Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-01-12
TALLEsT IN THE COUNTRY.
ChimN ey Erected in New York Is 1853
Feet in Height.

This gigantic chimney is 30 feet in |
diameter at the ground, 81 feet in its |
narrowest part and 35 feet at the toIe
which flares outward from TIE |
neck, or narrowest part. To build !
4 il required 100000 bricks, enough |
laid end to end, to reach clear across
the state of New York from Buffalo to |
Albany. Or they would build a wall !
four feet high and nineteen miles |
long. If the chimney extended along |
the ground instead of up into the air |
load of hay or the biggest band
wagon that ever led a circus parade |
could be driven through it easily.
The object of this sky-scraping
smokestack is, of course, to furnish a
steady draught for the giant furnaces
which will generate steam to drive the
machinery of a power plant. 1t has
been built with scientific exactness,
therefore, to secure just the right di-
mansions for the air passage. The air
heated by the furnace fires rises and
its place is taken by fresh air. When
the flow of this air current is properly
regulated it keeps the fires at top heat.
Attempts have been made to do away
with tall smokestacks by the use of
mechanical blowers, but the engineers
who are building the new power-house
believe that the chimney fiue still pro-
vides the most efficient draught.
The nicely with which the immense
new chimney has been prepared for its
no
fact that inside it's wall is a second
and separate chimney built up to a
height of $40 feet. The reason for this
is that the inner surface will expand
and lengthen under the action of the
hot gases from the furnaces, while the
outer surface will remain as it is laid.
The result of this process, if there was
only one wall, might be to cause the
great structure to crack and crumble,
or even to topple over. AS it is now
constructed, nothing short of an
earthquake will be likely to move it.
The chimney weighs over 5000 tons,
or more than the battleship Texas. To
support this immense weight 1900 for
ty-foot wooden piles were driven into
could be placed. On these the founda-
tons rest, so that the total height OF
the smokestack counting the distance
its supports extend into the earth, is
almost 400 feet.
One curious fact about the great
smokestack is that it is the only part
of the new power-house thus far erect
ed. The big building, which is to
cover more than an acre of ground
space, will be built about the Chin
ney, which now stands in solitary
grandeur in the middle of city block.
he chimney has been nearly year
in building, and is not yet entirely
completed. For the first 125 feet OF its
height the walls were carried upwards
by means of a wooden staging around
the outside. Above that point the
work was carried on entirely from the
inside. All the brick and mortar in
the upper part of the structure was
boisted ND the flue, and the masons
went to and from their work on a
temporary elevator built inside the
chimney. When it is completed one
iron ladder will run up the inside, CIV
ing access to the top for any repairs
that may be needed.
The tallest. chimney in the world is
in Glasgow, and is over 400 feet in
height But in other respects it is not
large. It's diameter is less, and not
nearly so much material was required
FOR its construction.-Cleve
Leader.