The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-25
IS A MODEL BREAKER
The Shenandoah City COlliery
Takes a New Lease of
Life.
CAPACITY MUCH INCREASED
SUPPLIED WITH ALL TINE LATEST I'M
PROVED MACHINERY FOR PREPAR-
ING COAL FOR MARKET.
CAPACITY MUCH INCREASED
The Inside Workings of the COlliery
Also Arranged for Greater Pro-
duction-All COllierieS Will
Start on Monday.

All the collieries of the Philadelphia
& Reading Coal & Iron Company will
resume operations on Monday morning
and continue until Wednesday night,
when they will suspend until further
notice.
On Monday morning workmen will
begin tearing out and removing the shaft
engine which has been used at the old
Plank Ridge shaft. This place is to be
permanently abandoned. For several
years the shaft has only been used for
lowering and hosting men and timber,
but after this week it will not be used
even for that purpose. AS soon as the fan
at the air shaft near the red bridge is
completed and ready for operation the
fan at Plank Ridge will be removed and
the old place will then be only a land.
| mark.
Among the collieries that will start up
on Monday will be the Shenandoah City,
which has been idle for several weeks on
account OF extensive alterations and i'm
provements inside and outside the
colliery. The breaker is entirely new and
can now be classed as the latest improved
in the anthracite region. 1t may be said
that it is the superior of any other
breaker owned by the p & R. G. & l. Co.
Men acquainted with the outside opera.
tions of collieries say the structure is
grand in equipment, and it certainly
presents majestic appearance. Through
| the courtesy of Outside Foreman Mar
| shall Baugh and Master Mechanic Muel-
hoff, representative of the HERALD was
enabled to pass through the breaker
yesterday and inspect all the improve
ments. To give them in detail would
require more space than can be conven-
iently spared here, but few of them
have been noted to give the public an
idea of the immense amount of work that
has been done about the breaker since its
idleness and the great additional shipping
capacity the improvements have given it..
Among the notable improvements is
the extensive adoption of the shaker
system. There are 80 shakers in the
breaker. These contrivances are used in
one or two of the most recently improved
of the P. & r. G. 81. Co.'s breakers, but
at no place are they used as extensively
as in the Shenandoah City. There are
also 20 jigs. The breaker formerly had
but Z. The scraper line is twice its former
size. In the old breaker the steam boat
broken, egg, stove and pea Goals were pre-
pared in one part Of the breaker, the
: pickers were all together, but in the new
structure they will be separated. The
steamboat and large broken coal will be
prepared on the first or uppermost terrace
of the breaker; the small broken and egg
Goals will be prepared on the second
terrace on the third are eight stove coal
iigs; on the fourth eight chestnut jigs,
and on the fifth, or lower, terrace the
stove coal pickers will be located. In the
middle of the breaker are two pea Goa
r and two buckwheat jigs, each having
shakers in front of them, The screenings
!, from the car leaders are run upon Sc,
of elevators to two shakers and the sizes
of the screenings run into a scraper line
1 and up to the center of the breaker, Il
n the middle screens. The elevators arr
12x1S inches in size and 60 feet high
L There are two large counter screens in tht
that comes out at the ends is of tn
steamboat and large broken sizes. Tn,
- coal that comes out of the jackets, com
prising various sizes, go into a "a incl
scraper line and is taken to three screens
located in the center of the breaker
where it is divided into small broken anC
egg coal. There are twelve sets of shaker
r in the breaker. The first set of thre
a shakers make stove coal; the second Sc
make chestnut; the third make pea coal
4 and the fourth, or lower set, make buck
! wheat and rice The breaker has alsC
been supplied with an additional set o
l' No. rollers for the making of fine coal
- In front of the main screens, at poin
near the top of the breaker, is a set G
elevators 24x24 inches in size and "a fee
high. These elevators carry the coal iron
v. three separate sets of rollers, Nos. 2,
- aud 4, up to the main screens. The plat
form of the breaker exeites admiration
It seems large enough to accommodate a
assemblage at a promenade concert. A
the bottom of the dump chute there is
row of twenty-one bars fixed five inohe
apart. Coal of the smaller, mixed siz'
drop between these bars into an immens
hopper. This part of the counter is a
innovation. No other breaker is supple
with the same kind of an arrangement
The three main screens in the center
the breaker are feet in diameter and
feet long. The jackets are 6 feet 0 ineh'