The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-10
THE COAL TESTS
Made by the Water, Board at the
Pumping Station i
IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER


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Replies to sonu siNtem,nt, Made br the
Trair, ANrmbiy Committee. E
The city water board hold an import
ant meeting yesterday and among tho
business transacted, acted upon the
communication from the Ohio Valley
( Trades nnd Labor Assembly, IN regard
10 the reccn, coal test at the water
works,
1t Will be remembered that tho test
was made by the Trades Assembly in m
der to demonstrate that the use OF coul
at the works would be saving 10 tho
city, and az the same time afford en-
ploymelit 10 more mon ut the works.
and the employment OF miners. Tho
board took up the matter and adopted
the following statement, copy OF
which will be sent to the Trades and
labor Assembly:
WHEELING, W. Va, Nov. Q, lS96.
Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assem-
bly,
Gentlcmcn:--As per agreement with
your committee. we have determined
the relative cost of operating the pump
Ing station OF the city water works with
both gas and coal as fuel.
We find by the test made under the
supervision OF your committee on Sep
TENDER Nth, 1896. there was consumed
GA bushels OF coal In the twenty-four
hours test, making a tntal OF 2Gi LILO
bushels per year at a cost Of ....S S,iOI L
Srhe, difference In labor required In
- using coal Is two extra iremcn nj
$50 per month,..,..o.....,...,... Lilo 90
Ono extra man for wheeling RShcu
anu coal ..s....,.,....U.......,... 500 GO
Rennirs TO furnaces, grnto bars and
hiring ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. go 90
Making totni cost per year Of. tl0,7il u
Our present cost OF gas for running
pumping stations per contract ISIS $50 %
Saving the city tho sum OF. ......ss6t /?
per year.
Now, In explanation rs to cost Of fuel
for the year 1895 being $S,O25 80. would
state that this includes the coal used at
The old works and for all the fires around
fire hydrantS In the streets during the
entire winter season. and NIL repair
work, and all new lines laid during the
year, and also making boiler tests.
In yonr statemen: for publication your
committee reported Il very inferior quail
ity OF coal used In the above test. and we
being DESTROYS to find the resrl: OF the
difference between using n good quality
OF coal and the coal used in the above
test. made the following test on October
~ 1896, and hnd at the rate tn" coal
consumed IN making the test. It would
require $4,000 bushels per year. ut d
cost of.......................... Is 5000 co
Two extra ilremen Al 50 per
month 1870. ...;...;:.......;.. 1,i4Q %
Wv SA aSaH itidi' 'o' "heeIlnS asheh 80 a.
pSnsIrs n I,irn,cc ,:.,, - w W
airing tools . sn1 m
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Making total cost per year OF. $40 so %
Contract price for gas per ye1r....s i.sW 90
N,,,, , 1000 -
2 hant"s S"E'hS 10 'he CITY ot.'N S'Io W
Ana by comparing the TWO tests We
( itnd II cheaper by using the better'qual-
: ity OF ceai,
In reply TO the following Item taken
Tom your report, which readi as fol-
Z lows:
> ) From all thu above It would seem
reasonable to assume that II the plant
E al the wheeling water Works Is In good
condition and carefully and economic
ally operated. II should develop an aver
age duty OF az least 50, O0Q,n0t or 9O,0O0.0O0.
( II the pant Is not III SoTi order and Is
reaching less fhar it standard duty,
s 9neh money or us equivalent Is being
wasted, and one OF two facts Is demon
strnted. eithe. the city OF Wheeling has
been Imposed upon by the Holly Com
+ pany' IN accepting machinery thar does
not come UP 70 the guaranteed duty or
= otherwise the men WHO are operating |;
are Incompetent
nov. being deS!rouJ OF correcting the
IMPRESSION that the above article would
make en- the urinformedt we concluded
10 pfocurcfHe services Of dlsinterestsd
and compeicnt consulting engineer to
2 make duty testsaa per the Holly Man
utacturlnE Compnny's guarantee.
The following test will demonstrate
the TACT thaS the city OF Wheeling hac
y not been imposed upon, but has. pumps
that VIII give \ greater duty thnn the
guarantee, and fuTth-:. demonstrates
the TACT that our men are competent to
handle the same, as this duty was made
after the pumps had performed nearly
three years service.
JAMES H. HARLOW & co.
Office 2l0 Times BulldlnEr Fourth ave,
and Williamsburg. Pa.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct 90, 1896,
II. F: Jones. esq.
President City Water Board.
Wheeling. W. Va.
Dear Slr:-1n accordance with your in
structi0rlS. lost was made yesterday,
October Is, to ascertain the luty of the