The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-02
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Ventilatlon.

go Ventilation.
The New York Tribune has an ex-
tensive report on the ventilation, or,
rather, the non-ventilation OF the pub
lie school buildings of that city. II
finds that many of these buildings, In
each of which several Thousand are
daily oougregated, do not afford II sim
gle breath of fresh air. While the
human lungs require sixty hogsheads
of air per day. not single hOgshead Is
afforded by scarcely one of their school
houses. There is probably no more
fruitful cause of debility, disease and
short life, than a lack of pure air. In
stinct Isl pretty good regulator of our
food, but intelligence is necessary to
guard against vitiated atmosphere.
Those who are in robust health rare
IL notice the impurities of the air of
their dwellings or of public buildingsi
but they cannot long remain vigorous
without plenty Of good air TO breathe.
Our food produces the primary ele-
meuts of the blood, but the air we
breathe gives it vigor and purity. The
corruption of the blood, through a
vitlated atmosphere, is forever followed
by the debility and disorder OF the vital
organs-so that even the best of food
will fail to supply the heart with
healthy ohyle.
It seems that the Eastern cities now
lind it necessary to incur great expense
to repair the mistakes of the past. Bos-
ton is extensively overhauling her
school houses, and the agitation is 60
ing on in New York. AS sample of
the present condition OF many school
house in the great metropolis, we give
the following colloquy with a teacher in
grammar school No. Is:
"Your class-rooms must be very un-
healthy" we remarked to the principal
of the Bows Grammar Department.
yes" he replied, This room was
formerly SO sutfocating that 1 made
strenuous efforts to abate the disSom-
fort. 1t required six months com
plAInIng to get window cut through
into the assembling room, and this 1
only succeeded in by shutting trustee
up In the room and desiring him 10 re-
main there five minutes. When he
came out he promised that the window
should be cut, and 1t was cut.n
By this device the foul air of the
class ssroom escHp pes in the general as
sembIy room, instead of finding an ex-
ternaI outlet.
"Your classes appear to be crowded ?"
"well, yes. We are Obliged to aver
age IS 10 II class-formerly the number
WAS 30-and in order to insure this
average daily, Il is necessary to make "A
class larger than 1t ought to be.
In the Primary Department the want
or Spu afill mora AnnaFanF
and descending to the basement we
were shown four class rooms that were
untit for occupation, owing TO the damp
ness o,used blythe made land on which
the school huuse is built. 1t rests on
piles. Yet two years ago the basement
playground was occupied by the Pri-
mary Department. One foot under
ground, low, aud unventilated; with
windows so near the floor that when
open the air blew directly on the chill
dren, this cellar was u disgrace to hu-
manity. One teacher died OF consump-
ton contracted here, and it is not doubt
ed that many children have beeu borne
to early graves as reward for Il regu-
lar attendance at Grammar School
No. l5. RIOS
The remedy suggested comprises the
following:
I. "A separation of primary and gram
mar schools.
II. Introduction of ventilation in all
the schools now erected.
III. Construction of sufficient num-
her of new buildings to prevent over
providing.
w. The employment OF first class
architects, who will understand the
subjects of ventilation, heating, and
V. Tie purchase of healthy sites
sufficiently large to admit OF play
grounds that are not satires on the
name.
The Buffalo. N. ". people, 1t seems
luxuriate on frogs. The Express says
that the season for demolishing them
is at its height in that vicinity. The
thousands OF frogs, born early in the
spring, now swarm the ground o.
Squaw and Grand islands, and also
congregate in the vicinity OF Fort Erie
and Frenchman'sC Creek. The quantity
disposed of in Buffalo is surprisingly
large, considering their high prices and
the quiet manner of their disposal. The
principal dealers sell easily twelve
hundred day, and the consumption o
four hotels which have the delicacy In
their bills of fare will probably ado
i've hundred to that amount. AS there
are smaller grocery stores which sci
daily from twenty. five TO htty pairs, II
will be safe TO say that not less thar
two thousand are being eaten In Buffalo
every day. Already over one hundred
Thousand have been sold, and the re,
naming two months of the season viii
increase the amount to nearly thres
hundred Thousand, which is but a mod
crate quantity, considering the already
large and yearly increasing numhers
which inhabi the river islands and al
along the shore Of Canada. a. o. -.I-r
THE stables for racing horses at Sara,
toGs begin to make lively show. a
large number of the most celebrated
horses are already there and on tht
way, SO that a greater number will bt
presented than ever before. Additional
stables have had to be erected in conse
quence, and 1t has been decided to ado
another week to the usual allotted TINT
for races