The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-07
TO BE READY IN SIX WEEKS.
The Equipment of the City and Sub
urban Lines With Electricity.

The Equipment of the City and Sub
urban Lines With Electricity.
The work Of equiping the City and Sub
urban railway with electricity Is progressing,
though not as rapidly as is desired. About
all the track work Is completed and the
main overhead wire has been strung. A few
more days work will complete the overhead
| wiring.
The work chiefly remaining to be done is
at the power house on Bolton street in the
| placing Of engines and machinery. The
failure Of the machinery 20 arrive when eK-
pected is causing considerable delay. The
boilers have arrived and have been placed
In position and the engines are supposed to
| be on the wRv.
President Johnston expects to have the
road in operation by electricity in six or
| eight weeks.
The power house Of the City and Subur-
| ban will be an interesting sight when all the
machinery has been placed IN position. IL
will probably be the largest and best
equipped street railway power house In the
south when completed.
The boilers, which are already in position,
are the largest In the city, occupy
ing a space OF % feet ) inches by
81 feet 10 inches, aud 10 feet in hight.
They are Of the Babcock & Wilcox patent,
tubular, safety non-explosive type, and
weigh about Us, 900 pounds. They are 500
horse power. The boilers have twenty EIGHT
rows Of ten tubes each, combining go tubes
IN ALL The whole machinery is suspended
upon framework of iron uprights. The
four steam cylinders are % feet in length
by feet in diameter.
Space has been allowed Immediately ad-
joining the two boilers for two more Of the
same pattern II needed Mr.. Sill
man of New York, the engineer
n Of kkak
these two boilers with the engines
will furnish power sufficient to run seventy.
five cars inside the city, and that when the
whole plan is completed as contemplated
the plant will generate sufficient power to
run all the street cars in Savannah for some
time to come.
The engines upon which the work is now
waiting are OF the Corliss make, 22x4S
cylinder, with fly wheels twenty feet in
diameter and weighing 40 900 pounds each.
The total weight OF the engines will be
about l50, 900 pounds. The foundation upon
which these tremendously heavy engines
will rest are worthy of note in themselves
The space covered by the foundation is
about 50x40 feet. 1t is composed Of, first,
SKIS timbers laid closely, covered by 2-inoh
plank spiked in the tmbers; upon this one
foot of concrete. Upon this footing is built
up separately the foundations for each en-
CINE, consisting Of seven feet of oyster she'll
concrete with capstones OF Portland cement
and brick. The work is Of the most solid
character
The generators will be OF the Thomson
Houston manufacture, multipolar type,
with capacity of 300, 900 Watts C746 Watts
equal to one horse power. These generators
are Of the very largest make used and will be
the largest 10 this section OF q country.
Fourteen large open cars have been
ordered from the st. Louis Car Company
and are expected to arrive shortly. About
the same number Of closed cars will be
ordered
The cars will be equipped with the single
reduction waterproof motor, with 25-horse
power each.
The City and Suburban railway equip
ment will be of the most thorough aud re-
liza BILE character.
The Coast Line railroad will be sold at
auction by order OF the court on July 5. It
Is said there will be several bidders for it.
There is little doubt that it will be imme-
diately equipped with electricity by the
purchasers.