, 1884-04-09
HEAT BY WHOLESALE.
Steam Heating To Be Followed by
Lighting Power. &
A Pleasant Chat with President An.
dFews--How Heat L. Conveyed
Through the streets OF
the City.


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Some timo ago a great deal WINS said by the
press of New York about steam in the
streets; y moro recently all has been quiet on
the subject A reporter called on the presi-
dent of the company. w. C. Andrews, ut Q,
Cortlandt street, and asked the pointed ques-
ton:
SIS steam in the streets a SUGGEST
what do you think OF it at The World
oflcef" replied Mr.. Andrews. at does your
work, does 1t notf 1t docs all the work of
steam at The Times, Tho Tribune, The Com
mercial Advertiser, and, in fact, all the
newspapers but Tho Post and Herald. Is
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 promises; in the
new building Of tho 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 1t goes. We
are educating the public along the lines OF
our pipes that 1t Is as unnecessary to have
their own boilers as IL is TO nave gas works
on their promises" % Ai4lf a4 n
@How many miles have you In operationl7
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 a steam heating company. This
Is a large part Of our business, it is true, and
1t takes an enormous quantity of steam to
heat these immense buildings down town, but
the pc wer business Is the largest, our earn
ings being about ~two-thirds for power and
one-third for heating"
"How many buildings arc you now supply
ing with steamP
About two hundred and fifty. We arc
now laying pipes in Broad street to connect
with he Stock Exchange md other buildings
In the vicinity"
@What will be your largest class of indi-
vidual business in this cityf"
Undoubtedly elevators. We expect land
to become SO valuable on this island that it
will be economy to go high in the hir with
buildings, and they must all have elevators.
In this respect the city is being rebuilt, and
1t is plain to sec 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
hAAAo ohd tho tCilC DkuGS uU-
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 donef'
"The cost Of the electric light is the cost Of
the steam power to generate It. After @
o'clock the elevators stop and miscellaneous
manufactures cease. What shall we then do
with our steaml 1t is in some sense a waste
of product OF course we shall turn 1t 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 d-welling-houses. 1t is
the best produced by man and the safest"
"Whnt are your plans for a further ex-
tension Of your street system Of steam pipesF
I'VE 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 ali
the lateral streets. We hope to get in several
miles in the upper part of the city this year."
"When your pipes enter a building, dwell
ing, for instance. what do you dor
1--WE put on a regulating valve to regulate
tho 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 cha rye three times as
muchP
why should we not, IL we do three times
as muchi However, that will take care Of
itself. The seller and the buyer must come
together in everythingf'
SIS II a SUGGEST"
81 must leave our patrons to answer. that.
They seem to be hungry for it and take it as
fast as VIC 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 nevor lost q customer. Ia
service is perfect and we shall pipo the city. I"