The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . )ment in the way of ma-chinery and tools. Its power plant is unsur-passed. It uses power in four forms—steam,electricity, air and hydraulic. A mas^ive 1,000horse power Ball compound engine furnishes. Panoramic View of the Crawtovd where he was being offered a site and a bonus,and on his return stopped off at Streator withan acquai
The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . )ment in the way of ma-chinery and tools. Its power plant is unsur-passed. It uses power in four forms—steam,electricity, air and hydraulic. A mas^ive 1,000horse power Ball compound engine furnishes. Panoramic View of the Crawtovd where he was being offered a site and a bonus,and on his return stopped off at Streator withan acquaintance who had some business in tlie city he met Messrs. Keeves andRyon, President and Secretary of the Improve-)nent Association, who drove him over the townand explained to him its advantages. He wasso impressed with its location as a railroad cen-tre that he decided to establish his factory began at once. Mr. Crawford hada contract from the Santa Fe for repairing alarge number of cars, and with this as a foun-dation he was able to command the capital ne-cessary to erect his plant. The factory was firstbuilt with a capacity of handling ten cars aday, then increased to sixteen cars per day, andthen to twenty-five per day, which is its pres-ent capacity. During the past five years it hasbuilt the steel underframes for 8,000 cars, the driving force, which is converted into cur-rent by a Western Electric generator, and intocompresse
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