Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-08
HOW COAL BILLS
 CAN BE REDUCED.
Experts of Government Have Import ant Information for Publie-Tests Made in New Haven.
Especial to The BuIletin.)

Washington, D. C., Oct. IA prob lem which reaches into nearly every home in the United States and touch es the pocketbooks of several million householders is discussed seriously in report issued today by the bureau of mines, department of the interior. in which the experts of the bureau tell the public in detail just how, in heating their houses this coming win ter, they may save in their coal bills.
 The report, issued at a time when the cooler weather is upon the coun- try and people are laying in their winter supply of coal, intimates that large savings can be made in nearly every home, and gives specific figures of the results obtained in one home in which every effort was made to consume the coal properly. As the re- port was issued solely for the bene- fit of householders, copies may be ob- tained by anyone who addresses the United States bureau of mines.
 The tests referred to were made in ten room house in New Haven, which was comfortably heated at a cost of $48 for the fall and winter, a saving over other houses of the same size in the same locality of from $50 to $10O.
 According to Van H. Manning, di- rector of the buerau of mines, similar | Ccl DS dlldAIGu III lulluEcIS Ol | thousands of houses throughout the | country, with a consequent saving oi millions of dollars.
 The report shows not only a low cost of heating" said Mir. Manning but also an economical use of fue and illustrates what savings can be | effected when the problem is g1ver proper consideration. Systematic and regular handling of the fire doubtless | had considerable to do with the re- | suits obtained. The cost of heating is probably $50 to $100 less than what | is expended by a large number oi householders who live in the same To- cality and have about the same heat | ing requirements, but use more eX. pensive coal and give their heating equipment less attention.
 | The value a householder get: from the fuel he burns depends large ly on the character of the heating ap- | paratus, the conditions under whicl it is installed, and the manner il | which the fire is handled. The auth ors of this report. from their expert | ence in firing residence heating ap. paratus and from observing the meth. ods employed by many who attend t' | such apparatus, keenly appreciate thu | importance of proper firing methods | and they have written this report il 1 on the selection, care and operation O | residence heating apparatus ma! | prove of some value to many who ar, interested in burning fuel in the mos economical manner"
 The authors are L.. P. Breckenridge consulting engineer of the buerau O mines and professor mechanical engi | neering Sheffield Scientific school
 Yale university. and s. B. Flagg, me
 chanical engineer of the bureau O mines.
 Among other things, the repor
 states: Many furnaces and boiler are operated in a haphazard way
 drafts are opened or coal is put cl
 when the house becomes cool, thel the fire is allowed to burn rapidl,
 until either the rooms are too warn
 or the fuel bed is burned down to-
 far to kindle properly a new charg
 of coal
 Such firing is always wasteful. Tn
 heater should receive regular atten
 tion, and if the demands for heat ar