The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-13

Then came the work Of shifting sirn,ll-
taneously the weight of the hotel from
the spiles of the cars. 1t was accom-
plished by means of hydraulic Jacks.
each capable of lifting from so to 30
tons. With these the hotel was lacked
up and held while cross timbers were
placed under it. When the weight of
the hotel finally rested on the timbers
the latter formed a continuous frame
work, so constructed that no part of il
could move except in conjunction with
the whole
MOVING A HOTEL BY RAILROAD.
The great problem was the uniform ap-
plication of motive power To all points
OF contact with the hotel. II was accom-
piished by an elaborate system of falls
and sheave blocks. The rope, weighing
in the aggregate about two TONS formed
with the "a sheave blocks u skiold pur-
chaSes. the main block of each purchase
being attached to the car. while the on
posite block was fastened by powerful
Cham sings TO the track on which the
car rested and about 100 feet distant from
the building Six locomotives ready to
do the pulling. stood on two tracks and
coupled together. After passing the
blocks last referred to- the ropes u in
number, converged in two. sets of six
each, TO, each of the tracks on which
stood line of three locomotives Thus
SIX ropes were hitched TO each of the two
locomotives standing nearest to the hotel.
ment was the calculation of the strain
and stretch on every rope. the gain of the
tackle, the direction in which power
should be applied and the difference in re-
sssrence between the cars that would be
hauled by nearly straight ropes and those
that would be hauled by ropes more or
less transverse in their course. The total
weight to be moved was Il. 2ei 600 pounds.
divided into 100000 pounds of hotel 2O00.-
0Oo pounds of cars. 6o0.0Oo pounds of
beams and 1000 pounds of rope. Alto
gether something of A load. However. all
the calculations proved TO be correct At
the given signal. the hawsers tightened
and the engineers attempted to move for
ward. For moment the wheels
''whirled' on the tracks, the ropes and
pulleys sang and-the big hotel started
off on its railroad trip II moved about
as fast as the second hand of a watch.
or, as one spectator graphically put 1t.
lat the rate of mile in two weeks but
ii moved. When six feet had been
complished. men went into the building
and examined it. II had not been strained
I'm the least; not even pane of glass was
cracked. 1t was then moved forward *
feet. and later in the day = feet more In
the course of three days the whole dis
lance. SO feet. was accomplished. AS the
building is ie0 feet long. 210 feet wide. and
is covered with towers. which make the
distribution of the weight very unequal.
the feat can be said to have been truly
gigantic. and worthy 10 rank among the
great engineering feats of the world. The
moving cost $4,000
MOVING A RAILROAD STATION.
Yet smaller buildings have been moved
which. in proportion. presented greater
difficulties and for their sizes greater
weights The station at Mott Haven, y.
y IS composed OF brick and. stone, ex-
tending out in bays and covered ways in
q manner which. seriously interferes with
uniform weight II is the kind of build
ing which would be badly damaged by an
earthquake II is lS3 feet long and 30 feet
deep. Ii weighs Zoo tons. An S0-foot
tower attached alone weighs SOC tons. Yet
this building was lifted on jackscrews
and II men moved Il 30 feet IN four and
a half days. Cross beams were extended
under the building. anti-werc allowed to
rest on two tracks or ways, which were
simply beams Of greater length tnan the
ones under the floor. and thoroughly lu-
hricated- Behind the station a number of
posts. secured 10 The tracks By means
of chains served as abutments for the
jackscrews. AS the jackscrews pushed the
station forward the abutments were
moved forward also. so that the screws
always had a solid backing against which
to work. The job thus became exceedingly
simple. Almost the same operation was
gone through with IN moving the old
brick church at Sailors Snug harbor, on
Staten island. The ferry house of the
Brooklyn City railroad was also moved
in this manner. except that il was moved
in an oblique direction. This was accom-
plished by providing the track timDers
with guides. The ferry house now stands
40 feet westward and D feet northward
of its original site. 1t is now II inches