New-York tribune., 1912-02-05
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Young to know what Is happening TO them:
the parents are not yet aroused.
THAT is a typical letter" said Mrs. Wise.
Il have others In the same tenor
In every school which Mrs. Wise and her
committees committee formed by her
under the Public Education Association
visited they took careful notes Of the tenn
peratures in the various rooms and the way
the ventilating system was acting.
New ventilating system: not very salts
factory hard 10 manage" one begins. The
temperatures in the various rooms aver
aged from So to 72 degrees. Where II was
SIS the air was close" In another school
"the principal stated that the temperature
sometimes reached 90 degrees The rooms.
when visited ranged from 10 to IS de-
grees."
In another the air Of the assembly room
was bad the kindergarten temperature
was 70 degrees. the air close"
THE principal does not think the venti-
Iating system is good" says the report
about one school. in which the temperature
ranged from "a to 50 degrees.
In another 1.-THE ventilatins system IL out
of order most Of the time 1t is a new heat
ing and ventlating system. and the princi-
pal says it has never worked properly"
The thirteen rooms in this building were
all overheated, and most Of the thermostats
were out OF order.
One Of the letters Mrs. Wise received
was from a teacher in the Washington
Irving High School for Girls. who before
she came to that school-where the air
is good because the principal will have
open windows-suffered dreadfully from
badly ventilated classrooms.
When this teacher learned that a highly
modern patented ventilatins system was
to be installed in the new building for
the Washington Irving High School. at
Irving Place and 18th street, she rose In
her wrath and protested. but IT didn't do
much good.
The building committee seems 10 re-
sent any suggestions from us on the sub
! iect." she wrote Mrs. Wise continues:
, of our school signed and sent a protest
against the installation OF a heating and
ventilating system in our schooi-to-pe, IL
was ignored completely for time,
Then the committee sent report on the
! teating end ventating system, as II thst
settled the matter / called on two MEM
bers OF the committee, out they put me
off on one pretext or another we toid
]
/ factory to heat by means OF steam OF not
! water. and ventilate by pivofed WinooWs'
/ but they made no reply to that.
| In a rounda bout way we near that ne"
and perfect system Is TO be tried IN our
building but since the COMMITTEES is e4-
ceedingly careful not TO say anything, We
suspect that IL is the same ola VICIOUS
method, with one or two makesnift I'M,
movements. or that We are 70 be the riai
dog for a new experiment. In either case
we object.
Mrs. Wise believes in supplying the chiI-
dren's lungs by the natural rnethod-open-
ing the classroom windows and letting IN
the outside air.
Here and there she found teachers VINO
did open their windows. and these-rooms.
she says. were JOY TO enter after the
other kind.
In the old buildings Of the Washington
Irving High School the windows are thrown
omen seven times in the course Of the school
dav. and while the rooms are thus washed
ont with fresh air the pupils are put
through some brisk exercises. But the ad-
vocates Of the ventilating systems say tha'
the windows mustn't be opened.
Opening the windows interferes with the
svstem. And this is why Mrs Wise wants
IN throw the system out.