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Canal Has Big
Repairing Plant
Facilities at Balboa and
Cristobal for Ship Work
Are Described.
Washington.—The elaborate facil
ities for the repairing of ships at the
Panama canal are given in a bulletin
of the Panama.<canal authorities, The
principal manufacturing and repalr
plant 18 located at Balboa, the Pacitic
terminal of the canal. It is adjacent
to an inner harbor, which has an area
sufficient to permit access to docks,
which aggregate 7,500 feet In length,
Including commercial docks, repalr
wharves and coaling docks.
A much smaller plant is located at
Cristobal, the Atlantic terminal about
one and one-half miles from the main
commercial docks, A description of
the plant at Balboa follows:
The dock has a depth of 30 feet over
the blocks at mean tide. High tide
varies from ¥ to 11 feet above mean
tide. It Is gerved by a OHO-ton travel
ing crunu‘i'.xh an outside reach of
five fe«y peyond the center of the
dock. This érane Is also capable of
traveling along the face of some of
the repair wharves, thus facilitating
the work of repairing vessels.
For ships which do not require dry
docking there are adjacent to the
shops about * 8,500 feet of repalr
wharves, At regular intervals along
the coping of the dry dock and the
repair wharves are outlets for air,
water and alternating electric current,
A limited quantity of direct current
can be supplied by two portable motor
generating sets, Either compressed
air or electricity can be supplied for
operating auxillaries on ships on
which steam is off. AWhere refrigerat
ifng machinery is shut down, cold
storage can be removed from the
ship’s boxes and stored in the canal
cold storage ‘% chouse nearby.
The riruln shops are centrally lo
cated with respect to the dry dock
and repair wharves. Ample track and
crane services provide for handling
work between shops and ships.
Huge Traveling Cranes.
The main metal-working shops (ma
chine, smithery, and boller shop) are
provided with 60-ton overhead travel
eling cranes, while the foundry has a
25-ton overhead crane. As all the
shops are equipped with as complete
lines of power tools as are genérally
found In an up-to-date repair shop,
only the larger tools will be given
special mention so to give an idea ot
the maximum capacity of each de
partment,
The machine shop is provided with
a vertieal boring mill capable of work
ing 18 feet In diameter, with an open
slde extension planer 16 feet by 32
feet, and with a lathe 120-inch swing
by G 5 feet between centers. No ship
machinery I 8 too large for the capac
ity of this shop. This shop has a floor
area of approximately 68,180 square
feet,
The smithery is provided with a
600-ton forging press with the neces
sary furnaces to handle any work
that the press is capable of. Billets
24 inches square by 19 feet long are
kept in stock and can be worked un
der this press; there are other ma
chinery and tools usually found in a
first-class smithery. There is also a
department for spring making and a
tool-dressing department that includes
oil burning and electric tempering
furnaces of the latest type, This
shop has a floor area of approximate-
Iy 24,386 square feot,
The boller and ship-fitting shops
have a set of rolls capable of
bending plates % inch by 30 feet, 1
inch by 24 feet, or 2 inches by 4 feet,
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Any slze of ship or boiler plates or
structural shapes can be worked by
the other machinery, which Includes
angle shears, punches, straightening
rolls, plate planer, and bend‘ng ma
chine, This shop has a floor area of
approximately 46,800 square feet,
The pipe shop is outfitted for plumb
ing work and for pipe, copper and
sheet-metal work of the highest
classes. The floor area of this shop
Is approxomately 17,144 square feet.
The foundry is equipped with a two
ton tropenas converter and one two
ton and one one-ton cupola, and the
usual brass furnaces. "There is an
efficlent sand-blast system for clean
ing castings, also gate saws, sprue
cutters, and other modern equipment,
including annealing furnaces, core
oven and mold-drying oven. The
foundry can turn out castings as fol
lows: DBronze, brass or composition,
14 pound to 1,000 pounds; iron 3
pound to 26,000 pounds; steel, 3%
pound to 10,000 pounds. In connec
tion with the foundry is a pattern
shop equipped to handle any and all
classes of pattern work., This foundry
and pattern shop together have a
floor area of approximately 387,758
square feet,
Woeodworking Machinery.
The planing mill and joiner shop Is
outfitted with the usual woodworking
machines, including a 72-inch sawmill
capable of handling timbers likely to
be used in connection with ship work.
This shop has a floor area of approxi
mately 49,044 square feet,
The oxy-acetylene plant has port
able electric welding and oxy-acety
lene cutting outfits capable of han
dling emergency repairs. The plant
develops approximately 400 cubic feet
of acetylene per hour, 5,000 @ubic
feet of hydrogen per day. All classes
of boiler welding are done, Large
thermite welds can be performed.
Main engine cylinders have been
welded in place, both high pressure
and low pressure, the welds being as
extensive and as successful as the
welds made in the United States on
engine eylinders during the World
war, This plant has a floor area of
approximately 910 square feet.
An instrument repair shop is main
tained in which repairs are made to
navigating instruments, clocks, gauges,
typewriters and computing machines
and other work of a minute character.
In connection with this shop there is
a plating plant for zine, copper, nickel,
silver and gold. This shop has a floor
area of approximately 2,500 square
feet,
Located In the same building with
the instrument repair shop is an elec
tric shop under the control of the
electrical division, the facilities of
which are available for the entire
Panama canal. This shop ils equipped
for motor winding, switchboard work
and making repairs to practically any
kind of electrical apparatus. The
floor area of this shop is approximate
ly 3,400 square feet,
There is a car shop equipped with
all necessary machinery for the build
ing of railroad cars of all kinds and
also the repairing of all the rolling
stock of the Panama rallroad, In
connection with this shop there is a
rerolling mill for rerolling bars and
miscellaneous scrap material into
rounds and flats, This shop has a
floor area of approximately 61,819
square feet.
There is located at both the Balboa
and the Cristobal shops and connect
ed therewith a roundhouse where gen
eral overhauling as well as minor re
pairs are made to the locomotives of
the Panama rallroad,
The alr-compressor plant and dry-
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dock pumping plant at Balboa are
located in the same building. "There
are two 5,000 cubie foot and one 2,500
cubic foot air compressors in use,
driven by electric motors and one
2,500 cubie foot steam-driven com
pressor which is censidered only as
an emergency unit.
Up-to-Date Laboratory.
There i 8 a laboratory equipped with
a 100,000-pound Riehle testing ma
chine and a Brinnell hardness testing
machine and other equipment for
making physical tests of all Kkinds,
There are also available In another
division of the Panama canal, labora
tories where chemical tests can be
made of fuel oils, metals, etc,
All shop tools are operated by elec
tricity. The larger tools are provided
with independent motors and the
smaller tools are arranged in groups
and driven from countershafts. The
current is obtained from a hydro
electric plant at the Gatun spillway,
supplemented by a Diesel-driven plant
at Miraflores. The 25-cycle, alternat
ing current is transmitted to the Bal
boa substation at 44,000 volts. At the
substation it is transformed to 2,200
volts and so distributed through un
derground duct lines to the various
shops, where it is further transformed,
where necessary, to suitable voltages
for use. The varlous speed tools in
the machine ship are driven by direct
current from rotary transformers
within the shop. All other tools are
driven by alternating current, gener
ally at 220 volts. Current at 220 volts
is avallable at all points along the
water front for power purposes, and
at 110 volts for lighting in the event
of ships’ generators being out of use.
The storehouses (under the control
of the supply department) carry on
hand a large stock of stecl shapes,
pipe, ship fittings, and supplies of
every description. Steel plate is car
ried In stock in all thicknesses up to
and including 2 inches, Plates smaller
than %g-inch®vary by sixteenths and
plates larger than 3%-inch vary by
eighths, The largest plates in stock
are T 2 inches by 10 feet by 2 inches
thick. A large amount of steel billets
is kept on hand in all sizes up to and
including 24 ilnches by 24 inches by
19 feet. Structural shapes are car
ried as follows: I-beams, all sizes up
to 27 inches; channels, all sizes
up to 15 inches; ship channels, all
sizes up to 12 inches; and angles, all
sizes up to 8 inches by 8 inches by
3;-Inch, There are also carried in the
storehouses lumber of all sizes and
miscellaneous equipment and supplies
of practically every description that
are used in the operation and main
tenance of the entire Panama canal,
Birds Kill Cat
Jeanette, Pa.—Authorities are power
less to apprehend the slayers of Mitzi,
killed by a murder gang, 100 strong.
Mitzi was a cat which was literally
torn to pleces when attacked by a
flock of blackbirds which swooped
down upon the pet while she was sun
ning herself in a yard.
John Sargent’s Ghost
Walks, Says Friend
London.—The ghost of John
Singer Sargent, famous Ameri
can artist, In his grave these
last two years, has returned to
haunt the Chelsea studio where
he died, in the belief of the
present occupants of the house.
Frequently his footsteps are
heard by Alfred Orr, his Ameri
can artlst friend, who took over
the studio 16 months ago, de
scending from the second-floor
workroom to the ground floor,
in which he died, and which
now is used as a bedroom by
Mr, and Mrs, Orr.
The latter also has heard foot
steps, which she recognized as
Sargent’s heavy tread,
Forced to Bob Hair
After spending the night in the top
of a tree to escape the furies of flood
and hurricane, Mrs., Paul Weiden
bohm of Terrebonne parish, Louisiana,
was forced to yield to her pet aver
sion and have her hair bobbed. The
strands had become so entaugled in
the treetop that her husband had to
break most of theimn to free her,
Water to Protect Bank
Water will be used as a protector
for the money vaults of the Bank of
England, which is being rebuilt. When
completed the vaults will be capable
of being flooded from three sources;
from the bank itself, from another
point in London and from a third
point ten miles outside the city.
. Poisonous in Part
A word of warning: Many flowers
are poisonous or semi-poisonous.
Those of the daffodil, for instance, are
powerfully emetic. It is not general
ly understood that many plants may
be poisonous in one part. A striking
example is the rhubarb, where only an
inch or two at the top of the stem lies
between the poisonous leaf and de
licious stalk.
Says Kipling Doesn’t Work
Rudyard Kipling’s achievements are
not appreciated by a maid employed
at his home, it is indicated by an inci
dent related by Sir St. Clair Thomp
son, London physician.
A friend called to see Kipling, but
told the maid he would not disturb
the author if he was at work.
“Work!” exclaimed the maid. “He
don’t do no work., He only sits up
stairs and scribbles and scribbles!”
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other days on Broadway.
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