The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-01-22
UP 1o-Date Heating.

floor.
UP Date Heating.
The opening part Of Engineer
Nateg's report mentions the central
boiler plant Fl building in the rear,
the steam being carried through con
Units u tie buildings. Three new
boilers have been installed recently,
80 thar ths end OF the system is az
10 date aud in good condition. The
heating and ventilation OF the MAIN
OF connected group OF buildings ana Of
the Marsh building is similar in nearly
Ill respects.
Continuing. the report says: The
ventilation of the building is provided
Tor by II gravity system of indirect
steam. This Is Il standard method of
>choolhouse Ventilation in which fresh
air j. brought from out of doors
through galvanized iron ducts. amt
passed over Indirect steam radiators
enclosed in gall auizct iron castings and
then the air passes up through vertical
fiucs 10 the various rooms; the foul
air being removed from the rooms in
n somewhat similar manner through
steam heated fiues. In such a SYSTEM
the heating radiators on STACKS are
located in the Easements and enclosed
in galvanized iron, and the fresh air
brought through duets Of similar ma
teral in order. TO make these castings
and duets as nearly air tighr a pos
sible 10 prevent the entrance OF base
ment or cellar air instead of fresh oat
/ SIDE air into the ventilating system.
/ In the Retreat buildings, these
stacks are located as usual in the base
nents but are encased in wooden
sheathing on four sides, the bottom
being open for the admission of air.
J This woodwork was more or less dilap-
I idated due to excessive shrinking from
the heat, but the leakage OF air
through this easing was not important
as the whole bottom was open.
sagreeable Odor in Air.
i THE Easements of the buiIdins
contain corridors from which open
many sman rooms, now abandoned, bat
{. evidently used in the earlier days OF
the institution. At the present time
the basement of the main building has
enc ward at the female end of the
building while the remainder of the
/ basement is mainly used for storage
. with "a little miscellaneous work il
. some of the rooms! Some of. the room:
; and passageways or corridors have NJ
: windows or direct connec tion with cut
y doors, the old windows being brieket
n up, leaving the rooms absolutely darl
o and practically dead air spaces
d ''The heating stacks of the venti
g lating system are scattered Throughout
t the basement; some are located i
Il light corridors now used, others in darl
abandoned passageways or rooms. TIL
: fresh y air supply for this ventilatio
:, system is drawn entirely from the base
II ment instead of from outdoors. Thi
II air has at certain times Il decided
II disagreeable odor, while in general j
II il the air characteristic of an invent
Ii lated cellar or basement combined wit
II the odors of various supplies and IN;
H terials in storage or any work carrie
Il on in the basement; or from an accl
mutation of rubbish in some of I'll
II rooms; in sweeping the concrete 1lool
OF the passageways the dust rises q
II rectly into the ventilation stacks an
II is delivered into the rooms above;
II the sub basement or cellar under II
II basement ward, the stack openings a
II directly over q layer of earth in whlc
are stored the dahlia roots used {
II the lawns; all dust from handling tn
earth or odors from decay of this ye
etable matter must rise into the room
above.
Practically No Fresh Air.
II SIN Il few places, perhaps half
II dozen in all there are opening throue
II the walls fitted with wooden boxes ar
shutters for supplying the ventilatir
II system with fresh air. These are t,
II insignificant in size and number
II amount to anything, but in every OF
II examined at the time of the inspeeti,
! the shutters were closed with sing