St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-09

the place is small city of brick build
ings. with a-myrlad of glass windows
which reflect the rays Of sun in the dis
tance like so many brilliant mirrors.
The dull color of the bricks. the same
ness OF the paint color and the immense
brick chimneys present an appearance
of stability and substance which gives
an appreciable idea of the amount Of
money which has been expended in the
construction of the works.
A person standing in the center OF the
building plot cannot see the entire
plant. The buildings extend all around
on either side and beyond the range of
vision, contracted by the opaqueneSs Of
the building material, and here and ,
there appears brick chimney towering
over the structures like guardians on
the lookout for All enemy. The work
men were buStling about yesterday pick
ing up pieces of timber and other debris,
remnants of the building era. They
furnished but small idea of the army
of workmen who assisted in the erec-
ton of the plant or of the hundreds OF
men who will be employed there when
the process OF manufacture is COM
menced. But across the tracks of the
railroad there stands an immense bar
rack, where the men were lodged dur
ing the process of building, and which
gives an idea of the countless pounds Of
beef and lOaYeS of bread consumed by
them.
The greater number of the buildings
are connected by covered passages
which run from one to the other.
Through these the material, in various
stages Of perfection for the uses intend
ed, is passed until it arrives in the
hui rx1yh 10 IN n fa 0f nH-
uct is stored for the time of shipment to
all portions of the globe where grain in
all countries will be cut and harvested
for the feeding of people of all nations.
Through this route wandered the Wis
itors under the guardianship ST Presi-
dent W. p. Warner, of HOOSick Falls,
n. Y, General Manager P. s. MCGOWAN
and Superintendent 5. Y. Kennedy.
They explained the various buildings
and their purposes in an exceedingly
interesting manner. The route traversed
was the one which will be taken by the
manufactured material.
The First Building,
the one into which the train steamed,
was the immense stock building. In
this structure will be taken the rough
material, out of which will be made the
perfected machines. Within the course
sound with the shouts of worhmen, and
the now empty space filled with piles of
lumber, pig iron, malleable iron, etc.
Embryo machines will be there in thou
sands, but it will require the skill of the
workmen and the labor Of the ma achineS
to fit them in semblance of the per-
fected form. The floors OF the building
are strongly protected against posi-
bic catastrophe by heavy sub-structures
OF stone and braces of immense tim
bers.
Imbedded in the floor of the next
building visited was the immense bal
ance wheel of the three engines which
Will drive the machiDerYOf the works.
The power house, or rather one of the
three to be used, furnished much inter-
est to the visitors. lmbedded in the
ground was the immense wheel,
which will be run by an engine
having a power equal to that
of 267 horses. The giant hoop.
which weighs so many tons, will be
turned without apparent exertion by
the white clouds OF steam which will be
generated in the immense boilers, and
there will be hardly pereeptible jar
to the ground, so evenly balanced is the
monster The polished rods and wheels
will be imbued with life and strength
equal to thousands of men, and the
sharp knives of the machines will shave
off the timbers and cut iron bars and
plates with facility not born of human
hands.
Iron Working Machines.
In the next building interest was at
tracted by a number Of machines a.
ready in place and almost ready for
work. These machines are for the pur-
pose Of working the malleable iron and
prepering it for various uses. 1t was
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