Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-22
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UIl||ES.COMPAAY
ADDITIONAL STREET CARS AND
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY
TO Eg SECURED.
CAPACITY OF POWER
- r.
PLANT TO &c INCREASED
Huge Engine and Generator to Sc
Moved From Cedar Rapids Power
House of Iowa Railway and Right
cempany-Win Necessitate Building
Two Street Cars Ordered.

Additional street ear eunipmcnt and
machinery 20 Increase the electricity
Tcapactty, which viii call For a huildins
addition to the LEGAL power house of
The Iawa Railway and Light Company,
was AUTHORISED by the Cedar Rapids
headQuartors OF the company where
aanaser Charles Munson spent the
DAY.
Tie company has ordered the pur-
chase uf Two street cars, II has ordered
a huge steam engine and generator
moved from the Cedar Rapids plant to
Ethe local plant. To house this ma
chinery an addition 10 the plant viii
have To be built. The ears will cost
$4,000 each. apd are to be delivered in
the spring by the time the Third ward
/ extension is built. The electrical ma
! chinery Will he moved as soon as
weather conditions permit the building
here. and the wrecking at Cedar
Rapids necessary 10 take it down. 1t
is estimated the cost of moving and
| building will be $40, 900.
Mil Increase Capacity.
The company has found that il can
not get delivery OF a steam turbine
! similar 10 the one already III use here
| under eighteen months, Because the
peak of the load of the local plant IS
near the maximum capacity Of the ma
| chinery here. it was necessary 10 move
machinery from the Cedar Rapids
! mower house. This machinery viii ne
used 10 increase the output. aud later
( when another turbine is installed IL
! will he kept as duplicate machinery
and for such purpose will, with other
! electrical machinery already in use
here, be sufficient to furnish complete
( duplicate machinery for the norma!
! average output of the power house. r
Is 1.6c0 n. P. Engine.
The engine and generator 20 be
| brought here is a part of the duplicate
! machinery of the Cedar Rapids power
| House. The engine is what is known
as q cross-compound, reciprocatingr
rated at 1900 horse power. and Is
directly connected to a generator rated
at 1000 kilowatts. The installation Of
this machinery, which will not be COM
| p,eted before April will increase the
horsepower OF the plant from about
. 700 to 1000, and the electrical
| candCllN lIOLH INV
kilowatts. The fly wheel OF the en-
CINE alone is said to weigh twenty
seven tons. The wall of the Cedar
RAPIDS house must be torn out
to move the engine/and the addition 10
the local plant can not be built untii
the engine is set. This addition will
be 45xs0 feet, and will be attached TO
the west side of the power house. the
foundation will be put IN: then the
machinery will be set, and the building
built around it. So
More Cars For Line.
The streer-car ordered will be
thirty-two feet long and viii seat
twenty-eight people, They are OF the
same Y p as the last three cars bought
by the companyThey will be re-
ouired for constant operation as soon
as the third ward extension is opened.
This additional equepment will give the
| company ten closed cars and three
omen cars. an increase in equipment OF
more thar 100 per cent since the Iowa
Railway and Light Company got pos
session of the Jones & Hovey property
four years ago.