The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-30

/ The Springfield Gas Company have already
begun heating buildings 10y the Holly system
the steam beng brought IN underground pipes
1000 feet or more, although when the subject
WAS first proposed one of our prominent bust.
ness men said steam could not he forced across
the street The CbicOpcc bank, III. ~ j. Brow.
ers drug store and Or Church's residence on
! Elm street have had the steam Tor more lhan Il
week and as lar us can be determined thls
| mild weather, il works with full success 1t
was turned ON at the springfield institution for
savings Yesterday afternoon, and the whole
building is to be supplied as soon as the pipes
can be put in, Among other places To try 1t
Immediately are the First National bank, To
| bcy's hat store SwetlandS candy establish
mcnts and the offices over the ChicOpce bank
and Brewers The steam is brought from the
rus works AT the corner Ot State ana Water
streets, up Water to Elm and up Elm to Main
street The "a, company do not require amy
additional boiler, aud have used but very little
extra fuel To furnish heat for the buildings al.
ready supplied, and could heat twice IL much
radiating surface without any more lUcL The
loss OF pressure by condensation ana friction
between the Chcopee bank and the gas works
is only | d pounds. The pressure on the street
pipes is 20 or - pounds now, and Mr.. HOLLY
SAYS he could heat the greater part of the city
without increasing 1t to more than 80 pounds,
But in the houses the pressure Is always .
pounds, no more nor no less, no matter how
many radiators are filled with steam. This is
brought about by regulating valves IN the eel
lar, which reduce and regulate the pressure
The meter Is attached 10 these valves, and is
governed by IA pendulum clock, which runs
forty days, and Is 81 arranged that the consum
cr can read the amount registered from day to
day The main pipes expand when the steam
is let into them Is inches every 100 feet, and
10 obvlatc that difficulty Junction BOXES are
placed at the end OF every section OF 100 feet
in which the ends OF the pipes play. To the
bottom of these boxes the service pipes, or
latcrals are attached, 50 that all the water con
densed in the mains is driven 10y the pressure
up the latcrals into the buildings, where it is
let off bv an automatic steam trap. Pipes also
lead from each radiator To the Trap, and a waste
pipe takes all the condensation INTO the sewer.
This trap, the junction boxes, the regulating
valves ana meter are lhr most important OF
Mr. HoIly's patents.
The gas company, who have bought the
right Ia use the system IN this city, do not con
slider their present operations in The light OF
an eXpc.iment after The success Mr.. Holly has
had IN Lockport There five miles of mains
and laterals were in use last winter, and this
year they will be increased two miles. Houses
"A mile away were ncalpU III Inc contest weather
as readily as those near at hand and there was
not an instance OF grumbling on account OF the
cost Experiments have shown that an area
of more than four miles square in any city or
village can he warmed with one set OF boilers.
Rights have been sold for New York, Chicago,
Detroit and other places. There seems at
present nothing to prevent the general intro
tiuction of the system into the business places
and dwellings of our city. The expense OF fit
ting with pipes and apparatus is less than put
ting in an ordinary furnace, and IN regard to
the running expense, it Is understood that the
company will guarantee it shall not be more
than the consumers averge coal bill tor the
past three wears But aside from the question
of expense, the new system does away with all
labor and dirt of stoves and furnaces. The
steam is servceaDg at the same time anywhere
on the route for power. 1t is claimed that en-
gincS can be run economically halt "A nile or IA
mile away, and Superintendent Dwight OF the
gas company, says it will be quite handy TO
use when we ret the electric lights for the
streets Altogether the system promises to
work "A revolution in the use of steam III more
than one directIon.-SpriHDieId (hdSs) RepHd-
icdR.