New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-12
MR.. DICGEE50S'S .V0DTL HOUSE.

EASE WITH WHICH THE VARIOUS APPLIANCES FOR
CONVENIENCE AND CONFOGr ARE KEPT ~ or
DIR.
A few days ago a letter was received by
TIE TRIBUNE spoudent asking for inlofma
ton rs to how l.. II. DcEerson (wDOso hOGsc III East
Thiriy-fourthst was INFINITELY described NJ InR rRiB
UNE oi March ~ kept the various appliances heat
ing lighting venIaiHg ms house il working OIder.
Does lie have on engineer with assistants ~ asked
the correspondent. In most large hoises even
an ordinary hO-air furnace In the cellar requires
specially to attend t. touch from the cook, house
maid nurse would paralg2e the machinery in Mr..
DickersOns house, and thorough setting TO Iigits
would destroy it. How and WLoe does ho get tic in
teigCnce ana trained expertues' lndispCnsabic1"
In order 70 Oh ala MIR. Dckersou's aIswcr 10 these
question: a Iepnryor hun Recently when he said
The who attends 10 the furnace old trishmsn,
whom pay IS month. This also takes cago OF
erl other fires In the nrighbOThUOd lie repenshe the
fire three times day, mOrnine noon aud night. Tho
msn doesn't know one end or IN engine from Mnptnr,
and doesn't know what steam bOrr means. The fire
IL always safo and requires less care than that III
hot air irnncr The Dor pipes are red automatically
from CrotOn pipe, 80 that tcre ~ ne danger OF lack
brought back into tue builrr by the Albany trap
rangement, and thus Is used over again. 80 you
atean over and aud agsh. Theirs Ia waste
except perhaps where the pipes are imDerfecty iontcd
turnel TO boiler thu Is just al ihat tempeIa
ture whore steam begins TO lorm You thereby save the
pumped iu TO the steam generating point Inc slme
Watsr all Winter. leakage IL ali that
Is lost. Tho fre-pot IL big ona, that tha lire
will last long tne and requires only little The
principle upon which a proper furnace for a private
house should he managed IL 10 have largo amount
OF burning undor slow combustion, thut II will ue
enough look aft0r It twice day Usually people
haVO furnaces with snail chambers In which, Of
tho coal burns fast and tue fro constantly has to BE- re-
plenished by coal this Winter has cost only $03.
and shall have to buy enough more to make the
usnRe heating the hOna0 until warm comes
about S12O. rhe elevator runs by water power.
Z" could tell you some funny stories illustrating tho
Intelligence OF the freshman who attends fire.
We had similar boiler In the other house. and after he
had found how tho iittle stopcOcKs work which let
the water into the glass gauge and mad learned thut
ecrcWhg tho lower one up hs could Keep the water
tho gauge ~ long no wanted the Irishman said
waihsr that bier now. can hold the Wather Just
where want to-"
The regulation OF tho temperature IL under the OrdI
control and can DO brought about by tho shutting
opening tho registers. We have In addition
an eOaIc electrical control OF the swinging hampers
by which purified can be objected To diverted
from the coils Or steam Tniss the work of
which autOmatcaly swings these hampers 60 the
right Bft II tne temperature Varies even onetenh OF
degree The electric wires Are embodied In tile walls
and the iars pfVare room devoted exclusively
this purpose OF conrs just "a Ia the case OF burglar
alarms which In common e,the successful operation
this electrical machinery depends its being left
alone II the cook OF tie nurssTVmaid breaks wire
the HOUSE against tue OF electricity
any moro than II would be IA the of q broken
burglar alarm. Some dGy other electricity Will DO
used al good houses Rs valuable servant. People
will gradually get practical knowledge oil It's workings,
ana electrical apparatus viii not be novelty In a
private house
The great steam power that n generated Is used to
Yentilate tho hOuse, causing an upward current OF
heated air."