Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-12-29
vENTlLATlNe THE ROOM.
Hints Toward the solution of tho Problem
of House, Heating.

Hints Toward the solution of tho Problem
of House, Heating.
The intelligentand economical house
holder stands aghast when some scien'
fist tells him how very small is the
amount of available heat produced by
a ton of coal, even under the most
favorable circumstances and with the
best and most approved appliances
within reach. 1t is so little, that one
is led to wonder why some genius
doesn't go to work and invent some
thing that will do better, something
that will make buyers of coal at least
reasonably certain of getting some
thing like tolerable equivalent for
the money they pour out for the most
necessary article.
In the majority of cases the plan OF
the house is faulty and the arrange.
ment of the heater is worse. Into a
close room full of stagnant air cur.
rent of heat is turned. 1t stands to
reason that if space is filled it can
hold no more, but the builder and fur
naceman never seem to think of this,
and so the householder fires up, puts
on more coal, and wonders why the
place doesn't get warm. There is no
outlet for the cold air and, as a natural
consequence, it holds the fort, and the
heat has to keep at proper distance
until some door or window is opened,
the warmth goes to the attic or hastens
to assist in the effort to raise the tenn.
perature of all outdoors
1t would be well if boards of health
could make and enforce laws requiring
a ventilator with a perpendicular fue
in every room in every snugly built
| house. The flues should connect with
one of larger size that rests against
some hot-air pipe at some point in the
upper part of the house This would
insure the drawing out of the room
of certain amount of the cold all
about the lower portion of the apart
meme, and as foul air almost Away;
settles, much of this also may be got
ten rid of in this way,
An enormous amount of heat il
wasted in the fruitless endeavors i
makes to put the cold air out of the
way. Draw this out, and the heat is
free to come in, and it will do so with
a rush.
A number of years ago, the expert
ment was tried of mixing coal dust anC
saw dust and sprinkling this in small
quantities over fire. The heat gener
ated was intense, much more than tina
obtained from coal used in any othe
way. But the lack of suitable devic
for supplying it in the proper way pre-
vented its USE and the idea was pu
away for future use. Since then SOM
genius has patented an apparatus TO
sitting coal dust upon fires, and the re
suit promises we'll. Whether it will
work as we'll in stove, range or graf
fires as it is said to do in furnace an
boiler heating remains to be seen,
One of the greatest obstacles in tn
way of the successful heating of room
of all sizes is the presence of the col
air, which is heavy and difficult to Sc
in motion. If some process could b
ueNlScu W urdW colu OH ouU DIS IuSU
warm air came in, or possibly littl
faster, the heating problem could b
much more easily solved. 1t will nc
go out through cracks and crannies, fo
there it meets more cold air that is try
ing to rush in. 1t must be taken on
bodily, dragged out, as it were, in Oh
der to ena BILE the welcome warmth t
enter.-N. S, Stowell, in N. Y. Ledger