HEAT AND VENTILATION. 



which is imbecility, are kept in moderate vigor by compelling the roots to labor for a livin 

 amid pounded soil, which is to them the being pastured on " short commons." 



L. Young. 



Springdale, Ky., ]85i. 



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Heat and Ventilation; general observations on the atmosphere and its Abuses, as 

 connected with the common or popular mode of heating public and private buildings, 

 together with practical suggestions for the best mode of warming and veniilati7ig. 

 Rochester, D. M. Dewey, Arcade Hall. 

 Believing, as we do, that the intemperance of breathing bad air, is a national curse in 

 America, which is, at the present moment, hurrying a thousand-fold more victims annual- 

 ly to the grave, than any other species of intemperance, we hail with pleasure Sixiy symp- 

 toms of awakening attention to the condition in which so many millions of our country- 

 men voluntarily pass so large a part of their lives. 



The work whose title we have just named, is an unpretending pamphlet of 59 pages, 

 published by D. M. Dewey, at Rochester. It is mainly occupied with a very simple and 

 clear statement of the necessity to the health of the human system, of pure air, and some 

 system of ventilation in our dwelling houses. The wholesale system of poisoning men, 

 M^omen and children, daily going on all over the country, by tight coal stoves, and where- 

 ever one travels in cars and steamboats, by little "salamanders" of red-hot iron, and 

 wherever one goes to a crowded lecture room or place of public amusement, by the con- 

 tinual heating over of the poisonous carbonic acid gas expired from the lungs — these are 

 the topics which the author of this pamphlet, like ourselves, and others who have hand- 

 led this subject, dwells upon, with wonder that intelligent beings can overlook their im- 

 portance. If there is any "infernal machine" in America, it is a close stove that becomes 

 red hot. We have preached from this text — (and we believe not without some effect, since 

 we notice a stove-maker in Ohio advertises a ventilating stove, expressly intended to obvi- 

 ate the objections we have urged,) and we hope the press everywhere will take up the cru- 

 sade, until this cursed invention to poison the pure air of heaven is utterly banished from 

 the land. We shall quote for the benefit of our readers, what the author of this pamph- 

 let has to say about the matter : 



' But when we reflect upon the fact, that throughout the whole country, as soon as 

 fuel becomes a little scarce, the open fire place in any and every form, is pretty geneially 

 closed to give place to the stove; we meet an evil which has been growing upon us for the 

 last quarter of a centur}^ to an alarming extent. It is, hoAvever, true that in large towns, 

 particularly where coal is ensily obtained, the open grate in the best class of houses is 

 quite generally used. The business of stove-making in most of the large towns in this 

 State and tliroughout the country, has become quite the leading branch of manufacturing. 

 Any one who will take the trouble to visit such establishments in xMbany, Troy, Utica, 

 Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Rochester, Lockport, and Buffalo, will, if unacquainted with the 

 business, be astonished bj^ the nuuibei- which are annually turned out from these various 

 establishments. The infinile varietj-, the taste and skill displayed not only in their ex- 

 ternal appearance, but in their fuel-saving qualities, demonstrate that the demand must 

 be almost unlimited. The venerable Dr. Nott, of Union College, andProf. Olmstead, of 

 Haven, and many other intelligent gentlemen, have devoted a great deal of time, la- 

 and practical philosophy to the invention of stoves which would give off the greatest 



