The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-17
WESTINGHOUSE WORKS At TRAFFoRD PHRK.

Special Coresponaence OF The Sunday Republic.
Manchester. England. July 29.-The mod
ern Aladdin Is an American. and his name
is George Westinghouse. His lamp - an
electric one and when he rubs it his in
dustrial palaces spring up in all parts Of
the world. Every one knows OF the great
works at Pittsburg. They have a capital
OF SO. COO, 900. they employ 1000 men. and
their field Is the United States. There are
Westinghouse works IN France. Germany
and in Russia, but. most wonderful OF ali,
especially IN their construction. are the
British Westinghouse works at Trafford
Park. Only q few months ago tho grass
grew where their foundations now stand,
but they are already turning out all sorts
Of electrical appliances for every part of
the British Empire.
I despair of giving you ar adequate con-
caption of these shops. They are tho big
gest works Of tho world that have ever been
erected at one time. The buildings cover
twenty-sixiacres and the floors thirty-eight.
There are twenty-seven miles OF railroad
track IN the grounds about them and 1000
men have been kept busy for fifteen months
laying the bricks and Joining together the
iron and glass.
There Is a big wall about the grounds
and in entering the factories my letter of
introduction was carried to the offices by
an English policeman. and 1t was In COM
pan with Mr.. Loud and Mr.. Mitchell. the
manager and chief superintendent that 1
took q walk around the great structures
The trip was q Sabbath days Journey. It
seemed to me that we went miles in pass
ing up one building and down another,
going from floor to floor. now standing in
the mighty bays away up under the glass
roof and now walking on the ground amid
the immense machines used for various
kinds Of electrical manufacture.
Boring Machine Weighed Two
Hundred and Fifty Tons.
I got some idea of the size OF the buildings
by those machines. Looking at them from
the roof, those at the end Of the shops
seemed nc bigger than wheelbarrows. and
an Immense boring machine. the biggest
ever erected IN England. having a weight of
go tons. looked quito small from the gall
lery.
We went through the blacksmith shop,
which is bigger than a half dozen ordinary
factories. and the great iron foundry. We
next entered the machine shop. which has
an area OF about nine acres, being larger
than any other machine shop of the United
Kingdom. Electric cranes. which can lift
many tons at once, run along overhead
and the machinery below is of every de-
scrfpion.
The stsei furnaces IN smother part Of the
works are a new thing in England They
are 20 made that the whole furnace can be
turned by the pulling OF a lever. 80 that
ten pounds or ten tons or moro of steel can
be run out in a mighty golden stream to
make the enormous castings required.
Tho buildings. in short. look more like
great exposition structures than common
workshops, and their contents are more IN
tereeting than any exposition 1 have yet
visited The roofs are of iron and glass. so
that the shops are flooded with light. and
this brightness IS added to by the white
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with the interior is covered. Great atten-
ton has been paid to the comfort OF the