The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-14

sucurely applied. All the window open ings in the first story of the elevator and engine room are protected by iron shutters, all exterior doors are covered with galvanized sheet iron, and mine ral paint has been used on all exposed metal note galvanized. Tine roofs are covered with what is known as four ply slag roofing, which is fireproof and is guaranteed for ten years.
 There are fourteen strongly rivete0 iron tanks in the foundation or cellar of the building. Six are for the receiv- ing elevator legs, and the other eight for those of the shipping elevators.
 In the first story, between the two railroad tracks and overheard, is line of twelve patent double-shoyel ma chimes fitted on a line shaft extending nearly the length of the elevator. They can be used to unload six cars simulta- neeusly. Inside are three stands of el- evators, one of six for receiving, and two of four each for shipping. In the cupola there are eight additional eleya- tors to be used for eleyating and trans ferrirg grain for cleaning. Steel buck cts are used on all belts used to convey the grain. Each elevator has a guaran- teea capacity to elevate at least ten thousand bushels of grain an hour. and the machinery operating them provides for instantaneously stopping or starting
 any one or all without jar or stoppage
 to other machinery in the building. In i front of each elevator in the cupola is
 Q garner of two thousand bushels ca | pacity, into which the elevator leg dis charges, and over each cleaning ma
 chine there is a similar receptacle.
 There are fourteen scale hoppers, each of which is connected with a system of
 trolley distributing spouts. shipping
 bins, cleaners, cleaner legs, and trans
 fer spouts. The hoppers have capae- l ity of from eight to ten hundred bush
 els. Fourteen portable spouts, each 1 eighteen feet long, and fourteen twelve
 feet long transfer grain by gravity. ! There are also six car-loading spouts and sixteen shipping spouts. All are so distributed that by connections they
 can be led to any bin.
 In the eupola are the cleaning nla-
 chimes, eight in number, with driving
 power appliances and all the latest frn-
 provenents. These machines are capa-
 ble of blowing the dust and chaff from grain passing through at the rate of I ten thousand bushels an hour. Two are fitted with adjustable screens to sepa- | rate mixed grains. The dust and chaff are carried to the boiler room to be | burned.
 There is one independent duplex steam pump furnished and connected for fire 1 protection purposes. It draws water | from the river and distributes it by a system of fire-piping throughout the building, The system is so applied that all parts of the building may be
 drenched with water when desired, On
 the several floors are distributed thou ! sands of feet of hose, fifty water barrels l and one hundred galvanized buckets 1 handy for use in an emergency. A sprinkler system is to be installed later l on, placing above the upper or eupola roof two water tanks each of ten thou sand gallons capacity. Horoscopes on each side of the building extend from eight feet above the wharf to the upper tier of windows in, the eupola. On the
 water end there is 8 spiral stairway. l A passenger and freight elevator ope- | rates between the first story and the
 scale floor of the cupola. as, a@ A twenty horsepower engine and dy namo supplies current for one hundred and fifty sixteen en-candle-power incan-
 descent lights distributed throughout I the building.
 Connected with the elevator is the en-
 zine and boiler room, thirty-two feet
 wide and sixty-fonr feet long, built of
 brick, which supplies ali the driving
 power for the elevator. The fine brick
 stack, which survived the destructive
 fire. is again performing it's duty, con-
 neeted with battery of Babcoek &s 1 Wilson water-tube boilers in two units,
 with combined capacity of four hun dred horsepower under one hunddea
 and twenty-five pounds of steam. These boilers are set in seuarate brick
 furnaces and are so connected that eith-
 CT one or both boilers may be operated
 at one time. The powerful engine is a vertical stee-
 pie compound condensing machine of
 the Allis-C Chalmers type, with indepen-
 dent air pump and condenser, The en- zine has cylinders twenty -four inches and forty-eight inches in diameter, with l Iforty-eight inches stroke. which at sev- enty-iye revolutions minute and one hundred and twenty-five pounds steam pressure will develop eight hundred
 horsepower at one-quarter cut off. The l fywheel is sixteen feet in diameter and weighs about forty thousand pounds.
 This engine will operate the entire ma chinery of the elevator The transmits
 sion of power is made by means of rope,
 2s,020 feet being required to belt the
 whole system.
 An improvement over the old elevator
 is the absence of 'leg" in the water
 end of the present structure, which was
 used for the discharging of water
 borne cargoas of grain. The accumula- 1 tion Of small craft there often caused
 loss of time to steamers loading at the 1 elevator.
 1 A dock elevator one hundred and
 twelve feet high has been erected sepn-
 rate from the main elevator and con-
 nected with it by a rubber belt convey
 or enclosed in an ironclad gallery, This | annex tower is located on the wharf to-
 ward the shore at a point where small
 craft can discharge with freedom from
 interference by the steamers loading at the malnbuilding, This isolated eleva-
 tor has capacity to unload eight bush
 els of grain an hour from all kinds of