. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . stationary Switoliboard in the Engine Room. work under a head of 50 ft. Three of them have acapacity of 30,000 gallons a minute, and the fourth hasa capacity of 20,000 gallons a minute. They all dis-charge into a great thirty-inch cast-iron main, extend-ing 1,000 feet to the electric plant. After this pipereaches the station it has outlets at each condenser, ateach cooler, and at any other places where salt-watermay be required. Each outlet is provided with strain-ers of a standard pattern to intercept any dirt thatmay have passed the primary strainer
. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . stationary Switoliboard in the Engine Room. work under a head of 50 ft. Three of them have acapacity of 30,000 gallons a minute, and the fourth hasa capacity of 20,000 gallons a minute. They all dis-charge into a great thirty-inch cast-iron main, extend-ing 1,000 feet to the electric plant. After this pipereaches the station it has outlets at each condenser, ateach cooler, and at any other places where salt-watermay be required. Each outlet is provided with strain-ers of a standard pattern to intercept any dirt thatmay have passed the primary strainers at the suctionend of each pump in the channel. To keep all this system of machinery in repairand running smoothly requires the services of onehundred men, each an expert in his particular when each man does his work well and gives fullvent to his knowledge of the subject, then Station Ais entirely successful; and I am proud to say thatthis condition has been generally maintained. It iscreditable to the men themselves that the e
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