The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-28
new POWER house.
The Work Upon the Big New.
ark Structure Of the Trae-
ton Company.

NEWARK, NOV. 70, loJ4.- OoSo IHio
look like a Government job now?" said
Mr.. Frank Marsh, on Thursday, when
showing a reporter through the new
power station of the Consolidated Trac-
ton Company. 1t did not. The work
which was going on seemed more IKE
a case in which the contractors We're
all h~ustling fer premiums. The site IS
the wharf formerly occupied by the New
ark City Ice Company, lying between the
river and the centre street branch of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and adjoining
Meyers stoneyard. 1t is a big tract,
and will be fully occupied by the power
plant. The huge double building will
cover a space 190x155 feet, and between
the railroad and the west wall will be
a switch and pockets to contain 2,OCO
tons of coal. On the river side will be
more coal pockets, with facilities Tor
unloading canal boats and barges.
O~NE-STORY HIGH.
The big double building is only one tall
story in height. with a cellar full of
fues and tunnels under the half which
is to be devoted to steam generating.
This boiler house is to be a model one
and will contain eight batteries OF Bah
cock & Wilcox safety boilers with spaces
lalQ out lot aS Uldny more VI 1,ooV HOioc-
power each. Eight pairs of boilers will
do for a long while, 1t is thought, but
more can easily be put in when needed.
Under each frebox is a hopper to catch
the ashes, and running under which ash
cars will be run to take the ashes from
the hoppers to a conveyor on the front
of the building, which will hoist the
ashes to a chute from which carts will
be loaded. From the rear of each boiler
a ~down-take fue will carry the pro-
ducts of combustion to a series of hori-
zontal fiues, each a big tunnel in itself,
which will carry the hot air and smoke
through the economiZers, or feed water
heaters, to the big iron stack, which
rears its ornamental cap POL feet in the
air. This draught stack is a wonder in
it's way. Its internal diameter is eleven
feet, and it stands upon a solid founda-
ton formed by driving IT'S piles forty
feet into the ground, OVERLAPPING them
with six feet of Portland cement con-
crete, upon which a brick base twenty
five feet high and thirty-1ve feet in
diameter at the bottom is built. On the
brick work is a huge 1ange of iron, to
which the graceful flaring base of the
stack is bolted. The inside of the iron
stack will be lined for fifty feet from
the bottom with thirteen and one-half
inches of friedrich. Above that point
the lining will be of special tile six and
one-1alf inches thick up to $50 feet, and
the rest of the lining will be four and
one-half inches thick. This is to pre-
serve the metal from the destruc-
tive action of the gases. At the bottom
the stack is divided in the middle by a
detecting wall of friedrich rising above
the arches of the two big fues which
enter upon either side. These flues,
where they enter the stack base, are
nearly large enough to run an electric
| car through. This base alone contains
235, 600 bricks.
FLOOR OF STEEL BEAMS.
The floor of the boiler house is con-
structed of steel beams with brick arches
laid in cement, and the outer work if
the boilers will be of white enameled
brick, h-armonizing with the glazed brick
trimmings of the room. Adjoining the
boiler house on the east is another build
| ing of the same size and character, which
will contain the engines and generators.
The interior of this building is hand
somely trimmed with white and brown
glazed bricks, and in the centre are three
massive piers ready for the first engine,
which Is expected in a few days. 1t is
built by Edward P. Allis of Milwaukee,,
| aIlQ Will u6NGlOp lOU horsepower IL 10
| &. double engine of the triple-compound
| type, with cylinders 16x32 and AZ inches
in diameter. The pair will be directly
| connected with the generator which &C.
| cupies a space between them. The other
] engines will be three of Watts, Camp
| bell & Co.'s build and will develop 1000
| horsepower each. They are to be Cor
liss engines, with cylinders 26X4SX48. These
will be belted to the generators in the
usual manner.
The roof trusses are being put in place
| upon the engine room and it will be en-
| closed completely within three weeks.
Then the Allis engine will probably be in
place, and there will be nothing to pre-
vent it being operated in case of urgent
need. The stack will be finished in a
| week, and at the same time two pairs of
| big boilers will be enclosed and the pipe
| work will be put in as speedily as pos
sible. The company will need every
| pound of power as soon as snow falls
and every effort is being made to push
the work to completion. Charles Marsh,
the builder, is being goaded constantly,
and has as man. men as can be employed
upon the work. The boiler men are ahead
of everybody else, and the engine men
make good promises.
Manager Young says that when this
power house is fully equipped it will
fill all the power requirements for a
quarter Of century to come. Just now
| the company has little margin to work
| upon, and a big snow storm or a break
| down at any of the power houses would
cause serious Inconvenience.