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Show HOLLY SYSTEM OF STEAM HEATING.B The Holly System of steam heating is to be introduced in Lynn, Mass. A company has been organized, and they propose to lay a system of double street mains -- one main of six to ten inch iron about 7,000 feet for power exclusively, in which will be carried a pressure of seventy-five pounds.<br><br> On this line will be running twenty-four engines, aggregating 1,200 horse power, and many smaller engines besides. The steam from these engines will exhaust into another main line alongside the first mentioned, and which will have extensions along the business and resident streets in which will be carried steam at twenty pounds for heating purposes. .<br><br> On this line will be about 15,000,000 cubic feet to be heated, and this will be done to a very large extent by the exhaust steam from the engines. The great economy of this system lies in the fact that the steam generated will do double duty. It will run all the machinery on the line, and the same steam will then be used to warm stores, offices, and dwellings. .<br><br> The Lynn company is the first to construct and operate this double system on a large scale. |