. The Street railway journal . ent carpenters andcan be used to advantage as riveters and machinists on struc-tural iron work. While small of stature and unable and unwill-ing to attempt heavy work, they make up for this in theirmobility and cleverness. In this connection it is an interestingfact that the entire crews, from captain down, employed on thetugs used by J. G. White & Company in connection with theirharbor improvement work at Iloilo and Cebu, are natives, asare also all of the machinists and repair men in the car shops. POWER STATIONPower is generated in a steel and concrete structu
. The Street railway journal . ent carpenters andcan be used to advantage as riveters and machinists on struc-tural iron work. While small of stature and unable and unwill-ing to attempt heavy work, they make up for this in theirmobility and cleverness. In this connection it is an interestingfact that the entire crews, from captain down, employed on thetugs used by J. G. White & Company in connection with theirharbor improvement work at Iloilo and Cebu, are natives, asare also all of the machinists and repair men in the car shops. POWER STATIONPower is generated in a steel and concrete structure, locatedon a large island in the Pasig River, practically central in re-gard to the territory which it will serve. The Pasig Riverfurnishes a waterway to the ocean, making it possible to deliver vided with flat grates, although provision has also been madefor a possible future installation of stokers. The coal is brought from Australia and transferred, in theharbor of Manila, to barges having a capacity of from 200 tons. A VIEW OF THE POWER STATION DURING CONSTRUCTION the coal, which is brought from Japan and Australia, directlyto the power house by lighters. The main building consists of an engine room and a boilerroom. The former is 47 ft. x 170 ft. and 25 ft. high, with a base-ment 12 ft. in height. The boiler room is the same length and54 ft. wide, its floor being on the same level as the basementfloor of the engine room. The frame of the power house is ofstructural steel, consisting of columns, roof trusses and walls of the engine room are of poured concrete, while theroof and floor are concrete slabs. The boiler room has cor-rugated iron side and roofing. The siding, however, extendsonly to within 12 ft. of the ground, the open construction beingnecessary in order to gain ventilation in this climate. Thewindows are set in steel frames, the sashes being made ofnative hardwood. (3wing to the low bearing value of the soil, the foundationsare laid on piles driv
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