Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30

TTNHE greatest development in electrical
i power in the history OF the country Is
being carried out in the great industrial
area along the Delaware River in Greater
Philadelphia and in Delaware County,
where the successive and abnormal Access
sion from week to week of some of the
largest industrial plants in the world Is
weaving an unprecedented web Of municipal
progress.
Joseph b. Mccall. president of the Phila-
de'phia Electric Company. holds the reins
of this immense constructive business, for
his company has taken over the property
and business of all the electric light, heat
and power companies in this wide area.
He is building one of the largest and most
modern power plants in the world at South
Chester. on the Delaware, at a cost Of
S3.OOO,OOO. and when it Is completed Is GO
Ing TO set up within IL Sl1 .000, 900 worth of
the very latest electrical equipment.
The future Of Industrial business and
demand for electrical power therefrom ap-
pears so assured to Mr.. Mccall that he
plans to duplicate this $4,000, 900 invest
ment on the Philadelphia end. high
power transmission line, carrying 10000
horsepower erected at a cost of $30O 900
and stretching from the Philadelphia power
house, at Twenty-sXth and Christian
streets to the Beacon light plant at Sec
ond and Market strets, in Chester, will be
III opeidtlol III dDOut
The American Railways Company, which
exclusively serves about 100 miles Of the
Delaware River front. forty on the Della
ware and sixty on the New Jersey side. has
just started up new l0,000-kilowatt
power unit, in preparation for the demand
for power in its territory II has a dupli-
cate ordered for delivery at the earliest
possible moment, which, when added to the
present capacity, will make available ap-
proximatey $4,000 kilowatts of electricity
And the company is prepared, according to
It's general manager. j. L. Cfawley to add
new steam turbine and generating units az
rapidly as the industrial development justi-
hes II In going ahead,
This company is now erecting circuits to
serve the new industrial section. II al
ready has on its books the Vacuum OIL
Company, now building a large modern oil
refinery; Worth Brothers Company Harlan
& Hollingsworth. Belts Machine Company,
Pyrites Ore Company. Pusey & Jones'
American Car and Foundry Company, l.
p Thomas Son Company and the Z. l.
du Pont de Nemours Company.
The list OF customers drawing power from
the Philadelphia Electric Company includes
the American viscose Company. American
Steel Company, Aberfoyle Manufacturing
Company. Fayette Manufacturing Com
pany, the Western Electric Company, the
Sun and the Chester Shipbuilding compa-
MES. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Reming-
ton Arms and Eddystone ammunition plants
General Chemical Company, Trainer Spin
ming Company, Seaboard Steel Company.
Congoleum Company, Delaware River Steel
Comaany, Keystone Plaster Company. Fed
eral Steel Casting Company, Bloomingdale
Rubber Company. Philadelphia Quartz Com
pany Penn Steel Casting Company, River
side Machine Company, Chester Paper Com
pany and the Consumers Ice Company.
These great Industrial works and In
Vulnerable smaller machine plants are
already making the turbines in the power
house spin at their maximum velocity, but
when the gigantic new shpbuilding plants,
including the s0o.acre tract OF the Govern
ment on Hog Island and along Bow Creek,
the tremedous development of the westing-
house corporation within few miles Of the
Federal plant and other large power-using
struct add their demand for electricity the
concerns either building or preparing to con-
grand total will run into thousands Of kilo-
watts every hour of the day, we'll into the
night and In some cases, OF course, all night
The Westinghouse plant alone, II is esti-
mated, will use upward Of 5000 kilowatts
per hour when in full running trim The
needs Of the new Government shipyard are
at present an indefinite quality TO the Elec-
trio Compay. but It is said they will al
least equal those Of the Westinghouse
project.
Mr.. Mccall is not anxious about the fu
ture business situation after the war. While
he realizes that the abnormal Industrial
growth at present arises from war con
ditions. he is confident that much Of that
new development will continue under the
constructive demands Of peace circum-
stances and that the nature of the busi-
ness now contracting for current demands
will enable the company to bridge the
gap" while the country adjusts itself al
that time He adds that the company would
not engage In such a huge investment un-
less II was certain that this great era OF
Industrial expansion will continue In the
years to come. aast Z
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