Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-22
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
,ypoR7lyr MEETING OF THE WATER
BOARD YESTERDAY.
~. D. A. Dauov, Engineer, ard Major 9. G..
prl..ts. Secretary Of the Holly Company,
&c e,;,, Over the Figarss-Ihe New
Builiing.

A.. imDOrtant meeting or the City
49, BOARD was held yesterday after
", a, the City Hall, at which there
present City Engineer f. L. -HOge,
A.. White. his assistant, and Messrs.
Dacrow and Major c. &. Hildreth,
1.-THE Holly Manufacturing Company,
-si,b is furnishing the new water
"'-,rrry plant for the city. These lat
,sr gentlemen were well supplied with
-,9s plans and specifications, and a
Lsr8 afternoons work was put In on
49, details Of the new buildings, pipe
t-s machinery, etc, which will, when
...o-~r.sted, be a good deal the largest
S,rg'e enterprise the city ever embarked
A. and one OF the most beneficial TO the
I Tfe plans and drawings for the ma
lbirery and buildings were open for in
Ererron Yesterday, and indicate plant
L. ample size for many a year 70 come.
Tbs new pumping station will be erect
Edabout half a mile or more north OF
Eba city limits, near the old stone
house. and viii comprise a brick build
e., 42xl32 feet in dimensions. This
handling will be divided into a boiler
Eorss fSx42 feet, with three batteries
IL TWO boilers each, and an engine
Ioom. 64X42 feet, fitted with two sets Of
Eomyouud Gask,li high duty pumping
ENGINES. each set consisting Of two ma
Ebi1es. and each couple capable of de-
7.varing into the new reservoir on top
of the hin 100000 gallons of water in
twenty-fOur hours, or considerably
more than the present consumption
of the city, even in the hottest wealth
er The boilers will be SKIS
feet. and any two OF them will run one
rafr of engines, thus allowing an inter-
change Of the two sets OF pumps with
their cores Onding batteries Of boil
er, and even when both pumps are
running, which will seldom be the case,
there win still be a battery in reserve.
The engines are compound, with high
pressure cylinders p inches in diameter
and low pressure cylinders As inches in
diameter. with q stroke of SO inches.
The piston speed is $50 feet per min
ute. and the engines are OF $50 b. p.
each. delivering water under a head OF
go feet. These engines and pumps
work 10 a gigantic we'll of oval form,
forty feet in diameter up aud down the
river, by IL feet ia the shorter diameter,
and 40 feet deep. Immediately south Of
the southermOst engine, will be re-
served room for another set OF engines
and pumps, should the city ever desire
% put them in, and all that will be
necessary will be 10 remove the south
wall of the well and extend il about If
teen feet more 20 the south TO get
daily supply of %, 100000 gallons, with
three sets OF pumps az work. OF course
this quantity OF water will probably
not be needed for generation 10 come,
but Il il is ever needed no enlargement
of the building will be necessary. Each
set Of pumps is supplied from the river
By an inlet pipe thirty-six inches in
diameter, being the largest pipe ever
used 0V the city OF Wheeling, and one
which is not so very often exceeded any
where. The pumps will discharge into
line of thirty-inCh pipe, about TWO
miles long, which Will deliver the
water into the new reservoir on top OF
the bill, and then there viii be a pres
sure, iu the lowest portions Of the city,
OF about 10 pounds, gradually decreaS-
ing, of course, as the ground rises north
ward, or along the hillsides. The pres
e1t maximum pressure is about fifty
five pounds.
In an interview yesterday Secretary
Hidreth said:
ave are merely running over the
figures, etc, in a preliminary manner
to-day We shall get 20 work in a week
or little more, and shall prosecute the
task with all possible speed. We shall
commence ditchiug for the big main TO
The reservoir first, and pipe will prob
ably begin 10 arrive, say in two weeks.
The foundations of the building Will
soon be gotten under way, as also the
excavation for the well. A good deal
depends, however, as TO this, on the
stage of the river