The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-25
TO VIEW THE WORKS.
The City Water Board, Accompa-
MED by Invited Guests,
.TONEHTHE new PUMplNGSTATION
Above tho City, Iscoontly Completed
by tho Contractors, the Holly nlnnu.
featuring company-Snccohcs to be
nIaio by Several Gentiomcn-A Do.
sorlption of tho Complete New
Pumping Station.
We extend to you cordial Invitation
10 ACcOinDuny us
Thursday Evening, Jan. ., 1891,
ifi To Wow
Tho New Pumping Station.
H Tho City Water Board,
..lt, II. i. JONES, rrrs'L

n Tho City Water Board,
.N9,ltUs5a II. T. IoSEE, rrrst
4 The city water board has sont on. n
number OF Invitations like that shown
above to tho inspection thoy will make
this oyoning OF tho magnificent new
pumping station above tho city, which
Is now practically completed and will
soon DO accepted by tho board on be-
half OF the city from tho contractors,
the Holly Manufacturing Company, OF
Lockpost, N. Y. Tho viewing OF the
works by the board and those who will
accompany them will be pleasant
event socially, aside from tho hard work
tho members OF tho board will have in
Viewing tho station. Superintend-
ent Dckue, Of the Holly company. ia In
the city and will represent his people.
The view oil tho station will be followed
by q luncheon which will BIO served In
acceptable style on the spot. This will
be followed 6y number OF toas,s and
responses by Mr.. DoSue, members OF
y the board and citizens, and altogether
the evening Is expected not to be ono
ill-spent
The new pumping station, which ia
ono OF the most complete In tho coun-
try, hns practically been completed
binco last Christmas day, when water
was pumped into the old reservoir.
since that time the pumps ut the sta.
ton have been almost constantly ut
work pumping water into the old reser-
yoir. Tho walls OF the new reservoir
by reason OF not having been used have
become cracked In places and for that
reason tho BASIN cannot now be used.
AS soon as the weather becomes some.
what milder the walls will be pointed"
which means the cracks will DO CO.
mented over, after which the basin will
be put into active service and the old
{ reservoir retired. By that time the
new pumping station will have been re-
eeived formally by the wator board on
behalf OF tho city. The connections to
the new basin are already completed.
The pumping capacity at the new
station is $50 gallons per revolution
anu revolution every minute. Thus
twill be readily seen that 1900 gal
Ions can be pumped from the Ohio river
to the basin, an elevation OF 259 feet,
every sixty minutes. The capacity Is
= much greater than the old pumping
station at the foot OF Eighth street,
which at times has been sorely taxed to
keep enough water in the city basin.
\ Ihs capacity now Is large enough for
reasonable incrcaie in tho population OF
z the city and community for a great
/ many years. In fact 1t is such TINT the
y water board feels safe in entering into
negotiations with the town authorities
4 OF Fulton to furnish that thriving little
Z community with water
AS was stated, the new station Is now
Z practically completed; and, being in
practical operation, it will form an in
teresting subject for the viewing"
II shich the board and their guests will
be expected 10 do this evening.
~ The work on tho station wus started
soon after the Holly company secured
the contract in the spring Of 1893 and
has been pushed forward steadily evor
since. Completed the station will cos.
somewhat over 100000.
Preceding the visit OF the board and
citizens to the station this evening de-
scriptlon OF the improvements will no
doubt provo interesting. The boilers,
machinery and we'll are covered by u
neatly designed one-story brick struct-
Y ure, set on very substantial stone foun-
dations. Tho brick stack, ono OF the
largest in the city, one hundred ieet in
height, Is OF pretty design. Its thir.
teen feet In diameter ut the bottom, and
gradually tapers to the top. The fue
hole is five feet in diameter.
The upper half OF the building is d.
sssyided from the. other part by brick
partition wall and contains tho boiler
equipment There are three batteries
OF two boilers each, all being Of the
Holly return tubular pattern, Of the
very latest design. The accommodate
.sStions for fuel are large, aud sidetracks
( make the delivery OF that very impor-
4 tant article convenient,
Tho pumpinG machinery is very elab.
q orate aud includes many new devices in
water works machinery recently per-
fected by the manufacturers. There arc
two pumping engines in the well, the
latter being forty feet deep, with n
twelve foot stone and concrete iounda-
ton, with walls ranging from ninr and
"a half TO five feet thick. The size OF the
we'll is torty-three by eleven and n half
4 feet. Two twenty-iour inch inlet pipes
bring the water from the river, while
Il two twenty inch outlet pipes carry it to
the big thirty inch mains which arc to
Z convey 1t TO the now reservoir. Tho
Is tunnel containing the inlet pipe. runs
q from the bottom OF the we'll to the river.
81 distance OF 90 feet. The pipes them.
selves run out from the mouth OF the
+, tunnel over 100 feet into the river. AT
this point tho river is very deep, aud
there will be no trouble whatever, dur
]. ing low water. Tho bottom is covered
with rock and gravel, without mud, so
that tho old trouble Of tho inlet
4 pipes filling with mud will It is claimed
be entirely obviated. 81
There are two pumping engines in
n the well, which will be enough
to supply the entire city without over
"a %arking. There are four pumps, which
/! are supplied with eight valve boxes,
n each valve box containing fitsy.six
valves, To form an idea OF tho amount
va OF expensive machinery now in tho
u well, II need only DO stated that each
3s valve box weighs eighty tons, and tile
total amount of machinery now there
weighs more than $50 tons exclusive OF
u; the massive engines. a 5.5
the capacity OF The works should at
n any time provo insufficient the build
Ne ings are so arranged that additions eau
s. be made to both buildings and we'll at a
reasonable cost to the city.
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