The Columbus journal., 1881-01-19
The Brick Stoves Again.
COLUMBUS, Jan. Ii, 1851.

RUSSIANS near Sutton. AS far as
know, | am the only party who ha,
spoken OF these stoves in connection
with friends, aud | take il that thi.
notice is an invitation ITO arise and
explain"
| SAW these stoves in number OF
houses in the country north OF Sut.
ton, In the German Reformed (nul
"MennOnite") settlement. 1t is diff
cult TO describe them, however,
without few diagrams. Ii the ed.
itor will print diagram or two in
connection with the text | will fur
nish a description. To-day | will
contine myself TO few general
remarks.
Their hOd'as are built of sun-dried
brick, very solid, and warm in the
winter, a. we'll As cool in the sum.
mer. Those who can afford it finish
the outside with ordinary siding,
and such a house looks of course
like a common frame house. Inside
they are plastered over very smooth
ly and neatly with the same mate
rial AS the bricks, and then either
whitewashed or pspered. They
A
look Just like lime -plastered wall.
The stoves are part of partition
wall, and are not visible as stoves at
all. The fundamental principle of
these stoves is simply large pile
of brick, through which draft pass
es back and forth from the feeding
door to the outlet above. This
stove or brick pile is heated by
straw, corn stalks. or anything COM
bustible. The fire is not kept up
continually as in our stoves. Every
morning a boy brings 10 some of the
straw, puts il in the stove aud kim
dies it, and then feeds il for Il or 20
minutes, Then he waits few mo-
ments till all is completely burned,
and the smoke and gases have all
escaped. The drafts above aud be-
low are then entirely closed so as to
shut in the heat. The heat thus
produced on the inside surface of
the bricks gradually passes outwards
into the bricks forming the wall of
the room. Probably the heat which
the room receives to-day is that
which was made in the stove some
days before. The mass of brick acts
as a distributor and reservoir of the
heat--it is to the heat what the
balance wheel is to the motion in an
engine. The results are most salts
factory, rs any one can see. The
room is always of all even tempera-
lure, az is seen in the fourishing
of the flowers and other
vegetation which you find in many
houses. The heat is of a healthy,
gentle kind. The wall of the stove
s not sufficiently heated to destroy
he papering-(the stove part is pa
)ered the same as the Other), vet
because il is continuous and steady,
he same day and night, and the
house solid. the rooms are comfort
Ible. The kind of stove have now
described heats of course two rooms
It the same time.
But there is another kind which |
heats four rooms at once this is by |
Ill odds the best heating arrange
nent in the world, and | was told |
hat it is In use even in the large
hotels i'm Odessa, Russia. The fun
iamental idea is this: two partitions
ross each other at right angles, the
Prick stove is built right in the cross
10 as to have each side of the stove
.ut off little corner out OF each of
he four rooms. Thus the stove has
our sides instead of two, and hence
an heat in four directions.
These stoves may be used for
and baking by having re-
:esses in the side, with. an iron plate
or the floor, aud door to close it
up. Around this recess the draft
must be made to pass. When cook
ng the door is open and the vessels
ire placed on or in the iron plate;
when b liking the DOORS closed, thus
enclosing the heat. Still, for cook
ng and baking | am not sure that
hey would give satisfaction but for
leating, | cannot imagine anything
more perfect. There is the immense
'aving of fuel, the absence of nox-
Gus gases, the even temperature, the
lbsence of stOve-pipes, SCOT, etc.
Take population of 1000, each
lsing on an average $50 worth of
'uel for heating purposes annually,
his apparatus would save them a
hundred thousand dollars a year.
Since seeing those stoves | have
been planning what | would regard
Is perfect house; whether | shall
,ver be able to carry it into effect
ion't know. | will give my plan,
md perhaps some one else will use
t. A house of brick, again as long
from the front back as wide, one
ong partition lengthwise, two par
itions, at proper intervals, crossing
he long partition two stories high,
with Il good spacious basement. A
prick stove built into each cross
rom tho haa a.