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The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. XXVII.   No. 39.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1930
Price 5 Cents
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Upper Left: Finished concrete piers for D. W. Challis and Son's tipple1 at Chadwiek Avenue and Ferry Street. Upper Right: Concrete
piers for the 6 car tipple being built by Fred McMillen, just across the borough line. Lower left: Forms for foundation walls of the new
Edgeworth Club building.    Lower Right:    Buildings to house control equipment at the new Duquesne Light substation on Chadwiek Street.
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NEW IMPROVEMENTS
Dry Weather Aids Builders
The lack of rain, during the past month has been ruinous
to farmers, but it has aided contractors in building operations
The new tipple being erected by D. W. Challis and Sons at
the corner of Perry Street and Chadwiek Avenue on property
leased from Sewickley borough, is expected to be ready tor
use by September first. Pouring of concrete for the piers was
finished Monday ancl all the filling is completed. Grading the
fill has been started, as has been the erecting of structural steel
to support the tracks. ,.   ,   .,.,    .„„
Bins will be installed under the tracks so that eight to ten
cars may be unloaded at a time. Slag roadways wil be: built
to the tipple from Chadwiek Street. The firm, which started
work on the tipple six week ago, does not expect to build any
storage buildings on the property, at thc prcsent time as they
ha.ve plenty of room at their storage yard at the comer of
Centennial*Avenue and Locust Place.
Pred McMillen, who is erecting a 6 car tipple in Edge■
worth, just across the borough line, hopes to J^0 it ready fw
use in about six weeks. 'The girders were placed on the pieis
Tuesday and pouring concrete for the fotin \a*10» f^2 fS
and storage building was started Wednesday^ Bins 12 feet
high will be placed beneath the tipple; J Ponndswllk
graded ancl a lumber storage shed with tte.scale at one end
will be built the full 160 foot length of the tipple. J^cc
building will be 40 x 52 feet with a garage in the basement.
Mr. McMillen recently traded in his last team of liorses on a
new La Prance 3 ton truck.
Unless there are unforseen delays, the new Edgeworth
Club will be finished by February first, according to C. A.
Lyne'is, in charge of construction for the Hutter Construction
Company. The foundation was finished this week and soon the
tile setters and brick layers will be busy erecting the walls. A
new style of flooring will be used, for special tile have been
obtained which may be set in rows on forms and concrete
poured between. After the forms are torn away, a strong,
fireproof floor remains.
The old stone forming the foundation of the old club house
lias been removed and hole has been filled in with the dirt
obtained from excavating for the new club. McPherson Brothers of Edgeworth did thc excavating and the Leetsdale Builders
Supply Company is furnishing supplies to the Hutter Company.
Busy bricklayers have the buildings aud white brick wall
along tlie front of the new Duquesne Light Company substation on Chadwiek Street about 75% complete. The fireproof,
hollow tile and white brick building in the center of the plot,
will liouse all the switchboards and automatic controls. The
substation is the first ever built by the Duquesne Light Company to bc absolutely automatic in control. "When finished
and tested there will be no need for anyone to be on duty.
Slabs of concrete, with projecting bolts, clot the ground
about the central buildings, and will support the huge transformers. A cyclone fence will surround the property on
three sides, while the oi*namental wall will face the street. The
installation of the electrical equipment is about 50% completed, according to the construction engineer.
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