New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-30
DYNAMOS FOR ELEV ATED.
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY RE.
CEIvEs THE CONTRACT.
THE FIRST TO BE DELIVERED IN TEN
MoNTHs-PRovIsIoN SOON TO BE
MAIZE FOR TIE MOTORS

After the meeting Of the Executive Committee OF
the Manhattan Railway Company yesterday Presi-
dent Gould said that contract b I'd been AWARDED
TO the Westinghouse Electric Company for heavy
generating machinery for the new power house and
apparatus for sub-stations. This, with the con-
tracts already given for engines. boilers etc. prac-
ticaly completes the provision for the stationary
Installation. Mr. Gould said that the first OF the
lasge dynanos due for delivery IN ten months.
so that II reasonable 10 expect that the publc
would see electric trains running on part OF ths
Manhattan system within the coming year.
The apparatus covered BY the contract awarded
yesterday consists OF eight threep alternating
current generators, each OF $3.50 horsepower ca
pacity. together with such stepdown and convert
ing devices for the substatons will be necessary
70 transform the alternating current generated IN
the power house into direct current five hundred
volts. This direct current will be fed TO TIE third
rail Of the elevated system. The $3.50 horsepower
generators will be the largest designed con-
structed. II said their external Dimensions be-
ing something more than forty feet The rotating
element which includes In itself the field Of the
generator and the necessary fywheei for the
CINE. and which will be mounted directly on the
shaft Of the engine, has diameter Of th!rty-t~o
feet Some idea Of the size OF these gen.
eraters may be gained from thelr dimensions and
from the fact that the weight Of each machine and
engine complete will be nearly one thousand TONS
The current generated by these large machines
VIII De conveyed 70 various sDD-sldllotls Noffc-
nienty placed about the city In these sub-statiors
will sbe installed twenty-sx rotary converters In
units OF thousand horsepower each. These
rotary converters designed to produce direct
current FIVE hundred volts for use on the eie-
waited structure.
The Manhattan Railway Company has been &C.
lively studying the problem. which to-day culrni-
mates In awarding this contract for more than two
years. The Technical Board OF the company ~
composed OF men prominent In engineering Inc
selection OF the engineering plans OF the Wesune-
| house Electric and Manufacturing Company was
made after careful study by the Technlcal Bcerd
The directors OF the Manhattan railway Ooin-
pany nine months ago took the first decisive step
| elevated lines when they ntrusted TO President
| George j.. Gould the responsibility OF decicing
whether electricity or compressed air should pc
adopted as the motive power and also voted 70
OF which the expense Of the contemplated improve
! nents should be President Gould promptly
decided In favor Of electricity, and few days later
| the company announced the appointment OF VIII
electrical operation Of elevated roads In Chicago. as
chief electrical engineer or The Manhattan system.
! On June q President Gould announced that the
company had secured tract OF land az seventy
| fourth and Seventy-hfth SITS. and the East River
/ as site which large power house would Dc
| third rail- had been awarded TO the Lackawanna
! Steel Company. A few weeks later came the an
had secured the contract for the boilers The con-
tract for the dynamos, just awarded 70 the Vest
nghouse Company. IL is understood. involves an e1-
pendture of about S.50o.Coo. There remains the
awarded az soon as II shall be decided whether
the multiple unit electrical locomotive system OF
propulsion is the more desirable for the operation
| OF the Manhattan Railway Companys cars