New-York tribune., 1893-11-24
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
A DINNER TO BE GIVEN IN A CHIMNEY.
no CELEBRATE THE COMPLETION OF BIC
WORK FOR THE BROOKLYN CITY RAIL
pOAD COMPANY

ROAD COMPANY.
The large scale which the Brooklyn City
Railroad Company is carrying out the work OF
covering the city with network OF trolley wires Is
shown by the extent Of the plant in the Kent
eve power house, the big chimney for which Will
be practically finished to-day. This stack as II
s called is said by the engineers in charge TO be
the largest chimney yet built in cubic capacity, the
inner core. or chimney proper. having C1,So CUBIC
feet of air space. The stack is one of the most
prominent objects Brooklyn's water 'front.' as
1t is built almost at the rivers edge. 1t is 2sS feet
high the sides of the base Ss feet inches
and taper In to height of IS feet where the circu-
lar form is assumed. The structure rests upon a
foundation of fourteen feet of stone and nine feet
Of concrete. supported by 1901 piles, and contains
over 100000 bricks, with total weight OK about
1000 TONS The iron cap surmountng this big stack
weighs about five tons. and is q feet in diameter.
Up the middle of the hue rises "bafie-pate' Of
fire brick to a height of 60 feet This Is to give
each Of the two fues a separate draught.
The chimney is designed to carry away the smoke
and gases from thrty-sx 800 horsepower boilers
using forced draught. Under natural draught the
stack would have required additional seventy
feet in height to accomplish the same result The
inner case, or chimney proper. Is entirely distlnct
from the outer wall. and is 2S2 feet high with walls
twenty-four inches thick at the base. taperng to
eight inches at the top. and seventeen feet IN
diameter This is in order to allow for the ex-
which 1t is designed to carry off. The outside wall Is
built with twelve butresses projecting inward. and
reaching to within half an inch OF the core
expansion being thus provided for the per-
pendcular GAIN which Is reckoned at one-siXteenth
OF an inch to the foot Is provided for by building
from the outward wall inward above the top Of the
core a curved apron, "toothing of brick. leaving
an aperture II feet across. just the diameter OF
the
The new power house designed by F. S.
Pearson, of Boston, who built the West End Com
pany's power house in that city. and the Fifty
second-st. house for the Brooklyn company. Mr..
Starrett, the consulting engineer of the company,
with f. b. Hall. Mr.. Pearsons representative. has
superintended the work. while the big chimney has
been under the direct supervision of c. Harrison.
To celebrate the completion of the chimney. dinner;
TO which about sixty guests have been invited, VIII
be given in its interior on Saturday evening
The first of the six big multipolar dynamos which
are to send chained lightning through the streets
OF the northern part of the city was started yes
terday 1t requires two Corliss engines to keep
this dynamo running. and steadiness of motion is
secured by fy-whee % feet in diameter and weigh
ing 80 tons. These dynamos are said TO be the
largest railway power generators ever built. and
were constructed by the General Electric Company
while the boilers of the new plant Will be capable
Of supplying 1s,OOO horse power.