BADIN BULLETIN
PAOI SifIN
THE MORNING GEORGE BROUGHT HIS BOXING GLOVES TO SCHOOL
and a little later four more rated 1000
K. W., 325 volts.
About this time the aluminum busi
ness was growing very rapidly and
plants were built in Canada, Massena,
N. Y., and another in Niagara Falls,
N. Y. The idea of using direct current
generators directly coupled to water
wheels was carried out in each of these
new plants, in each case the size of
the generator being made larger than
anything built before—the Canadian and
Massena generators being rated at 2200
K. W., 525 volts and the new Niagara
machines 3500 ^K. W., 650 volts. The
Niagara machines,were so much larger
and ran so much faster than any built
up to that time that considerable trouble
was experienced in getting them to ope
rate in parallel. Flashovers were fre-
^f^uent, sometimes several in a day, and
^•x^yourned out armatures, commutators,
brush rigging were a constant source of
annoyance. After about five years of
continual repair and rebuilding these
machines ran very well. The Canadian
and Massena machines never gave much
trouble.
The next development was some large
vertical direct current generators
to the Massena plant. Then 9 rotary
converters at Maryville, which the West-
inghouse Company advertised for a long
time as the largest rotary converter in
stallation ever made, followed by 22 ro
tary converters added to the Massena
plant furnished by power over a seventy-
five mile transmission line from the
Cedar Rapids power plant on the St.
,^JLawrence River Power Company. The
'^I^GMassena rotary station was and is still
the largest rotary converter station, both
in number of machines installed and in
K. W. output, ever built.
We next come to the Badin develop
ment where we have the largest rotaries
ever built and had for a time the largest
water wheels and water wheel driven
alternators ever built. The power plant
on the Little Tennessee River at Cheoah
was then completed and in a few weeks
our plant at Yadkin Falls. !
—H. S. B.
Why Is a River—Huh?
There’s a million mushy ballads sliding
down the scales of Time,
Full of guff about some fairy—and then
to help the rhyme.
The author-lover-poet hunts an atlas for
he knows,
That he's due to kiss and leave her where
some blooming river flows.
Even if the charming chicken has a
hunch she’d like to cuddle,
Right now, right here, right anywhere,
beside the nearest puddle.
Her geographic lover calmly fills the
flivver’s tank,
And they do their farewell fadeout by
some well known river’s bank.
Oh, sure, rivers come in handy—there’s
Massena with the Grasse,
Shawihigan and Cedars watch some
man’s size rivers pass,
Niagara roars for metal and Alcoa came
to be
When Cheoah stopped the shimmy of the
Little Tennessee.
And in good ole jazzin’ Badin—the baby
plant of all,
We’re turnin’ out the metal with the
yellow Yadkin’s fall.
Yes, .we do our work near rivers—as a
healthy river’s roar
Has a soothin’ purrin’ cuttin' in the cost .
of cookin’ ore.
So we’re thankful to the Yadkin for
providin’ us with jobs,
But as for farewell weeps down ther9—•
I never seon np mobg
Of guys and dames farewellin’. Say,
them poets must be bugs.
To haf to hunt a river just to snatch
some chummy hugs!
J. G. T.
Interesting April Arrivals
To Mr. and Mrs. Moton, Cedar Street,
a daughter, April 5.
To Mr. and Mrs. Russell, Cedar Street,
a, daughter, Mary Elizabeth; weight, 9%
lbs.
To Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Blackwelder,
a daughter, 8 lbs.; Virginia Katherine,
April 12.
To Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Sykes, Spruce
Avenue, a son; Jr., 8 lbs., April 17.
To Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Green, April
19, a daughter, Saidee Frances; 7 lbs.
To. Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Trexler, Boy-
den Street, a daughter, Nell; 5 lbs.,
April 25.
To Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lowder, Maple
Street; a son, 9 lbs., April 27; Creel
Alexander.
J. B. Mintz and Fred Childers are at
the Jenkins House, S. E. Killian and R.
B. Lee at Mrs. Lilly’'s.