The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-09-05
THE NEW HEATING
AND LIGHT PLANT
EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY
NOVEMBER.
The Most Modern Appliances to Be
lnstaled-Many Contracts are
Already Made.

Mr.. Turner, president Of the Mer-
chants Light, Heat and Power Co.,
stated to representative of the Morn
ing News that many contracts for heat
and power have already been let, and
that franchises have been secured for
underground conduits for heat and
power, dispensing with all poles and
wires in the business district of the
city. Some of the material has already
arrived and is ready for active installa-
ton. All heating will be done by
steam made by battery of boilers,
whose total capacity will be 1000 horse
power. The same battery of boilers
will, furnish steam in generating pow
er The steam used for heating pur-
poses will be from the exhaust of the
engines, accompanied by live steam
taken directly from the boilers, the
supply being regulated by an automatic
valve. The pressure on the main line
will vary from to 10 pounds, and the
valves, working automatically, will be
regulated to keep up a standard press
ure. Every building heated by this
system will have an automatic ther-
mostatic temperature regulator The
range of temperature will be from 6O
to 80 degrees. By adjusting this a
standard temperature can be had. If it
is set at 20 degrees the very instant
the temperature of a room drops be-
low that the valve in the street is au-
tomatically opened by compressed air
produced by an air compressor at the
station, and conveyed by a 1A-inch
galvanized air line, which is laid in a
ditch beside the steam line. The diam
eter of the feed pipe line is l6 inches,
the return line being in proportion.
All steam pipe lines are covered with
Wychoff covering, the best known TO
the mechanical world Prof. r. G. Car
penter of Cornell university has made
exhaustive tests and found by using
this covering but Az per cent of the
heat is lost in conveying steam of 100
horsepower 1000 feet. In the return
line a gravity fall will be had all the
way, but Notwithstanding this fact, and
to make the circulation more complete,
| two wet vacuum pumps will be at
tached to the end of the return line.
To care for the condensed steam that
forms in the feed line there will be
manholes on the average of 13O feet
apart, which will contain expansive
| Joints and traps, which device will au-
tomatically return all condensations In
the steam main in the return line,
thence to the plant. All boilers will be
equipped with mechanical stokers, sup
plying coal to the furnaces. In addi"
ton to this, there will be erected a
water softening and purifying plant
which will remove all scale forming
properties contained in the feed wateI
before being supplied to the boilers.
In connection with the heating plant
there will be installed complete elec-
trio light and power plant. The con-
tract for this work was let with the
Arbuckle-Ryan company Of Toledo
July 28, and 1t is expected that every
thing will be completed by Nov. /.
The latter part of last week there
was put on file with the county record
er a trust deed or mortgage to the Can
ton Savings & Trust Co., securing al
issue of 100000 on first mortgage
per cent 20-year gold bonds.