New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-03-23
The Navigation to Chicagois rpen
The Society Library.


Your correspondent F. in his remarks in your paper
Friday morning in relation the Lecture Room OF the So
cety Library, has sought after VIII than truth. Allow
me 10 correct some OF his Statements which may Affect ln
rousy the character OF the Room and its Architect
F. says" Ventating apcrures of course were pol
dreamed OF by The learned conriv-rs of that building
Now the fact is, that this Room rs well ventilated as any
in the City, Provision made Tor ventilation BY two aper
lures the ceiling concealed by rosettes and leading to
tie external by trunks constructed in the walls OF tue
building. Provision also made for the admission OF fres.
air from tensah This is the usual ventilation under ori-
nary circumstances There besides, six Ia ge windows,
which be drawn down the ceiling, and four large
doors which can be opened at any TIME when Mr. F. or
his friends are crowded 10 suiocnono This is pretty
fair ventilation for a room made for The accommodation OF
about FIVE hundred persons.
of window or door being open, on The evening that F.
attended Mr. EmeSons lecture, that the fault OF The
construction OF the Room bat Of the person who has the
charge OF il for the Lecturer at the time.
F's remarks abont nitrogen and carbonc acid cigars,
snuff onions teeth and the 9uack architect show
grea, and knowledge OF chemistry, but 10 be
drawn from association. that the writer ha. with other To-
cates, not having connection with the Library lis
Lecture Room. Yours, etc. ].
u We must be permitted to concur with F.. in the
opinion that the Society Library deer. in the OF
ventilation compared with other Lecture Rooms in
our City which generally defective in that respect As
opening the doors aud rindos l. ought 10 know that
this remedy rarely he app|ied-our audiences being
trained have horror of fresh air. that those sitting
window revolt the idea OF ,irausht, hsugh
il hill payable bolus The two aperrurrs' l.
speaks OF ought 10 be much enlarged. Ed Tribune.
II THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD is running To III. Bah
ylon Station, forty laes from Brooklyn miles
readiness receive the rails, and will be in
Fourteen miles from Janes-Por west the .nha,anls
work grading, leaving space a seventeen miles
make the road complete 10 JaH1esPor; thence steam
boa, communication he opened TO Stoningon il is
pected that they will be enabled deliver passengers there
through Long Island in advance OF other oste al so
ingon iSh all OF which be completed this
500 as the Company call for Twenty-Five and half
Dollars Share they OF opinion that only half oil the
above viii be needed to complete the Road 10 Jalne,Po
only leaving sixteen miles Green-Port, which may be
made b. further CALL by the earnings OF the Company
y We see by our advertising columns that the popular
steamboat Superior, Capt J. Gould, again in motion on
the Hudson River We have been informed that this boat
has been completely overhauled repanted and ied in
splendid style, and her proprietor las large expense
furnished her with two low pressure boilers, with all
the Improvements ior burning Anthracite Coal They were
constructed by H. Durham CO. the celebrated builders
OF The boilers and engine OF the Russian sate Kan
schatta The Superior leaves this afternoon om The
boat Pier at the foot OF Chszaber.-st