The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-27
FINF ELECTRIC PLANT.
Will BE Used for Illuminating the New
Hotel Jcrmyn.

viii BE Used for Illuminating the New
Hotel Jcrmyn.
An electric plant with capacity Of
400 lights of sixteen candle power has
been installed In the cellar of the Hotel
Jermyn. The engines and dynamos
were started yesterday afternoon for
the first time and worked perfectly.
Many of the incandescent lights on the
first and second floors were turned ON
and something of the beauty that the
interior Of the building will possess
when sompieted was disclosed.
The electric plant in the Jermyn Is
the finest ever installed In a building
in this vicinity and was put in by the
Western Electric company, of New
York for the contractors. the Scranton
Supply and Hardware company of this
city. who are the representatives of the
Western company In this vicinity. The
plant entire cost Mr.. Jermyn In the
neighborhOod of $4,000.
THERE ARE TWO DYNAMOS.
There are two dynamos run by two
125-horse power engines manufactured
by the Weston Engine company of
Painted Post, N. Y. The power for
these is supplied by steam taken from
the regular boilers of the hotel A
shaft from the engine runs the dynamo
doing away entirely with belts. There
is no connection whatever between the
two dynamos and they can be run to-
gether or separate as the demand for
light may require.
When both are running they furnish
enough of light to illuminate every cor
ner of the immense hotel from cellar
to roof. The dynamOs are the perfec-
ton of recent idea and are Sparkless.
They accommodate themselves auto
matically to the requirements placed
upon them be 1t one light or twelve
hundred. They have carbon brushes
where ordinarily copper Is used. Back
of the dynamo Is Il huge switch board
which enables the engineer to control
the current all through the building.
Switch boards for the same purpose
are located In the office and In other
places in the building.
TWENTY MILES OF WIRE.
In the hotel there is over eight miles
Of copper wire for carrying the current
for the incandesceht lights. 1t Is all
cased in iron tubing absolutely pre-
venting damage by fire from broken
wire. Throughout the building the
greatest care has been taken in placing
and safeguarding the electric wire.
BESIDES the eight miles of wire used In
the electric light wiring twelve miles
We're required in placing the annuncia-
tors In all the rooms Of the hotel. A
novel feature of the annunciator wiring
is that Il. any time Il telephone is re-
quired In any room in the hotel the
annunciatOr button can be taken Of
and Il telephone attached.
This wire is then made a part of the
Central Pennsylvania cOmpany's tele-
phone system and the guest sitting in
his room can talk either over the local
or long. distance wires. This ii u con-
venience that Is provided for in only a
few hotels Of the, country.
The arrangement of the incandescent
light in the lObbey and dining rooms Is
unique and pretty. 1t was suggested
by r.. $. Keefer and ]. II. Spain, the
representatives of the Western Elec-
trio company. The latter has had en-
tire charge of putting the plant I'm the
hotel. i. w. Bleckley and T. r. Simp-
son had direction of the work for the
Scranton Supply and Machinery COM
puny,