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WEST ALLIS, . MILWAUKEE, WORKS OF ALLIS-CHAL- MERS CO. Although the manufacturing facili- ties of Allis-Chalmers Co. are distribu- ted among seven large plants, located. in the principal industrial sections of the country, each of which is an effi- ciently organized unit, to one who has made a tour of inspection of the mam- moth works at West .Allis it would appear that' with such shops and equipment the output from _ these works alone would be _ sufficient to supply the demand for all the machin- _ tolophers, "TAE MarRINE. REVIEW *: which the works are located covers 110 .acres.... The' -yards about the works are covered with. a net work of railroad trackage, supplemented by an extensive system of cranes and giving unexcelled facilities for handling heavy work of all kinds. This trackage aggregates over 12 miles in length. The extended works . have been provided with a new power house with a capacity of 10,000.H. P. in turbines, gas engines and recipro- cating engine units. Cooling and con- densing water is provided in an open reservoir of 5,000,000 gal. capacity which WEST ALLIS WORKS OF ALLIS-CHALMERS CO., ery that could be marketed by a single company in the face of modern competition. And such might be the case if Allis- Chalmers Co.'s activities were restrict- | ed to the building of power machinery alone, including prime movers of every description, electric generators and auxiliary apparatus of all kinds; ebut when it is recalled that this company not only stands first in this _field--enormous as it is--but also leads the world in the manufacture of other machinery for industrial. pur- poses, it will be seen what giant /pow- ers must be under control and what extensive shop facilities must be al- ways available and in operation to provide for filling the stream of orders that daily, monthly, yearly, pours in from every quarter of the globe. As a result of the compact arrange- ment of the West Allis works, by unit, that the visitor begins" to comprehend their great extent. Some idea of the size of the plant may, however, be gathered from the fact that the area of the ground upon ' is 260 ft. 2 deep and 'supplied from artesian wells. it: 18 ; only after having inspected them, unit -- MILWAUKEE, long, 200 ft. wide, 15 ft. The largest building of the group, the erecting shop, is 1,160 ft. long, while the foundry and pattern shop are each 960 ft. in length. -The six machine shop units are each 580 ft. long. In the construction of this great group of buildings immense quantities of building material were used. In the addition alone the fol- lowing is a partial list: 19,000 bbl. Portland Cement; 785,000 ft. of Roof Sheathing; 850,000 ft. of Yellow Pine and White Oak; 150,000 sq. ft. of wire glass, or'a total of 17,145 pieces. There are 102 traveling cranes in- stalled in the various buildings and storage yards of the works, whose total lifting capacity is 4:030,000 | dbs, pr. 2015 tors. -_; No other industrial plant in the country has devoted such an extent of space to a single department of the foundry. The scale of the opera- tions carried on here daily is shown -in the fact that single castings weigh- ing over a hundred tons are made for slides and bed plates of Allis-Chal-: - boats oo mers engines: without causing the slightest disarrangement of other work. The pouring of four' hundred tons of metal in a single day into gas engines, steam turbines, steam engine or large electric generators and motor castings is no unusual occurrence. The 'melting capacity of the foundry is ap- proximately 520 tons daily. The area covered by the West. Al- lis Works is divided between. storage yards, trackage, runways, and actual enclosed floor space of 1,438,786: sq. ft. every portion of which is actively and continuously utilized in the construc- tion of machinery. Allis-Chalmers employees number in all approximately 14,200, of which over 300 are employed as engineering ex- perts in the various departments of | its organization. ENGINE OF OLD LAKE - STEAMER. -- The Nautical Gazette, in a recent issue said: "Having | outlived her useful- ness as a 'freight and passenger carrier, the Long Island Sound sidewheeler C. H. Northam has been taken - Boston - | to be broken up for old iron.' This marks the passing of | a boat that has some interest to sailors on the great lakes, as she had the splen- did beam engine that was used in the Lake Erie steamer Crescent City, one of _ those magnificent passenger boats that were used in the express service on lakes Erie and Ontario betweén 1853 and | 1858, the Crescent City being 'on the -- route between Buffalo, Cleveland and_ Sandusky, The engine was built ori- ginally by the Morgan Iron Works in New York. All of the engines that were in' the fleet of eight passenger. were taken to New York when the boats were dismantled, and all have passed out of existence, with the ex- ception of the one in the Northam and | that of the old City of Buffalo, which is now in the New York excursion steamer Grand Republic, Capt. George A. Simpson, one of the oldest and. best known captains on the: lakes, died at Sault Ste. Marie last week. ' Capt. Simpson was a salt water sailor ' but came to the great lakes many years He had invented a number of:ma-.. . ago. rine appliances and for several years had acted as compass adjuster. His death was due to asthma. Capt. Thomas Isbell' will endeavor ~~ to raise the 'steamer' C. B. Packard, sunk in Pigeon Bay, having equipped the tug J. W. Bennett with a Wee ing outfit for this purpose. ,