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Railroadâ€"the North h!x catenary bridges, %‘ rear supports the Upper Riz)t) One of ay looking east from e Valley Route gur grounds are phone me. Il AVE . rautiful grounds mscious of. eS ENitwortn NN‘E_HE'TTE lect t THURSDAY, JUNE 3 IE\C%NST ON HOWARD S DP WOoOpsS ~|% j\ | > \ & THURSDAY, JUNE 3 _ Picturesque and impressive: sights do not all lie out on the :open road, It is easy to find another grandeur quite different from. hills and mountains, canyons and gorges. [There are inâ€" spiring sights among the industries of Illinois. T 08 The other day in Ottawa, with ‘a guide who knew the trails and byâ€" paths, I went through a mighty colâ€" lection of buildings devoted to the manufacture of plate glass. Here work 1,300 men. Out of the plant comes a stream of glass, twentyâ€"four carloads a week, twentyâ€"five tons to the car,. Eightyâ€"five per cent of it all goes to one customer and is used for one purposeâ€"windows for closed motor cars. . a long aisle, all in one vast room, a single room 1,092 feet long and 170 feet wide; 4.6 acres under a single roof. Imagine another room flanking it 172x572 feet, devoted to storage of finished goods. Imagine these as mere units &f a great group of buildings with nfore than twentyâ€"five acres of floor space!‘ Inspiring Sight I said the sight is inspiring. It is. Imagine a row f?f _bnsy machines down Such is the plant of the National Plate Glass company, in Ottawa. It is a subsidiary of the Fisher Body company: The plant, brand new, cost to buld just a little less than $8,000,â€" 000. Yes. we have some sizeable inâ€" dustries in some of our Illinois cities! Huge Rayroll s The payroll! I asked. Well, nearâ€" ly $200,000 a month. It is a plant "built upon sands." Building upon sands, in this instance, has marked permanency. <It is built upon the speâ€" cial sands which abount about Ottawa â€"glass sands. Nine carloads of raw â€" materials come into the plant for every carload of finished glass shipped out. The storage capacity of the plant is 65,000 tons or 160 carloads of materialâ€"apâ€" proximately one month‘s supply. We start our journey in a great room 840 feet long. From its roof tower thirteen giant smokestacks which stand above rows of roaring fires. These fires cook enormous pots of white hot liquid glass which boil and foam for hours. When the boilâ€" ing is done huge ladles, carried by cranes, scoop up the flowing whiteâ€" hot mass and pour them upon metal beds. This bed, or table, then runs under the rolls. Even the ladles glow. From here the sheet of glass, about 16x28 feet and a halfâ€"inch thick is moved into the "lehr." Each sheet is moved slowly through the lehr, about 350 feet long, to cool slowly for hours under regulated heat. As it emerges, in the rough, into the grinding room each sheet of glass in inspected for flaws. These are eut out and the parts of the sheet that are perfect go to the grinders. Motive Power . The motiveâ€"power in this great plant is inspiring. We find here 336 electric motors varying from oneâ€"half horsepower to 700 horsepower. Rubâ€" ber vacuum cups, in rows, seize hold of the sheets of glass. They are swung here and there, with cranes, and laid on the grinding tables. Gangs of men lay the pieces of glass in plaster of paris. Each side of the glass is ground for an hour and forty minutes, then, polished for the same length of time. The power plant, on the very edge of the Illinois river, sucks in more than 8,000,000 gallons of water every day.. This is used for steam, for coolâ€" ing, for wetting the sand and , rouge used in grinding and polishing, and for other purposes. Then it is disâ€" charged back into the river. The plant has eight 600â€"horsepower boilers built for 250 pound pressure. The storage room can hold 1,000,000 square feet of finished product. Freight. cars came into the building for loading. That‘s how the windows in your closed motor car are made. This is one of Illinois‘ jobs in making the world‘s motor cars. "Built Upon Sands" . There are other industries in Ottaâ€" wa "built upon sands" but with a permanence which belies the story of the legendary house. I saw marbles made. â€" Marbles of all colors, out of the molten pots. No matter what color they all look alike, white hot, as they first take on their globular form. The Peltier Glass Co. is the home of marbles. The marbles roll down heated, grooved drums and gradually cool. This plant makes colorful glass, for lamps and church windows. The coloring is said to be a secret proces#, handed down by the family, known only to the eldest, son. Around Ottawa is where the most of the best glass sand of the nation is mined. That is because the St. Peter‘s sandstone outcrops here. Unâ€" der Chicago it is 1,600 feet down. There are‘ in Ottawa seven comâ€" panies whose business is recovering or dealing in silica sands. These sands have been the direct or indirect cause of the building of not less .than 200 homes in Ottawa within a year. Geologists say that LaSalle county is, from their viewpoint, one of the most interesting districts in the whole United States. They say that the recoverable wealth, from â€"mineral deâ€" posits, is greater in LaSalle county than in any other county in Tilinois. These deposits include sands for many purposes other than glass; also shaels ~and ~clays, used in making brick, various clay products and Portâ€" land cement. â€" > & , _ > ‘Prehistoric Upheaval es ‘ For some strange reason, perhaps a prehistoric upheaval, rocks ordinarily butied very deep come ‘to the surface here. This valley is a deep trough down through the state. The mouth of the Chicago river is about 150 feet higher than the Illinois river at Otâ€" tawa.. The Mississippi river, at Rock Island, almost directly west, is 100 feet higher, There is a drop of 139 feet in the 62â€"mile stretch between Lockport and Ottawa. & Hennepin canal, connecting the ‘Illinois river with the Rock and Mississippi rivers, is a stairway of lifts. This waterway rises 200 feet in twentyâ€"one miles as it goes "over the hill," west of Laâ€" Salle. ‘The water to fill it comes from the Rock river. , : (Five dams will stop the water down the : Chicagoâ€"toâ€"Gulf water way be~ tween Lockport and Starved Rock. Workmen are now being assembled at Ottawa to build the Starved Rock dam. That is a $2,000,000 project. The payroll for the job will run about $200,000. Othe‘:iu the investment will be mostly materials. Illinois will furnish practically all of them. This dam alone is expected to have a poâ€" tential capacity of about 16,000 horse= power. The above cost estimates do not include the hydroâ€"electric power equipment, Radium Studio j There is in Ottawa a factory that is not called a factory. ‘ It is known as a studio. It employs ninetyâ€"five girls and young women. It is in an old high school building. They work in "classes." The girls are "graduâ€" ated" from one class to another as they become proficient. es This "studio‘" is operated by the Radium Dial Co,. The girls paint fig» ures on dials of watches and clocks, with a radium ‘solution. A chemist is always on duty. Radium is costly, you know. * A player piano plant in Ottawa emâ€" ploys about thirtyâ€"five men. Very reâ€" cently the headquarters of the Amerâ€" ican Magnestone Co. was moved to Ottawa. ‘ Other plants make farm ma« chinery, barn equipment and millâ€" work. Men‘s garters is another prodâ€" uct. W..H. Fisher, the manufacturer of men‘s garters, recently increased the capacity of his plant 250 per cent by the simple expedient of inventing a machine to perform a certain operaâ€" tion formerly done by hand. Cucumâ€" bers, raised under glass, are grown in Ottawa in large quantities. _ Is Growing Ottawa‘s population . for 1925, bureau of census, was 11,542. With about 200 homes built in the last twelve months it is growing. With its varieties of mineral wealth, with its manufacturing, with its rich surâ€" rounding farm lands, with its greenâ€" When your plumbing gets your ire j You can get us on the wire. â€"Proverbs of Mr. Quick. WHATEVER happens to your pipes we‘ll be able to fix ‘em in a hurry. Being at your service has become a happy habit with us. + BANISH GLOOMDAY THE CLEAN AND SWEET WAY Aamesm omess *J f ) 2 » n n cmam m OaAK â€"TERRACE LaAu NDORY fififflé‘: P Perhaps it is beca tawa is old, as old as Chicago, ‘has grown slowly. Ottawa‘s paci means that when developments come they come, mostly, through outside investments. ‘Outsiders, I judge, will eap the greatâ€" er rewards in the comitg growth, Peaceful Yabley & k NY dol on otene s retaban t ds Mc 1 EWEA gouhindu'mntnd Liakesâ€"toâ€"| Today Ottawa yawns and rather. wonâ€" ulf waterway bably just | ders what wm':‘:m | Ottawa, about :two years aÂ¥iky â€"Ottawa, peaceful city, not worried at all, a though many of its molik picturesque | bit careless of its treasures. . industries are "built | sands," is| In the industrial "awakening, now nevertheless a city . of? solidity and foroe,_lt.‘m& wozdu-l_‘lfi _(;)tflaw."wfll Yet Ottawa to a appears to have a weakness. It is genâ€" erally, not keyed up to its opportuniâ€" ties. ‘It is placid. nts seem not to ‘be disturbed al this thing called "service,"=: °M !l0... _ ~. Ottawa seems to and rather unambitious. at industrial developments ‘are kn at the doors of cities along waterway. 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