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'*=3 Page Six BADIN bulletin ■■■ vl* ■ INTERIOR PRESENT PUMP ROOM. But Ruth Roland or Daredevil Jack Dempsey could never have gotten out of that trap without a guide; and by gum the gas couldn’t either. It took short cuts—convenient to the gas, but incon venient to the operators. At times the air was crowded with castovers, gas seal covers, and an occasional section of brick arch cover. They do say that af ter this furnace was packed for the first time the covers were raised slightly, the gas and the air adjusted, and Mr. Broad- well lighted and dropped a match in the combustion chamber to start the furnace on its hectic career. Whereupon, like David Harum’s soft boiled egg, it went off “seemingly in a minute.” Monsieur Biddix says it rained bricks afterward for two hours; but then all who have seen Ed umpire bases know that he some times will guess at things. Meanwhile a row of old French pits in bay No. 4 of the Baking Building were rebuilt according to a design from Mas- sena. These pits included a couple of basements also, and a big cast iron gas manifold on the head walls, with a flock of peepholes, ports, and other gadgets. It was very interesting, but ineffective, although tried out for some time. Mr. Broadwell then put in the first section of channel furnaces, from which our present furnace has been developed—or evoluted, we should say. The channel furnace was successful from the start, and they were installed throughout the baking department in due time. This should have ended the worry in the bak ing department; but shucks, their trou bles were just getting a good start. They had the baking capacity, but they didn’t have the gas, and they didn’t have the draft. The gas equipment was com posed of the four youth’s size hand poked producers mentioned above. They might have been alright for dental work, but for baking carbons they were, mildly speaking, inadequate. Inadequate is also the word for the draft in those days. The French pi’O' visions for draft included the one hun- dred and ten foot stack and two grubby little exhausters tucked away underneatli the floor near the stack foundation whei'6 nobody could find them. Well, Sir, it was a great sight in the old days to see Si Leypold frothing at the mouth like ^ mad dog, dashing from the producers for gas to the stack for draft, followed by Jack Burrows, who was the only we have ever had who could cuss in pas try. He could and done so, frequent Si’s cussing was volumetric rather than poetic. Eventually the gas producer trouble was settled by installing some ten-foot Chapman producers in place of the hand poked, man killing soul destroyer® inherited from the French. Thus Si and Jack were saved from running aroundi and enabled to do all their cussing in one place, to wit; at the stack and its ac companying dinky exhausters. They were too small, and moveover were ^1' ways catching fire, and were hard to ex tinguish because you couldn’t see them- Like when you sit in a little pool of oline and then strike a match on pants. After a few months of this. Four Buffalo “Forties” exhausters were dered—one for each furnace. They we^® duly connected to the waste gas flu®®’ and exhausted into short stacks through the roof and side of the plant. They proved the draft situation, but were no the last word on the subject. When % FRENCH MIXER AND PRESS ROOM.
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