Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-10
A New Haven Enterprise.

City.
 The steam Heating company is busy pre- pairing for furnishing steam Gall along the line" Of its service pipes in the autumn. Already it is supplying power to several par ties, among them the Electric Light compa' 1 ny, BoWdltch & Prudden, Kirschner, the printer, Bocemedes 6 Allen, decorative card printers, elevator at Insurance building, and the following are supplied heat, viz. A. c. 1 Irager's new establishment on Center street, Ed t. Merwin's, the entire building, on Church and Center streets. the whole of the Insurance building, including Brown, Bolton & COS, Tyler's building on Chapel street, Gen. Ford's jewelry establishment, Bunnell tS Scranton's, and the whole of Simpson block, formerly Brewster building the Ton tine Hotel, National New Haven bank, while communication has been made with Jas. D. l DeWeu & Co. $ and George s. Arnold's estab- hshments on State street, Wilcox & Co.'s dry | goods establishment, M. Steinerts new music store, Basserman's building, corner of Church and Center streets, and negotiations are now being made to furnish heat and power to many other of our leading firms and public buildings as soon as the company's apparatus has been perfected. Bowditch & Prudden greatly prefer it and express their full and complete satisfaction with it in all respects, finding 1t to serve the purpose better than the old method, to say nothing of the ab- | sence of dirt, dust, smoke, ashes, the possi- ble danger of having boiler explosion, etc. ''We get better service out of our present pressure than formerly out of one-third more pressure"
 All using it speak in equally satisfactory terms. Brown, Bolton & Go. endorse it, the Insurance building authorities pronounce it great convenience and say it curtais the fuel expense, while the whole premises are uni formly supplied and the supply can be gradu- ated according to the weather and consider able money saved thereby, as the customer | pays for just what is used and no more, the same as ia the case of gas, the metres record 1 ing the consumption, while at the building this heat saves coal and employing an engi- neer. Mir. Ed. P. Merwin said of it ''The l quality of steam is very steady and very re- l liable. There seems to be intensity we never could get before. My tenants are all perfectly satisfied. Brown & Stillson, for in-
 stance, said this morning that it could not be
 better. The heat is unquestionably desirable
 to anybody that wants heat' Mir. North, of
 J. G. North & Co.,, in the same building, ex- pressed perfect satisfaction with it ''We
 have as much heat at B. m as at 10 D. m. ''
 Gen. George H. Ford said they liked the
 steam very much in his premises, and
 throughout Simpson block "We personally
 like it much better than our old system
 which we discarded for this. Formerly we
 had in use two furnaces and six stoves in this
 building, which we have removed to adopt
 this method, and by the adoption of this
 method we not only effect saving of coal,
 but it makes difference of 25 per cent on
 our insurance in having no fire on the prem ises.''
 MT. Stephen B. Butler, of Butler & Tyler, pronounced it a decided advantage to them
 and said it worked to their perfect satisfac- ton throughout Tyler building.
 MT. Kirschner, the printer, gave most fa-
 vorable opinions, having no ashes to remove, no fears to entertain as to possibility of a boiler explosion. Steam was ready at all hours. He had been agreeably disappointed in finding the steam so dry and so hot.
 Bccemedes $ Allen gave similar indorse- ment, while the supply of power was entirely satisfactory, and ran the machinery as well as they could desire. Gus Tr@ger was found in his new establishment on Center street
 busily engaged. His verdict of approval was quickly forthcoming and emphatic.
 The future success of steam heat in New | Haven seems to be as well assured as any thing can be- as it is meeting with unquali- fled success in the cities of Springfield and Lynn, Mass; Troy, Auburn and Lockport, N. Y.; Denver, Colorado; Detroit, Mich; Burlington and Dubuque, Iowa, and other places, and is now being introduced through
 Broadway and adjoining streets in New York
 city, and this season it will be placed in Phil
 adelphia Providence, Cincinnati and Roch-
 ester. One of the principal promoters of
 this enterprise said yesterday that wherever
 the Holly system has been strictly adhered
 to it's success is unquestioned. The New
 Haven company adheres strictly to the Holly system, avoiding the shoals of experiment.
 which in some few cities worked unproft-
 ably and entailed thereby partial lack of success. This New Haven institution being now fairly launched and evidently on the high wave of success bespeaks the near ap- proach of time, judging from other cities
 where used, when most of the important
 buildings of the city, including the colleges and large number of our private residences,
 will be heated by the company, to say noth- ing of the quite general adoption of the ser I vice for power by the manufactories. The comfortable agreeable quality of steam heat, | it's desirability over furnace heat in the mat ter of healthful homes, the freedom from dust, ashes and irregular, uncertain supply, and from the possible necessity of getting l the house on fire and having the house, pie lures, carpets, piano, etc., deluged with l water, and the cheaper rate of insurance fol- lowing the use of the service, as insurance is l effected 20 or 40 per cent. cheaper where it | is used, and, better than all, the entire ab- sence of poisonous gases, are among the req sons mentioned for ths probable gen. 1 eral introduction of this method of heat ing. The duplex system is now laid as follows From the boiler house, corner of Temple and George, through Temple to Center, to Church, from corner of Church and Chapel to State, and on Orange from Chapel to Center, and on Church street ! to police office, State from Elm to Grown :; also through Gregson alley from Center to | Chapel. The company was, Saturday, work ing its great 25O horse power Corliss engine, I which is located in it's headquarters on Tenn pie street. The company puts steam into ! buildings free of expense to curb, and at cost under sidewalk. There are six boilers each of 80 horse power at the boiler shops, also I large tank to store the hot water returned l from mains, and well has been sunk. The \ water of the well has been analysed by Prof. Johnson of the S. s. S., and as the Profes- sors letter is valuable to all using power in the city we give it entire as follows:
 George D. Miller, ' sq.
 Dear SirIn GOO 900 parts of the example water l sent find:
 Sulphate of magnesia.. 77 parts Common salt. -l03 l' CarDonhbo oI ilLe.. .lUo Sulpnate or lme. ..s.....-'-..H 3z ' Organlc matter. ..'.....'..''..... o4 ;" Or, in round numbers 10, 900 parts of water con tain parts of solid.
 Whitney Lake water contains in 000,0 900 about s5 parts of total solids. Your sample has therefore about five times much solids as the Whitney Lake water. The latter is extraordinarily pure and your sample, I should say, 8 very good water, would hQ tad Q lIlT0ha