The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-11-11
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondence.l ]

.ol building; also that none break the
skyline of the new senate and house
office buildings.
Up to about three years ago the roof
Or roofs of the huge capitol building
we're fairly studded with chimneys
decked with all sorts of hoods and
other contrivances intended to promote
A steady draft. There were ninety
chimneys topping the capitol.
chimneys Disappear.
There was reason, however, for
the existence of all those chimneys and
their ugly top pieces. Most of the
senator's and representatives loved to
see cheerful fires In the fireplaces of
their committee rooms, and as the big
dome dominating the capitol building
created numerous eddies, back drafts
and furrles of air, often blowing direct
ly down the chimneys, the strange de-
vices were erected to counteract the an
tics of the winds. But all that, under the
direction GtElliott Woods, the superin-
tendent of The capitol building and
grounds, has been changed, and when
The new Office buildings were designed
1t was determined to have no CHM
neys in them at all; also most II not
all of the chimneys on the capitol have
disappeared, and an improved system
Of ventllating considered the best In
existence, was devised and installed.
Capitol Ventilation.
The ventilating system Is seemingly
simple when 1t Is explained, but the
working out of 1t required much
thought and study.
Briefly, air Is taken in ut the stone
towers one sees on the capitol grounds
to the west Of the building, drawn
through tunnels by great fans into
chambers heated with batteries Of
steam pipes and then forced by fans
into the house and senate chambers,
corridors and committee rooms. By
taking the air through the stone tow
ers out on the capitol grounds, away
from all communicating influences, a
pure and fresh supply is assured. The
main condults are almost as wide and
much higher than any railroad tunnel,
assuring plentiful supply, and when
the great sixteen foot double fans are
being driven at velocity Of 110 revo-
lutions minute by the powerful dyna-
mos the current in the glittering white
tunnels is powerful enough to sweep
strong man off his feet.
How Fresh Air Is Warmed.
The fresh air is first delivered through
iron gratings into chamber where q
series of steam coils 200 yards from
the intake towers heats it to any tenn
perature desired-perhaps 60 or 20 de-
grees f. 1t is then forced against Sec
Ondary coils and distributed to the va
rious rooms that are to be warmed.
The warmed air aScends through two
sets Of gratings in the roof of the lofty
duct Qt is probably twenty feet in
places to the roof of this passageway
or tunneD, one set Of gratings leading
the air to the Republican side of the
chamber and the other set conducting
it to the Democratic side. The air
passes into series Of pipes which
conduct 1t to the desks Of the men,
bers and to every desk in the galleries,
its escape being provided for through
the bronze gratings in the supports of
the desks. Each desk is provided with
valves, or dampers, so that every men,
ber can regulate the warmth distrib-
uted to him.
For a New Patent Office.
Construction Of a new and Suitable"
building for the use of the patent Of
fee is recommended In the annual re-
port of Edward B. Moore, commission
er Of patents.
He says 1t could be built out of the
surplus Of receipts over expenditures
in the Office since its establishment
He thinks an adequate building is due
to the inventors, out Of whose pockets
practically all this surplus has been
paid.
The report shows, among other
things, that there were received in the
last fiscal year 5S,527 applications for
mechanical patents, 1901 applications
for designs, 207 applications for re-
issues, 2,036 caveats. There were 3d.
0O2 patents granted, including reissues
and designs. The number of patents
that expired was 24,27O.
There were filed 7,467 applications
for the registration of trademarks, $40
applications for labels and 339 appllca-
tiOns for the registration of prints.
OF these there were registered 6,135
trademarks, G3G labels and 279 prints.
Receipts and Expenditures.
The total receipts of the patent Of
fee were $1,874, ,1S0.75. The total ex-
pendltures were $1,G0S 292.O1. The
net surplus of receipts over expendi-
lures - the amount turned into the
treasury-was $265, ,SSS.74.
The trademarks registered are less
this year by 2,663 than the previous
year. There have been more patents
granted this year by 1904.
In 1905 10,40S trademarks were regis
tered under the new law, in 1907 S,79S
and in 1908 G,135, which latter number
will probably be about the normal
number hereafter issued.
Surplus Would Pay For Building.
"The net surplus Of all years of re.
ceipts over expenditures which have
been covered into the treasury up to
June 80, 1908" says Commissioner
N-I. -, 30 n