New Draft Chimney
Improvement Made by Norwich Gas & Electric Company
Utica Saturday Globe, May 25, 1907
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: Work upon the new draft chimney in course of construction at the electric plant of the Norwich Gas and Electric Company had reached a height of about 50 feet when the Globe photographer appeared upon the scene on Wednesday afternoon. When completed the chimney will be 90 feet in height.
It rests upon a solid concrete foundation above which for 14 feet rises the base 10 feet square, the remainder being round with a diameter of 10 feet at the base and six feet at the top. The draft flue is four feet in diameter. Hollow tile is used in the construction of the round portion, something different from anything previously used in Norwich. The contractors are a New York firm who are the patentees of the tile. The men employed in erecting the chimney reach their work at the top of the structure by climbing up the interior on iron rungs let into the tiles for that purpose, the material being hoisted to them up the chimney flue by a rope and pulley.
The Gas and Electric Company is preparing to lay about a mile and a half of main extensions this season, besides which a trunk line main will be built from the works to South Broad street through Front street. The extensions will be on Broad street from Division street to Hayward avenue; on Hickok avenue; on Piano street form Elm to Locust; on lower Mitchell and Adelaide streets and in Miller and Auburn streets.
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