Telegram-herald., 1890-03-18
GREAT PREPARATIONS
Made for the CouiDg Season oy
the Cable Railway company.
seven Hundred H0rse r~ref
peA the Carr for the hia
ANe~ Power House

TIE work Of sG.tng up Tn &c"
Wheelock engines 81 the cable po~Si
house IS now completed With the ex-
ption Of putting IN the steam fitting.
FMS work Is beng pushed as rapidly
a. poss ole and the engines will tx
ready 70 Start by the last oi the week.
The steam pipe ls ten inches and the
exhaust is twelve inches IN diameter.
Unul the new boilers are set up and
connected the engines vii be con-
nected with the boilers NOM ID use and
will be obliged 10 take steam irom an
eight inch pipe. Under these ciFcum-
stances the engines can hardly De er-
pected to develope their full power
until the new boilers are connected.
The engines are splendid specimens
of mechanical construction. The cylin-
ders are each u 10y Is inches, and with
the full pressure of steam are expected
TO deyelope $50 horse power each. IheY
are automatic, Will work either loiu'ly
or Independently. The valve gear =
different from that OF any engine n
the city, and is so constructed taat by
sliding of an inch they Viii open the
steam ports 10 an area equivalent 10 ~
square inches, and the exhaust valves
by the same movement Nlll open an
escape equal To 90 square inches. lhere
are two immense Tiy-whe, l.. aud be
tween these is the driving wheel, the
face of which is grooved, and the power
Is communicated 10 the cable drums 10y
TWENTY-FIVE inch ropes. These WI De
equivalent tO a belt sixty inches WIDE.
The cable will be driven from two sets
OF Walkers difierenual drums, which
are 20 constructed that the strain Is
distributed equally on all parts OF the
cable on the drum.
Mr.. F. +. Harthen, or Worcester,
Massachusetts,, who has supe.lntenCe /
the setting up OF the engines, says they
are ready 10 start as soon as they can
get steam into them.
The Cable Company has purchased
the lot at the southwest corner OF Cam
pau and Lyon-sts. and will erect a power
house at this point for propeling tie
Third Ward line. The lot is 2l0yl00
feet. and the power house Will be ll0xS5
feet in SIZE and will be one story brick.
Ii VIII contain only the winding ma
chinery, the cars being stored IN the
Third Ward.
The machinery for the new power
house Will be made 10y the Michigan
Iron works, that company having Sc
cured the contract. Yesterday the
civil engineer of the company, Ed
ward Owen, was at work locating cor
ners, setting stakes, and otherwise pre-
pairing for the work Of building which
will be begun at once. WorkmeD are
now engaged clearing away the debris
preparatory to making the excavations.
The walls for the foundations will be
laid on the bed rock which is about SIX
feet under the surface. The building
VIII be very good one, admirably ar
ranged for the purpose.
superintendent DeGraaf said yes
terday, it was the intention of the
company TO start the cable at the power
house, run in the conduit IN that street
to Canal, through Canal to Pearl-pro-
vided, of course, that they get the fran
chlse from the council III Pearl to
Ottawa, and so on south and east in the
conduits already built.
The cable for the Brdge-st. hill is all
ready 10 string and Will start at the cor
ner of Grand-aye aud Brdge-st. it
will run to Ottawa-st and then north to
Leonard-st., returning to Bridge, then
to Canal. to Lyon, and up the bill. The
line cannot start through until the
ground softens, as the track is more or
less covered with frozen earth.
The cable for the other line will leave
the hill Dower house and run TO Grand
ave, in Grand-ave. TO BrOge-st.. to
Campbell Place and then IN Union-st.
to Fulton, in Fulton to East, and then
take the park track.