The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-01
NEW WATER WORKS.
The C1ey Council, Members OF the
Press and Other Gentlemen visit the
New Pumping station

EFeoe ana OCAeF GeASteme en- Visit the
New Pumping station. Id
Through the kindness of Mr.. e. &C. h
Lufkins, superintendent of the con-
struction Of the new water works sys-
tenn for the Holly Manufacturing COM
pany, representative OF the NEWS in
company with the city council.
city attorney and other leading
gentlemen Of the city, was
driven to the pumping station on
the Neosho to witness the workings of
the pumps and other machinery just
placed in the building.
The new engine is set at the most !
easterly point of the building and is
below the first floor. On entering we |
found three or four gentlemen |
busy oiling and otherwise fix
ing the immense pump for run
ming. The engine is a vertical
compound condensing engine with ca
pacity for pumping 1900 600 gallons
per day. The two large fly wheels each
weigh five tons and the base of the en-
CINE weighs over thirteen tons. One
hundred and twenty gallons are driven
into the pipe at every revolution
of these large wheels. Among the at
tractive and ingenious contrivances on
this engine is the Corliss governor, the
patent Of Geo. II. Corliss, the noted
mechanic and engineer. The two cyl
inders in the engine are vertical, the
steam being let into the smaller one
from the boiler and after it is used
there it is exhausted into the larger and
used second time, thus deriving all
the power possible from the steam used.
After the steam is used in the large
cylinder it is condensed and drained off
again to the river.
Above the pipe leading to the reser-
voirs is an air chamber, where all the
air from the water is gathered up and
! pumped out, thus preventing it from
, accommodating in the system.
The engine was set in motion soon
q after our arrival and kept going during
: the examination. 1t makes but very
little noise and as far as could be dis.
! cerned worked very satisfactorily in
deed.
q Four dials are placed on the top Of
h the engine, one indicates the pressure
n of steam, one the pressure of water
. one the number of revolutions of thu
f wheels, thus enabling any one to tel
A the amount pumped, and the fourth
a the vacuum.
= The boiler is five feet nine, by sixteel
! feet with about sixty-five three incl
n f1ues and is in the boiler room at tn
west end of the building. There il
O space left in this room for the boiler
a to be moved from the old station ant
l. in the large room occupied by the new
}, engine is foundation on which the en-
e CINE from the old system will be places
in very short time.
,, The interior of the building is as ye
r in rather unfinished condition, bu
. as soon as the old engine is in place
= will be finished in good style. TIL
n outside presents very pleasing ar
: pearance although not visible but for
20 Next to the boiler room is sleepiu
70 apartment for the water works er
! gineer.
% AS far as the scribe was able t
learn. the mayor and council WEI
pleased with the smoothnes
- with which the engine and pump
20 worked, and so expressed themselve
The engine is set on a f1ag-stone founC
, alton, laid upon natural rock, and tt
pumps, which are somewhat lower, al
on another strata of rock. and the fee
pipe from the river is laid betwee
70 these layers. There is at present
r. large body of water above the dan
~ which appears to be very clear an
70 pure.
II Before returning to the city the part
were driven up to the two reservoir
10 and around on the embankmen
- Each of these will hold $500, 600 ga
- Ions, but are as yet unfinished. Sever
70 men and teams are at work breakiL
49, rock and matchmaking the bottoms
- these and considerable work is nece
"A sary before they are ready for use.
A valve at the east end of the
rs tanks can be turned so as to run tt
n water into them or into the pipe lea
- ing to the city. The latter method W
- be used at present until the reservoi
~ are complete and also in case of fire
~ as to get direct pressure on the Gil
no mains.
ID Mr.. W. Raymour one of the most e
"A perienced engineers in the Unit
- States, has been assisting in placiI
nc this machinery in position and gettil
it in running order. He is in the 81
ploy of the Holly company, and he e
Ie- poets in few days to go to Nashvill
OF Tennessee, to put in place the large
a engine the company have ever made.
nd Messrs. Lufkins, Superintendent
ur W. Jeremy and Engineer Greenw
IN accompanied the visitors Oh the roun
lot and answered the numerous questio
'er propounded by the curious in We
eW satisfactory manner. A visit to tt
Ill institution will repay any of our CT
les zens and we assure them they will 4
! l regret it.
VI Electric Lights.
ort Yesterday morning the commit
ad- on gas decided in favor of locatil
lily electric lights in the city as follows:
no COMMERCIAL STREET.
ne IN Copono~oial afront of TUoIft