The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-24
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BEST IN THE COUNTY
What Contractor Connolly
Promises to Make the
New Power House.
ONE GREAT ERROR MADE
Money Can Be Saved by Making
Improvements at This
Time.
ONE GREAT R MAD

If Contractor Michael r. Connolly
does what he says he will do the power
house being erected by him will be the
best constructed building in Hudson
county. The power house will contain
the dynamos and other machinery re-
quired for the lighting mp of the Bouie-
ward. and the contract will be completed
and turned over to The Board OF Free
holders On or before November /. The
building will be lS6 fee 10 inches front
and "a feet inches deep. and consist of
one story with % feet in The clear. 1t is
to be constructed entirely OF brick With
heavy iron braces. The walls are all
completed now, and the contractor is
waiting to lave the roof placed on.
The building is being erected on d
solid rock foundation at the foot of the
west sid OF the Jill and about leo feet
south OF the Penite ltia-y. The location
is a most desirable one because of the
solid rock foundation, and its close prox-
unity to the Hackensaek River. Coal
may be unlot lie ! 200 feet from the power
house. thereby saving much carriage,
for the coal will be conveyed from the
manipulated by an endless chain.
Tine plans and speeIticatioas of the
building. can for q hoard ilo9ring; but
Chief Engineer Harrison the fact that a
cement flooring i've INCHES thick would
TO lay such, floos withou. any additions
al expense % the county, an offer that
was Immediately aceeprsd.
The cement floor will cost Connolly a
good deal more than the board floor, but
he says he takes pride in this building and
he will stand the, cost. The contractor
put in four inch arm pins instead of
two. six and eight inch pins, as the
specifications call Tor Chief Engineer
would be better for the building and
moNE GREAT ERROR M Maaa I tns
eppfied for is f for shs enl lnafSe the the bpuiids
t srgcta Il f Mas f0a Woul af5 sa mera walis Mef fe
have the chimney inside of the building.
because it would take up too much room.
Freeholders how much boiler room could
be saved If the chimney were built on
the outside of the power house and his
the chimney. The plans state that it
and be Of iron. The cliff immediateiy Be
hind the power house is 100 feet high.
and with a chimney twenty.nine feet low
difficult at times to secure a draft
sufficient for the operation of the boil
ers: G~ontraetor c9nnolly. t says ssst the he's eh and
that it should be constructed Of brick
and not iron. He say that an iron chin,
ney 125 feet would be dangerous, and
gave as ar example the. one built by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company a few
years ago. which the compa was COM
PEELED to replace with. a brick chimney.
FREEHOLDERS CONSIDERING. j
The Freehoiders are now considering
this important matter and they probably
will order the change to be made. 1t
will involve IN expense of $1,000 more
than the present plan, but will insure
a perfect draft for the operation of the
machinery In addition to this. with the
necessary additional machinery all the
county Inssitations Court Honse: jan
electricity. Contractor Connolly says that
his bid was about s14, 900 lower than the
next highest one, for the. contract. and
that if the Freeholders VIII expend that
amount of money in addition to the
SIS. 900 contract price. all these extra i'm
they wait until the building is finished 1t
may cost the county twice that sum- to
have the work done. He say further that
the gas bills for the county are $4,000
a year, and that the saving of these bills
would in three years pay for the extra
work and machinery needed.
This week the contractor will begin to
put in the machinery called for in the
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