ELIMINATING KITCHEN ODORS 



microbe may hide. It was fitted with curved drawers and a metal 

 framework with hooks for cooking utensils. 



The range, a combination coal, gas, and electric, with a glass 

 hood, kept this important corner light and wholesome. Pressure 

 of a button operated a fan in the ventilating flue, sending all odors 

 within twenty feet skyward. Another flue at ceiling height captured 

 any escapes. On the range was a thermometer and under it an ash 

 flue. In another house the range connected by metal tube with a 

 cellar metal ash barrel. A tight fitting collar joint and duplicate 

 ash can made the scheme a success. 



A copper boiler connected with the range by brass piping had 

 in spite of plumbers' ridicule a safety valve, as well as mud cocks, 

 and when careless cooks set it to hammering we listened with calm 

 complacency. We found copper boilers heated water in record time. 



A gas heating appliance fitted to the range boiler means less 

 danger to health than when used in the confined space of a bathroom.* 

 There w r as also a hot water heater in the basement. 



The enameled steel built-in kitchen cabinet was easily hosed. 



Chimney breast we faced with white enamel brick, and 

 against the wall over the range hung a metal box in which to keep 

 floor cloths, scrub brushes, etc. With pipe ventilation into the chim- 

 ney, they were always dry, clean, and odorless. A gas garbage 

 incinerator fed its fumes into the chimney flue. 



Sinks were seamless porcelain, broad and deep to curtail break- 

 age, and set six inches higher than usual, saving many a backache, 

 and a silent protest to the manufacturer who, in order to place sinks 

 under window sills, invariably makes them too low for comfort. We 

 also used the hotel device for dish washing, eliminating the insanitary 

 dish towel, as well as economizing time. 



A grease trap under the kitchen sink not only saved soap grease 

 but helped to prevent clogged pipes. 



Eliminating Kitchen Odors. 



In Pinnacle was completely solved one bete noir of housekeepers, 

 kitchen odors, which were absolutely controlled not only by means 

 of a glass hood, electric up-chimney fan and two widely separated 

 doors in butler's pantry, but by a narrow passage between it and the 

 kitchen with low funnel-shaped ceiling beginning at door top and 

 centreing an electrically fanned flue leading into an exceptionally 

 large ventilating chimney flue holding in its centre by crossed irons 

 the tiled range flue. The air lifting brick chamber did yeoman work 

 in kitchen, billiard room and bathroom, and was largely responsible 

 for our free-from-odor-house, while the funnel-ceilinged corridor was 

 the court of last resort for kitchen odors from which there was no 

 other appeal. 



'"Deoxidized air under the above conditions recently caused the death of one who did not 

 know the danger. 



