The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-01
An fxperlmen .o'venlilation.


Judge Pitman Recently read work
on ventilation, which impressed him SO
deeply with the Importance Of having
currents OF fresh air in the house that
he determined to ven!ilate his dwell
ing thoroughly. He concluded that the
best way to do this would he to place
Il blower in the cellar, and he there
fore purchased one of those circular
fans that are used for supplying steam
engines with air. This he planted i'm
the back cellar. and ran the pipe from
it to the bed-chamber in the second
story front. Then he purchased the
right to connect the fan with the
steam planning mill in the alley just
back OF him. The connection was
made late in the afternoon, and that
night the people in the planning mill
had a JOB of over work to do, 50 they
started the engine at half-past nine.
The Judge retires at nine. Half an
hour later he woke from dreaming
that he was sitting on an iceberg fish
ing in hurricane. A minute later the
covers were blown from the bed ; then
Mrs. Pitmanand the baby were whisk.
managed to remain in bed only by
holding hard to the bedstead. There
was cyclone coming through that pipe
from the blower in the cellar. The
planing-mill was working at full speed,
and the fan was making 400 revolu-
tons in a minute. Just lis the Judge
realized these facts. a blast took the
mattress off and hurled it and the Judge
over against the wall, and then the
current Of air caught the bedstead
and ran that over after him. Mrs.
Pitman and the baby had retreated to
| the next room, and both of them were
shrieking.
Then the tornado blew the lights
ont, and the Judge desperately felt
his way over to the mouth of the pipe
in the dark TO shut of the draft. 1t
nearly took him off his legs, but he
succeeded in shutting the damper; but
no sooner had he done SO than the air
blew the damper out OF the pipe with
a bang and sent it smashing acios the
room and through the looking glass
upon the bureau.
Then the engine i'll the mill turned
ON more steam, and the air came out
into the apartment with such violence
that it tossed the vases off from the
mantel. blew down the portrait of the
Judges father, slammed the doors,
ratified the windows. pitched over the
chairs, and went whirling up through
the house with such violence that 1T
threatened 10 tear the roof off.
The Judge made up his mind that
the fan must be stopped Or there would
soon be a general ruin, and he descend
ed into the cellar to stop it. 1t was
going SO fast that he was afraid to
touch it, SO he got the ax and knocked
the pipe to pieces, and that left the
simeon loose in the cellar. The man.
ner in which it went bowling around
was awful; and when in his anger he
hit the fan with the ak he disarranged
it so that it began to rear and pitch
SO in the dark that he became fright
ened, and went up stairs. They could
hear it tearing around in the cellar,
and making the most unearthly noises
all night, and u stream Of air was forc'
ed from the back cellar window with
such violence that it blew over the
judges smoke-house and tore up TWEEN.
ty feet Of grape-arbor.
: In the morning the cellar looked az
If a wagon-ioad Of tigers had been fight
, ing in it. and the blower was found in
, the coal-bin in condition OF hopeless
! dilapidation. And now the Judge
sleeps with all the windows down, anC
the doors shut. He says these thee
! ries of ventilation are all bosh, anf
that if he can only find the man WHIT
!. wrote that book and recommended
steam blowers, he will be perfect.
: happy. lie wants to see him abOu
! something, and he carries loaded
= pistol on his person, in case he hap
). pens to have an introduction to him
a Max Adeler.