The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-26

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TO others by this company locating where
they have.
TIE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
The buildings are models. only one
story, but long and wide, allowing OF com.
plete supervision aud convenience in ope.
ration and protection against fire. They
are all brick and most admirably lighted,
In front OF the main building are orna.
mental grounds and the lake; this building
has frontage OF 430 feet, divided into an
erecting shop 300x43 feet, with pitch OF
% feet; storing and tool-room 51x51: a
wagon-way OF II feet; an Office 7Gx43 ieet
and fire-proof closet, which constitutes
the base OF q tower co feet high. The
end OF the building where the office Is
located is two stories high, with mansard
roof, and in this second story Is the
drawlng-ro room, and over that a large and
Well-lighted room that will be used as a
reading-room and library. which no doubt
will be duly appreciated by the employees.
In the rear OF this main building are three
| distinct combinations or wings, but really
are part OF the main building. The first
Of these, on the south, is the boiler-shop,
1876 feet deep by GO feet wide, with pitch
OF Is feet; the central. OF the same dimen-
sions, Is the machiae-shop and the north
ern, OF the same dimensions, is divided
into pattern-shop, G6XJG; and smiths
shop G6X140 feet. In rear Of the last, and
connected with it, is the brass foundry,
nx5G feet; and in rear OF this,
but also in connection, is the foundry,
| 15OY200 feet, with a pitch OF 80 feet.
Still further in the rear, but detached. Is
| the pattern-house, for the storage OF pat
terms. This building Is three stories high,
and over it is a capacious water-tank, sup
piled from the lake, and holds $4,000 gal
| Ions, and can be filed in one hour. IL is
nearly 100 feet high. from which water is
conveyed by pipes to every part OF the
works. The rooms in this building are
50 by &c feet. In rear OF the central wing
is the carpenters shop, 15S by GO feet.
Connected with this is 4 storehouse for
coal and iron; and connected with the
central wing, in front Of it, is u boiler and
engine-room. This carpenter-shop will be
removed TO allow OF continuing the ma
chine-shop still further back, making q
building then OF nearly 600 by GO feet.
These constitute the main buildings.
II they were all in a line they would
show a frontage OF 1854 feet-equal to six
squares OF Richmond, emitting the inter-
yening streets. Some idea OF the mmen-
sity Of these works can be gained from the
above description, but pen picture is al
ways a tame one. They should be seen.
The facilities for doing work are I'M
equaIed, and with the machinery that is
now used there is nothing in the foundry
or machine line but what can be furnished
rs cheap and us good aS at the North. The
la oh l1r n bpf
institution can manufacture as perfect rs
any. Hence there is no need to 90 east OF
Richmond for locomotives, boilers, en-
gines, saw-mils, gearing and castings Of
every description, from green sand and
loan.
HOW LABOR Is SAVED.
In the erecting-shOp is a steam travelling
crane. managed by one man, that picks up
an object Of fifteen tons and deposits
il wherever needed. II is massive iron
frame stretching across the entire width OF
the building, and moves on an elevated
railway from one end to the other Of the
entire space. There is also a hydraulic
rveting-machine, built in England, that
does the work OF twenty men without
noise. In the boiler-shop is a planing-ma-
chine which beyes the edge OF q sheet
OF boier-plate and prepares it for caulk-
ing without noise. Then there is punch
that punches four-inch hole through an
inch plate and greatly lessons the labor OF
inserting boiler tubes. There are also
steam-bending rolls that shape plates to
any desired curve. The blacksmth-shOp
has steam hammer that manipulatcS the
heaviest forgings. In the various shops
are found planers, radial drills, horizontal
and vertical boring machines, shapers,
milling machines, shafting and pulley
lathes, bolt-cutting and stud machines,
grinding machines, &C., all new and
OF the best and most approved pat
ters. The casing.roOm OF the foun-
dry is equipped with the latest
and most improved air furnaces, cupolas,
fans. and cranes capable Of handling the
heaviest class OF castings up to twenty tons
weight. The pattern-shOp is supplied
with the best tools, wOOd-planerS, lathes,
etc. The machinery in each shop is driven
by a separate engine, all moved by one bat
terry of boilers Of nearly 300-horse power.
Underneath each shop is a tunnel in
which are placed the steam, water, gas,
and sewerage-ppes, so arranged that they
can be got at for repairs without disturb
ing the surface. Tracks connecting with
the Chesapeake and Ohio run all through
the grounds.
THE MEN WHO DID 1T.
The company is incorporated and COM
posed mostly OF Richmond men. The di-
rectors are MeSSrs. William +. Tanner,
Alexander Delaney, John II. Montague, L.
William Pemberton, j. j. Montague, and
Il. 4. Lancaster. The managing proprie-
tors are Messrs. William +. Tanner as
president. and Alexander Delaney super
intendent; both practical men. who learned
their business, and learned it well, IN Rich
mond, and after an experience OF quar-
ter OF a century they show their apprecia-
ton OF the future OF Richmond, and have
built an establishment that is bound to be
felt throughout the Union. The treasurer
OF the company is Mr.. L. Bruce Cooke; the
secretary. Mr.. Il. ID. Hudgins, recently the
treasurer OF the Richmond and West Point
Terminal Hallway and Warehouse Compa-
nv, but who was for many years previous
connected with the business OF Messrs.
William l.. Tanner & Co. All in all, these
works are a monument 10 the enterprise OF
all concerned, and as such are entitled to