The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
OF large Size.
Some of the Big Things of the World.

,ARMATURE-Th largest armature for
the largest generator of electricity ever
made in the world for trolley railroad
was completed mp in Cleveland, o., in Jan
works of the Walker company for Brook
lyn. N. Y. The whole generator when
assembled, Is 20 feet high, 20 feet long
ana 10 Ieet wide, or equal in height to
Brooklyn Heights Street Railway COM
pany The armature. which is the re-
ts part OF the generator between
the magnets, weights 80, 600 pounds 1t is
rs fee. wide and 1019 feet high.
PUMP-The Calumet and Hecla Mining
gan which Is truly marvellous piece Of
mechanism. It can deliver $500 600 gall
Ions OF water every hour in the twenty
-FOUR without being crowded to its limit
or capacity, and IL will do the work with
scarcely as much noise as is made by
the operation of an old-styIe sewing ma
chine. Briefly, it Is a triple expansion
pumping engine with capacity of Co.
100000 gallons standing nearly 50 feet in
height and requiring 1850 horse power
for its operation. The duty of the pump
Is to furnish water for the great stamp
mills or the Calumet and Hecla company,
which has twenty two steam pumps in
continuous operation, daily pulverizing
s,WO tons OF conglomerate rock into sand
SO tine that 1t can be carried away by q
stream OF swiftly running water.
STA1RWAY-,rhe Philadelphia city
nall, already distinguished as being the
highest municipal cuilding in the world,
contains the highest continuous stairway
In the world, and tourists who have
ooasted OF their muscular ability in
climbing the stone steps of the Bunker
hill monument at CharlestoWn, the
Washington monument or the monument
to Gen. Brock. near Queenstown Ont
VIII tell their friends of their feat of as
cending the 59S steps which lead from the
seventh floor Of the city hall to ting land
ing about the feet Of William PENIS
statue. 1t extends from the seventh to
the sixteenth door, and contains 59S steps
of iron arranged about a square central
shaft, in which runs an electric elevator.
70 reach the tower stairway the climber
may mount 245 granite stairs in the stair
ways at the northern end of the building,
thus making a total climb of 743 steps,
rover climbing IS one of the fads of
tourists Hitherto the Bunker hill
monument with it's 400 odd stone steps.
and the Washington monument which
has few more. have represented the
acme of opportunity for tests of physi-
cal endurance in this country.
Glasgow, Scotland, has the
highest chimneys in the world. One of
these-the Townsend shaft at Port Dun
diameter at the base of 80 feet, and at
the top of Is feet inches. The structure
weighs ABOUT 5000 tons. The other stack
that at st. RolloX, GlaSgoW-has a to-
tai height of AS feet inches. with a
diameter at the base of 80 feet and at the
top of Is feet inches. There is a chimney
at Cologne which is AL feet high, with
diameter at the square base of SO feet,
ana at the round top of II feet inches.
Its weight is about $500 tons Another
lowering chimney is at the Royal Smelt-
ing works, near Freiburg, in Saxony. It
is built up to the top of a hill, where it
stands isolated, and is AGO feet high The
most costly chimney in the world is in
Bradford, England, at the famous Man
hat 10
bic structure. INTELLECTUALLY, and is the
most prominent feature in the landscape.
1t Is 256 feet inches high, and q feet
square. 1t contains 5000 tons Of material
and cost $4,000. A peculiarly of this
shaft Is that it is as broad at the top as
1t Is at the bottom, but the interior is
wider. at the summit than at the base,
the dimensions being 10 feet and 10 feet,
respectively. In addition to possessing
the most expensive chimney Bradford
has the gloomy distinction of having ex-
perlenced the most terrible chimney dis
aster on record-that of the NeWlands
mills. - -