Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

opened and closed at will. The stove
should be placed in one corner of the
room-not in the center-and the COR
ner selected should be near the chin
ney to avoid long stove pipes and the
resulting loss of lraft. You will make
a mistake you do not get q
large upright stove. Do NOT GET A
lockwood STOVE. Most stoves in
our schools buildings are too small.
The stove should be large enough to
heat the room without crowding.
Such a stove stove pays, for it re-
quires less fuel. A stove with a. fire
pot 2Ox24 inches inside measurement
Is not too large. Surround this stove
with strong, galvanized iron jacket.
This jacket should reach the floor and
should be firmly fastened there in
such manner as to prevent any air
from reaching the stove from be-
meath the jacket. A good, perfectly
fitting door should be placed in the
jacket to provide place for putting
fuel into the stove, and for taking
away the ashes. Make this door large
and strong. The jacket should be
about one foot larger in diameter than
the stove; that is, it should be so made
as to be about six inches from the
body OF the stove and it should reach
not less than six inches above the top
OF the stove. No air should reach the
stove except the pure air direct from
the outside which should be admitted
as follows:
"In the floor just beneath the stove
Cut a hole l0x14 inches. In this open.
ing place an iron register which can
be opened and closed at will. Next
cut a hole in the foundation l2x14
i:ches. Then take two inch lumber
and make a perfectly air tight box
with an elbow in it. This box must
extend from the opening in the foun-
dation to the opening beneath the
stove. Be sure to make this box per-
fectly air tight, and cover the outer
opening with a strong wire screen
to keep out animals. The opening in
the foundation should be at the top.
so as to keep it out of the snow.
''Remember that the warm air will
be at the ceiling of a room, and the
cold air at the floor; also that if warm
air be continually brought into a
room. it will by the force of pressure
force the colder air out at the floor if
there be a place of escape. Now when
the teacher closes school at night, she
should close all the registers both in
the floor and beneath the stove.
When she enters the school room the
following morning she should open
the jacket door so that the air in the
room can circulate in the ordinary
way until the room is we'll heated.
Then all the registers should be OPEN
ed and the jacket door closed. Fresh
air will then pass through the air box
to the space between the stove and
the jacket, where it will be heated,
after which it will rise and circulate
about the room. AS it cools and be-
comes impure through breathing, it
will fall to the floor, pass through the
floor registers, underneath the floor
into the ventilating shaft and through
1t to the outside. Thus the pupils will
have q constant supply of fresh, sweet,
warm air. There will be no draughts.
The floor will always be warm. There
will be no cold feet, no waste of fuel. -
Finally, Supt. Fink enumerates the
equipment that rural school ought
to have, viz:
''F'ree text books; good library;
a good full mounted globe; a complete
set of maps in case; not less than 80
feet linear measure) of the best slate
blackboard; good curtains for all
windows; Webster's ationa]
Dictionary"