed that the number of bar reFs of flour expected to be turned out of the mill when all the machinery is located will be 5000 barrels each day, equivalent to 583,- 900 pounds. Think of it, you readers of the JOURNAL AND COURIER who may be located far away from ''the big mills"
 The fifth floor at the east end contains four boiler iron bins (circular), five Standard and four Woerner purifiers. Located on the west end are four double cookie machines, eight in all, two centrifugal reels two more iron flour bins that reach through the fourth and fifth floors, 24x8 feet in diameter with & capacity of 25O barrels each. Here are also twenty-five Standard purifiers (enclosed) and seventeen sections of the Washburn dust house.
 The sixth of the stories that make the grand whole has now been reached, and here in the west portion find one large centri- fugal four mixing machine, and Sturtevant fan in connection with ten sections of the Washburn dust house. Upon this floor are also eight centrifugal reels, two Potts wheat grading machines, another Sturtevant fan and eleven sections of Washburns dust house, eight middlings sorting machines forty feet long, and sixteen aspirators-all placed with extreme care so that their connections with the other machines is secured with the least possible length of conyeyors. There also, all told, this and the seventh floor, 14O reels enclosed in most perfectly jointed and nicely panelled cases, piece of work that any millwright might be proud of.
 We perceive on the seventh floor that the mill is divided into two parts and a large car mounted upon substantial track is the means used to convey purified middlings from one side to the other, where 1t is made into flour. By this means perfect equality of working is assured, each side performing it's proper functions without loss of time. This reduc- tion system is worth careful scrutiny.
 The seventh floor holds sixty-four reels, four middlings sorting machines, each forty feet long, and four Richmond grain separa- tors It is well worth while here to note that all the elevators in the mill are perfectly hor1- zontal, no crooks or turns being observable. This is remarkable feature and one not often noticed in large flour mill.
 Moving once more upwards we reach the eighth or top-most floor modestly styled by the owner an attic but which contains more space than any public hall in the city. Here are the elevator heads and spouts, the heavy timber framework carrying the horizontal main belting together with wheat bins and miscellaneous machinery.
 4 tour through the mill could hardly be said to be complete without ascending into the cupola and gazing from thence upon the mag nificent prospect which is spread out before the observer. The view is most enchanting and cannot be appreciated by those who have not enjoyed the privilege that was accorded the writer. The course of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers can be traced for miles and every feature in the landscape plainly seen. To appreciate the beauty of Minneapolis as whole it is necessary to stand far above 1t in the mill cupola and gaze on its broad ave nues its elegant residences and the thousands of wide branching shade trees. Governor Washburn has caused wide piazza to be laid outside the cupola on its four sides, where the fortunate few who reach it's eleva- tion may wander and admire the landscape As we passed hurriedly through the mill we bot y1so eO11Tr ter into the construction of flour mill. First and most noticeable are the precautions taken against fire. Upon each floor, coiled up for instant use, and already attached to six-inch stand pipes that pass up through all the floors at both ends of the building, is about 100 feet of rubber pi pc with large l nozzle attached These are supplemented on each floor with numerous Babcock extingulsh- CTS and barrels of water, over which are hung red buckets, properly marked and always in place. There is also chemical engine sta- toned in the building that can be brought into instant service. By system Of electric bells and speaking tubes each floor can be brought into instant communication with any other in the vast building, and, If necessary, every man in the mill placed where most needed.
 There is another feature worth noting, and that is that this mill is the only one in the United States driven exclusively by belting, and consequently about the only one that IS noiseless in it's operation.
 Throughout the mill are conspicuously placed very stringent rules for the govern ment of the employees in the matter of keep ing the mill neat and tidy. Governor Wash burn insists that the mill shall be kept as clean as a lady's parlor, that no rubbish of any kind shall be allowed to accumulate any where in the mill ''the rolls must be kept cloan," "spitting on the floor is positively prohibited" " and the woodwork or the walls must not be defaced ''The employees are expected to take per sonal interest in the mill, and cheerfully as- sist to make it what the proprietor is deter mined it shall be, the model mill of the world" The responsibility of carrying out the rules is left with the head man on each floor, and authority is placed with the head miller to see that all the requirements are fulfilled.
 The figures and facts herein given are not to be taken as indicating all the machinery that is to be located in the mill. But one- half of the mill is equipped with machinery. The south side is now being prepared to re- ceive it's complement when the capacity of the mill will be 5000 barrels of four per day.
 I leave this beautiful spot reluctantly. True, the city is yet in crude condition, but it is rapidly becoming metropolitan, and one great feature, its pure and invigorating air, will always remain. In few moments shall be en route for the pine woods of north ern Michigan, and with this must close this series of letters. J. D. DEWELL. Sound Advice About Funernls.S
 From Sermon by Rev J. c. White of Cincinnatil
 In the preparation and arrangements for the burial let as little time and money be ex- pended as possible for showy surroundings. The less of these things the better. Have only enough show for proper respect. We are getting to mingle diversity and prosperi- 4--A A[r, and 4rl 4<o