Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-07-15
COLD AIR ON TOP
DIR. StrattOn Has Invented Cool
ing Apparatus That Fills
Long Felt Want
SKAGWAY TEMPERATURE
Gives Col. Courts And Residents Al
ArundeI- -0n-I Ihe-Bav Clustering
Teeth

Hot air has had its day, and scold
air has now the former beaten to a
frazzle and frozen to solid mass, ac-
cording to statements made in the
Washington Evening Star of July IA.
AS the inventor, DR.. Stratton is a
frequent visitor at Arundel on-the-
Bay, the following effusion from the
Star is of peculiar local interest.
Go to the Capitol one of these hot
days, find the room of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, open the
door and step inside. After awhile
you'll be thrown out. You'll never
leave of your own accord And
there's reason.
AS result of completely success
full tests of the air drying and cooling
apparatus invented by DR.. Samuel
W. Stratton, director of the bureau of
standards. it is understood that the
chambers of the Senate and House of
Representatives will be equipped
with the apparatus during the present
summer. Next year, when the long
recess comes around, the invention
will be installed in the entire Capitol
and in the Senate and House Office
buildings. And when that is done
no man may predict the adjournment
of Congress
The great domed building, and its
two satellite structures will be the
most comfortable places on the map
in the summer time. There won't
be anything to equal them from the
Adirondacks to the Sekirks, from
Berkeley Springs to Banff. And any
member by merely turning a crank
and adjusting an indicator, will be
able to arrange the temperature of
his room and the humidity of the at
mosphere in it to suit himself. All
this sounds wonderful, but in reality
it is very simple after all. The
Stratton combined air sponge and
temperature reducer will do the
trick.
Better still, the invention, which
now is being perfected for commercial
use, will be put on the market be-
fore long probably by next summer.
Representative Tawney, of Min
nesota, chairman of the House Appro-
priations Committee, where the tests
were conducted, predicted before he
left Washington after the adjournment
of Congress, that inside of ten years
Stratton combined air sponge and
temperature reducing plant would be
considered as necessary in every
modern home as heating plant and
open plumbing.
A Star reporter, who heard that the
tests were in progress, went to the
Capitol one day last week-one of
those sloppy, heavy, murderously hot
days, and knocked on the Appropria-
tlons Committee room door.
"Cc-c-ome in,' said a voice. The
reporter stepped inside. The windows
were down, the electric fans were
still and the temperature of the room,
by contrast with the terrific heat out
sde, seemed to be about zero. At his
desk in one corner of the room, with
his hat on and the collar of sweater
pulled up around his chin sat Col.
James C. Courts, late of the 2Sd Con-
federate Cavalry, clerk of the Appro-
priations Committee, secretary of
the Joint bonding commission and
secretary of the commission for en-
arguing the Capitol grounds, blowing
on his fingers.
/" 'Smatter, asked the reporter,
turning up his coat collar.
Nothing m-m-much, Mr.. Courts
replied with chattering teeth, Eek
cept t-t-that / t-t-turned the indi-
cat-t-tor of the S-s-stratton Cocoon
bined air s-s-sponges and t-t-tempera-
ture red-d-ducer d-d-down too f-far.
It'l be w-wwarmer in m-m-min-
ute And it was. Slowly the mer-
curry in the government thermometer
on the wall climbed up the tube until
it reached the sixty-degree mark.
There it stuck. The committee room
was lust like a dream of heaven.
All the reporter wanted was a night
gown and a harp and permission to
stav there for ever and ever.
Even at the low temperature you
experienced when you entered the
room. Mr.. Courts explained. there
was no danger, for the air is perfect
Nv QrV. 1uS "a VIZ SFNNes~
feature of the Stratton combined all
sponge and temperature reducer has
made the humidity in the atmosphere
of this room an almost negligible
quantity.
The reporter smiled happily at moth
ing.
HAS this machine been put int
practical applic alton anywhere else?
he inquired.
"Oh, yes, 'Mr. Courts replied; my
summer home at Arundel-on-the-Bay !!
completely equipped with the Strattor
combined air sponge and temperature
reducer. Occasionally, for Purposes o.
diversion, note the prevailing TEN
peratre at Medicine Hat or Edmonton
\ British Columbia or some other chill
1 ed spot, and set the indicator in m,
room accordingly: The other night
slept at Skagway-I mean i slept
| in a Skagway temperature. use'
three blankets. Other residents %
Arundel-on-the-Bay are thinking O.
installing the Stratton combined al