Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-10-21

drawers beneath. afford all the room need
ed The counters, the office front. a large
refrigerator and other fixtures were bought
in BOSTON and are made of quartered oak.
finished finely; the front Of the counters
and office. etc, is panelled and otherwise
ornamented. Quite large section with
suitable counters and shelves is fitted up
for the drug department. The ''back"
store. in this case fronting on the road, is
LARGE and conveniently arranged for it's
uses. an elevator runs to the cellar and
to the second upper story from this.
The second story is finished into large
rooms. which are to be used by Peerless
girl roomers, two or more occupying the
same room. This story is provided with
suitable closets, store rooms, etc. The
rooms are very pleasant. The third story
is to be used by the Odd Fellows and the
Rebekahs. There is large main hall in
the north end of the building, with small
er rooms-a kitchen, dining room, regalia
room. etc. The Odd Fellows will furnish
their rooms in modern style and will have
quarters as good as can be found in this
part of the State. The whole building will
be lighted with electricity, supplied with
water in all the stories and will be heated
with hot water. NJ j. Elliott of this vii
lage is putting in the heating apparatus.
The building is modern in construction
and excellently adapted to all it's purposes.
The enterprising firm will have room and
facilities for doing larger business than
ever before, and we bespeak a success that
ought to follow the efforts they make to
supply their patrons of the trade.
The village photographer and the editor
visited Clyde Falls last week to get few
s'negatives'' and few pen points that may
be of interest to those who are watching
for the electricity. The large stone dam,
which has been in process of construction
for five weeks, is completed, except some
little work about the bu1khead, and it is,
proba bly,, as good piece of stone masonry
as there is in the county, if the big arch
across Barton river, built by the railroad,
be excepted The width of the river chan
mel between the Lodges on either side of the
river is seventy feet at the bottom, widen
ing out considerably at the top of the
dam. The water was shut back and the
channel cleaned to the ledge. The dam
was made of good granite, split to dimen-
sions ,as far as possible, laid in best cement.
The foundation for an average depth of
six feet was laid twelve feet wide. The
bulkhead, into which the four feet pen
stock is to be placed, was run up above
the height of any ordinary water and is
covered with stone, preventing the ingress
of anything that can clog the wheel From
the bulkhead end two walls run nearly
across the work to the other side; these
are about three feet and a half in width
and nearly six feet in height. The two
walls are laid five TT. apart, leaving trough
or fume, in, and running lengthways
of the dam, one end being the bulkhead.
This stone fume will be covered with a
close iron rack the whole distance, over
which all the water, ordinarily, viii flow
An aperture is left on the south side of the
dam where the water flows through to
supply the carding mill of Mr.. Cook, who
has sold his water rights to Barton Village
It is believed that there will be water most
of the time for use on this side of the dam;
this privilege for carding or some other
industry will be ofivalue to the owners. A
strong iron gate will shut the water out of
the penstock, and there will be no wood
whatever about the dam. 1t looks as tho
it might stand as long as the hills which
rise on either side of it. From the dam, a
distance of six hundred feet along the
gorge through which the river flows, the
ledge has been blasted off the side, leaving
space and a foundation for the penstock.
One hundred feet further down the power
house is being built, which will contain
the water wheel and the dynamo, the up
per part being finished for the use of the
man who will manage the power. The
power house is built on the solid ledge,
with strong granite walls built up, on
which iron beams are bolted, and on which
the wheel is placed. The wheel was built
specially for this work by the James LET
fel Co., who are supposed to build as good
a wheel as there is in the world. Every
thing except the wheel buckets and the
gate shutes is in iron, and the whole
weighs something over eleven tons. The
shutes and buckets are in bronze and brass.
The wheel is rated above 500 horse power.
The wheel is double and will be set hOri-
zontally, two large draft tubes running
down into the water in the lower wheel
pit. The dynamo, which is a correspond
ingIy heavy piece of machinery, will be
run by two big belts, one on each side
of the wheel. The machinery is warranted
to do a specific work, and it will, doubt
less, meet it's warrant. The penstock will
be of wood-three-inch plank. 1t will be
heavily ironed and is expected to with
stand the heavy pressure. Had it not been
for the building of the dam, the power
would have been nearly ready at this time.
The poles are set to Bloomington Center
and ought to be all up this month.
The linemen are having excellent success
in wiring the town, and will soon be ready
to start after the pole settlers, so that the