Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-08

The building will be heated by steam and
lighted by electricity. 1t will be finished in
clear pine with hard oil and sand finished
plastering tinted a pale olive.
The car house part of the structure is
125 by 165 feet in dimensions, and one
story in height. 1t will be SO arranged
with a transfer table, that the entire
car equipment of the road can be stored in
1t. and any one car be gotten out without
shifting disturbing the others. This
will be advantageous in many ways, as in
the spring when summer cars can be used
during the warmer hours of balmy days
they can be gotten out at once, while the
same ease Will apply to bringing into use
the closed cars on rainy days in summer.
The tracks in the car house are elevated,
allowing cars to be put in any part of 1t
without removing their grips. The roof of
the car house is bitumen and Stag, resting
on. large girders carried by iron columns
The floor will be concrete with a top dress
ing of Portland cement. There will be hose
connections at convenient points through
out the building so that water will always
be Immediately accessible for washing cars
or in case of fire. The front of the build
ing, or Office part, Is laid with brick in
red mortar, with a slate roof except on the
bay windows and towers, which are cover
ed with red Spanish tiles and have copper
cornices, granite belt courses, stills and lin
tells and ornamented with terra Gotta de-
signs. Black rustless iron Is used for the
gates and general ornamental purposes.
The power house Is nearing completion
and Is a model building of its character,
having every appointment that can possibly
be necessary tn the most economical and
rapid running OF cars. 1t Is divided into
four large rooms and contains a basement
80 feet square and Oil rooms and other
small apartments.
The room devoted to the engines and
driving machinery Is ~ by IS feet in d.
mansions, spanneG by steel trusses 50 feet
in length, so that the ceiling is supported
entirely by the outside walls. Two enor-
nous engines will be erected here as well
as the driving machinery, consisting of
rope drive and two winding drums, both
driven from the same pulley. Next is the
tension room, 81 by ia feet in size, where
the cables will run after passing around
the driving machinery. There will be some
intricate mechanism in this apartment by
the use of which the strain upon the cable
at all times will be known and lessened or
increased by the movement of series of
weights as the engineer in charge may
deem advisable. The exact tension will be
shown by an ingenious instrument designed
by Chief Engineer Upton, an Indicator up
on dial showing at all times the exact
weight upon the cable. By observing il
and regulating the weights attached the
cable can be kept at the same tension all
the time.
The other two apartments are the boiler
and coal rooms. The former is IS by As
feet and will contain the boilers, pumps and
other machinery needed to run the engines
The coal room Is AZ by As feet and will
hold LOO tons Of COAL The building Is
covered with slate roof resting on steel
trusses. The corner bay windows have
red Spanish tiled roofs and the friezes are
Of granite and terra Gotta.