THE NEW CITY DESTRUCTOR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 94, 14 January 1908, Page 6

THE NEW CITY DESTRUCTOR.

'iTho ebntract for., the .erection- of. the new.' Corporation ■ :.destructor -' at • Clyde ; .Qtiay : 'is ; rapidly .approaching' cpmpletimi.' '-is' possible ; 'to arrive -At''a. fair, ideiii 'of the ; nature of the . structure. 'The destructorhouse. itself is . practically finished,-and'-tho foundations for- the inclined are.now i being •prepar.ocl.- -Tho loaded carts, on. nrriv-. ;ing. uppw,.-story-'ot tho .building, will" (^cnargc- their.contonts into;the hoppqrs and '■ Sr ."which ,kjad_ to tho ■ consumers. 1 hero'arev three"co'nsuincrs,;cach-: a separate an [l complete, plant - for the;'consumption of rubbishj provision 'being made, however,, for connecting up'in 'case of accident,:'-. Opposite the door of •bacli consumer'is tKo.; mouth of} ft l lO PP. er j the offal slioots-lead direct •into the. gas chambers of tho consumers. . The' consuming, plant is already. installed, with 1 the exception'of-.an overhead- for use in; c.fljivcyiiig the clinker material from' tho ovens. . A',-teaturo of the .consumers is 'tho continuous grate -system. Each, consumer has ; three continuous ovens or Supposing that a man has charged one gratq .with.rubbish, lie then attends to the second, ■ aiicl then'the third; by this time tho contents of grate number one arc ill a state of high combustion-, and tho:hot gases pass over the ' others; thus assisting combustion and' economising heat; The vapours aro ajso consumed moro completely, the result being that only, a-faint, grey-coloured haze is'observed coming out from tho big chimney. ' The clinker crushing plant is 'still to arrive,', and is expected in about a month's time. The door of tho. offal consuming, chamber is large' enough to • admit t-lio carcass of." a horse. .What happens to: tho carcass-is- more a question for tho chemist than the'casual' observer to answety as • everything - disappears. The'big chimney, which will, stand •150 ft. above tho ground, is under way, about45ft: being completed. The. chimney :.is interesting from the fact-tliit -it is .being constructed of. ferro-cohcrdto, tho 'insido- linirig v being,- of courso, of fire-brick. .'Eirory scientific device for tlio economising of heat is ovidont in the plant, and Mr. T. C.'Oriniston Cliarit, v supervising engineer for Messrs. Hoeniin and Fronde, Ltd., contractors. for the plant,'is of opinion, - judging., by .what lie'lias seen.at the old destructor; that tho how plant should result in a saving of £1000 a year after reckoning tho interest.on the loan.

Tile whole contract might be stiid to represent tho lust, word on municipal sanitation works. Tli'o clinkors from, the . discharged grates of the consumers will be crushed and usedin tho making of coucretc, or in tKeic joiich .state as road-bottom material.