to couple up ^vith me?” Mr. S. mutters
something about being one-thousandth
too high, and moves off to get his wooden
straight-edge to check up.
Mr. Trexler has finished the lightmg,
both inside the power-house and on the
dam, and is now finishing up mstallmg
the electrical parts of the gat« hoisting
machines. He is so anxious to see the
gates lowered and the water begin to
rise that he has forgotten he is a fore
man, and has pitched in twisting nuts
and grafting wire.
Mr. Graham does not want to be the
last to finish, and is pushing things for
all he is worth. He has finished all of
the conduit work, and mounted all of the
heavier parts, and is now just trimming
up
Messrs. Ward and Roth are adjusting
and connecting up the control apparatus,
and remind one of the groundhogs seeing
their shadows, the way they dive under
the bench-board and behind switchboards
looking for the connection that won’t con
nect, and for a misplaced volt, or current,
or something.
The rotary station men are very glad
indeed that the awnings for the windows,
back of the control board in Rotary
Station No. 25, are in place. Now if
we had a couple of fans to draw cool
air from the windows thru pipes and
distribute in front of the switchboard,
it would be pretty comfortable in the
warm days to come. We must agree
with Russell when he said, “It is very
uncomfortable without them,” June 27,
with the temperature at 118° F., and
lightning playing up and down the
Southern Power lines. But what we
started to say was this: Claud Mask
wants periscopes placed on the rotary
bearings, so he will be able to see that the
oil ringers are turning, instead of hav
ing to execute the climbing process to
get on top of the bearings to see the
rings. Virgil McGehee says Claud should
ask for a helper to wheel him around
to the different bearings for inspections.
The rotary station operators feel that
they are greatly indebted to someone
for the change in the clock houses, for
it was other than pleasant to try to
get to duty at 10.50 p. m., when raining
and dark, and you ran over some steel
girders, twelve-inch sewer pipe, or fell
in shellholes made by the Construction
Department the day before, which be
came filled with water during the rain;
and then have to stay on duty all night
with wet clothes and wet feet.
It might be of interest to many to
know of the successful beginning of a
new power plant at Cheoah. All water
wheels, generators, transformers, and
auxiliaries in this plant started up and
ran without any difficulties whatever.
Power was transmitted many miles at
150,000 volts, line potential, to Maryville
for making aluminum. The power-house
at Cheoah has three units about the same
size as in our Narrows power-house at
Badin.
Mr. Robinson was called away sudden
ly, on account of sickness, to have an
operation performed. He was sick of
single blessedness, and so left us for a
few days to have it removed. He didn’t
show any symptoms beforehand—none to
speak of—and it was quite a shock. He
acknowledged, however, that he didn’t
sleep well the night before the operation.
The Construction Department are
again placing, for about the fourth or
fifth time, a bridge from pier to P ^
over the tailrace at our Narrows po"'«
house. We wish them luck in this ' ^
ture, and hope the turbine test can^
made before the bridge disappears do
the river again. ^
W. H. Sullivan, who has beon hono^.
ably discharged from the ser\-ice o ^
Uoin ia hack, and will soon
Uncle Sam, is back, and will soon
duty again at the roUry sUtions
'K
vf‘‘
says flashing rotaries at night ,is
only remind him of German
across No Man’s Land.
The Electrical Department has ^
completed the new crane which h^ jj.
installed in the west end of BuildH’*
“Roxy” says she is a peach. p,
The west end of the Machine^
formerly used as a motor room, * ^
being repaired to be used for » i
battery trucks.
The switchboard in the new ’ |
Shop is almost complete, and -ff/f-
great deal to the looks and con'
of the shop. ^
Messrs. Morgan and Davis ha'*^
to look rather ner>ous. Ask tn ^
they are going to Greensboro. - jr |
If you have a tick motor
partment, just s«nd it to the
Shop for treatment. • h.
Tom Ragan U back on the fy
spending several weeks at ^
power-house.
We have another roUry s«t _
ready to «Urt turning out ju«c«
metal.
Mr. P. P- D- Johnaon,
N. C., i« visiting hi* dau«hl*’
B. Uiniler, of Spruce Avenu«-