The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-04-12
NIAGARA POWER HOUSE.
Twentieth Century Wonder to Rs
Seen at Pan-American Exposition.

one of the thoroughly interesting
| side trips to be enjoyed in connection
| with visit to the Pan n-American cX-
| position will be the trip to Niagara
| Falls to view the wonderful installa
ton in the big power house of the
Niagara Falls Power company. 1t is
this station that will supply the elec
| trio energy to be used on the exposition
! grounds, and an inspection of it will
| bring the visitor in touch with tn
| most marvellous electrical power de.
| veopment of the present time.
The power hollse proper is beauti
| full stone building nearly 500 feet long
| The front section is occupied by tins
company's Offices. and to the rcni
stretches the one-story section known
| AS the dynamo room. Beneath this
room there is IA great slot over 4nn
feet long and i79 feet deep. cut out ot
solid rock. 1t is this slot or wheel-pil
that forms the home of the ten power.
ful turbines that give power to the
dynamos or generators in the station
These turbines are each of 1000 horse
power capacity, and they ale connect
ed to the dynamos by II tube shaft
which extends un the wheel-pit The
construction is such that the weight OF
the dynamos practically float upon the
water that passes through the turbine.
The weight of these parts is many
thousand pounds, all adjusted with
such ricety that there is but the least
possible friction.
The water that supplies the turbines
is taken from an inlet canar connected
with the upper Niagara river This
canal Is 1850 feet long, 100 feet wide
at the tail end and $50 feet wide al the
entrance. It's normal depth is twelve
feet. Passing from this inlet canal,
the water goes into pen stocks and l.
carried down ;he Wheel-pit upon tr3
turbines. the head being about 1856 feet
After passing through the turbines an.
developing power, the water flows int
the big tunnel tail-racc. This tunnel
is $500 feet long. 1t reaches from the
power house TO the lower Niagara riN-
en- where the stream of water that
flows from II may be seen intersectne
the river under the upper steel arch
bridge just below Prospect Park. The
tunnel passes right under the main
part of the city of Niagara Falls at
depth uf about 200 feet. In dmen.
s!ons the tunnel is about Is feet Il
Inches wide and Il feet and y inches
high. Its form is that of a horseshoe
and from end to end it is lined with
four courses of ytriiied brick in or
der to assure permanency.
1t is this station that will be the
great power house OF the Pan Ameri-
can exposition. II is Il magnificent
spectacle To stand on The visitors gal.
lery in this power house and look upor
the whiring dynamos as they make 25(
revolutions every minute. The aver
age person finds II difficult to realize
that these machines are gener-
ating II force that Is being
transmitted miles and miles away
to the Exposition grounds, there ro
delight ali within the gates by the
wondrous effects created when used ir
any of its possible forms. How won.
derful IL will be 10 look upon the high
est electric light ON the top of the
Electrical Tower and stop To consider
that the force that gives il it's remark
able brilliancy is developed by means
of turbines located deep down in iha
big wheel-pit in Niagara Falls! The
Electric Tower viii be 391 feet high
The wheel-pit where the turbines are
is lI9 feet deep. The distance between
the Two is over twenty miles. Think OF
it, Orrin L. DUNLAP.
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