Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-31
CITIZENS ASKED
TOSAVE STEAM
Power Company Calls on
Churches to Abandon
Evening Services

Conservation of steam heat dur
ing the present severe cold snap
was asked by c. NJ. Kaltwasser yes
terday. of the patrons of the Hsr-
risburg light and Power Company
yesterday. Private consumers are
requested by Mt Kaltwasser to turn
off the city heat in the rooms they
are not actually using and rhua
concentrate the heat in one or two
rooms, at the same time saving the
Power Company the additional steam
needed to heat the whole house.
Churches using city steam were re-
quested to suspend their evening
service in an effort to conserve steam
Tor private users. A number Of
churches suspended their evening
service to cooperate with the
Power Company.
Additional relief for uptown users
was promised through the boiler
plant of Blough Brothers, which the
Power Company is arranging to have
connected with its mains at Third
and Reilly streets.
In statement issued last night,
Mr.. Kaltwasser makes the follow
ing explanations:
Unusual Weather
THE prevailing winter season is
one of extreme severity and the
present under zero weather is most
unusual for December for this vicin-
lily and according to weather fore
casts is likely to continue for sew
eral days. Because of these weather
conditions and unavoidable delay in
installing of stoking equipment or
dered January II, 1917 (almost a
year ago), our heating equipment
has been operating under adverse
conditions the past four weeks
THE result has been that we have
not felt it safe to operate the1e
stokers to their full capacity. TN.
der the present operating conditions
we can very readily take care Of
such steam demands as our Gus
toners may put upon us under nor
NAL winter conditions.
"The additional demand, however
placed on our equipment on account
of the extreme cold weather, when
the temperature went below zero,
requires that we operate our stolzers
to their full capacity in order to
give an adequate steam supply We
do not consider it safe, because of
the operating condition of our
stokers, to run them to their full
capacity at the present time, since
it would in all probability result in
complete shutdown of this equip
ment.
Since this present weather prom
ise5 to continue until next Wednes-
day. we communicated with prac-
tically all of our steam customers
and advised them of the foregoing.
with the request that they help Us
relieve the strain on our plant by
reducing their demand.
I'm order to do this effectively,
we asked the steam users to heat
only such rooms that must absolute
ly be heated and to take care that
the temperature of such rooms does
not exceed 20 degrees. All radia-
tors in rooms which are not in
actual use should be shut off and
the doors of such rooms closed dur
ing the present severe weather.
'By receiving this help we will be
in n position to supply heat during
the present cold snap to such rooms
as must be used and also prevent
thereby possible shutdown.
I'm order to offset the partial fail
ure of the new stoker equipment,
we have just completed arrange
ments by which the steam capacity
of the Ninth Street Plant will be
supplemented by the use of the
plant of Blough Bros. The steam
generated at this point amounts to
approximately 400 horsepower and
will be delivered to our mains at
Third and Reilly streets. The neces-
sary material has been ordered and
received and work was started
this morning, and will be pushed
to completion as rapidly as possible.
This will greatly relieve the stua-
ton and should enable us to give
good service during the remainder
of the winter.
1--WE wish to thank our con-
sumers for their hearty and unani-
nous cooperation in our effort to
meet this emergency and to assure
them that we have done and will
continue to do everything in our
power to avoid team interruption. f."