Items of Interest December 19, 1931 Issue

Item of Interest

A very important decision in respect to the new Publishing House has recently been made after months of investigation and study. It is the decision to purchase not only electric power, but also heat. The plans originally contemplated the building of a service plant on the north corner of Clearway and Dalton Streets. This service plant was to furnish heat to the new Publishing House, the Church edifice, and to other Church properties in the vicinity. It was a question whether high pressure boilers should be installed so that electric power might be generated, using the exhaust steam for heating purposes.

These subjects were studied in great detail, and various plants in other cities which might furnish some information as a result of their experience were visited by members of the Publishing House Building Committee, the architect, or engineers. Eventually, a favorable basis for dealing with The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston was reached, whereby electricity will be purchased for all of our buildings, also steam.

Furnishing steam in Boston, New York, and other large cities from a centrally located plant to office and other buildings is now an established and growing industry. The Edison Company, upon learning of the quantity of steam used in a year not only by the Publishing House but by the Church edifice and other buildings, including the many apartments and stores owned by the Shawmut Realty Trust, proposed to enlarge or erect a new plant not far distant from the Church properties for the purpose of generating sufficient steam not only to fulfill a contract with The Mother Church and Shawmut Realty Trust, but also eventually to sell steam to other users in the Back Bay section.

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