Identifier: lifecharacterof00bake (find matches)
Title: Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), b. 1864
Subjects: Baker, William Taylor, 1841-1903 Electric power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Premier press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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and the rock river bed above, and how whenI told them of the plan to thus dig a great subter-annean chamber out of the solid rock 500 feet backin the cliff for a power house, for the purpose of re-ceiving the water from the river above and discharg-ing it again into the river below after deriving theenergy from it through the water wheels they stoodin blank amazement and with looks of sympathy por-trayed upon their faces as much as to say poor fool.At the same time, our agents went out and pro-cured the rights of way for the transmission lines,and following them came the several extensive crewsof laborers who felled the trees and cleared away theforest debris in a swathe 500 feet wide in many places,for no tree either good or bad was allowed to standwhich by its possible falling might reach the lines.And then through this right of way thus prepared thepoles were set and the wires strung thereon, and then Ti J£-^~ «. ^QUAUBEUCHT jJaa^feillllKS Seattle Substation and General Offices.
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Tacoma Substation, POWER DEVELOPMENTS 199 the commodious distributing stations in the cities andtowns were built. Many tons of dynamite were ex-ploded in making the excavation for the power house,and so skillfully was it managed that no one waskilled nor even hurt. Then came the lowering of themighty machinery into the artificial cave 300 feet be-low the ground without an untoward accident, manyof the single parts weighing 26,000 pounds, and soonafter that the finished plant began its noted and suc-cessful career. The starting in operation of the first 10,000 H.P.section of our completed plant was heralded by myintroducing to the situation at this time my mascot,my little daughter Dorothy, who was then onlyeighteen months old, and who had the same birthdayas my father and step-mother. Responding to herpart of the program at 8 oclock one evening, she waslifted high up and turned the switch in the presenceof many spectators, which for the first time in the his-tory of Snoqualmie Falls t

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