The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-15

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vnsTnArlos. is woll known that life cannot bo
supported without pure air but few take much pains 10
that the apartments where they reside properly
ventilated with Wow to health 1t must be evident,
from the slightest consideration that those rooms in
which most Of hours spent ought TO DO the best
provided with OF ventilation and more care
should be bestowed upon sleeping apartments than
il usually done with this view. Every adult person
sumes four cubic feet of nr per minute that H. he alb
serbs the oxygen IT, and renders it unfit for breath
ing Suppose single person occupies unvcntlated
for eight hours the amount of air vatsd will
DO more than nineteen hundred cubic and IL the
be sixteen feet square, and and half foot
high, every cubic foot of air In the would have
PASSED through tho lungs IN that time. 1t will thus be
sccn that where two persons occupy room,
unless there are means of ventilation the health must
inevitably suffer bedroom ought to be the largest
room In the house, with high ceiling but since many
Of houses not constructed, all that be
dono IL to soc that they ventilated In the best man
their construction will permit AS general thing
the cold air the floor and the hot above and
tho most impure air also rises the ceiling, being
lighter after II has boon deprived Of tho oxygen which
its fe-gving element Hence, is well remarked
by an exchange low bedstesd IL preferable 10
= high one care being taken, however, not to
have 1t 30 low TO DO swept by currents. Beds
on tho floor aro injurious, for example, because
the drnught from under the door often goes over
them Wherever there, IL open fireplace, there Is
continual suction Of air towards it from the doors and
windows, and in such apartments bed should BIO
made upon the floor Currents of air Indispensable
nevertheless il room is to DO kept healthy. But IL is
not always easy to establish such II We open
a window at the bottom, when the temperature of
chamber is higher than that out of DOORS no exchange
of air is produced and tho effect is tho if we open
a window at top, when the air without Is hotter than the
air within To ventilate room, under such conditions
must this process The popular notion, which
Is one, is that it is only necessary raise
window to produce ventilation matter what tho con-
dtions may be. Holding candle in the aperture will
show when current is established and when not.
The best method of yentilatng a room in summer Is
to have door frames and window fitted to their
various openings and covered with wire-cloth mosquito
netting mllnet, other loose fabric, through which
air will pass freely, but in difused manner. Where
economy has to be consulted the free opening Of win
dows and doors will generally but it Ii best to
open al rather than only one II this y likely to
q draught the bed Where current Of air cannot
be avoided where such current is desired for its
cooling effects it should be made to flow equally over
the whole person, this destroys tho liability to take
cold.
1t is always best to open window at both top and
IN tnlS hlr WITHOUT il nOtter Lhan
Within the enters at tho top and passes out
the bottom but If the air within is hottest tho current
Is reversed Often, going to bed at this season. the
last is the but before morning, the chamber be-
comes cooler than out of DOORS that the sleeper
walked up by draght his person. which did not
exist when he retired careful attention to these facts
and adaptation Of them to varying circumstances,
will do much to prevent disease
HAcKAES. don't the hackmen in this city form
protective association Ino experiment has been tried
In other cities and has been found productive OF tho most
beneficial results in consequence OF the extortionats
charges of hackmcn and in many their attempts
Imposition, even after bargain is me 10 unisr the inn
preston traveller would prefer to DO eeced rather
than forcgo his journey in the effort to Justice
the public have been led to look with ditrust upon class
who fulfil very important and necessary service u the
body polite. For this reason the experienced traveller
always avoids the hacks much possible and in the
large cities where there lines Of omnbuses ho pays
six cents for his ride and gets his baggage taken to Its
destination by eIpressman. Tho loss of custom in
this way leads the hackmon to endeavor to make up
cheating what they in business and thus things go
on from bad to worse Now tho remedy for these evils
is simple one In the city Of New York, the hackmen
have formed an association and badges to show
that they are responsible men, and DO found after
Job over and by scountenancng all those who prac-
tice mpostons travellers they will BIO able to build
up their dropping business, and command the
confidence and respect Of the community There is
good reason that perceive why the hackmcn in
Washington should not adopt similar course; but on
tho contrary there many to induce them to
do 3d. The following remarks from the New York Ex-
press arc in general equally applicable to tho latitude Of
Washington:
ga city like this needs hackmen coaches cabs, &C.,
and all would be pcntifuy used if kept nice and olcnn
and il the prices higher than in other cities here
or In Europe London cab prices which rather high
would command plenty OF custom in New York, ii the
citizen Of the price beforehand, and certain
quarrel would happen after the ride In London not
only Is the price named but the distances printed
posted all quarters OF the city and by the city copo
ration with the fares annexed that tho citizen knows
beforehand just the price of ride and just the distance
CO. The corporation Of city and the abund
ancc of omnbuses and city railroads. here it Is true,
rather against the hacmcn but, IL order existed at the
ferries and The depots end tho exnct price Of job
flesh and horse feed dear they here
while citizens would them Alone OF in parties for
| their ordinary rides about town
Z, If the hackmen organize among themselves so
AZ to preserve order responsibility and make
tain what Is now very uncertain they will recover
their old rcspectabity and confidence At present we
all view the quartete of them at the ferries and tho de-
pots II forlorn hopes storming Sebastopol
We dare not look up, around, say aye or mo,
when they speak to us, and rovercntly thank our
lucky when have safely threaded their whip and
xvbn- bandlcs and screning We need then their helm