The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-10-21
The ST. LOUIS FAIR OF 1904.
The 60,00O-Horse Power is to
be a Notable Feature.

The floor space of the Machinery
Hall of the Worlds Fair, st. Louis,
1901, has been applied for some four
/, times over. It is now practically
finished, and the adjoining Steam,
Gas and Fuel building is over so per
cent completed. This latter building
| is steel, freproof structure measur-
! ing 326 by 300 feet. The total length
Of Machinery Hall is 1000 feet and
along more than one-half Of this dis
tance will be found prime movers
constituting the power plant of the en-
tire Exposition system.
Is was originally supposed that
10000 horse power would suffice to
perform all the functions devolving
upon the power plant at the Exposi-
tion but more than 90, 000-horse power
is now planned for installation in the
Machinery building, and Of this
amount a trifie more than so, 600 horse
power las been assigned work in the
Worlds Fair.
The principal units will comprise
gas engines, high-speed steam engines
and turbine engines from various parts
Of the world. One offering comes
from as far east as Stockholm, while
still another unit comes from a point
as far vest as San Francisco. There
has beer allotted good reserve Of
power for each particular line Of work,
and the units utilized in common ser
vice VIE be found grouped together.
Take, for example, the InsramuEal
Railway. This road has a length of
about ssven miles and is a double
track trolley system throughout, with
standard gauge and standard type Of
open cars. The motor equipment, the
brake equipment and the power plant
for the operation of the road all con-
stitute exhibits; and one Of che uaits
of the power plant comes from San
Francisco, another from as far east as
Berlin. The Intramural Railway
power plant will be located in the cen
tral portion of Machinery ( "a.
It is proposed to utilize E sangen-
tial water wheel built and Anibited
by the Abner Doble Company, Of San
Francisco, Cal The combination will
consist of steam pump built by the
GAINESVILLE Iron Works Company, which
is planned to deliver l,290 gallons of
water per minute ,at = pressure of 300
pounds; the water is conveyed through
a pipe line and delivered against the
tangential water wheel This later
will be directly connected to Crock
er-Wheeler generator. The water
wheel will be incased In plate glass,
and when making 800 ceRolutians per
minute l. l000-horse power viii be de-
vslope0. Incidental features. Will be a
Lombard governor on the water wheel
and Ventura meter, measuring the
water delivered
At the Paris Exposition the pump
ing service called for $4,000 gallons of
water per minute; at st. Louis the re-
euirements a, $4,000 gallons of water
per minute. Iais water is to be. lifted
by three centrifugal pRmps of the
Worthington type, which are entered
as exhibits. Each is planned to deliv-
er 80. GOO gallons of water per minute
against total head and suck of 15S
feet. The energy required for the op-
Grafton Of this feature alone equals
the total energy had from the Niagara
power plant by the Pan-American Ex-
position and the total energy used in
illuminating the RaSalo Exposition.
The main waterMay consists of a
grand basin with lateral lagoons. The
water is delivered into this basin from
niche in front Of Festival Hall and
from fountains in faont OF GAO Ornate
restaurant buildings which flank the
Terrace Of States. From these three
points it flows over cascades. and it Is
to be illuminated by electric lights
placed under the Lip of each step.
Speaking generally, about 80 per
cent. OF the e1ergy developed by the
power plant wall be in 1890 vo&t alter
mating current for the general Lighting
and hydraulic work of che Exposition
but there will be material amount
generated by foreign exhibits and used
for arc lighting, and shere will be the
$50 vols direct c1r5enf, for the opera
tion Of the Intamural Railroad In
addition to the foregoing there will
be minor installations Sor the genera
tion Of both alternating current. and
direct current of standard Yoltages
and characteristics for the motor ser
vice of exhibitors in Machinery Hall.
Economical Illustrations in she
Steam, Gas and Fuel building will
commence with the coal in ifty-toz,
hopper bottom, self cleaning steel
cars, controlled and operated by the
Exposition. These cars bring the coal
from the mine to the Fael bGilding,
where it is dumped aad automatically
conveyed to and from bunker and
crusher, or either, and thence TO the
mechanical stokers, gas producers and
briquetting machines Over 1000
lineal feet of conveyor lines are re-
quired in this automatic coal handling
system. Bituminous COAL anthracite
coal, briquettes and crude oil will all
be used for the purpose Of providing
lines for comparison and to illustrate
as fully as practicable the broad sub
ject Of the use of fuels for power pur-
poses. Every attention will be paid
to the avoidance of smoke, and spe-
cial facilities will be accorded stoker
builders to substantiate their claims
in this direction. In this building
will be found a line Of marine water
tube boilers representing nearly all
the more distinguished types in SER
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