Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-14
SILVER AT CAPITOL
Visitors to Committee Room
Have Chattering Teeth.
IF YOU DOUBT 1T, GO SEE
Recently Invented Cooling Appa-
ratus Is Being Tried.
ANY TEMPERATURE YOU WANT
Chambers Of Senate and House, It Is
Understood, Will Be Equipped
With Device.
If YOU DOUBT 1T, GO SEE
ANY TEMPERATURE YOU WANT

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 a result of completely successful
tests of the air drying and cooling ap-
paratus 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 sum-
mer. Next year. when the long recess
| comes around, the invention will be In
stalled 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
comfortable places on the map in the
summer time. There won't be any
| thing to equal them from the Adiron-
dacks to the Selkirks. 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 atmosphere In 1t to
| full. but in reality 1t is very simple
after all. The Stratton combined air
sponge and temperature reducer will
do the trick
Will Be Put on Market.
| being perfected for commercial use. will
- hAfn lon n
ably by next summer Representative
Tawney of Minnesota, chairman OF the
House appropriations committee, where
the tests were conducted, predicted before
he left Washington after the adjournment
OF Congress that inside OF ten years a
Stratton combined air sponge and tenn
perature reducing plant would be consfd-
cred 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 Capt.
tol one day last week-one of those
soppy, heavy, murderously hot days-and
knocked on the appropriations committee
room door.
porter stepped inside. The windows were
down, the electroic fans were still and
the temperature of the room, by contrast
with the terrific heat outside. seemed to
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
23d Confederate Cavalry, clerk OF the ap-
| Joint bonding commission and secretary
Of the commission for enlarging the Capt.
| toll grounds. blowing on his fingers.
'Smatter,". asker the reporter, turn
| ing up his coat collar.
Nothing m-m-much.'' Mr.. Courts re-
piled with chattering teeth, except
t-t-that II t-t-turned the indicat-t-tor Of
the ss-s-stratton c-c-combined air
Queer d-d-doown too f-far. It'll be
w-w-warmer in a m-m-minute.
Like Dream Of Heaven.
And it was. Slowly the mercury in the
government Thermometer on the wall
climbed up the tube until it reached the
sixty degree mara. There it stuck. The
committee room was just like a dream Of
heaven. All the reporter wanted was a
nightgown and a harp and permission to
| stay there for ever and ever.
Even at the low temperature you ex-
perienced when you entered the room, y
Mr.. Courts explained there was no
danger, for the air is perfectly dry. The
action of the sponge feature of the STRAIT
ton combined air sponge. and temperature
reducer has made the humidity in the at
| mosphere Of this room an almost negli-
| gib!e quantity"
The reporter smiled happily at nothing.
HAS this machine been put into prac-
| teal application anywhere else?" he in
| Qufred.
Furnishes skagway Temperature.
"Oh, yes" Mr.. Courts replied: my sum-
mer home at Arundel-on-the-Bay is COM
pletely equipped with the Stratton COM
bined air sponge and temperature reducer
Occasionally, for purposes of diversion, ]
he
| cine Hat or Edmonton, British Columbia
| or some other chilled spot, and set the in
dcator in my room accordingly. The
other night slept at Skagway-I mean
three blankets. Other residents of Arun-
del-on- the-Ray are thinking of installing
! the Stratton combined air sponge and
temperature reducer as soon as they are
put on the maret commercially"
The reporter didn't think for a moment
of verifying this statement. for Mr.. Courts
| is one of the leading citizens of Arundel
on-the-Bay, where he is president of the
board of public works. secretary of the
| Annapolis-Arundel Transportation Com
pany, vice president Of the Arundel Incor-
porated Cistern Company. chairman of
the board Of education and secretary of
| the police board.
Dog Frozen to Death.
"Of course" said Mr.. Courts. resuming
his eApldHdtiUH VI Tic Oh Tie
Stratton combined air sponge and tenn
perature reducer, when this invention is
put on the market, commercially. proper
care will have been taken to protect the
indicator switch from accidental or care
less handling. A very unfortunate incl
dent happened at my home at Arundel
on-the-Bay only few nights ago. Roger
| an Airdale terrier that is a great favor
lite in my family, entered the library
after all of us had gone to bed, and In
jumping to his favorite resting place on
top of the bookcase accidentally knocked
against the controller Of the Stratton
combined air sponge and temperature
reducer." Mr.. Courts paused and took
out his handkerchief.
"What-what happened?" ased the re-
porter, after a suitable interval.
I'm the morning. said Mr.. Courts,
turning away his head. I'VE found Roger
still in DEATH
"Fro-fro-frozen?' whispered the re-
porter.
Frozen" murmured Mr.. Courts.
1t is the general opinion of experts and
laymen that the StrattOn combined air
sponge and temperature reducer is going
to fill long-felt want.