Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-08-06
HEAT BY WHOLESALE.
Steam Heating To BE Followed by
Lighting Power.
A Pleasant Chat with President An.
drews-- How Heat rs Conveyed
Through the Streets OF
the City.
New York World.]

New York World]
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. c. 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
| office9" 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
| $500 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"
allow many miles have you in operation
| "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 are
| 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 city?"
| 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 It 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 be-
| fore long.
"How will this be done?"
'The cost of the electric light is the cost of
the steam power to generate it. After 3
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 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 toget 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
''We 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 everything"
SIS it success"
81 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 a 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, y
THE DYNAMlTE-PNEUMATIc.