The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.

The current year, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. reports, has been the most successful in its history, not only on account of the fact that it leaves the company in a most prosperous financial condition, but also because of the record made during the year by the apparatus manufactured by it. With 1892 the business of the company assumed extraordinary proportions. Contracts, unsolicited in a number of cases, came in very fast, and daily shipments averaged many times the amount of what had ever been experienced prior to the reorganization.

To meet the demand of the many orders, the old works on Garrison Alley, in Pittsburgh, were rearranged so as to give additional room, and to give the company an opportunity of making the most of all available space. A new boiler house was put up with an increased capacity. But as even this was not ample, the company decided to make use of the old Westinghouse air brake works in Allegheny City. In the latter place a machine shop is now being erected and is almost completed, which will be one of the best equipped establishments of its kind in the world. It will be a dynamo shop, the management having decided to utilize it exclusively as a place in which are to be manufactured electric light generators and power generators. Among those in course of construction at present are the large generators which will be used for lighting the World's Fair buildings at Chicago.

This success of the Westinghouse company has been largely due to the character of the apparatus made by it, the rule being to employ only the best materials and workmanship. In the street railway department of the company the Westinghouse motor has kept pace with the improvements made in the science. It is strong, easily handled, can be operated with facility, and runs with scarcely any noise. It has not only manifested its excellence by, having been adopted by many of the largest street railway corporations in the country, but the Westinghouse company has also some obtained contracts for replacing other systems.

The same activity which characterized the electric railway business of the company during this year has also manifested itself in all the other departments. The alternating current electric lighting apparatus manufactured by the company, is still maintaining its well earned reputation. Not only has the Westinghouse lighting system been selected by the World's Fair committee of Chicago to illuminate the World's Fair buildings and grounds at Jackson Park, but the Westinghouse company has also received a large number of orders for central station plants throughout the country.

The company states that it has also made wonderful progress in the construction of apparatus for electrical transmission of power over long distances. As it owns all the patents for the manufacture of the Tesla motor, it holds a very advantageous position in the development of this branch of electrical industry. Electrical transmission of power is one of the latest developments in the electrical business, but the prospects for a wonderful amount of work in this field are already very large. Already a number of plants are in operation with the Westinghouse system, and all of them are reported to have been a success from the start.