The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-13
SAYING OF FUEL
Nv HOMES URGED
Director of the Bureau of Mines in the
Department of the Interior Thinks
100000 Tons Could Be
Saved Annually in Amer
lean Homes.

Washington. d. c. Feb. l3- Five way:
of saving fuel in heating houses are de
scribed in timely report just made
by the bureau of mines, department OF
the interior.
Van II. Manning, director of the bli
reau, declares that while the country il
facing shortage of coal it is the patri-
otto duty of every citizen to save coal
in the heating of his home. He esti-
mates that there are about 10000, 900
homes in this country and that if every
body uses ordinary intelligence and care
a ton of coal can be saved easily at each
home during this year. For the entire
country this saving would amount to
about 20000000 tons of coal, which ia
nearly as much as all the coal mined
in France during the year 1917.
The report describes the most econom-
zeal method of burning different types Of
coal, anthracite, bituminous and bril-
quets. It also explains the meaning Of
draft regulations and the necessity of
studying your furnace. 1t is suggested
that in heating houses considerable fuel
can be saved by keeping the temperature
in the house uniform and five to ten de-
grees lower than is customary; instead
Of the temperature being between 20 to
IA degrees, it can be kept at 81 to 6S
degrees without discomfort or any dan
ger to health, especially if the air in the
rooms is kept moist
The keeping of the temperature down
means the saving of Ii to 20 per cent of
the fuel and ii may also mean a saving
on the doctors bill. 1t is also fuel saved
by doing less work. The American peo.
pie are urged to save fuel by heating
fewer rooms in the house. In many
houses the family can get along comfort
ably by keeping warm three or four
rooms instead of heating six or seven
rooms.
The report further states: IF one
stops to think that So per cent of the |
families in Berlin Germany live, sleep. |
cook and eat in the same ROOM living !
in three or four warm rooms will seem a |
If consumptiyes can get well |
by sleeping outdoors, why could not well !
people keep well by sleeping in unheat- |
ed bedrooms with the windows wide |
open?
'In some homes the furnace is started |
too early in the fall and is run too late
in the spring. The ehimneys of these
homes are belching smoke and spreading
SCOT over their neighborhood, while the
neighbors keep windows and doors open
to the outside air and even sit ON the
front porches. These faint hearted peo-
pie in their fear of catching cold heat
heir houses unnecessarily; thus they
waste the country's coal. increase their
'oal bills. invite sickness into their
homes, and make life unpleasant to their
leighbors When mornings and evenings
ire chilly CRATE fire for a short time in
me or two rooms will make the house
Every householder by endeavoring to
ave coal in the ways suggested cap rem
Ter his country valuable service, and he
viii not be doing his full duty toward
n country unless he renders such serv-
re as he can. In addition. he should
emember that besides helping his eoun-
~ he will help to shorten the misery
nd the horror of the great war