The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-15
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itants who would live wages received direct
from the plant. Then it is not at all cNtrava'
CANT, it is further reasoned, to add at least 25,-
O00 for the number of store keepers, servants,
and Others who would find employment as a re-
suit Of the presence of the steel men.
SO South Buffalo is destined TO become city
of at least G0,OOO inhabitants. This cannot be
disputed. The truth is the 10000 will be the
seed of greater city. South Buffalo will be-
come second East Chicago, second Homestead.
All the other manufacturing sections of the city
will be insignificant beside it. And the steel
plant will not be the only industry. So far as
is known there are at the present time no plans
for other factories in the vicinity of the steel
plant; but that other factories will go up there
is assured, say men familiar with industrial
methods. The steel plant will be the nucleus.
Around it, it is predicted by men who have never
been charged with being visionary, will cluster
numerous other plants; and in the years to come
other big steel mills will be erected.
IT'S WATER FRONT.
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel company has
two and one.half miles OF water front, one-thrd
as much as the entire city, and it is well pro-
tected by the new breakwater. In truth, the
steel plant las superb harbor of its own.
Docks will be built and jetties formed SO that
iron ore, coming from the west, can be dumped
almost from the vessel into the furnaces, and
SO the big iron rails and other products can be
swung almost from the factory buildings on TO
the ships.
The facilities for handling the material will
be absolutely perfect they will be Just what
the owners of all steel mills would like TO have
OF course all the output will not be shipped by
lake; the great bulk OF it will be hauled over
the company's own road to the junction Of other
lines and then distributed over the country The
company has road of its own seven miles long
and on the line Of which are seven overhead
bridges. When the equipment is complete, clec
trical locomotives will be used to replace the
steam engines now employed.
Electricity will, in fact, be used TO much
greater extent than it is used in any other steel
plant in this country, or, for that matter, in the
world. The towering gantres which slip along
on rails, set three or four rods apart, are manip
ulatcd entirely by electricity. Power is trans
mittcd by cables which are stretched in conduits
beside the main rail. These gantrles, or cranes,
as they are more commonly known, are employed
10 elevate and move massive pieces of machinery.
Eventually they will be used also TO lift rails,
One OF the biggest OF these devices lifts 30 tons
as gracefully as a man lifts pound
Over toward the lake there will be massi ,e
gantIy the legs Of which will rest on concrete
walls more than 800 feet apart, The space be-
tween the walls will be utilized as a stock de.
postory and the mission of the gantry will be 10
move it, into the furnaces ii ii be ore. into
vessels il ii be finished product. This will he
operated by electricity. The machinery in all
the shops which is now up is run with electricity.
In the carpenter shop, the planers the table
saws and all the other appliances are operated
with motors; likewise are the lathes in the ma
chine shop, the boiler shop, in brief in all the
factory buildings, run by electricity. The uower
is transmitted in underground conduits and is
conveyed to various parts OF the structures with
all the care OF concealment observed in the finest
kind OF electrical work. Nothing is poorly done;
nothing Is done in manner which can elicit any.
thing but the wonderment OF laymen and the
highest admiration OF experts. Electricity has
been and will be employed wherever it is advan.
tageous and its manipulation has even thus far
been so 5 skillful that it has caused wide com
hent among electrical engineers and experts
throughout the oonntry
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS