Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-18
HEATING And VENTILATING
To be Used in the State House.
Commissioners Barker and Ingalls, Rec
ommend The Plellm or Pan System.
II Is Unanimously Adopted by the Pull
Board Of Commissioners.
Interesting and Instructive Letters Per
tanning to the Subject

| The full board Of State House comrni.
sloners were in session at the Governor
room yesterday from two O'Clock TO sir
O'Clock 7. verbal report was submit
ted by Commissioners Barker and ingalls, of
their visit to a large number of buildings in
Boston for the purpose of carefully invest-
eating the different systems of ventilatinz
and heating in general use in that city. 10
their examination they were assisted by
Architect Spofford Prof. S. H. Woodbridge
of the Massachusetts School of Technology
and Or A G. Young, secretary Of the
Maine Beard of Health. The result was
unanimous agreement to recommend to
the full board of commissioners the
plenum or tan system of heating and
ventilation. This system had previously been
recommended to the Commission by the
committee on ventilation of the Maine State
Board of Health.
The report of Commissioners Barker and
ingalls,, recommending the plenum system,
was then unanimously adopted by the Com
mission. The Board then adjourned to meet
this morning at o'clock, when it is hoped
Architect Sp ford, who was teIegraphed for
yesterday, will be present.
We give below communication. from f C.
Jordan of Portland, civil engineer and IN em-
ber of the State Board of Health,
DR.. o. A. Horr, Lewiston, and
DR.. A. G. Young. committee of the Board
of Health on ventilation, and Prof. S. II.
Woodbridge, of the Massachusetts School of
Technology. in relation to the matter of
ventilation and heating. They will be read
with interest.
MAINE STATE BOARD oE HEALTH,
Portland MAY "A, 1889
DIR. A. G. Young, Secretary State Board of
Health,
Dear Sr-rhe matter of the ventilation of
the State House is an important one to the
State Board of Health The amount of
suffering in the old building has been i'm
mense, and it has not been at all nfrequent
that have been asked Cant your Board
of Health devise something that will give
relief" The people seem to connect US
more or less with the sanitary arrangements
OF the state institutions as well as an advis-
ory Board upon local nuisances, etc. and
rightly so think as this is the practice in
other States.
While we consider ourselves experts. and
possibly specialists upon certain lines, il is
all the more important, especially in a
matter so intricate as good ventilation, that
We guard ourselves from errors
The new building itself is only ordinarily
difficult to arrange for, but to plan in a man
ner that the old part may be provided for by
the new plant as would be the part of wis
dom. requires the service of a specialist.
consider il unsafe to be guided by an in
terested advocate of this or that system.
Professor Woodbridge is a specialist who
knows the law nnder which good heating and
ventilation may be had and would be cspa-
BILE of advising the State as to the system
and its notifications that is applicable to
to the conditions to be met with His opin-
ion would not be warped by interest and his
experience and requirements make him
valuable man.
| think we 'hould urge the Commission TO
send for him before deciding upon any par
ticular scheme.
Yours truly,
f.. c. JORDAN. c. f,