The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-02
BIG STEEL SMOKE STACK
AT THE BIC FACTORY OF I'll F
 OANDEE 6 COMPANY.

Over One Hundred Feet in Height and Lit
 Up Last Night by Two Are Lights at the
 Top-The Erection of the Big Pipe Effect-
 ed Very successfully-T Generator is a
 Marvel Itselr--said to be the Best Steam
 Producing Plant in New England.
 The erection of the steel smokestack which will carry off the gases and smoke emanating, when in operation, from the new Morrin Climax" boiler which has lbeen just built at the works of the l.. Candee & Co. has during the last two weeks been the object of much interest,
 With the use of a 66-foot gin pole and a goodly supply of ropes and pulleys this massive pipe was lifted clear from the ground and lowered on its base, again lifted into the air, lowered through a hole in the roof of the fire room and rivetted to its place on top of the generator.
 It consists of four sections, each slightly conical, and when joined to- gether make a huge cylindrical shaft, 100 feet 6 inches in height, weighing eight tons. It is made of the finest fire box steel, measuring 66 inches in diam eter at base and 56 inches at top. The generator is 36 feet in height, the max imum altitude, however, being 1S6 feet,
 The generator itself is marvel of ie crn i,, diameter and the second largest in the world. There are 720 steel generating tubes, U-shaped, coiling snake-like in and around a central shell made of the best wrought steel, subjected to a hy- drostatic pressure of 300 pounds to the square inch; each part being welded to the adjoining parts, thus dispensing with the doubtful security of rivets.
 It is constructed without any screw ed, packed or metallic joints to cause trouble, and appears to be simple and uncomplicated. The outer castings are so contrived that the person in charge can easily examine every point The combustion is perfect. Generators of the same design have upon trial shown that only 10.9 per cent. of coal had been left as refuse or ashes. The heating surface is 7,96O square feet, the grate surface being 127 square feet and while nominally of S0O-horse power has a con sumptive capacity of 2,400 to 5000 pounds of coal per hour, evaporating from twelve to fifteen tons of water per hour into dry steam, which makes 1t substantially 1,200-horse power in prac- Nice.
 Ha regard to safety, there are no large diameters exposed to pressure, hence the ultimate strength is considerably in excess of the strains to.which the metal is subjected.
 The contrivance can be operated with in twenty-five square feet, all told, and is recommended to do the work of twelve of the old tubular boilers for merly used by the company, while Il takes up only the room previously occu- pied by four
 The cost of the generator is about $12,. 900, and the L. Candee & Co has cer- tainly shown much enterprise in the se- lection of their latest improvement, now having the best steam producing plant in New England
 The advantages claimed for it are ab- solute safety, a saving in coal, a larger volume of steam per pound of fuel con- sumed a saving in space, and a reduc- ton in the amount of labor. If after trial the company shall reap these ben efits fully as expected there is no doubt that it will eventually dispose of the balance of the old horizontal tubular boiler plant and erect another Climax generator. If this should be done suf- ficient ground will be available to erect good-sized building for manufactur- ing or other purposes.
 The Morrin Climax" steam generator is the latest production of the Clon- brock Steam Boiler company of Brook lyn, N. Y, and was erected under the personal supervision of MT. U. G. Ora ham, representing that concern. The stack was placed in position by Harden Brothers, contractors, also of Brook lyn
 Last night the great smokestack was brilliantly lit up by two arc lights whict had been hoisted to the top of the stack and many hundreds of people viewed the sight.