Morris tribune., 1884-08-06
HEAT BY WHOLESALE.
Steam Heating To Be Followed by
Lighting Power.
A Pleasant Chat with President An.
drews-- How Heat Is Conveyed
Through the Streets Of
the City.
NEW York World.1

New York World1
Some time ago great deal was said by the
press of New York about "steam in the
Streets" more recently all has been quiet on
the subject. A reporter called on the presl-
dent of the company, w. G. Andrews, at -
Cortlandt street. and asked the pointed ques-
ton:
SIS steam in the streets success"
"What do you think of it at The World
Officer replied Mr.. Andrews. at does your
work, does it nota 1t does all the work OF
steam at.The Times, The Tribune, The Com
mercial Advertiser, and, in fact, all the
newspapers but The Post and Herald. AS
soon as Mr.. Bennett returns from Europe
we shall supply The Herald. Then there is
the new produce exchange, with nine ele-
vators and no boilers on the premises; in the
new building of the Mutual Life, on the old
postoffice site, we have contracted for steam
to heat their building, run six elevators and
1900 electric lights; the Merchants and
Manhattan banks new building in Wall
street with no boilers, and so it goes. We
are educating the public along the lines of
our pipes that it is as unnecessary to have
their own boilers as it is to have gas works
on their premises"
"How many miles have you in operationT
"About five miles of streets. The princi-
pal ones are Broadway, from Bowling Green
to Chambers, Wall, Pine, Liberty, Maiden
lane, John, Fulton, Ann, Park row, Cort-
landt, Greenwich, Barclay, Park place and
Warren streets, all under full pressure OF
eighty pounds to the square inch, to do any
and all kinds of work Our company is
spoken of as steam-heating company. This
is large part Of our business, it is true, and
it takes an enormous quantity of steam to
heat these immense buildings down town, but
the power business is the largest, our earn
ings being about two-thirds for power and
one-third for heating"
allow many buildings are you now supply
ing with steama'
ABOUT two hundred and fifty. We arc
now laying pipes in Broad street to connect
with the Stock Exchange and other buildings
in the vicinity"
"What will be your largest class of indi-
vidual business in this citys"
Undoubtedly elevators. We expect land
to become so valuable on this island that it
will be economy to go high in the air with
buildings, and they must all have elevators.
In this respect the city is being rebuilt, and
it is plain to see that demand for steam for
this pur pose alone will be almost without
limit 1t is not improbable that next to ele-
vators will come electric lights. When the
elevators stop after business hours we shall
turn our steam on to electric lights. Thus
you see, the elevators and machinery for
general manufacturing purposes in the day
time and the newspapers, electric lights, no.
tells, theatres, club-houses, etc., at night.
Why, we can afford to sell steam at night at
half price. We expect to light this city bes
fore long.
"How will this be donea"
"The cost Of the electric light is the cost of
the steam power to generate it. After 6
o'clock the elevators stop. and miscellaneous
manufactures cease. What shall we then do
with our steam? 1t is in some. sense waste
of product Of course we shall turn it on to
the electric lights. and especially the small
light, the incandescent light. We have no
doubt this will be in a few years the popular
light in all Of our. fine dwelling-houses. 1t is
the best produced BY man and the safest"
"What are your plans for further ex-
tension of your street system of steam pipes!"
1--WE shall pipe Fifth avenue and Madison
avenue this year from Madison square to
Seventeenth street, the top of Lenox hill,
taking in some and of course eventually all
the lateral streets. We hope to get in several
miles. in the upper part of the city this year"
"When your pipes enter building, a dwell
ing, for instance, what do you dog
eve put on a regulating valve to regulate
the pressure, and a meter to measure the
quantity used. We wish to follow precisely
in the footsteps of our neighbors, the gas
companies. We then do the heating, cook
ing, laundering, etc., including electric lights
by isolated plant, pumps and elevators; in
fact, we do three times as much for the peo-
pie as the gas companies, and make them
three times as happy"
"Do you expect to charge three times as
much?"
"Why should we not, if we do three times
as much? However, that will take care Of
itself. The seller and the buyer must come
together in everythings'
SIS it SUGGEST"
'I must leave our patrons to answer, that.
They seem to be hungry for it and take it as
| fast as we can give it to them. We have
| been in operation twenty months and given
| it faster than any other company ever before
| in New York. 1t is significant fact that
none of our stock is:lying around loose and
| that we have never lost a customer Its
service is perfect and we shall pipe the city"
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
a New Four Inch Gun Which rs TO
RevOlutionize Warfare.
New York Sum-.
A machine that looks like forty-foo
brass pipe mounted on a steel girder
such as lie on the elevated railroad
pillars, rested in the center of the
machine shop of the Delamater Iron
works. The machine is the barrel and
carriage of the new four-inch dynamite
pneumatic gun, which, when completed, is
expected to sink, on occasion, the largest
man of-war afoat and annihilate its crew.
The gun is constructed of brass and steel,
fitted in the most accurate manner at the
joints, and capable of sustaining pressure of
1000 pounds to the square inch. It weighs
but ton, and may be carried by a small
gun-boat.
The projectile is nothing more nor less
| than a dynamite cartridge encaSed in soft