Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-10-09
BUSYAT PLOW WORKS
Three New Boilers Each With
Capacity of 3oo-Horse Power
to Be Installed.
NEW OFFICES NEARLY COMPLETED
Company Forces TO Be Conven.
ientIy Situated in New
Quarters.

The Rock Island HIoW company Is
in receipt of three new watertube
boilers which will be installed to take
the place of the ones now in use. The
new ones are of the pattern known as
the Geary boiler, manufactured by
the Oil City Boiler works of Oil City,
Pa. They were shipped here on flat
cars, one to a car, and to the casual
observer they are very odd looking
affairs. indeed. Small and scarcely
larger than the ordinary locomotive
boiler, they still are capable of devel-
oping 300-horse power each at a
pressure of 1875 pounds per .quare
inch. The main parts of the bodies
of the new boilers are inclined at an
angle of about 90 degrees, and set
upon the cars they resem BILE large
cannon set at 20 mile range Below
are t. bes set Iengthwise, water circu-
lating through the whole when steam
is being generated.
The dismantling of the old boilers
will be begun next week and the work
of installing the new ones will be
done in such manner that the plant,
while forced to run light, will not be
compelled to shut down. One will be
put in at a time and the three will be
installed in about three weeks.
RemodeIing of Onicss
The remodeling and enlarging of
the offices of the company, which has
been in progress for the past two
months and to which previous refer
ence has been made in The ARGUS is
now nearing completion and it is be-
coming apparent that the arrange
ment and equipment will be of the
best in the three cities. The work
was planned early in the spring, but
owing to the uncertainty attending
the attempted organization of the
pillow trust or other reasons, nothing
else was done till well into the sum-
mer.
The carpenter work has been done
by the shop carpenters. fhe changes
in the old office building include au
extension to the south, almost doub-
ling the capacity both above and be-
low AS before all the offices will be
on the second floor, while the sample
room and supply room, much en-
larged and improved, will be on the
ground. A stairway has been cut in
side and the door by which the old
outside entrance was made has been
changed into a window. Upstairs
a passageway extends lengthwise
through the middle as the common
approach to all the offices At the
northwest corner is the shipping and
bi ling office, and south on the east
side are in order the buying. slles
collection and bookkeeping depart
ments and the offices of General
Manager z. A. Head and Ii. III. Hub
bard. The former has a private and
general Office.
To Have Telephone Exchange.
In the northeast corner is to be
located the telephone exchange. which
will be connected with the foremen Of
all the departments and the principal
offices. A portion of the latter will
have facilities for connection with
the city lines South along the east
side OF the building are in order, the
lavatories. stenographer and type
writing department, tireproof vaults
for the records and an open corridor
that may be used for any purpose
that time may suggest.
All the work has been done on the
Office without necessitating the find
ing of other quarters for the Office
force. At present all the Office en-
ployes are working at greater or
less advantage in order to be as little
in the way of the carpenters and
painters as possible.