. Electrical world. gine room walls are almost entirelyutilized for windows, making a very lightengine room. The engine room is furtherprovided with a lantern extending alongthe engine room proper. The lantern is laidwith wired glass, the glass overhanging theremovable ventilating sash, so that in the J, event of a heavy wind or rain storm it is not % necessary to close the ventilating sash. All of the metal work exposed to theweather is covered with sheet copper, includ-ing the cornices and rain spouts, it beingthe intention that the building is to be aspermanent and lasting as possible. The
. Electrical world. gine room walls are almost entirelyutilized for windows, making a very lightengine room. The engine room is furtherprovided with a lantern extending alongthe engine room proper. The lantern is laidwith wired glass, the glass overhanging theremovable ventilating sash, so that in the J, event of a heavy wind or rain storm it is not % necessary to close the ventilating sash. All of the metal work exposed to theweather is covered with sheet copper, includ-ing the cornices and rain spouts, it beingthe intention that the building is to be aspermanent and lasting as possible. The en-gine building is lined with light-coloredenameled brick to six feet above the enginefloor, the other part being buff color. The mezzanine floors are provided withheavy solid balustrades, which prevent ma-terial from dropping through, and wouldadmit of these floors being enclosed shouldit be found desirable. The switchboard andall its appliances are arranged in the vari-ous mezzanine floors on the Christian Street. Coal is delivered to the coal-bunker by means of two bucketelevators at the end of the building and distributed by two hori-zontal conveyors running above the coal-bunkers. The space be- FiG. 8.—Property Pl., Phil.\delphia Electric Company. side. The floors on the end facing the river are used for offices, store- rooms and executive purposes. Referring to the floor plan, it will be noted that in the boiler-room March 5, 1904. ELECTRICAL WCJRLD LXGLXLER. 4-27 the boilers are first arranged in batteries of two, and the batteriesfacing each other are connected to steam pipes which in turn feedthe main header which is located on a division wall on the engineroom side. This main header is arranged zigzag fashion; one sec-
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