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Show r The success that attended the ex periment last winter of heating the, houses of Lockport, New York, by steam from a central boiler has induced in-duced other cities to think eeriously of adepting the system. The gas company of Springfield, Musi,, pro-1 pro-1 poses to utilize the waste beat from its retorts and the coko which it pro-i 'duces, in makiog stoam to be distributed dis-tributed like gas throughout thei j thickly settled parts of the city. The citizens ol Auburn, New York, are I also preparing for experiments in the 'same direction. At Lockport, three Imiiea of main were laid through a sparsely settled district, Beveuty consumers con-sumers only being supplied. The company reports that it was tully reimbursed re-imbursed by charging the consumers no more than they had hitherto paid for fuel, and that in more thickly settled district a handsome profit could be made at lower rates. The average cost of fittings for a house is '$135, or less than the cot of heaters, ranges or stoves, no longer needed when steam for heating, cookiog or laundry work can be turned ou at will. Now that we have become accustomed ac-customed to the loss of the open fire place or red-cut stove, and to warm- im; ourselves at a hole in the wall, there dr.es jvA cerai tr bo any gocd rc-ifiuu wuy we boon id nut go one etfp f ; '.v rrl aud bai iah sIovgb and heateia ftf;n inn kitf.iea r.nd cellar and d i-iid i" -i warmth in winter upon a corporate.! with as much confidence as we dfipend upon gas companies for jour supply of light. |