A "Community" Power Plant for New York 



It sells heat and power to the 

 skyscrapers of lower Manhattan 



MANY of the skyscrapers 

 now being built in New 

 York city's financial dis- 

 trict will have no boilers and 

 heating plants of their own, and 

 several old-time office buildings 

 will discontinue using their 

 engine rooms as soon 

 giant new steam plant 

 is put into operation. 

 The new plant will sell 

 steam heat and power 

 to any building within 

 a convenient radius. 

 The price for such ser- 

 vice is said to be 

 siderably less than the 

 cost of maintaining in- 

 dividual plants. 



The six stacks, three 

 on each side of the 

 plant, are three hun- 

 dred and twenty- five 

 feet high. The boilers 

 are located in a 

 building 

 one hun- 

 d r ed 

 and 



The men were raised to their jobs and 

 brought down again by means of steel hoists 



The six giant stacks of New York's 

 new steam power plant 300 feet high 



fifty feet or ten stories high. The plant 



represents an outlay of one and cne- 



half million dollars. It will take nine 



hundred tons of coal a day to heat the 



water in the boilers. 



While building the stacks New Yorkers 

 have had the opportunity of seeing some of 

 the most thrilling dare-devil work ever 

 carried on by structural steel workers. On 

 days when the wind blew a gale the 

 workmen were often in imminent danger. 

 They were taken up to their jobs on 

 steel hoists. These giant stacks are right 

 at home among the skyscrapers. 



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