. American engineer and railroad journal . p, 200 ft. x 50 ft., occupiesanother bay of this structure and is equipped with the neces-sary up-to-date motor driven tools to build and repair the metalpatterns, molding machines and other machinery used through-out the foundry. In another bay, 140 ft. x 50 ft., is the woodpattern shop on the upper floor, equipped with motor driven,automatic start and stop planer, joiner, pattern grinder, sawtables, band saw, lathe, and revolving oil stone. On the groundfloor of this building is a well arranged locker room, lavatoryand swimming pool for the convenie
. American engineer and railroad journal . p, 200 ft. x 50 ft., occupiesanother bay of this structure and is equipped with the neces-sary up-to-date motor driven tools to build and repair the metalpatterns, molding machines and other machinery used through-out the foundry. In another bay, 140 ft. x 50 ft., is the woodpattern shop on the upper floor, equipped with motor driven,automatic start and stop planer, joiner, pattern grinder, sawtables, band saw, lathe, and revolving oil stone. On the groundfloor of this building is a well arranged locker room, lavatoryand swimming pool for the convenience of the employees. The town of Bettendorf now has a population of about 1,500people, and is to a large extent under the control of the Betten-dorf Axle Company, through a town improvement company under franchises obtained from the town coun-cil has put in a system of water works to supply the town froman artesian well and a stand pipe located on a bluff. The im-provement company also supplies electric light to the town and. CONTINUOUS ANNEALING FURNACES. output, accuracy of composition in the metal, and positive con-trol of temperatures, etc., have been installed. Not the leastinteresting feature in this foundry is the perfection to whichthe annealing process has been brought and the extreme careused in annealing the many complicated castings. While thisfoundry will only supply a small part of the castings used bythe company it is planned to gradually enlarge it until probablyone of the largest steel casting plants in the country will be lo-cated there. At present it is used principally on orders that re-quire immediate delivery and on castings that require special at- private houses, the current being obtained from the shop en-gine room. It has spent about ?;ioo,ooo in putting in the waterand lighting plants for its employees homes. The New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. has onlyone circuit for telephone train dispatching, that running fromNew Haven to Shel
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