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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24

cred with asbestos paper to protect
the pipes and to save heat. A damp
err in every pipe and also in the smoke
tiue will aid materially in controlling
and distributing heat. Chimney hues
should be 10 by 10 inches or larger.
Hot Water.
A hot-water system is only slight
elaboration of the principle. Enlarge
the base to inclOse the fire, and re-
duce the size of the tube or pipe be-
tween the fire and the rooms to be
heated, and make that part of the
circuit in the rooms large, to give
enough radiating surface. The main
body, cast in sections for convenience
in handling. is often made quite ir-
regular, in order to expose more sur
face to the fire. Water is conducted
through large pipe, from which
smaller pipes connect with one end
of the radiator in each room. The
other end of the radiator Is con-
nected to n large return pipe, which
enters the heater at the CRATE level
This allows for a more rapid circula-
ton than If single pipe were used
for each radiator.
Allowance must be made for the
expansion of the water. This is done
by placing an open tank in the attic,
or in second-floor room above the
top of the highest radiator, and con.
Meeting with the system at some con.
venient point. The system may be
filed through this tank If there is no
pressure system at hand.
This Is called the open-tank hot
water system. If the tank were
capped tight, and little or no water
reached the tank, there would be n
,, quantity of air confined which would
be compressed. because the water in
the heater, pipes and radiators ex'
pands when heated. This is the
closed tank or semisteam system
The advantage is higher tempera,
ture of the water before the boiling
point is reached. The higher TEN,
perature will allow of smaller pipes
and smaller radiators, and the prac'
tice is to install smaller heater
also. The cost of installation will
consequently be less.
Objections to this system are: The
need of safety devices, which may
fail, and harder firing, which requires
more fuel.
vapor or Vacuum System.
The vapor or vacuum system Is a
comparatively recent development. II
is the opposite in principle of the
closed-tank hot-water system as the
air is exhausted from the pipes and
radiators and wafer stands in the
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24
Hot-Water System.

ond floor. In order to operate this
ventilation scheme in mild or still
weather, it will be found necessary to
an ideal foul-air escape.
Such an escape will add from S12
TO $50 TO the cost of u chimney, for
it must have an independent hue.
Three ilash-light pictures were
taken in adjoining rooms, one II by
IL feet and the other IL by % feet.
The rooms were almost filled with
smoke. The outside temperature was
little below zero, so n door could not
be left open very long. Six pounds of
newspapers We're burned in the fire
place to create draft. In half an
lsour the smoke was cleared from the
rooms, and one door had been open
for about five minutes. There was no
perceptible change in temperature.
Fireplace.
In Il section where wood Is plenti-
full, the comfort and satisfaction of
an open fire should not be overlooked.
In early spring and late fall few
sticks Of wood on crate fire will
amount in n heater.
If provided for ut the time of build
ing the expense need not exceed $50.
This will provide facing. mantle,
hearth. damper and ash traps, to-
gether with the added fue in the
chimney. The fiue should be large.
A flue by inches is usually too
small. A fireplace should be at least
80 inches wide, % inches high, and 16
inches deep, or as near these dimen-
sions as the commercial FACING and
lining materials will make. Colored
brick with rough face, make most
satisfactory facing, and may be placed
at the time the chimney is built. The
lining should, of course. be of fire.
brick. A hearth is easily built. using
smooth hard brick or tile.
The essentials of satisfactory fire.
place are: ~ large flue; (2) a
smooth throat set well to the front !;
(3) thin lip. A smoking fireplace
can usually be remedied by adding n
thin lip-member.
Firing.
Economical stOking is an art. Hard
coal is popular because the average
person does not care to fire every
half hour. However, little admix-
even with hard coal. In general. add
as small an amount of coal as possible
at each firing, and fire often. Do not
entirely cover the bed of live Goals,
but leave n small hole. where sufficient
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24
Hot-Air Furnace.

mace is produced which will heat two
or more rooms, one for each pipe.
Later improvements gave us the hot
water and steam systems; and these
now find some competition in the vapor
system.
a combination of hot air with either
hot water, steam or vapor, known as
u combination system. is now often
used.
The outside of Il stove becomes hot
from the fire within which heats the
air in contact with 1t. This air in turn
becomes lighter. rises, and is replaced
by cold air from below and ut the
sides. This displacement of warm air
by cold air continues, and produces
currents. The room can be made
comfortable with stove when 1t Is
not too cold outside. If very cold out
side, say ten degrees below. the cur
rent of air will become SO cold while
passing down the cold walls that the
stove cannot heat the room comforta-
bly,.
A sheet iron jacket, with neither
top nor bottom, set up from the floor.
will increase the rapidity of air cir
culation, since only the air within
the jacket is heated. This air gets hot
ter and rises faster, thus making u
more rapid circulation and a more eff
fectiye heat.
A Furnace.
A stove with jacket. placed in the
cellar, becomes n furnace. A brick
wall may be substituted for the steel
jacket. A return lue through the
floor some distance from the furnace,
makes the system complete. Such Il
scheme is used FOR many churches.
schools and assembly rooms, where the
basement can be used as furnace
room.
When this furnace is set n little
lower in the ground and the neck
divided, into several small pipes, II
may be used to heat several rooms.
Heat is conducted to the second-aoo
rooms by rectangular pipes set in the
walls between the studs. Over each
opening in the floor or walls is Il
register of perforated cast iron.
In each pipe leading from fur
mace is a damper, so that any pipe
may be closed at will. There is n
return air duct, to be used when the
weather is too cold to allow the
hented and used air to pass out of
the house. The rooms are full of air
at all times, and more air cannot be
forced into them by the small pressure
exerted by the warm air In the pipes
below. In order to get this warm air
into the rooms n way must be pro-
vided for the cold air to get out. This
zf a.
which may open into n chimney and
elbow the air to pass out; or under
The furnace and permit the air to be
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24

heat can get through to fire the gases
as they distill off from the new coal,
otherwise they are lost up the chin
ney. These gases burn clear and hot,
and form large part of the coal.
Keep the CRATES clean and clear of
clinkers. Use slice-bar. and pre-
tom of the fire.
Three instances of firing came to
notice recently, In houses of nearly
the same size. The cost In one case
wds S47; in another, S36; and in the
third. SIG. All the houses were warm
and comfortable ut all times. In one
the coal was fired, In the other two
II was dumped In.
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- ne NrrOWS Indicate tne DireCtlon
Of the Air Currents.
while filling the system, in order to
let the air out, else the water cannot
get in. When water flows from the
valve 1t may be closed. This valve
should be opened from time to time
after filling the system, to let out air
that has separated from the water and
gathered in the top of the radiator.
The small chamber of mir will very
effectively check the circulation
through the radiator and 1t will not
heat.
The cost of hot-water system for
II six-room house will be about S275
or $500. 1t will cost about two-thirds
more than hot air, but hot-air outfits
last only from Z to years, with yenrly
repairs, while the hot-water system
will last from three to six times as
long. with no EXPENSE or upkeep.
The cost of hot-water system will
be about SS5 or 800 for radiators, S13O
for the heater, and about SG5 for in
stallation. Any farmer who is ut all
handy as n mechanic can do the work,
leaving S21O for the plant, compared
with S175 for hot air.
A hot-air system may give reason
ably satisfactory results in small
buildings, but for large houses and
under most conditions either steam or
hot water is unhesitatingly recon-
mended. The higher cost is more
than Offset, in n few years, by Il saw
To-. % r,.-
Nothing has been said about steam
systems. Little need be said. They
are like water systems in makeup, ex-
cept that the expansion tank Is closed.
There is no water in the radiators,
only in the heater. There Is no cir
culation until the water in the boiler
is boiling and there is pressure in the
pipes and radiators. This pressure,
while not intended to be heavy, may
become SO if not watched carefully.
This is impossible in the average
home. In the mill, factory, or large
Hat building, there is reason for keep
ing man on duty constantly. but not
so in the home.
BY the process OF elimination, 1t can
safely be claimed that, steam is not
safe, and hot air Is not satisfactory to
any degree; while hot water, not per-
feet because 1t costs too much, is the
best system of the three for heating a
home.
Combination System.
4 combination system-a combina-
ton of hot water and hot airs the
ideal system. However, instead of
using standard hot-air furnace. with
Il coil in the firebox for heating the
water (similnr to that used In n
kitchen range), 1t is much better to
place large radiator or n coil of
common pipe in box In the cellar
which is open to the room above and
TO the outside air. This system may
be Installed at an additional cost of
$25, and provides fresh-air supply
ut all times. 1t Is claimed, and with
much reason, that ventilation Is not
necessary in the average house that
the air In the rooms Is changed often
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24

reheated and returned to
the room. When this Is
done the fresh-air duct
may be closed or partly
closed.
The burning of the air
in order to get heat suf-
ticient to warm the rooms,
limits the usefulness OF
this style of heating to
small houses, and general
ly to one floor. To be sue
cessful, the furnace must
be large and the pipes
from 80 to 100 per cent
larger than are ordinarily
used.
All pipes, in cellar ana
4. Aid ha nnv-
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heater only, as in steam system.
The exhaustion of the air makes 1t
possible to produce steam at n tenn
perature as low as 125 degrees Fab
renheit, which means that small fire
will produce results in a few minutes,
because there are only few gallons
of water in the heater. II Is virtually
steam system, and requires protec-
tive devices as carefully adjusted and
attended as steam system. Further
more, leaks in the system will de-
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24
Spend $4,000 Opening Scenic Spots.


The United States forestry bureau,
with 100000 to spend in Colorado up
to July l of next year, is going to
use the money to make accessible
some of the most attractive places for
tourists and recreation seekers in the
state and depend on future appropria-
tions to complete the comprehensive
road plan which is being outlined by
the bureau and the city and state of
ficials and Colorado citizens, accord
ing to A. F. Potter, associate forester
Girls Deportation Order Suspended.
Charlotte Thornywork. released
from the penitentiary and slated for
deportation to England will not have
% leave this country. The deportation
order has been suspended. and pend
ing her good behavior she will be al
lowed to remain with her mother in
Nampa, Idaho.
Contracts for Printing State Reports.
If all the type in the biennial re-
ports of Colorado were set in one con-
,inuous line 1t would reach 1O3 miles,
while If set in one long page it would
make band approximately four and
4 quarter inches wide which would
reach across the city of Denver in its
widest part. The contracts have Just
been let. All reports from the va
i'ious departments of state will be IS
'ued between Dec. / and March /.
Jnder the law they are limited to 300
1ages each and vary from $50 to 1000
'opies.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24

Mrs. james Rodic, aged ninety-nine,
of Mclrose, Mass, says eating candy
has prolonged her life.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24
W. N. u, DENVER, NO. 4s-1e1e.

The per capita wealth of the United
States now has almost reached the
$1,000 mark.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24
By j. L. Mo1vv
Unfpersity Of Minnesota

n :: !: : !: : : Z: :: :: i: !
EARS of progress have de-
INA veloped at least six styles
p" of house-heating installa-
HE tions, aside from the old
vi fashioned first method,
~ the fireplace, where from
so to 80 per cent of the
heat generated went up the chimney
where your shins roasted while your
back froZe.
Real progress was made when the
crate fire was moved to the center
of the room and incased in thin cast
iron or sheet iron, giving us the stove.
and increasing the radiating surface
200 per cent. At the same time the
size of the flue was reduced T5 per
cent, and the large loss of heat char
acteristic of the open-grate fire was
eliminated.
Another step was made when the
stove was moved to the cellar. and n
jacket placed around ii which opened
through the floor to the room above.
With the neck of this jacket divided
into two or more parts hot-air fur
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24

enough to meet all requirements, ex-
cept when an unusual number OF
people are present. 1t is true that.
with an average winter wind blowing
at ten miles per hour. the air In the
rooms will change about every half
hour. This is certainly all that is
required for the average family. This
rate of change can be increased SO
per cent by opening door to the sec.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24

There are several different
styles of house-heating plants
on the market, the cheapness
and convenience of qvhich
make it unnecessary for farm
houses TO be qvithout a heat
ing system qvhich means
comfort for the household
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while the others were playing, /"
she admitted, "but they had to
cut for the prize and l got it,"
Mrs. Lemagie's husband has
many relatives in the French
army.
"One of them lived about as
far out of Paris as from here to
Spanaway," said she, and when
We were over there year or so
before the war my husband said
to him. L don't like your location;
you're right in the war zone and
he said, 'There'll never be another
war And now they're fighting
In the worst war the world has
ever seem"
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will have charge of the fund ana
its distribution.
Orphels CIuh IN StwU

will have charge of the fund ana
its distribution.
Orpheus Club TO Sing.
Not only will one of the biggest
pictorial programs of the year be
offered on the charity week bill,
but there will be other attractions
OF unusual merit.
Orpheus club will sing in con-
cert at the Colonial tomorrow aft
ernoon. the members of this fine
musical organization having do
nated their services for the ocea-
sion.
AT every performance Master
Howard Needing, the wonderful
boy soprano, through the courtesy
or the Reed-French Piona COM
pany, will be heard in song.
Mary Pickford, Too.
The picture attraction will be
Mary Pickford In Less Than the
Dust the great eight-reel Art
craft production.
we are offering one of the
best programs of the year for the
week. said Mr.. Moore TODAY.
"and hope to make this chtrity
benefit the biggest event of its
Kind ever given in Tacoma. Per-
sonally, l would like to Gee every
deserving person helped this
Thanksgiving"
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EMPTIES
GUN AT
ROBBER

Discovering a burglar in the act
OF robbing the big Dickson Broth
ers' store, 1920 Pacific avenue, at
2 o'clock Saturday morning, John
w. Hayes, patrolman for aprivate
merchants patrol system, emptied
the chambers of his revolver at
him.
The burglar crashed through a
plate glass window in the stores
front door and escaped down Pa
cific avenue.
The burglar had made no at
tempt to reach the company's safe,
but police believ he intended to
go after the money after selecting
other articles to his liking. lie
had taken an SIS suit case from
Its shelf and placed in 1t suit of
clothing and two overcoats that
he had taken from racks in the
salesroom.
Patrolman Hayes entered the
store on his regular rounds, to
ring the electric report box. As
he unlocked the front door, he
heard noise in the store. Creep
ing behind racks of clothing. he
came upon the burglar as the lat
ter was buckling his suit case fill
ed with new clothing.
The thief had enterd the store
by climbing over a transom of the
front doors. His boldness Is in
dicated by the fact that bright
street lights shine plainly on the
transom and that policemen pass
the place every Is minutes. Good
copies OF the mans finger prints
were obtained in the dust of the
transom.
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MISS
ABBOTT
CALLS
Ely Mabel Abbott.


What are Tacoma peopIe
thinking about?
Ihat section of Tacoma
known as Fern Hill is think
ing ahout many different
thiags, AS indicated by the
interests found In one block
OF houses Thursday.
Mrs. ii. ID. Buth, S241 South
Park avenue, is interested In her
husbands transfer business.
II take the telephone orders, t"
she explained, so naturally that's
what am thinking of a good
deal OF the time"
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stevenson,
1924 South Park avenue, were
still thinking of the great day the
Stevenson family had last Sunday,
when their granddaughter, Jen-
ME Fern Dennison of Yelm, was
married at their home. and about
so friends and relatives attended
the wedding party, and on the
same day a great-grandson was
born at the home OF their grand
son, Cloyd T. Winslow, 762 South
9th.
Mother had a little too much
excitement, and has been sick ever
SINCE said Mrs. Winslow, 6704
South Park avenue. who was at
the Stevenson home.
Mrs. w. ]. Stevenson, 1918
South Park, was putting down a
carpet, with her husband to drive
the lacks, but she had not lost all
interest in other things.
81 hink these Child Study clubs
the Parent-Teacher associations
are organizing are a splendid
thing" she said.
They teach the young mothers
just the practical things they want
to know"
Mrs. Mary Il. Goodrich, mother
of II, r. Goodrich, 1912 South
Park, was thawing hydrant with
a teakettle of hot water.
Its time to wrap the water
pipes she warned. Somebody
saw a white owl between here
and town not long ago, and they
say that's a sign of more cold
weather."
I'm most interested in the
war; said Mrs. II. l.. Mcfarland,
1921 South Park, because |
have five cousins in the army.
Two of them were at the Darda-
nelles. They all went from New
Zealand. l get some very inter-
esting letters from them"
Mrs. M. Lamagie, 5000 South
Park, was thinking of hand
painted china plate she won at a
card party Wednesday.
II crocheted most of the time
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Newspnper Enterprise AssOciatiOn)
NEW YORK, Nov. ia di-
vOrce case i'm bohemia!
We used to figure that real
bohemians never even got mar
ried, let alone getting divorced.
But the artistic colony of
Greenwich village is actually in
the throes Of divorce suit, with
the alleged correspondent "an
amazingly beautiful woman living
in a luxurious flat in Washington
square,"
Her name is not given, for the
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MOVIES
TO BUY
TURKEYS

Every hungry person in Taco
ma is going to have a Thanksgiy-
Ing dinner this year, if Manager
Moore of the Colonial has any
thing to say about it.
Beginning tomorrow, for an
entire week, Moore will turn over
every cent made above actual op-
Grating expenses to a benefit to
be known as THE Colonial
Thanksgiving Fund for the Relief
Of the Needy"
Committee selected from
members of the Y. w. c. A,
Wollah Clubhouse association.
w. c. T. u. .Womens Label
league. Catholic Betterment
league. and other organizations
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LEGAL NOTICES

SEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
ceived at the office of the Com
missioner of Light and Water be-
tween the hours of ~ M. and 2 r.
M, November 23rd, 1916. for Cross
Arms as follows.
100 Spin Crossarms.
1000 4-pin Crossarms.
zoo 6-pin Crossarms for Primary
Circuits.
200 spin Crossarms for Secondary
Circuits.
All must be according to specifi
Amount of bond required to be oh
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papers were promptly sealed; so
bohemia will have to wait.
The plaintiff is Mrs. Louise Nc
Cutcheon Norton, who gained
fame by writing an exotic play,
Little Wax Candle" which was
published by a bohemian print
shop that Anthony Comstock used
to hate.
Her husband, Allen T. Norton,
is a poet. They were married in
1911 and separated last summer.
She was a Smith college coed at
the time of the wedding.
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Nov. ELLIS. 1915.

LOCAL Improvement District No.
455.--Notice is hereby given that
In pursuance of Ordinance No. $500
OF the city of Tacoma, roll has.
been placed In my hands for the.
collection OF the End annual instaIi-
ment of the assessment levied for,
grading to the established grade
South 32nd Street from -" Street
TO Wilkeson Street, with road
way forty 40) feet In width from
~ Street to TX" Street and
roadway forty-four (44) feet In
width from TX" Street to Wilkeson
street and laying down on said
roadway pavement of asphalt on
a concrete base. with concrete curb
and gutter. together with the nec-
essary storm water drainage.
Provided that the work to be
done by the Tacoma Railway and
Power Company under their fran
chise, Is not to be included In this
Improvement.
Said installment may be paid on
or before December 9Th, 1915, but
II not paid on or before said date,
added interest. penalty and costs
JAMES c. DRAKE,
City Treasurer.
Nov. f-11-1S 1915
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Nov. 11-fS-25. 1915.

LOCAL Improvement District No
Szb.--Notice Is hereby given that
in pursuance of Ordinance No. Also
OF the City of Tacoma a roll has
been placed in my hands for the
collection of the 9Th annual INSTALL
ment OF the assessment levied for
improving "A" Street from the
North line OF South 21st Street to
the Tacoma Railway and Power
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LOCAL Improvement District No.
zb5.-Notice Is hereby given that
IN pursuance of ordinance No. 27S9
or the City of Tacoma a roll mas
'esh placed IN nv hands for the
collection of the 10th annual in
stallment of the assessment levied
iof the Improvement of Commerce
S.feet' from the center of South
1th street to the westerly curb line
of Hood Street; South 7th street
l,nin Tue westerly curb line OF Pa
eric Avenue to Commerce Street
south 9th. South 18th, South 13tb'
ana south 18th Streets, from the
present pavement on Pacific Ave-
nue. TO the present pavement on
south &C" Street Said improve
ment consists in grading said por-
ton of Commerce Street. south 7th.
south 9Th. South 18th, South 18th.
ana south 16th Streets to the es-
' dtshed grade with n roadway
rirty-sfx feet In width, and I'm lay
lhs down on said Commerce Street
except on Street intersections a
permanent pavement of asphalt
with brick cutters on a concrete
base, and on South 7th, South 9th,
south 18th. South 18th, and South
loth streets. permanent pave
ment or sand stone blocks. with
prlck cutters on q concrete base:
the Improvement also consists I'm
concrete and granite
for drainage.
said installment may be paid on
or before December 10, 1916, but
II not paid on or before said date
added interest. penalty and costs
will attach.
JAMES G. DRAKE.
City Treasurer.
Nov. 11-fS-25, 1915