The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-18
TO REBUILDTHEP PRESSES.
THE HYDRAULIC AND TYLER
PRESSES TO BE REPLACED.

PRESSES TO BE REPLACED.
The Savannah Cotton Press AAssocia-
ton to Build Two Of the Largest
Congresses in This Country on the
site of the Burned Buildings-The
Improvement to Cost Between
$3.50 900 and 100000 and the
Presses to be Ready by September.
Part of the Machinery Already
Ordered.
The Savannah Cotton Press Association
is preparing to rebuild the Hydraulic and
TYLER cotton congresses aud cotton sheds
on the site of the presses destroyed by fire
last summer. The new plant viii be one Of
the largest in the south, and viii cost be
tween $4,000 and 5000. 900. 1t is expected
to have it ready for operation by Sept. l.
The contract for the engines, boilers, and
two cotton congresses has been awarded to
Miller & Bierce, compress manufacturers
of Philadelphia, who have put up large
congresses in all the principal cotton ports
of the Gulf and South Atlantic coast. The
two congresses will be what is known as
the Miller g. Taylor presses, with capacity
LOCO and ], 400 tons capacity respectively.
TO BE THE LARGEST IN THE COUNTRY.
Before closing the contract for the com
presses, Supt. William Wade, of the cotton
press association, with an expert, visited
other cotton ports and examined the work
ings of the various presses, and that con-
tracted for will be the largest in this coun-
try. With them it viii be possible to com
press three bales TO the bulk of one country
compressed bale, and it is expected that the
presses viii be principally used In recon-
pressing country compressed cotton.
IL is predicted that in a very few years
cotton freights will be rated by the cubic
foot of space, and when that system Is
adopted the value of the new congresses
will be more fully appreciated, as vessel
which could take on only 1000 bales, as
cotton has heretofore been compressed, will
be able to load 6, 900 bales compressed by the
new presses. This will result in great
saving in freights, and the cotton can be
handled at great saving in labor.
TO BE READY BY SEPTEMBER.
The old presses are to be removed by
June and the new machinery is to be in
place by the latter part of August.
The new presses, boilers, engines and
other machinery are to be incloSed in sepa-
rate corrugated iron buildings, 70x100 feet,
and inside the walls of the main building,
but at such distance from the inner walls
that if they should fall In they would not
damage the machinery, and the heat of the
building, if it should take fire, while it
might heat the corrugated iron red
hot, the heat would not affect the ma
chinery so that it could not be operated.
The building proper will be composed of
seven sheds 90x226 feet, with northwest and
southwest openings Of gates to be twelve
feet in the clear, and opening outward.
THE WAREHOUSE SHEDS.
The shed are to be wholly discon-
nected by fire-proof walls running up
above the roof, each shed being sepa-
rately covered with metallic roofing.
The timbers and frame work of the sheds
are not to be built in the walls, SO that if
fire should burn out the frame work in one
of the sheds the timbers would fall inward
and leave the walls intact
5Supt. Wade has attended several of
the annual meetings Of the Southeastern
Tariff Association, and has made pains
taking researches of plans for making the
cotton sheds as near fire-proof as is possible
to make them, to reduce the insurance cost
TO cotton owners to minimum, and it is
believed that in this respect the plant will
be one of the safest, if not the most complete
of its kind in immunity from damage by
fire, in the world.
PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE.
Water tanks, fire hydrants, hose and
other apparatus Of the most modern kind
win be distributed throughout the cotton
sheds, and the entire plant will be lighted
with electricity, and the fittings for
the electric lights will be, SO ar
ranged as to conform to the most rigid
rules governing the use of the electric light
by the Southeastern Tariff Association, the
entire plant to be so constructed and ar
ranged, with reference to fire improve
ments, as to meet the approval of the tariff
association. The sheds will have a cabac-
ity of about $4,000 bales. The foundation
of the walls will be three feet at the base
and laid in cement to the top of the floor
lug.
TO LET THE CONTRACT NEXT WEEK.
The contract for the buildings is to be LET
next week, the bids to close next Thursday.
Nothing but heart pine will be used in the
timbers, and the inspection of material will
be most rigid, as it is proposed to have
everything of the best, and in keeping with
the quality and character OF the modern
congresses.
The work will be pressed forward with
great earnestness so that the machinery Of
the plant can be put in motion on Sept. 1
on which day the cotton season of 1SQO-'9l
opens. There are 5S5, $50 brick in the old
walls which viii be utilized in the construc-
tionaof the new walls of the plant
THE NEW COURT HOUSE.