The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-08

secretary of the Manufacturers club,
William G.. Duncan, and the architect
and builder. Mr.. mith-whaley, seems
appropriate, and may be of interest
especially to manufacturers.
Imagine a palatial work shop, the
main building of which is $50 feet long
and 15l feet wide, with four stories
of eighteen feet in the clear: with two
large clock and bell towers, beside
three two-story buildings in the rear
adjoining the mill. 40x140 feet each
FOR machine shops, engine room. boiler
room and also draft room 40x40. In
the engine room are three large
vertical engines with cylinders 20 and
4S inches in diameter by ~ stroke,
each weighing $4,000 pounds, and
each with n fourteen foot fly wheel,
that weigh 10000 pounds. These en-
gines with 165 pounds pressure are
capable of furnishing 1000 horse
power each. or 5000 horse power In
all which form the generating plant.
Each engine is especially designed for
operating with electric generators.
The speed is 1873 revolutions per
minute. Tho power plant which Is the
chief feature of interest in the mill,
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the rear. In the boiler room are
twelve vertical boilers of 300 horse
power each. There are twenty-five,
40 horsepower motors used to apply
the power through the mill. They are
suspended from the ceiling, below the
floors on which the machinery is
to be operated, the short belts run
ming through holes in the floors
There are other and smaller motors
that drive the pumps to feed the boil
ers, run the elevators, operate the
machinery in the machine shops. run
the hot air fans in winter and the
Geld air fans in summer.
Draft is secured artificially by the
use of large fans. The absence Of
betting and shafting is one of the
novelties of the Olympia. 1t is the
only mill in the country so construct.
ed. In fact, electricity is utilized at
every point as a labor saver. 1t carts
the ashes from the furnace it pumps
the water into the 100000 gallon roser-
roir: and also supplies the mill village
with pure spring water.
Ideal. SHOP CONDITIONS.
b' lI''i VI lllt engine tOOIH is III
mosaic concrete and marble. The
walls to a height of six feet, are
with Georgia marble and
the ceiling is of stamped steel and alb
fire proof. a twenty ton,
three horsepower motor electric
crane. capable of handling any OF the
machinery travels the entire length
of the engine room. thirty feet from
the floor. The switch board IS very
elaborate one of fremont marble
some 81 feet long and about half the
length of the 12O foot engine room,
and from it all the thirty motors are
each independently from
the others.
The machine shop is Of interest,
having very complete equipment of
improved tools, so that almost any
thing in the shape of repairs or new
can be made right at the
mill. Beneath the shop is the heating
and ventilating plant.
The condensers and air pumps are
located in the basement of the boiler
room. and the floor is cut away over
them. They consist of three sets,
each of $500 horsepower, this large
being necessitated by the
nigh temperature of the water in
summer.
The mill is equipped with a humidi-
ier system: lighting system OF
$40 arc lamps: combination freight.
md passenger elevators; and a clock
system. including tower clock with
our electric dials, and twelve electric
'locks. distributed through the mill,
Ill controlled by a master clock in
he engine room. which also operates
he watchman-dete system. Mod
IN sanitary plumbing. with mosaic
md marble work in the closets and
passenger elevators to carry the help
90 and from the upper floors are
provided. The Olympia employs fif-
cen hundred hands. all white, the ex-
pertinent with lcolored help having
proved Il failure. The product of the
mill is 64X64 print cloth, 3S1s inches
vide. The Olympia runs 1000
'pindles and 2,400 looms. The spindles
ire the best Woonsocket & Press COM
'any manufacture. and the looms are
he improved Draper, 40-inch pattern.
DOES IT PAY?
The question is asked will such a
'aatial mill pay it's stockholders
Nr. Whaley, who is an expert archi-
ect, builder, mill-engineer. and has
planned mills for different companies,
says II will. THE cost of running
MS enormous plant and the other
'lants here, electrically, is less than
~ steam,' says he, "the cost of re-
'airs in the steam mill here. has been
vice as great as in the electric MILL
hough the latter is much larger, and
because OF the more uniform speed of
electric driven machinery it produces
our per cent, more goods to the
AS the Olympia's maximim con-
umption of power is 5000 horsepower
md the engines generate 5000 horse
power, the excess is disposed of to the
Columbia Electric Street Railway.
which also lights the city.
A NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE.
unique feature here is the New
England village connected with these
nils. This mill village. exclusive of
he mill, cost 100000. The streets are
aid out with double rows of shade
rees, The houses of the operatives
re superior in character, and have all
he modern improvements. Every sani-
ary precaution is taken A spe-
ial hospital with free nursing and
rec attendance is provided, also. free
chools are specially conducted for
he mill children. In order to inter-
st the operatives in church services.
President Whaley of the management |
Hered the villagers to support a
reacher and give s., 500 if any denom-
nation would subscribe $4,000 addi- |
ional and build a $1,000 church This |
ner was. accepted by the Episcopal |
hurch. In the way of amusement for |