Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-12
LOCAL COMMENT

This Is the day that the joys of the
Ice man and of the coal man meet and
embrace and pass down the street arm
In arm. Their common interests In a
cold January draw them close together.
These are the days In which the man
with an diversified heating plant reaps
100 Fer cent reward upon his extra in
ves:mcnt in the fuel he saves. When
drafts must be kept open all day and
most Of the night much fuel goes
up the chimney in the forced draft be-
fore it has been burned to give of heat.
In the case Of steam or hot water heat
the original investment for over-sizing
Is in extra radiators as we'll as boiler
capacity, but II permits of getting the
heat without raising the steam or
water to an extreme temperature which
saves fuel. In the case of furnace
the pipes, registers and labor cost OF
installation are not changed when a
larger furnace Is used and they US
ually constitute more than half OF the
total cost OF a furnace heating plant.
Less than SIS extra at the time OF in
stallation Will obtain one size larger in
the furnace. about $40 would buy two
sizes larger than average heating re-
quirements would demand. but the ex-
tr2 cost will be saved once a year on
the fuel consumed. Steam and hot
water engineers claim that 800 invest
ed for over sizing a $500 plant would
save $50 to $50 per year on the fuel
consumed, b!Ch Is 20 per cent on the
extra money invested and the comfort
OF having enough reserve power in the
plan. - meet twenty below weather
conditions IS worth something. We
have all heard of the utility and saving
in over sized tires and we all know
what a comfort it is to have reserve
power enough in the motor to take ev-
cry hill on high and many Of us glad
ly pay 81, 900 extra for a car like that,
a car which is gone in the fifth year.
One-tenth part of that sum invested
in over-s!zins a heating plant will last
twenty years and pay for itself in fuel
saved besides the comfort it gives.
Pool hall Droprietors have caught the
spirit of the hour and Will give mite
toward conservation. Instead Of heat
iEg and lighting their places until such
unholy hours as y and l o'clock al
night they have agreed TO close at II
o'clock The BARRIERS are going to close
at 6 D. m, and the merchants already
are closing at o'clock, which will give
these last tive classes an eight TO ten
hour day. II the pool halls desire to
use tn" evening hours they should stay
closed until afternoon or else cut down
to an earlier night closing yet How
ever, what they propose to do is purely
voluntary and they arc entitled to re-
spect for small contributions to the
cause.
The ice man is beset with a conser
Walton problem, too. He has been noti-
aCd Nv the government to cut all the
r atural ice he possibly can for he may
be Gonied coal for the making Of arti-
fetal ice. The Marshall Ice Company
Is now advertis ing for men to cut ice
at wages ten &c forty per cent higher
tnan were paid last year and its crop
O. river zee Will be made just as large
as men can be found to cut It. Just
now the men are so scarce that the
ice man IS worried.
The Red Cross committee has at
last discovered why the high school
students did not turn in more than 500
members in their house to house drive.
When all the returns were in and
counted it was found that a total OF
6. 1874 members had been reported. AS
this is almost two for every, house III
town there was not much territory left
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