The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1879-12-26
Future Facts.

The Aldermen of New York City hay e
granted the right to company Tor
furnishing hot water or steam to public
buildings and private residences, and
the work is to be commenced at once.
The Prail Heating and Power Company
are to lay mains and pipes in the streets,
and to carry either hot water or steam to
supply heat and power wherever either
power or heat may be wanted. The COM
pany must pay INTO the city treasury am
nually, one>half its bona ,fde profits
earned above ten per cent, and three
cents for each lineal foot of streets in
which the mains are laid, the sum paid
per Iineal foot to be deducted from the
sum payable to the city as its one-half OF
the surplus profits. The company must
furnish heat to the public buildings at
forty per cent less than the average an
nual cost has been since 1872; md must
provide taps for connecting fire MIGRANTS
and supply hot water from their mains
under sufficient pressure to rise through
pipes to the tops of the highest build
ings. this to be at a reasonable cost to
the city. The company must deposit
with the Comptroller, before disturbing
the pavement of any street, sum sufii-
cient to defray the cost of replacing the
pavement and keeping it in repair for
one year, and must pay the salary of an
engineer, to be appointed by the city, to
inspect the laying of the pipes, and to
supply all apparatus for heating to the
city at ten per cent. less than to other
consumers.
Tic inventor explains that the new
system consists in conveying the heat
and power directly from the generator
through underground pipes, by the mes
dunn of highly heated water under con-
fined pressure. and delivering it from the
mains through service pipes and meters
to the consumers, and converting it into
steam when used. He claims that by
means of forced circulation the tempe
nature OF the water can be maintained
nearly the same for almost any distance
from the generator; that steam can be
evolved from it at any point just as read
lily as directly at the boiler; that given
volume will convey about forty times as
much heat as an equal volume of steam
at the same temperature, and will evolve
about 275 times its volume of steam when
the pressure is reduced by "tiissipating
valve, thereby utilizing the immense spe-
cific heat stored in the water also, that
it can be accurately measured without
difficulty. an important feature to both
consumer and snpplier.
A proposition has been made to run
a surface railroad through Broadway from
the South Ferry TO Central Park, for the
grant and franchise of which route res
sponsible parties have offered 5 100000.
Broadway property owners own to the
centre Of the street, and though the pro
posed road would vastly improve the re-
tail trade of that thoroughfare, it is sur>
missed the landlords will strongly oppose
the project. But before a great while, in
spite of all opposition, public convenience
will demand more rapid mode OF transit
on Broadway than exists at present, and
the stages will be superseded by cars.
When New York is connected with
Brooklyn by bridge and with Jersey
City by a tunnel; when the Elevated
Road is completed to Yonkers and cars
traverse Broadway when steam and hot
water pipes underlie its streets and the
city is lighted by Etlison's wonderful in
veniion, the metropolis will be all i'll
order for the next Worlds Fair, to be
held in 1883 at Riverside Park, the most
magnificent river promenade in the
world, extending three miles along the
Hudson, from Seventy second Street. A
committee of prominent and influential
citizens have the preparatory arrange-
ments for the Fair in charge, which, no
doubt, will be the "biggest show on earth"
and rebound immensely to the credit
(and proft) of tl,e-as Mr.. George VIM.
C lrtis styles it" Imperial City of New
York"