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K. CEMENT aFCTORY1
Highway Construction to Consume
Entire Output; Plan to Use
Prison Labor
CHELSEA PLANT TO COST
$75,000 RENTP ANNUALLY
Lansing, Dec. 5.-(By A. P.) -The
state today acquired the cement plant
near Chelsea owned by the Potter
estate, under a five-year lease, and
will operate it with prison labor to
provide cement for highway construc-
tion work.
'lhe terms of the lease, which was
signed by members of the adminis-
trative board today, call for an annual
rental of $75,000, the rent to apply on
the purchase price of $500,000 if the
state decides to buy within three
years.
600,000 Barrel Capacity
The plant has a capacity of about
600 000 barrels of cementI a year.
Gov. Groesbeck believes that by run-
ning, it the year around the production
can be increased 'to 800,000. About
9 prisoners will be employed in the
plant.
There is the possibility that in ad-
dition to' the leased plant the state
will proceed with its planto establish
a cement plant in the northern part-
of the state. -Options can be secured,
the governor said, on marl deposits
which have been examined by the state
geologist.
Helps Highway Work
The Chelsea plant was leased, it
was explained, because it is admnir-
ably situated for lower Michigan high-
way work and because it would be im-
possible for the state to build and
start operating a plant of its own in
time to be of value for 1924 work.
The action of the board is lookedt
upon as an outgrowth of the investi-
gation started some months ago by
the governor into charges that cementt
producers were ."holding up" the
state.
The requirements of the state high-
way department next year, it is esti-
mated, will be 2,000,000 or more bar-~
rels of cement.
General Electric Perfects PRGAUJIS
New Mercury Vapor Turbine
Schencetady Dec. 5-(By A.P.)- ies water circulatiion, etc., would be
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Elections Set for TodaY
All class officers will be elected and
J-Hop committeeman chosen at a
eeting of the Junior 'class of the
chool of Education to be held at 4:301
'clock today in room 206 of Tappan
all.
Power from mercury vapor, making}
possible a double vapor power plant!
in which turbines for generating
electricity are driven both by mer-I
cury vapor and water vapor from the
same fuel source, resulting in a gain
of about 50 per cent in power per
pound of fuel, is the outstandingI
achievement of a new boiler perfect-I
ed by the General Electric company.I
The last great step 'in improving
the efficiency of manufacturing power
was the replacement of the recipro-
cating engine by the steam turbine.
The invention of the mercury vapor
boiler is regarded as a greater step
in the progress of science.
40 Per Cent More Efficient.
The modern steam turbine is about
40 per cent more efficient than thej
best reciprocating engines, but ac-
cording to W. L. R. Emmet, consult-
ing engineer for the General Electricj
company and inventor of the new pro-
ces5; the mercury boiler.is more than
50 per cent more efficient than the
best steam turbine. The mercuryI
boiler is still considered an experi-
ment, but as in all great steps in ad-
vancement, time will be required to
develop and perfect a system before
this process can be expected to re-
fleet on the operating costs of public
utilities.
Mr. Emmet estimates that if the
mercury boiler comes up to all expect-#
ations, it will produce with 35 pounds
guage pressure, when compared with
a steam turbine generating plant
which uses 200 pounds steam pressure
about 52 per cent iore output in
electricity per pound of fuel. "And I
if," Mr. Emmet adds, "in such a plant
the boiler room is re-equippeda with
furnaces and mercury apparatus ar-
ranged to burn 18 per cent more fuel
the station capacity with the same
steam turbines, condensers, auxiliar-
increased about 80 per cent."
Operation Explained
The mercury vapor process involv-
es the vaporization of mercury in a
boiler, driving of a turbine by the
mercury vapor and the condensation
of the exhaust in a condenser where
its latent heat is delivered to water;
and thus used to generate steam at
pressure suitable for use in existing
steam plants.
"Naturally," Mr. Emmet explained,
the question which will arise in con-
nection with this mercury process is
the danger from mercurial poisoning,}
either to the community or to the at-I
tendants. In the first place all joints
are welded so that it is impossible for
mercury escape except through a cci-
dent and arrangements are such that
leakage, if it should occur will go into
the stack where it can do no harm."
1. 0. HILL TO OISG 'USS
FULTS OF 'ENINEERS
L. C. Hill, prominent engineer and
lecturer, will give an address on
"Shortcomings of the Engineer and
Their Remedies" at 7:30 o'clock to-
morrow night in the Natural Science
auditorium. M. Hill has devoted the
past four years to lecturing before
the society of automotive engineers.
and comes here under the auspices of
the student branch of the American
society of mechanical engineers. The
lecture will be open to the public.
Quarterdeck, senior marine engi-
neering society, met last night at the
Union to hear a paper read by Matsugo
Hakusui, Spec., on "The Efficiency of
Propellers."
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In an effort to take all possible pre-
cautionary measures resulting from a
case of smallpox which has been re-
ported to the Health service, Dr. War-
ren E. Forsythe, director of the
Health service, has had inoculated
all members of the Zeta Psi fraternity
and men living in the rooming house!
in which the sick person formerly
resided.
In addition to this Dr. Forsythe has
requested that all students who were
in classes with W. R. Hamilto., '27,
the person who is now ill with this di-
sease, report at the Health service for
vaccination.
Hamilton's case is the second onej
that has been reported to the Health
service this year. It is theopinion of
the authorities there that he was ex-
posed by the first smallpox case. He
has now been removed to the con-
tagious ward of the hospital, following
a period at the infirmary when it was
thought he was coming down with
smallpox.
A case of diptheria has also been re-
ported to the Health service. J. T.
Hoar, '24, is now quarantined with this
disease.
Madrid, Dec. 5.-King Alfonso and
party are home from Italy.
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Building Progress
The excavations for the new power
house have been completed and the
footings and foundations are being
constructed. The steel that is be-
iig installed is of the same type as!
tha~t used in the old plant.
Several new features and a gener-
al enlargement are planned for the
new structure. A coal storage basin
is being constructed that is 230 feet
long, 14 feet deep and 45 feet wide
when this new basin is completed the
old basin that is now in use will be
rebuilt on the same scale as the new
one, thus doubling the capacity for
coal storage. The entire new basin
will be completed by this time next
year.
The present crane service will also
be enlarged. All the structural steel,
track and material will be new with
the exception of the crane itself. The
entire structure when completed will)
reach from Washington "to Huron]
streets. The boiler capacity is to be
enlarged to 4000 horse power and add-
ed equipment installed for caring for
the ashes.
The equipment that is going to be
used is of the best and the machines
especially placed for the purpose in-
tended. The new power plant will
meet the needs of the expansion of
the University and for some years
after the end of the present building
program.
Work on the foundations of the new
Medical building is progressing rap-
idly. The outside foundations have
been finished and on the inside matt§
are being laid and the cement poured.
Columns for the first story are being
erected on one part of the work.
Hoppers have been installed on the
towers to facilitate the pouring of
cement into the higher parts of the
building. The heavy steel for the
upperstructure has arrived.
Linoleum is being laid in the cor-
ridors of the Model high school. The
classrooms all front on the corri-
dors and in the high school system
much moving from room to room is
necessitated and the linoleum is ex-
pected to deaden much of the noise;.
Three lines of stone have been rais-
ed at the south end of the new Liter-
ary building and the ventilating sys-
tem is being installed.
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The
finish
of the
interior trim woodwork and
is being put in the basement
new physics building.
Present plans for the site left by
the salvaging of the old power house
are to use part of it, at least, to in-
crease the parking space in front of
University Hall.
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