WORKS, PUBLIC. 



WEIGHT. 



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it on an embankment raised about 17 feet 

 above the surface. On the southwest side of 

 the embankment stand the engine and boiler 

 houses and chimney-shafts, together with the 

 coal-stores and wharf for landing coals and 

 other materials from Abbey Creek. On the 

 northeast side of the embankment are the 

 cottages for the workmen employed on the 

 works, and a reservoir for storage of water to 

 supply the boilers and condensing water for 

 the engines. The engine and boiler houses 

 form one building, the engine-house being ar- 

 ranged on a plan in the shape of a cross, and 

 the boiler-houses forming two wings extend- 

 ing northwest and southeast of the north- 

 eastern arm of the cross. The extreme dimen- 

 sions of the building, taken across two of the 

 arms, is 142 feet 6 inches ; the width of each 

 arm being 47 feet 6 inches. Each of the two 

 boiler-houses measures 100 feet in length by 

 62 feet in width; and there is a workshop 

 situated between the two, measuring 49 feet 6 

 inches by 33 feet. The engine-house consists 

 of four stories in height, two of which are 

 below and two above the surface of the ground, 

 the height of the two lower stories being 38 

 feet, and that of the two above-ground, meas- 

 ured from the engine-room floor to the apex of 

 the roof, being 62 feet. At the intersection of 

 the four arms of the cross the building is cov- 

 ered by a cupola of an ornamental character, 

 rising to a height of 110 feet from the en- 

 gine floor, and at each of the internal angles 

 of the cross rises a turret in which is formed 

 a circular staircase giving access to the sev- 

 eral floors of the building. The boiler-houses 

 are of one story above the finished ground 

 level, the boilers and stoking-floor being be- 

 low that level. The total height from stoke- 

 hole floor to apex of roof is 33 feet. The 

 chimney-shafts, of which there are two, one 

 on each side of the engine-house, are 209 

 feet in height from the finished surface, and 8 

 feet internal diameter throughout. They are 

 externally octagonal in plan, rising from a 

 square battered base, and are capped at the top 

 by an ornamental cast-iron roof, pierced with 

 openings for the egress of the smoke. The 

 foundations of brickwork and concrete extend 

 to a depth of 35 feet below the finished surface. 

 The engines, which are about 1,200-horse 

 power, are eight in number, non-condensing 

 cylinders each 54" and 108", making two 

 double-acting pumps 4 feet diameter, with a 

 stroke of 4J- feet direct from a strong cast-iron 

 beam 40 feet long by 6 feet deep in the middle. 

 To ease the working of the pumps, there is 

 placed in the centre of the engine-house, below 

 the floor, a large cast-iron air-vessel, 13 feet 

 diameter and about 20 feet high, through 

 which the sewage is pumped into a cast-iron 

 tube or culvert, 101 feet diameter. There is 

 also a fly-wheel 28 feet diameter, weighing 

 about 40 tons, attached to each engine ; and to 

 supply them with steam there are sixteen 

 boilers, 30 feet long by 8 feet diameter. Any 



one of the engines, when in working order, is 

 capable of pumping 1,000,000 gallons of sewage 

 per hour. 



The sewage is brought into the pump-well, 

 which forms the lowest story of the building, 

 from the low-level sewer, but, before admis- 

 sion, is strained of any extraneous matters 

 which may have been brought down with it, 

 and which would either not pass or be detri- 

 mental to the pump-valves, by means of cages 

 of wrought-iron bars, which are placed in 

 chambers in front of the engine-house, and 

 which are capable of being lifted and emptied 

 when full. The building containing the ma- 

 chinery and appliances for this purpose stands 

 in front of the centre of the engine-house, and 

 from the chambers beneath it are three sewers, 

 conveying the sewage, after being strained, to 

 the pump-wells in three of the arms of the en- 

 gine-house. From the sewage-well the water 

 is lifted through rectangular cast-iron pipes, 

 situate at the sides of the building, into the 

 sewage-pumps, and it is from them forced 

 through cast-iron cylinders 6 feet in diameter, 

 running along the centres of three of the arms 

 of the building, and below the engine-room floor 

 into the large cast-iron air-vessel in the centre 

 of the building. From this vessel the sewage 

 is lifted by the power of six engines, and 

 forced, through the huge iron culvert above 

 mentioned, into the outfall sewer, arrangements 

 being made at its junction therewith for regu- 

 lating the discharge. 



WRIGHT, WILLIAM B., a distinguished ju- 

 rist of New York, born in Sullivan County, K 

 Y., in 1807; died at Albany, K Y., January 12, 

 1868. He was admitted to the bar in Sullivan 

 County, about 1830, and soon obtained a good 

 practice there, but his first appearance in pub- 

 lic life was as a member of the Constitutional 

 Convention of 1846, to which he had been 

 elected from Sullivan County. During the 

 deliberations of that body he distinguished 

 himself by the wisdom of his suggestions, as 

 well as by the great ability with which he 

 presented them. In the autumn of 1846 he 

 was elected to the State Assembly from Sulli- 

 van County, and in June, 1847, he was raised 

 to the bench of the Supreme Court, in the 

 Albany district, in which court he continued 

 to preside until elected to the Court of Appeals, 

 in 1861. Judge Wright occupied the bench in 

 the highest courts of New York for more than 

 twenty years, and enjoyed through the entire 

 period the respect and esteem of the legal pro- 

 fession, and the affection and confidence of the 

 people. The malady of which he died was 

 disease of the kidneys, from which he had 

 been some time a sufferer. His residence, 

 when not engaged in his official duties, was at 

 Kingston, Ulster County, N. Y. 



WURTEMBERG, a kingdom in South 

 Germany. King, Karl, born March 6, 1823 ; 

 succeeded his father, June 25, 1864. Area, 

 T,532 square miles. The population, according 

 to the census of 1867, was 1,778,479, against 



