The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-11-06
THE SMEAD SYSTEM
OF Heating the Public Schools
Investigated by Committee Of Citizens
and Pronounced Satisfactory.

Last summer the Board of Education
adopted the Smead system of heating for
the Walnut street school building. Some
objection has been raised by parents that
the ventilation was not perfect, and that
children have complained of headaches
on account of the foul and heated air
which the apparatus failed to carry off.
In order to lay these complaints, Mr.. E.
B. Bartlett, superintendent of the COM
pany, came here last week and proposed
to submit the workings of the system to
the investigation of a committee OF citi.
zens. On Thursday morning the com.
mittee, composed of DR. H. M. Brown,
Geo. w. Barrere and Mayor Dawson, Wis
tied the building and made thorough
examination of the rooms and the work
ing OF the system. The following is their
report
HILLsBoRo, O., Oct. 80, 1890.
We, the undersigned, visited the pub
lie school buildings to-day as a COM
mittee to examine the workings of the
Smead system of heating now in use in
those buildings. We find that the pupils
are breathing fresh air, which comes
from the outside over the heaters at the
rate of 5S4 cubic feet per pupil per min
ute, which having passed over the heater
| has become sterilized as to any delete
rious influence with which it may have
been impregnated previous to entering
the heater, and enters the room in
pure, dry state, devoid OF any disease
producing germs. 1t comes into the
room with great force, making a strong
current by which it is diffused through
every part of the room and forced through
the foul air shaft, out of which we find a
larger volume of air escaping than that
which enters, which is accounted for by
the fact that considerable quantity of
air enters around the window sash. Max
ing mathematical calculation of the air
that enters and that which escapes
through the foul air shaft it is easily
ascertained that the whole volume of air
in the room is displaced many times a
dav by fresh, pure, warm, sterilized air.
We believe that this system of heating
is the very best we have yet seen, GER
tainly much better than it could ever be
made by the old system of stove. heating.
There may be theoretical grounds for
the necessity of small ventilator placed
underneath the ceiling, opposite the hot
air furnace, in view of the fact that i'm
pure air, after becoming dry, rises to the
top of the room. We believe, however,
that the current of air, as we find it in
each room, does effectually displace the
whole volume and no such arrangement
is apparently necessary.
AS it had been rumored that the sys'
tenn was not giving satisfaction in the
Columbus public schools, Mr.. Bartlett
telegraphed to the superintendent of the
school buildings of Columbus and receiv
ed the following reply:
COLUMBUS, Oct. %, 1890.
; e. B, Bartlett, Hiilsboro:
We have nineteen school buildingt
using the "Smead system of heating an6
ventilating" and have never had occasion
to change the system whenever intro
duced, and is highly satisfactory. The
Board introduced it in every new build
ing by unanimous vote, and is gradual
ly placing it in all the old buildings a
fast as money can be spared for sucl
Z purpose. FRED KRUM,
Supt. Buildings Board of Education
The inconvenience which arose at frs
was due to the teachers not understand
ing how to regulate the currents of no
and cold air. The teachers now expires
t themselves as we'll pleased with tn
system, and parents need feel no uneasi
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