WKBSTEH SYSTEM OF CIRCULATING STEAM FOR HEATING I'l Rl'OSKS 



THIS system wa> installed in the original Singer 

 Building, corner of Broadway and Liberty 

 Street, in 18JKS, or about two years after the 

 erection of that building. 



The ]>ur|M>se was to improve the gravity system 

 originally erected with the l>nilding. 



Tlie Webster Sy>tem prove*! so satisfactory in 

 operation that it was adopted for the Bourne Build- 

 ing, erected in 1898. Improvements in details of the 

 Webster apparatus since the original installation have 



been added and the Webster System is efficiently 

 circulating the steam through all the radiators con- 

 tained in the buildings named. 



The Webster System is also used for heating the 

 Singer factories at South Bend, Ind., and Elizabeth- 

 jK>rt, N. J., also the Singer factories in Canada, 

 Scotland and Germany, in all of which it has had a 

 thorough test covering use during several seasons, and 

 has demonstrated its efficiency in saving fuel and in 

 improved heating conditions. 



LIGHTING FIXTURES 



THE lighting fixtures throughout all parts of 

 the building were designed by Ernest Flagg, 

 the architect, and executed by The Enox 

 Company of New York City. 



The designs in the main are simple, but of artistic 

 merit, having the added and necessary attribute of 

 being effective from a utilitarian standpoint. This 

 basic idea governed even in the designs of the orna- 

 mental fixtures. There is no "straining for effect," 

 and the whole lighting plan, while particularly in- 

 conspicuous as part of the general decorative 

 scheme, produces the desired result efficient and 

 economical lighting without introducing discordant 

 features. 



The design of the bracket illustrated was es- 

 pecially created for the main entrance corridor, in 

 the style of the French Renaissance to which the 

 decorative scheme of this part of the building con- 

 forms. The design commends itself in that it is par- 

 ticularly adapted to the location and also because the 

 mechanical contrivances have been artistically con- 

 cealed. 



The lighting fixtures, excepting those in the 

 main corridor, banking rooms and the Company's 

 offices, are of the commercial type, of unconven- 

 tional lines, particular care being given to their 

 efficiency and structural strength in design and 

 manufacture. 



I <" I 



