The Portland daily press., 1888-02-04

PORTLAND CoMPANY's LOCOMOTIVE WORKS.
PORTLAND, Me-, June 2,.lSS7.
Herbert H. d. Peirce, Esq.,
Dear slr--Answering your inquiry Of yesterday,
l can say that we have used your system OF steam
| heating through all of the past winter.
BY this system our shops were heated by ex-
| haust steam and very efficiently. No direct steam
was required as In previous years and the saving
in coal by our ability to heat solely with exhaust
steam was not less than fifteen dollars per week:
| Although the winter was unusually severe our
shops were better heated than ever before
1 GHo. T. MORSE. Treas.
OFFICE OF CASCADE wooLEN CoMPANY,l
OAKLAND, Me- Jan. 2l, 1887.
Dear sir-Your system Of steam heating has
done good thing for ms. Where before its ap-
/ Injury to our mill they are now carried back TO
| the boilers and made to do good instead Of harm
Much coal Is saved, and in many ways the sys-
(sgned) JOHN AVER, Treas
| UNIVERSITY PRESS,
CAMBRIDGE, Mass June 22, 1887.
i Mr.. Herbert H. d. Pierce, Boston
Dear Sr-it affords me great pleasure to bear
i testimony as to the working OF the system OF
steam heating purchased from you early last
fall.
| Having used II for past seven months, we be-
lieye 1t has saved us fully thirty-three and one
| third per cent in fuel and given a uniform neat.
We would rather pay three times its actual cost
than be without 1t.
Respectfully yours,
OFFICE OF THE sAco WATER POWER MAI
CHINE SHOP,
| BIDDEFoRD, Me-. Jan. 8, 1856.
| H. H. d. Peirce Esq, Nelo York. NJ r.
Dear Sir-Yours of the goth ult, IS at hand. we
Il have been heating our works by your system
/ about two months and consider II indispensable.
| We have taken out 22 traps and now rnn the
| no trouble heating with two boilers at six lbs.
pressure instead Of twenty as before applying
| your system. Every factory and large building
snouid put IL in' yerv,trulv vours.
(signed.) JAS. IT. MCMILLAN, Agt.
Mr.. Peirce is an expert in the matter Of
steam heating and has recently been called
| to testify as such in an important patent case.
| We think it but fair to say that he hasimpress-
ed the members of the committee on public
buildings as well as everybody else with
whom he has come in contact as sincerely
desirous of satisfying to the extent OF his
ability all reasonable requests with regard to
the High School apparatus.
Or. crandaII and the High School.
To the Editor Of the Press:
Now that you have placed me fairly be-
fore the readers of the Press, as requested
and agreed. by publishing my article ON the
High School that appeared in the Argus OF
January 81, will answer all the charges
you made against me in your editorial pub
lished Tuesday. In whatever 1 may say
farther along l hope to be plain spoken, per-
fectly just, and in every respect manly and
courteous. Indeed, this l ought to be, for
my motives have been and now are to do
good and not evil.
LIN the first place you charge that 'the
real animus of the article is something very
different than concern for the welfare and
comfort of hundreds Of beloved boys and
girls" / deny the charge abso lutely. Had
it not been for finding about eight hundred
children shut up in a building practically
without ventilation, suffering more or less
from insufficient heat, and some sitting In
rooms made damp and even dripping wet oy
leaking pipes, my statement Oh OBVIOUS
my belief that the parents should know this
alarming facts and | gave them as they
were.
2.-It is charged that apparently forgot
that Ii was in the school committee OF
which was member that this so-ealled
$1,000 improvement originated" NO, sir,
had not forgotten. 1t will be seen that at
the outset Of my statement l said, the plans
submitted on paper looked quite plausible,
| and were promptly approved by the school
committee" had not forgotten, but, on
| the contrary, as matter Of truth, admitted
| it the first thing
at is charged that said in the Evening
Express, September 16, three days after
known, the high school building underwent
radical alteration as regards sanitary arrange
ments, and Is believed to be now, what ev-
cry school building should be, thoroughly
healthy and comfortable. For these import
ant changes our citizens are especially in
debted to the energy and able supervision OF
Alderman Marks, chairman OF the commit
tee on public buildings" Yes, made the
above statement. 1t is to be noted, however,
that said ''is beliered to be now what every
school building should be" &c. so 1t was
belieUed at that time. But after the altera-
ti0ns had been tested by time and use, which
displayed the real nature OF both system and
workmanship, the greater portion OF them
have been found to be defective and largely
inadequate for the purposes designed. In
ether words, five months ago spoke assur-
ingly and hopefully Of what 1t was behered
would prove 10 be good and useful; on the
other hand, now / condemn and expose that
which has been proven for weeks to be, and
now is, manifestly bad. When the statement
referred to above was made, had been In
formed that Alderman Marks had served as
chairman of the committee on public build
ings, which committee had had charge OF the
"sO-called $1,000 Improvement, and that ne
had devoted much time to the work, and so,
as matter Of justice and appreciation,
gave him a few words of praise.
/ 1t is charged, the plans he now says,
"were accepted by the committee on PUBLIC
buildings on which the Mayor Is chairman"
| 1t will be seen in my statement that did not
italicise the word Mayor. II was you who
| did that and thus gave the term an emphasis
and prominence never intended. men
toned the fact incidentally and without en-
phasis. deny that it was "a very thinly
disguised attempt to single out the Mayor
| for special condemnation" am not max
| ing thinly disguised attempts Of that kind.
am not afraid to criticise or condemn the
official methods and policy Of the Mayor.
have done so to his face, In private CONVEX
sation, and in public.
i. IL is charged that s'the doctor insinu-
ates that the Introduction Of the present
method Of heating and venttlating was
piece of jobbery." deny the charge abs0-
| lutely if by the word '.j0bbery" you charge
or insnuate that mean official corruption.
/ stated a fact and used a correct word, as
will be seen further along, but admit that
under the circumstances, as said by the Rev.
| Mr.. Blanchard, 1t was mot felicitous."
| said lit is enough to make saint swear to
think of the miserable johbery, ignorance,
| nonsense and waste that have characterized
| this so called improvement from first to last"
| II you will take pains to look closely you
will find that Webster, whom you chose for
your authority, defines jobbery TO be the
act Of jobbing; the practice of j0bbing, and
that Is the only definition he uses; he does
not put any bad meaning to the word what
ever. You say, lit Is fair to assume that the
lish words" So do, and know enough to
use the word jobbery in its true definition:
1t is this word used In its true sense and
place when said there had been miserable
jobbery, or "acts Of jobbing," which is a
fact. There have been jobs Of fixing water
closets, Of doing wood work, Of masonry and
plastering. Of plumbing and steam fitting,
many of which it appears were miseraby
done. This lot of minor jobs can, by fair
and honest usage of the language Of the dis
tionary, be placed under the generic head Of
jobbery, meaning, as Webster says, "the act
Of jobbing." Now / protest against the
wrong and injustice to me Of your taking the
word 'jobber," tchich | did not use and the
fourth definition Of which, as gwen by Web
ster, is zone who turns official
action to private advantage" and
so using 1t as to make me
appear as il insinuating or charging cor
ruption on the part of one or more officials.
deny that used any word or words hay
ing such meaning or with such intention. l
deny that l intended to even insinuate that
there is either suspicion or proof against the
gentlemen you named individually. And l
deny with just Indignation your right to
take the word ''jobber," which did not use,
select its very worst definition, and then
charge me with using such word and dehni-
tion to defame gentlemen occupying official
positions 1t is an injustice to me, and an
insult to the gentlemen named to have their
names paraded under such unealled for re-