Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-05
THE AIR WE BREATHE
Pittsburg Builders Should Give Close
Attention to Ventilation.
SOME MISTAKES POINTED OUT.
Stocks and Petroleum All Right as to Tone,
but Business Hangs Fire.
TIE NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE CITY

TIE NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE CITY
The activity in the building trades in
Pittsburg and vicinity, and the rapid null
tiplcation Of "homes for the people" make
the subject of ventilation one of supreme
Importance, and certainly nothing connect
ed with home life should receive more in
telligent attention. An authority on this
subject says that the mere supply of warmed
fresh air to the rooms is not enough; for if
the air in the room has no escape it does not
take long, whatever the fresh air supply,
before the vitiated air contaminates and
makes foul the air as it enters the apartment.
To open the windows is the remedy which the
uninitiated at once suggest, and. in fact, in
| most houses this is the only palliative at hand.
1t is, however, one of the first principles OF
| ventilation that the windows must not enter as
! an expedlent In properly ventilated build
| ing the windows should never be open when
| people are in the rooms. at least in the winter
| months. For opening the windows secures the
| admission of cold air in bulk, but does not re-
| move the foul air, and more especially causes
| pneumonia-giving draughts. and chllls the
| room, and in this way more damage is done
| than even by the presence itself of vitiated air
| in the rooms.
| A warm or a hot room does not necessarily
| signify an impure atmosphere. for we may have
q room cold and the atm mosphere still be terribly
| impure. The unthinKing never take this into
account and are apt to confuse the term warm
and impure, and the term cold with pure at
| mosphere SO far as the rooms they are in are
| concerned. The proper way to remove the
| vitiated air is by means of vent-ducts, or YER
ticle dues leading from the rooms to the roof of
the building.
For private homes and dwellings, natural
ventilation sufices. For public buildings and
large halls, either the fan or the steam system
should be preferably adopted. The gas Jets
give out comparatively little additional heat
but are inexpensive in first cost. and in running
expense.
Business News and Gossip.
The weather was too hot yesterday for
hustlIng Several persons dickering for build
ing sites in TIE suburbs refused to 60 out to ex-
anime them.
A few of the members of Smithield M. E.
Church are in favor of selling the building and
putting up one in more retired location, but
the large majority will not listen to the propo-
sition. The building and lot would readily
bring 100000
1t is thought the completion of the Dalzell
building will infuse new life into that part of
the city. Hints are occasionally thrown out
that the opposite corner on Fourth and Grant
will be improved.
Mortgages on file for record yesterday num-
bered "a. The largest was for $1,000. The next
In size was S5.000 Nine were for purchase
money.
There was considerable speculation in silver
certificates in New York yester iay, but not so
much as on Friday and Saturday. The opening
price was 1l3
The shortcut railroad will have to take some
other route to Homestead than through Cal.
vary Cemetery, which will not be sold under
any circumstances. 1t was bought for use and
not speculation.
A regular railroad ticket Office has been
opened at Edgewood, whereat citizens are
greatly pleased.
A special to John NJ. Oakley & Co. says: Mis-
souri, Pacific sold down on report of a strike
on the Iron Mountain road, between st. Louis
and Little Rock.
Railroad earnings: Pittsburg and Western
fourth week July, net decrease, sI,l24; month |
July, net decrease s356l Rock Island earnings
for July, 81 275 100. Iowa Central, fourth week |
July, net increase s7,55s ST. Paul, fourth week |
in July. net increase, S65 SIS; month, net in |
crease S17l. .603; Norfolk and Western, fourth |
week July. net increase $40 403 |
Gold certificates in circulation increased |
sl044 73o during July; silver certificates in cir
culation increased sl,53StS7o Net gold in the |
Treasury, coin and bullion, decreased S. 10000 |
The Pennsylvania Railroad reports that the |
quantity of coal and coke originating on and |
carried over its lines east of Pittsbure and Erie
for the week ending July 26 was 3l6SI6 tons. of |
which 220,6l2 tons were coal ard 90, ,2O4 tons |
coke.
An oil broker said yesterday: ..should the |
nf ms nf1f foil 90
shall favor the selling of the Exchange build |
ing. think we could get in the neighborhood |
of soc, 900 for It"
Movements I'm Real Estate. i
There are no symptoms of break in real es- |
tate values. Considerable property is on the |
market but it is being rapidly absorbed, tho |
bulk of it for improvement. With this support |
and the additional stimulus of business expan- |
sion and increase of population, facts patent to |
every citizen, it would be violation of every |
business principle for real estate to react
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold two lots in the Sec |
ond plan of Marion place. fronting 91.61 feet on |
Second avenue and the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad by 1l5 feet in depth, with double |
frame dwelling of six rooms and bathroom
each for price approximating $4,000
A. ]. Pentecost sold for the Safe Deposit |
Company of Pittsburg property Of the ADDISON
Arthurs estate, Thirteenth ward Pittsburg,
five acres on Aliquipa and Wallace streets, for |
S2S70. The purchaser was Alexander Watkins. |
He also sold for George B. Hill, on Perrysville |
avenue, at the second tollgate, Tenth ward, Al |
legheny, a lot 24Ox96. for s. 500. The purchaser
was Henry Kreiling.
Black Baird sold to John D. Barbour lots |
Nos. A and 45 in the Arrott plan, East End,
fronting "a feet on Grazer street by 135 in
depth to an alley, for Sc, no.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold lot No. o in A.
Kennedy's plan, Twelfth ward, Allegheny, for
$500, on easy terms; also sold a lot on the north
side of Maple, near Beach street. Edgewood,
Pennsylvania Railroad, i00xS0o feet, for 81, 800
cash.
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