The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-03
THE CITY ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT.

wing being twenty.thrce feet wide. The
entire building is one story high, with n
big basement underneath, and is built
OF common brick, ornamentcd with
raised edges.
The boiler room, extending on the
western side is seventy-tive feet long by
thirty wide, is built entirely of iron,
with the exception OF the south side,
which is brick, and the north side,
which will be series OF sliding doors
from one end to the other.
The sides and roof will be covered
with corrugated iron resting on heavy
iron beams and trestle work. The en-
tire building is absolutely fireprooi.
The battery OF boilers recently inspect
cd by the committee and pronounced
satisfactory, will be among the largest
in the city. B.
The entire battery OF boilers, six in
number, will DO shipped from the
works at Oil City, as soon rs the brick
and materials are on the ground. The
agent will be here and give the placing
OF them his personal supervision, us the
contract calls for the erection in good
runnin & order Of the battery.
The heavy iron shaiting and the two
big Hamilton Corliss engines, OF 450
horsepower each, which can be raised
to over 800 horsepower, are alre ady on
the grounds.
Most OF the machinery is on the
ground with the exception OF the
dynamos and betting, which are boxed
and ready Tor shipment from Fort
Wayne, Ind. They will be held there
until the contractors complete the
building. when they will be'scnt and
placed i'll position as BOON us they
arrive.
There will be six dynamos, with a
capacity OF four hundred lights. Four
will be placed on the eastern side OF
the main building and two on the
western, near the engines, with the
main Skating running north and south
in the middle with connecting belts on
each side. After these are placed in
position there will still be room enough
TO place machinery sufficient to run
twelve hundred lights. Everything
will be arranged in such convenient
shape that ono man can overlook all
parts OF the main room and have every
thing under his personal supervision at
all hours, making this plant one OF the
most convenient and complete in tho
country, as il is the largest municipal
plant.
Mr. Seelcy, tho expert electrician, is
dcvoting his time to inspection of all
details and seeing that everything is in
proper order from the ground up. Mr..
Peter Terrell also dcvotes 4 great deal
OF time, and gives valuable assistance to
the overseeing OF everything. lie is one
OF the most valuable members of tho
committee.
The Wheeling Mining and Manuiac-
turing Company, which has the CON
tract ior the building, is pushing things
MS last as tho weather permits. Al
though they are somewhat behind on
account oil bad weather, they hope to
have the building completed in good
shape in n few weeks. The committee
had expected to have tho plant running
during the holidays, and make the city
the brightest it had ever been during
Christmas week, but had to abandon
this hope. Mr.. Edward Franzheim is
the architect OF the building.
USE Ayers Cherry Pectoral freely
in my practice, and recommend it in
cases OF whooping cough among chill
drcn, having found it more certain to
cure that Troublesome disease than any
other medicine know of"-So says
Dr.. Bartlett, OF Concord, Mass. D&w
IT appears from analyses made by
English and German chemists that tho
cocoas made by the Dutch process con.
tain u considerable percentage OF aka.
lies and other chemicals, which are in
troduced for the purpose OF giving ap.
parent smoothncss and strength 10 the
decoction. The use OF chemicals can
be readily detected by the peculiar odor
from newly opened packages, and also
from Il glass OF water in which small
quantity OF chemically treated cocoa
has been placed and allowed to remain
Tor several days. For more than one
hundred years the house OF Walter