isa-normaladvance-1903-00063

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE.63The average for these eight years was $767.12.During the period covered by the figures givenabove, the institution was heating about eighthundred thousand cubic feet of space, and thefiring was done in the ordinary way. At this timethe stokers described above were put in. The coalbill dropped to $537.71 for the year ending October 31, 1893. The next year it was $502.91. Forthe year ending October 31, 1895, it was $603.29.The average for these three years after the stokerswere put in, when the conditions were the same,was $548.97, asaving of $218.15 per year. Thiswas in round numbers one-half the cost of thestokers for the two boilers.A new building was completed at this timewhich is about three-fifths as large as the mainbuilding, giving a combined capacity of thirteenhundred thousand cubic feet. The cost of heating the two buildings by years from October 31st,has been as follows:For the year ending October 31, 1896, $573.54.For the year ending October 31, 1897, $634.68.For the year ending October 31, 1898, $646.69.For the year ending October 31, 1899, $825.92.For the year ending October 31, 1900, $725.80.For the year ending October 31, 1901, $1,313.06.For the year ending October 31,1902, $1,227.59.Prior to the last two years the cheap grade ofcoal used was delivered in the boiler house at lessthan $1.00 per ton. For the year 1901, $1.24 perton was paid, and during the year ending October31, 1902, $1.15 was paid. It should be added thatduring the last two-thirds of the year 1902, the institution has made its own light by means of alarge dynamo run by its own power, and that,while the coal bill is much larger than it wouldotherwise have been, the combined cost of heatingand lighting is very low. A saving of severalhundred dollars on the two items has been effected. At the present time coal is costing $1.50per ton, and it is probable that the coal bill for thenext year will be in the neighborhood of $1,500,but when it is remembered that a million,and one-third cubic feet of space is kept perfectly warmand comfortable for a body of students and children, that the institution is running a dynamo andmaking its own electric light, and that the bathrooms connected with the gymnasia are constantlysupplied with an abundance of hot water, it willbe seen that this is being done at a very low cost.A careful study of the subject makes it clearthat the following advantages have resulted fromthe use of the stokers: A steadier fire is maintained and a more perfectly heated building iskept. A combustion of the coal so nearly perfectis secured as to leave not to exceed ten per cent,of the former amount of smoke to issue from thesmoke stack. The fireman is not kept so constantly at the boilers, and the coal bills have beenreduced from 20 to 25 per cent.An Unexpected Treasure.Carriages were whirling by on the pavementoutside, for the bright Sunday afternoon of theearly fall had tempted many forth.It was now three oclock and Bob had sat pouring over his Trigonometry since dinner. True, itwas to be handed in at eight in the morning, butfor some reason he had been unable to make anyperceptible progress in these three whole hours.A face he had seen in church that morning camepersistently between his eyes and those uninteresting pages before him.Alice had looked bewitching that morning inher gown of pink and black as she stood in thefamily pew between her father and mother. Tohim her sweet, simple attitude of devotion hadpreached a sermon of far greater value than hadthe eloquent voice from the pulpit. As the picture grew more vivid before him, he gave the
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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