The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-10
Mr.. Bostwickis Experiment.


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.n'.au simpl;c;,y vas ,bs thing IN be
- a, ord The pri,cipI. was This Bv
,ha ,;r,o ,bn bea. not IN thst ton of the chin.
nv ,bers WASH. muel, of II left. It cot
,wav eomevyov and Somewhere on the way
mn Now IL Won eou,d only keen IL in the
room and max. II travel a great enough
distance before Il vot TO the fine. it would
MI STAY in the room instead of a wretched
Ii,,I. per cent An that YOU wanted was o
sufficient length of pipe. supplied with
danpogs at regular intervals to retard the
t,ropress of the L.at and by the time the
s,,oLa On, m the ,li,,nry. II would be cold
as n s,s,re.room bed. and every degree of
Lent generated in the stove would he dis
saminoteJ in the room. and = man could
winter his family on three cords of wood.
l,an every window in the house open day
and night, and raise celery aud carly vego-
tables right along in February.
Mr.. Bosty,iek nut his theory into irnmedi.
ate oporat;ou. lie bought two hundred and
eiphty-6ye feet of stoyspipe. and everybody
tbought that he Ind cone mad. Men who
had nut up eight feet of stovepipe every
year since they had been married came 10
him with tears in their eyes and begged hin.
To hire aman to put Il up, assuring him tina,
IL would be money saved. Women came to
Mrs. Bostwick and urged her TO stay with
them. or board at n hotel, while the worn
WINS being done. assuring her that il would
be all her life was worth to STAY in a house
whore a man was putting up that much
stoyepipe. Between the two a compromise
WINS effected. Mr.. Bostwiek hired ON ortho.
dox slovenian, In good standing and full
fellowship, to come up and help him. Then
he had n carpenter cut the necessary hole
through the partitions and hoors, ana the,
went to work. They cooled the PIP aroufo
the room, protecting the paftIuons ahe
hoors with earthenware collars where the
pipe passed through them, unth the mouse
looked Like IN immense still Alr' bostwles
put the terminus OF the pipe INTO the nue.
himself, adjusting the socket and hitting the
pipe with as much pomp and as
though he was driving the last Splhe IN ths
narrow gauge raAfoau
mere, ne Sahu' open 'no "'n"'"'
ana LOOK ioI summer
ana ne nsn'oo 'no I u ~ %oo
stove, closed .he uhnPeis III nione 'hs iins,
ano spooa DICK hoiuB nS
Win then L n.seis a""y Y '
anu iooAeu wa" Piouu INV
result Vi hiS experiments
snoAe'
II eame reePhB OUT Vi the JOINTS III.
pipe anu s'e"hng OUT U Il craoAS "fo'
tne stove oooranu Piate' euiieu up ","u"u :,
tne collars, anu "ouho up 'he 'h'eu VIII
paper IKE so many shHEesi o"rk' hea'!'
gray smoke pale, thin, blue smoke
cloudy, white, smoke, streaked with black,
30 greasy that you could fairly smell the
creosote long, wavy folds of mouse-colorod
smoke. It grew less frequent and smaller
in volume as Il emerged OF points further
from tho stove, until about 1l5, 900 feet BE-
fore It reached the hue 1t ceased to come
out Of the pipe, and the man said he guessed
there was no waste heat escaping up the
due, and Mrs. Bostwick, with q Mortified
look OF the wall paper, sat down and wept.
The more thoy experimented the moro
smoke thew got. until ut Inst Bostwick re-
luctantly admitted hat tho distance WINS too
ueat for tho size of the stove. Openino
The dampers only had the effect of c%oaxing
and Mr.. Bostwick WAS compelled. late in
afternoon. 10 order the nine in lie MINER
rooms 10 he taken out. This left hin, With
about $50 feet of pine down stairs. which lie
knew would work like n charm. II worked
like a creosote factory. The only effect of
shortening the pipe was to increase tho
density Of smoke. It cane out of seanls
and Joints and places in the stove and nine
WHARF, the man said he never knew there wns
n ioin, Tn cbiI1ron csnolipg Ike frA;,lI
engines, had been sent over 10 a neiglbor's,
where they carried such n smell of smoke
that the alarm of fire wns raised. and eyrrv-
body went proving around in closets, ats.
bedrooms, and halls. hunting for the IRE.
before the little inuocents had been in In.
house five minutes
Mrs. Bostyick. between CRYING over tLe
will paper and picture frames oud gop.
the smoke out of her ewes with her oprop.
had rubbed and wen, her whole fncc into
one GREAT red Inflammation and BostY,rk
was so blind and mad and full of smoke Tint
he felt. looked. and smelt like n hastily OK
tineuished torchlipbt procession. He tool;
down Joint after Joint of pine, but the mora