The herald., 1895-05-25
SOMETHING Gan Be SAVED
The Electric Lighting for the
City Hall
COST OF PROPOSED PLANT
The Investment Would Soon Pay For
Itself
;OST OF PROPOSED PLANT
Recommendations OF the Board Of Public
Works Made Yesterday In Regular
Weekly Session

Charles Story, the city hall engineer, has
made the following report regarding the
proposed new electric light plant inten-
dcd to be purchased and placed in the
building by the city:
To the Board of Pubic Works:
The engineer of the city hall begs leave
to report as follows in regard to the pro-
posed electric light plant for the city
hall:
First-Contractors will not have to take
into consideration any oil apparatus.
Second-It will be necessary for con-
tractors to take boiler and feed pumps
now in the ciuy hall engine loom as
part payment for any electric light plant
to be placed in said boiler room in the
city hall.
After going over the field, I find prices
ranging about as follows:
One hundred sixty horse power derrick
and Church 300-revolution engine,
2x42x16 foot boiler, one heater. one feed
pump, stacks, etc, all to cost $2220
4 Corlss engine, 12x30 feet, 2x42xi6 foot
boiler. one heater. one feed pump, stacks,
etc, all TO cost $3.50.
Fifty horse power Ideal automatic cut
off engine. two thirty horse power boil
ers, all seams so constructed as to run the
long way of the boiler, thus averting ire
line seams. with stacks, etc., the whole to
cost $l100.
At the machine shops fifty horse
power engine. would cost 500. AS an en-
gineer l do not think it economy to re-
tain the boiler at present in use, as the
proposed plant is to operate all night and
two fortyhorse power boilers will do the
work for both the elevator and the cleo
frie nj p,,i
pump would bring about $3.50 or $400.
Three hundred and fifty lights are nec-
essary for the city hall and $50 lights for
the city Jail.
The electric wiring of the hall is bad.
500 dynamo will be necessary. The two
4O-horse power boilers are needed because
after pm. the city hall requires but little
light and one boiler ought to be cut SO as
TO save fuel. One 40-horse power boiler
will furnish power enough to drive $50
lights. heat the city hall and run the
elevator. The plant compile ought not to
both buildings ought to be worked by
thumb screws.
At the present price of gas paid by the
city, the proposed new plant would be
paid for i'll twenty months.
The board of public works at its regular
weekly melting yesterday adopted the fol-
loving recommendations to be acted on
b the council next Monday:
Recc mmend that the city attorney pre-
sent ordinance to abandon Eleventh
street between Lake View and Grand
View avenues. in accordance with the PC
tition of ]. +. Randall. he having re-
corded a new map. making a sixty -four
foot street, and that the accompanying
deed be filed.
Recommend that the petition of W. J.
Chichester and Others for cement side.
walk six feet wide on the east line side OF
RI n OfO hnt Il
Orange streets be granted.
Recommend that the following petit
tions be filed:
From j. W. Drown ct al. for catch
basin at Second and State streets; from
q. B. Ioberleln ct al. Tor paving. curhIng
and guttering Main street from Thirty
seventh street to the city limits; from
NJ. Hagan for the vacation of certain
alleys and Grand View avenue, ir block
b, in the Lankershim tract; also, the pro
tests of o. W. Cnilds and f. S. Hicks
against the assessments levied for the
widening of Broadway.
Recommend that the report of the
street superntndnt made on April 8th be
filed.
Recon- mend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to place a cuvert
four feet wide across Sand street on the
west side of North Hill.
Recommend that the city attorney pre-
sent all ordinance of intention to make
Second street of uniform width of sixty
feet between Santa Fe avenue to point
seventy feet west of Alameda, the dis
trct of assessment to be between Santa
Fe avenue and the east side of San Pedro
street on both sides of Second street.
Recommend that the city clerk adver-
tise an ordinance for the construction
and operation of an electric road running
from Eighth to Hill, to Sixteenth. t.
FigueIoa streets, as amended and sub
mitted.
Recommend that proposals to purchase
lot 3S, block 1, of the Sisters of Charity
tract, be referred to the city attorney to
draft the necessary ordinance for the
same.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to curb and repair
the gutter on the west side of Olive street
from Sixth street 300 feet south.
Recommend that the city engineer run
profile of Hoover street between Tenn
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