Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-17
4 CLINTON.
Features OF the n,s 9. 3 s. ": Round

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Features OF the Big G. q 81. w. Round
House.
Clinton people who have not been
down on Camanche avenue for a few
months can nov see a Wonderful change
lin the appearance of the new North.
western round house, which is rapidly
nearing completion ard will be finished
land probably in use in a couple of.
weeks.
The building is 400 feet in diameter
land forms d perfect circle. with stalls
1.-THE entire distance round. With the
exception of the two entrances one.
from the east and one from the west.
There are three sections, with fifteen
stalls in the first, sixteen in the second
and seventeen in the third, making a
total Of forty eight. The interior is
Ipainted red and above each door. IL,
large white figures are me numbers of;
1.-THE stalls. from l AS. The turn table
in the center Is one of the LARGEST in use,
being 20 feet long and is operated by
electricity.
In the construction of the building
lone and one-fourth million of brick
5were used. besides the floor. which is
covered with paving brick to the num-
| bsr of 100000, which are kept perfectly
iclean. In the building are three sets OF.
pipes. which, placed together, would be
tmiles in length. They are#water, air ana
steam pipes. b
The round house is heated by hot air.
an immense pipe running entirels- round
the building al the top. with Which is
CONNECTED a number of smaller pipes
running near the floor, thru which the
heat is forced by q huge fan located in
THE room where the hot air is generated
land for this purpose there are hundreds
of feet of steam pipe.
An artesian We'll, with large ca
lpacity, which is lob feet deep, fur
nishes the water for the building.
About fifty men are now at work
land as soon as the building is finished
q number of Northwestern engines will
be housed there Just to what use the
lold round house Will be put has not been
made known. but is thought that the
building will be remodeled and used for
la machine shop.
OF course the building of this modern
lround house brings with it many othel.
4 Improvements A fine OIL house has
Ibeent erected, which is 32xs4 feet and has
Iall ofthe latest improvements in regard
Ito filling and distributing oil. The tanks
lares in the basement and the oil is forced
ito the ground floor thru pipes.
The coal dumps are also of the latest
pattern. being in the shop of Williams,
White e Co. There are fifty of them
land the capacity ranges from five to
seven and one-half tons each. West OF
the dumps are the sand bins which
have an elevated tank, and the dry sand
II runs into an engine on the same rrirr;-
pie that locomotive takes water Next
comes the cinder pits and the dumps
there being four of the latter They
tare so arranged that when an engine
lis to be cleaned out. the cinders are
!traked into n huge bucket and hoisted
4 by machinery out of the pit and dumped
Into a car. the entire process.even to
1.-THE dumping, being done by machinery
In addition To he present round house
another Of a smaller size Will be built,
on which work Will commence about
June l. This round house will contain
ithirty-two stalls. sixteen less than the
large building 1t Will be finished as
soon as possible and VIII be built to
| the east of the present builAing
/ Elegant new machine shops have also
4been erected on this ground and most
of the machinery. which is new. from the
factory. has arrived and iis being put
in place. The building lis a handsome
one. About seventy-fiYes men will be
iemptoyed here. 4 s. ii ~ i. rs 5
To Cure q c old SvaAle You sleep
Take Weeks Break-Up-1-Co Cold Tab.
Peter Mayer. sole AGENT
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