Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
BUY LIBERTY BOND WITH
SAVING IN COAL BILLS
bureau of Mines Says Average House
holder Chokes His Furnace With
out Regard TO Combustion.

Through the Council OF Defense, Van
III. Manning, director of the Bureau
OF Mines. United States Department OF
the Interior, requests Eirginians to
study. unique method devised by HIM
self, for financing big slice of the
next Liberty loan by a saving in coal
bills. 1t is said for this method that
each citizen could easily, by means of
it, save from $50. TO $500. That plan,
as outlined by Mr.. Ma ming, is as fol-
lows:
americans arc proverbiany very
wasteful While it is figure Of
speech that they light their cigars
with $40 bills. in. reality it comes to
in the past has thrown coal into his
furnace with little or no idea OF the
. cost, or the wastefulness. and of his
carelessness as to whether he was
burning his coal or choking his fur
mace. He has paid no attention to his
thoughts that the combustion OF coal
is chemical process requiring exact
conditions and certain amount OF
care; the only sane realization he has
had has been the payment of his coal
bill. In the past even that hasn't
troubled him much. for until compara-
lively recently coal was a very cheap
product.
Now it is much different. with
coal costs mounting, he is beginning to
look into the question with much
earnestness. And here is where the
Bureau of Mines may do him much
good. help him to serve his country
by buying Liberty bond. and save
enough coal 70 insure not only ample
supplies for ourselves, but also for our
suffering allies.
I'm the bureaus search for the
truth as to just what can be done by
household furnace in heating a
house and supplying it with plenty Of
warmth. professor at Yale University
was asked by the bureau to keep exact
costs OF heating his ten-room house
: In New Haven, Conn. and to endeavor
to show the best possible results.
This was in the winter of 1928. when
coal was yet comparatively cheap.
$iNrHe kept that house at an average
Temperature of So degrees for seven
months and ten days al a cost of $40
for coal. IS for cord wood that was
used in crate. more for cheeriness
than anything else. He used nine and
two-ffths tons Of coal at q cost OF
$4.2b a ton
THAT mans cost of heating was
from $50 TO 500 less than what was
= expended by large number OF house
holders living in the same locality and
having the same heating requirements
And IL was that much less than thou
sands OF other citizens throughout the
United States.
.-The problem now Is that II the Yale
professor. by careful. intelligent fir.
Ing OF his furnace. can save from s5(
to 300 year over his neighbors wher
the cost Of coal was low, how mucr
can he and other citizens who car,
tot try save with coal costing in man,
tnsfances twice as much and more?
III am going to leave that to III,
Z average citizen TO actually work OF
himself. All ] can say is that IN,
b Yale professors record was a tru,
one, and that IT can be duplicated b,
4 any one who wishes to give his fur
mace the same Intelligent considera
ton. Since that time the bureau ha
many times duplicated the perform
Ance OF the Yale professor. and know
thatSit can be done"