The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-21
CITY NEWS.
AMUSEMENTs TONIGHT.
RICHMOND THEArRE.-The "Black Crook

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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.
RICHMOND THEArRE.-The "Biack Crook
steam.Heati Apparatus I'm the Rich
mOnd College.
Mr.. E. Ii. Cook & Co., of Elmira, New
York, manufacturers and contractors fol
the erection of low-pressure steam-heatine
apparatus, both by direct and indirect rad.
iation, have recently put up in the new
Richmond College building one of Mills
patent safety steam generators, with
concentric boilers, for the warming oil
its large and tasteful Chapel, its sew.
eral lecture rooms, society halls, library
and cabinet rooms, together with sixty
two dormtories, one-half of which
are double or fitted up for the occupancy
Of two students each. The size Of this
building is los feet on the Grace-street
front, and 201 on the city front, and three
stories above the basement, with cabinet
rooms in the tower. The radiators are the
new Gold patent, which are so constructed
as to give three times as much external or
radiating surface as there is internal or
heating surface, thereby largely economic
ing the warming power of the steam.
The generators two in number) are
situated in the basement of the building,
and are believed to be the safest ever con-
structed for steam-heAting purposes. 1t
takes but one man to attend them, and
the amount of steam required to produce
225 degrees Fanr. is only five pounds above
the atmospheric pressure, which gives a
uniform temperature in all the rooms of
about 20 degrees. A higher press
ure would, of course, increase the
temperature to any greater limit
required by the severest weather of
winter. The saving in fuel must be very
large, but no estimate has as yet been
made by the college management to de-
termineits extent,as the apparatus has only
been in use but a short time. All the
professors, however, are greatly pleased
with the character of the heat produced,
speaking of it as scarcely differing from
the mildness of summers day. Four of
the radiators, about four feet and half
in length by three feet in height each, are
sufficient to heat the large hall or Chapel the
capacity of which is to seat full seven hum
dred auditors, and two such for the lee
ture-rooms of the professors, which will
ocoe iiOii tWV W IuIcc uuuuTcu StuueutS
each.
Altogether, the apparatus is the hand
soonest and evidently the most economical,
if not the safest and most health:ul, we
have ever seen put into public building.
With 6ve.pound pressure only it would
seem impossible that there should be any
explosion. The Mill's steam generator is
composed Of series of concentric boilers,
so that If, by a fve-pound pressure above
that of atmospheric equalization), or by
any defect in construction, one boiler should
give way, the next one in order would
take the pressure without any temporary
Inconvenience in handling the steam. In
everything but supplying the fuel and
gauslng the steam in the radiators, the
apparatus works almost automatically, as
the water condensed from the generated
steam returns back to the boilers, where it
is again sent on its heating errand through
out the entire building. 1t only requires
from seven to ten minutes, after starting
the fires, to get the Eve pounds of required
steam pressure. No heat can be pleasapter
or more healthful than that produced by
the radiators which are so simple in their
construction that child may easily regu-
late them.
Messrs. E. FL. Cook, & Co., are prepared
to fill any number of orders for their
steam-heating apparatus, and pledge them
selves to make their prices as low as first
class work can be had anywhere, in the
same line of business. There are several
public buildings in the city, in which very
great saving of fuel could be secured by
the use of this apparatus, and the pleas
ATTEST of all heat made available for
warming purposes.
IMPORTANT AID TO THE NEEDY AND
UNEMPLOYED OF RICHMoND.-The spe-
cial committee for the relief Of the poor,
appointed to consider the excellent sugges-
tons Of bis honor Mayor Kelley, met last
evening.