Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1927-04-07
j. A. BERGIN, SUPT. PHH.O
PLANT ADDRESSES ROTARIANS

AH6 hOtdTldu5 nSlu SHClT regular
weekly meeting Tuesday evening al
the Kennebec hotel. Each Rotarian
invited gentleman friend, and In
all about so were present to enjoy
the fine chicken supper, and the ad-
dress which followed, also the Ro-
tartan songs, one of the songs be-
ing new one, the words of which
were written by Mrs. Elizabeth
Travis Stanbery, which song she has
named "Old Gibraltar" The music
was composed by Miss Ruth Pursel,
director of music in nj. & M. schools.
Both words and music are catchy,
and 1t bids fair to become popular
among Rotarians. Mrs. Stanbery
and Miss Pursel were present, and
the author of the words led the aud
fence in singing her composition,
with the musical composer playing
the accompaniment.
Atty Emmett A. Taylor very ably
and fittingly introduced the speaker
of the evening, Mr.. J. A. Bergin,
who is superintendent of the Ohio
Power Plant at Philo. In his Open
ing remarks Mr.. Bergin stated that
the reason Philo was chosen as the
site of the power plant was due to
the fact that it is near the "1oad
center" it being that point from
which the demand for power is
equal in all directions. 1t supplies
power for places in the states of
Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West vir-
ginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Ten
nessee, over it's own transmission
lines, and through inter-connections
it will be able to supply power over
much larger scope of territory.
The speaker called attention to the
fact that it is no easy matter to
locate plant where there is an
abundance of both coal and water
at hand. AS to the coal, there is
much available in this vicinity, and
besides the local fields, COAL for the
Philo plant is obtained from the
Hooking Valley, Crooksville, and
Cambridge fields. For every ton of
coal consumed the Philo plant re-
quires $50 tons of water to condense
the steam. For year, the speaker
said, the Philo plant was the most
economical plant in existence; that
the turbines and generators are the
first of their type ever built in this
country The coal consumption of
the plant at present is $4,000 tons
per month-S50 tons daily. In an
ticipation of the coal strike which
Is now on six months supply or
better of coal has been laid in-in
all about 100000 tons. Of the
amount, 100000 tons are in SUBJ
storage, and the balance in
dry storage.
The present plant was completed
in 1925, and was two and a half
years in it's construction. 1t now
has capacity of $4,000 kilowatts.
While the building to house the |
lew unit now being built will be
Ibout one-third the size of the pres
mt structure, it will have capacity |
# 1650,000 kilowatts, making the
otal capacity of the plant 245,000
,ilowatts. The cost of the present
liant is about $13,000,000; the ex-
ension will cost $17,000,O00 more,
making it when completed in all q
30, 100000 plant. The figures are
o gigantic that the mind can hard
Y grasp them. The cost of the
liant will be more by several mill
ion dollars than one and half
ines the entire tax duplicate Of
lorgan county.
During his most interesting talk
Ir. Bergin presented those present
With a souvenir folder of the Philo
over plant which showed the var
ous pieces of machinery, etc., Of
he great plant, he using the fold
S sort of a text book, with his aud
ence as his class, which made his
ak all the more interesting. II