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New-York Tribune from New York, New York • 62

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New-York Tribunei
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fa being completed. This work Is already advanced, and when completed access to fee structure will be far bettor than ever before, El was at first planned to replace the elevators the older part of the building by three new and supplement them by five additional Ones. Hut as the two groups would be separated from rath other by a corner it was afterward decided to place all the eight passenger elevators as nearly together as possible, that there might be no delay or confusion persona entering the building. The elevators In three groups, but practically all together. All save ono run to the top floor.

Three will bo elevators, making no stop until the Seventh floor is reached. The full carrying capacity is hundred persons at onco. They be run at a high rate of speed. The plungers, Which are operated by hydraulic pressure, go as fax Into the ground as the elevators tbx In the air, the total distance from the bottom of the pita to the top of the building being six hundred feet. The elevators are operated by four pumps of the M.

T. Davidson type ta two pairs, which pump into an auxiliary tank la the cellar and to a pressure tank with a Capacity of 10,000 gallons on tho twenty-first Ivor THE HEATING AND VENTILATING. The Installation of the heating nn.l ventilating Mtdpmcnt for the new additions presented some Interesting questions, because it was Intended to be feme In harmony with the old plant, designed y-five years ago. This meant rcmodellinp the old equipment tn feannony with a more modern anil efficient standpjrd, In order to make the entire plant, when com- Eed, meet every reasonable demand for an up-tomtlts office building anJ printing establishment. work was executed from the and specifications by Baker, Smith The Btcam generating plant is of a 1.000-horsepmr capacity, consisting of four BaDCOCSI WIU sax boilers of their high pressure standard type, fccaifd In the old building, and furnishes power to elevator system, electric lighting, ventilating apparatus, printing machinery, purr.pa and all slker machinery requiring power tn tlie building.

The steam connections between the toilers and Qm engines, are of the heaviest make, and are provided wherever advisable, tlie piping in such a manner that re- Eatra can be made without Interfering with the EaVation of the building. building is heated by direct radiation, eonfnteing over 36.000 square feet of radiation, sub- Erkled in 1.000 units, placed, whenever i the windows. The waste exnaust Bteam from Ml pumps, utilized for heating the and the water of condensation from the Eating system Is returned to tho boilers, to be lised again Into steam for power purposes. The Kptnr equipment for the old I tiding wai found be entirely too small for carrying san tit of exhaust steam without causing pressure on the steam engines, and that account the Warren Webster vacuum an ins attached to the tie.iiinK aa a wikale, a substantial saving In both coal Cttd water. The ventilating system for the.

of the pressroom and casting room In the Ejiement. the room and engraving foam, with their subordinate departments, on the Erst floor, and all the editorial rooms, un the soo- SBd floor The fresh supplied taker, from street, Bavd. after bflng filtered free from dust nnd la naitini to the temperature of 'he rooms, and then iroed through a Bystpm of ducts and flues to the paints of distribution by means of lower, driven by a li-borsepower direct connected minor In order to keep the air delivered to the rlous rooms at an even tempt-ratura, ST the varying temperatures oul.side. the Johnson rvtem of temperature control In api ed to the Br apparatus, which operates within two of the. temperature it Is adjusted for The foul and vitiated air Is removed by means two exhausters, the combined capacity of which somewhat larger than that of the supply blower.

feie exhausters are tip on the roof In special and are connected to the rooms below ay Knuih of Hues nnd ducts proportionate in siswi to far amount of fresl nlr furriis 1 nd. The motlvo. power for these exhausters is direct electric motor A separate ventilating system has alyo bee.n prrvwMed for removing the gases from the melting on the typesetting machines, connecting at roof with one of the exhausters. ELEVATORS AIID FORCE BEHIND THEM. The plunger type of elevator safety en- rind rapidity of action.

By this system hydraulic power is utilized and principle Involved requires that the plunger shaft shall deadend (is tnr Into the ground aa 1 elevator rises In the structure, making its length twice the lclit the edifice. flerator car is directly supported from beneath at all times, and the safety of the occupants la consequently kosnred. There Is no danger stretching of ropes In the case of elevators directly by cables, as the ropes of the plunger type of elevator are simply auxiliary and serve only to guide the car and i i tain the counterbalance. The principle of the elevator of the plunger type Is the lifting power of rising water and the safe Drake Schools NEW YORK JLRSLY CITY NEWARK BAYONNL PASSAIC ORANGE, PLAINfItLD THOROUGH INSTRUCTION CM POKTK DAY AND NIGHT Tn.KGUAPITT miokthand TTPKWIUTIJKI BOOKKKEriKO ADDITION INVOICING IK MAN Ml ll' KNOI.IMI Tke Drake Schools have an army of Thousand employed In tat bastneas bonaos at Ka-w Carte and New Jersey. During we placed, in excellent ponlnonM, Htradrrd Drake Graduates.

We positions to of our Commercial Shorthand course. Toanx women aacare ptxemm trmn $200 to $500 the first year, and young men from $100 to $700 the first rear. We could hava placed kaaalj'-flve hundred more yoanc mem Uuit year. Two employment bureaus In New Tork City. Uptown TTSIri.

Vatton Square: Downtown Offlea, Nassau Street. KAKI.Y BCHOOIj, Hlffht school at on nnd Fridays. Students may take any two htm trmm united to their -anvenleoca. Many come direct from bunlnrs.l Instruction la IndlvMaal. Ona mmXOnt to allow atadecU to Wgln at any time Write, call or 'phone for ratnlaaaa NEW YORK SCHOOL, Nassau Street.

I. ilrooklya BrMca. NEW- YORE DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. FEBETTABY 3, 1907, and certain operation of subsiding water, simulating the rising and the ebbing tide.

Tho ease of operating the car and the lack of all difficulty In stopping and starting are especial merits of this type. The economy In operation, as well as absolute safety, is an especial merit, and the high rate of speed at which the elevators can be run with safety, which is five or six hundred feet a minute, commends the.m for use. The eight elevators in tho completed Tribune Building are ail of the plunder type. The person who rides in elevators knows little of the working force behind them and probably gives It thought. However, the lmpor- tant mechanism at aa slsisfnr at tevw which starts and guides Its speed or the cniilea wKih the car.

but it Is the pumps, whlrfi. althuuKli hidden tram in engine room like the steamship, the propelling Tneaa pumps perform a function a deacrlptian at which Is Interesting, anil, to those unacquainted with the seeming Intricacies of an engine room. Instructive. For the operation of tit- plunger typo of elevators das hi tke new wins of Tribune RoflcJtng there hi required nearly two thousand gallons 01 water a minute, or at the rate of three mill ton gallons in twenty-four hours, which amount would be sufficient to supply a large town. This water la bandied by four Davidson compound pumping engines, which are of a distinctive type, possessing many unusual features peculiar to this make.

There are two pumps of combined full capacity for the plant, arranged so as to run In unison as a duplex machine, or one-half of which can be operated for half capacity. There are also two smaller pumps of combined capacity of one-half the total requirements, which are also arranged so that they can be operated in the same way. This allows a subdivision of the pumping capacity from full to one-quarter load, as the demand for the elevator service varies during the course of twenty-four the elevators in the Tribune Building being always In commission. This particular make of pump was selected after thorough test and comparison on account of its efficiency and economy of operation. The Davidson pump has been installed connection with other recently constructed large plunger elevator plants, including those in the United A TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN IN THE COMPLETED TRIBUNE BUILDING.

Yawre is given herewith the plan of the fifteenth floor of the rew structu-e big the Nassau street front, the original Frar.kfort street w.ng and t'e structure- in Frankfort street. includes the open court practically I five feet square, which runs down to the second ticor. TSs rr-angemen! or and corridors in the Nassau street and Spruce street is the same tii out, save that below the twelfth floor there is an cpen the deconstructed for the first part of the building are to be removed. ALcve the twelfth floor there are seven of the new elevators, one not naving bee tinued higner because of mecharica! difficulties. In the Frankfort street 2 of the building the arrangement of corridors and rooms vanes on drfh On some, instead of the corridor running along the west wall, as in the given herewith, it runs between the wall and the court, so that there are on both sides.

Below the sixth floor the east corridor runs alongs.ce t-e dead wall instead of along the court. Below the eleventh flocr the south comjor not alongside the court, as in the plan given, but nixt tc the wall, and offices look into the court, but above the tenth flcor the offices look out adjoining buildings to Spruce street ard the corridor 1S along the cou-t. A the fifteenth floor there is no corridor on the east side of tne court as the court opens out through the side of the building as well as to the roof, affording more light and air and making all the rooms on the top five floors room Where tenants so desire, the corridors can be cut off in any wing and the spa-e thrown into the rooms. The freight elevator on the Frankfort street side opens d.rectly to the street and to every floor, affording the maximum conveying furniture, safes, etc. to the rooms of tenants, its carry.

ng capacity is three and one-half tons, a hydraulic jack supplementing the ordinary lifting power. The floor plan as fliven herewith on the scale of of aj inch to the foot. Express the Title Guarantee and Trust KutldlnK and the Evening i'ust Uuilillug. AMERICAN-BALL ENGINES. The new engine equipment required for power and electric service in The Tribune Building consists of three duplex compound engines, horsepower.

Compound engines were adopted because of their great saving of fuel as compared with simple engines, and the duplex type was chosen because of Its extreme simplicity and eompaetnem. engines were furnished by The American Engine Company, of Hound Brook. N. originators of this type of engine, Two of engines drive direct connected electric penerators, one of which was built by the engine company and formed part of their exhibit at the St. Loots Exposition.

The third engine Is used to drive the great presses on which Tribune is printed. THE INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMPS. While do pains have been to have all the appointments of the Tribune Building the best that eaa be procured. doe recard has been had to economical as tn Cha alactiio lighting, which la accomplished ay the use some seven tbsnsand renewed taeatndescent lamps furnished the Anchor Lamp Company, at No. Broadway These were determined upon and specified for as the result of four experience with them in the old building, where they were adopted after exhaustive comparative tests with some of the leading makes of new lamps, snowing them to be equal If not superior, In quality, while costing one-third less, a saving on the ten.

thousand required a year of some SGfrl THE GREAT TRIBUNE CLOCK. During the year 1876 the E. Howard Clock Company was located at No. E2 Broadway, New rk City, and had on exhibition the largest time clock then in existence, which was manufacture! for the purpose of exhibiting it at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. The New- York Tribune, being in the market for a tower clock, purchased from the Howard company this mechanism, and it was Install In the tower nf the New-York Tribune Building during the same year.

There are many radical about the Installation; among others, the d-aU were arrange so that in the uaytlma diameter was twelve feet, and the figim-a were chiselled tn tne stoce work Inside at his rin of figures were Dronie met.il rings, which was securely fastened heavy lUte gtasa. In the daytime tne haniis vnowed visibly on the twelve ot dials, tut in the nighttime tne centres of the dials, nine reel in dtauaetrr, were Illuminated from the interior. Kun-an njrurrs were arr.i«gt-d on the back of the ghuw. so thai ai night they showed plainly the time. gTeat towel clock at the present time shows practically no evidences of Living driven tf.e large bands exposed to the elements for a period of thirty years.

The pendulum of groat lonsth, rn.aaurtng fourteen feet, and is constructed of two steel hollow tube and a zinc ronnd Deng so supported at the top of clocit and the pendulu-n ball that In expansion and contraction the changes resulting are overcome and the centre of the point of oscillation practically unvarying. This clock has the famous Dennisoa douMo three leg-fed gravity escapement Records show that the variation of this clock per month the entire year averaged less than Ore seconds. The clock automatically turns on and off the lights for the purpose of UluminatUlg tho dials. Uaa a device on the mecnanism which electrically a system of docks throughout buildinK This system has hern r.s^ over Team and has been recently enlarged. The wonderful record of the large tow el.x-k attests to tie wisdom of the original purchasers In selecting near me.

The manufacturers thought so much of this clock that they wore, anxious to store it In, salesroom. No. 41 Maiden New York Ctty, and there exhibit It wliUe the Tribune building was being reconstructed. THE HARDWARE FOR THE BUILDING. All the hardware for the equipment of the Tribune Building has been furnished by the Russell A Krwin Manufacturing Company, BKtBl.

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