. Water & sewage works . Fremont, Neb. IN the year 1907 itbecame apparentto the Board ofPublic Works of thecity of Fremont thatthe facilities forhandling the lightand power businessof the municipallight plant were in-adequate. As a re-sult an election washeld for the purposeof considering theadvisability of in-stalling new and up-to-date election carriedand with it bondsfor financing thesame. A competent con-sulting engineer wasemployed, who im-mediately drew upplans and specifica-tions for a three-phase, twenty-three-hun-dred-volt, sixty-cycle system, and withina short time cont
. Water & sewage works . Fremont, Neb. IN the year 1907 itbecame apparentto the Board ofPublic Works of thecity of Fremont thatthe facilities forhandling the lightand power businessof the municipallight plant were in-adequate. As a re-sult an election washeld for the purposeof considering theadvisability of in-stalling new and up-to-date election carriedand with it bondsfor financing thesame. A competent con-sulting engineer wasemployed, who im-mediately drew upplans and specifica-tions for a three-phase, twenty-three-hun-dred-volt, sixty-cycle system, and withina short time contracts were let. Prior to this time a direct current sys-tem had been in vogue and had for anumber of years proven satisfactory, butthe demand for an increased capacity ofcurrent required that the system be alter-nating, both for efficiency and conveni-ence. The first installation was made in theboiler room, and consisted of a batteryof three vertical water tube boilers of250 horsepower capacity each, a feed August, J9JS. HENRY J. BREMERS water heater andpurifier of 1,, two feedwater pumps, each12 by 7 by 10 inches,and a pump 8 by 5by 10 inches. Thislatter pump was in-stalled for a two-fold purpose, name-ly, that it could beused for pumpingwater to the boilersat times when theyneeded washing andrimming, and forpumping the over-flow of warm waterfrom the condenserto the Y. M. C. A.,which is but a shortdistance from theplant, where it couldbe used for plunge-bath purposes. Forexperimental uses awas placed in theStokers with Dutchovens were installed in connection withthe boilers, while directly in frontof the stokers and above the hop-pers, a tramway was built leading to anhydraulic hoist. A doorway was cut inthe wall of the building at the bottom ofthe shaft to open into a huge coal pit, 100by 18 by 8 feet, which has a capacity ofabout 300 tons. It was found necessary tohave a pit in place of the coal sheds, asthe city was unable to purchase the ad-joining propert
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