Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-08
PROPER CARE AND FEEDING OF
HEATING PLANTS ESSENTIAL
TO ECONOMY.
FURNACE OR BOILER
CAN NOT De NEGLECTED
Experiment Conducted by Department
Expert Resulted in Ten Room House
in Connecticut Being Heated For $4S
Saving Of $50 to 500 in Ono Season
Possible.
Especial Correspondence


Washington, Oct. Show can you
cut down your coal bill? Uncle Sam
has been bordering on the subject and
has undertaken to answer this ques-
| ton, which comes close home to every
family, and especially every family
living in the northern wo-thirds OF
the country. Iowa householders need
not be told that the question Is one
worth consideration.
A report has been issued by the
bureau Of mines Of the department OF
the interior which tells the public just
how, in heating houses this coming
winter, they may save their coal bills
The report, issued at time when the
cooler weather is upon the country and
people are laying in their winter sup
ply of coal, intimates that large saw
ings can be made in nearly every home
and gives specific figures Of the re-
suits obtained in one home in which
coal properly.
Heat Ten-Room House For $48.
The tests referred to were made in
ten-room house in New Haven
Conn, which was comfortably heated
at a cost of $4s for the fall and winter
saving over other houses of the same
| size in the same locality Of from $50
to 500.
According to Van II. Manning, direc-
! tor of the bureau of mines, similar re-
suits can be obtained in hundreds OF
thousands Of houses turnout the coun-
| try with consequent saving OF mil
lions of dollars.
The report shows not only low
cost of heating" said Mr.. Manning
but also an economical use of fuel
and illustrates what savings may be
effected when the problem Is given
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 800 less than what
| is expended by q large number OF
householders who live In the same
locality and have about the same heat
| ing requirements. but use more ex.
pensive coal and give their heating
equipment less attention.
| Factors Involved.
| 1.-THE value a householder gets from
the fuel he burns depends largely OF
the character Of the heating apparatus
the conditions under which 1t Is in
stalled, and the manner In which the
fire is handled. The authors OF thii
report, from their experience In firms
Misunderstanding apparatus and from
observing the methods employed by
many who attend to such apparatus
keenly appreciate the Importance 81
proper firing methods and they have
written this report in the BELIEF that
some general remarks on the care and
operation Of residence-heating ap-
paratus may prove Of some value te
many who are interested in burning
fuel in the most economics: manner.
Among other things, the report
states: MANY furnaces and boilers
are operated in a haphazard way
drafts are opened or coal is put on
when the house becomes cool, then the
fire is allowed to burn rapidly until
either the rooms are too warm or the
fuel bed is burned down too far to
kindle properly new charge Of coal.
"Such firing is always wasteful. The
heater should receive regular attention