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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-02-05, Page 7..CENTRAL TR HEATING ly hi the citlese of Toronto sari Monks qq��** //''�� r �* Aithateeli the application of methods �� CANADA of ceat'rali7.ed heating alone iiTay not �® be looked upon as a considerable fac^ �„ tor,in`'ti}e solution of the "Fuel Prob-` leis 1'n, the proviiices..of Ontario and FUEL BOARD COMPLETES- .Quebec, -:nevertheless the replacement INVESTIGATION. ' at small t-nthracite btrning units . by centralized planta bur ring low-grade fuels will contribute towards the re• 1 ductionin importations from the a United States r ' high-priced enth{ra- Icite coal which is so rapidly becoming a of 11 detenn nate ,avalla- I bility, ' I. • •° Dross of Earth. The fault of most biography is that it represents the one who sits for the portraiture as incapable of wrong and innocent of failure. We are given :what Henley called • a chocolate Dandy or barley sugar seraph in place of the real :man with blood in his arteries and human frailties and passions. That is a mistake, against which Owen Wister !lodged his protest when he wrote "The Seven Ages of Washington." Recent- ly a biography appeared which, in des- cribing the earlier career of a well - beloved English author, makes it ap- pear that he was a prodigal son and an ingrate given to dissolute courses and impervious to rebuke. But It doss not fail to show that' the later man grandly redeemed the old Adam and left an example of the triumph of the spirit over bodily weakness that will inspire mankind more than the printed book of the writer through all days to come. We are, in fact, more likely to be edified by the stories of failure than by those ,of°shining and complete suc- cess. A play recently seen. in this city statrfzed the average "uplift" story of the greenhorn who breaks into a busi- ness and goes by leaps and bounds to the top. The young .hero is seen attending a directors' meeting, des- cribing to his approving elders the story of his rapid ascent of the ladder and moving them to sucb enthusiasm that they jump to their feet and press upon him checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars. That is the way it happens in romance. In real life men must work for what they get. They must expect crushing defeat. They must learn to "meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same." And men are not as gods nor as an- gels. There is dross in their makeup, and they must pass through the refin- er's lire of adversity that shall bring out the best that is in them They must expect to endure hardness as good soldiers Grave peril to the soul it is to find a place where no storms come, and there is nothing but the" lazy pleasaunce•'of a tropic isle as one drifts anddawdles through the unre- sisting hours. - There are human beings:who seem so• good .one 'can hardly imagine any need or mode of improvement; but they know how imperfect they are. We call them saints, and they are fairly be- wildered; for they know not that their faces are radiant of the spirit of good- ness that is a lamp within. . We know nothing of. the battle they fought ere they won to the peace we see, but they could tell us that they came out of great tribulation and ate the bread of weariness and tears before joy carne with the light of the morning. - Low-grade Fuels Can be Uti ized in Central Plants ---A Service of the Future. That central and district heating can be profitably employed to a consider- able extent in Canada and that the sup- plying of heat as a public utility in the denser.' sectious of 'cities and towns may be looked for as a general ser- vice of the future are among the sali- ent points brought out by the investi- gation into central heating recently completed by the Dominion Fuel Board. A widespread interest was found in the subject and -much infor- mation, of practical value in .the eon- -sideration of any particular applica tion, has been compiled and is con- tained in the Board's report. The present high cost of fuel and' the frequent disturbances in domestic fuel supplies have led to considerable attention being given to possible economies and benefits to be derived from centralized heating. In almost every civilized country, during some period of the year, artificial heat is needed in dwellings, and buildings re: quired for modern social and commer- cial Iife. The supply of such heat be- comes a very large, in fact a vital, fac- toi• to contend with in northern cli- mates where temperatures;are low. during the winter and where the heat _ing season extends over 'more than half of the entire year. Tinder these conditions, efficient and economical methods of heating and utilization of fuels are of particular importance, and demand the meet careful attention and study, both from the standpoint of the conservation of fuel and other natural resources, and of the health, comfort, and budget of the country and the individual. 40% Used for Heating. Particularly is this the case in Cana- da, where nearly forty per. cent. of the entire coal consumed is used for heat- ing and where over sixty per cent. of the total ooal consumed is imported, in spite of the fact that the Dominion possesses immense resources of coal' within her awn borders Economic and geographic conditions have neces- sitated the ;importation of the large percentage of coal. The moat highly Industrialized section of the country Is in the provinces of Ontario and Que- bec where there is. an abundance of • water -power for the generation of elec.:' tricity. These provinces are fairly close to the large anthracite and bit- uminous coal -fields of the United States, but a consirerable distance from Canadian coal areas. `Hence the bulk of the imported coal is used in these provinces. Various methods of heating have been adopted and developed indif- ferent countries dependent upon the climatic conditions and' the require- ments and progress of the inhabitants. The tendency in recent years, es- pecially on the continent, has been to-. wards .centralization of heating plants, the heat being distributed through pipes by the medium of steam or bot water to serve groups of buildings, or, as a public utility, entire sections of cities. As a general utility service, eentral heating replaces the wasteful methods of burning fuel in a multi- tude of s,niail.heating units, Each pro- gressive step in other pubile services bas nvolved. an increased cost to the neer, but the additional comfort and convenience therefrom have been suf- ficient to warrant a general adoption. So with the supplying of ]seat. The advantages of district heating are ap- parent and in general niay be stated as being; to the user: cleanliness; com- • !ort; health convenience, safety, and saving in spate and furnace equip- ment; " and to the community: econo- • my in fuel consumption, possible use of,low-grade fuels, and appreciation in rental values of property. Groups of Buildings. In many cases central or district e heating can be advantageously ;com- biped with the generation of 'elec- tricity from steam stations, the steam being supplied for heating after it has passed through the engines or tur- bines driving the electric generators. In addition to actual heating service steam can also bo supplied from large central stations' for the requirements of laundries, hotels, manufacturles, and for rniscellane.ous industrial pur- poses with the same advantages, and as a rule ttt a lower cost than steam generated by small independent boil- ers.. However the introclttetion of eerie tial heating in any- partitttlar locality should be preceded by a detailed and careful study of local conditions and df the factors bearing upon the prob lem in order that there may be res. sortable assurance of financial sue. after. Central heating las been adopted in Canada to a considerable, extent for groups of institutional buldings," As. representative of the large central heating installations maY be Mention- ed the University o Toronto (27 buildtges) ; the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa (7 buildings); Magill tint eierelty, Montreal (g buildings); ,Al - belles 1Tniversity,-Iedmiinntoii (1d hti)lit- inge); and Queen's University had.' 1$ingeepti 1-lospitaleIeingsten (22 builds Ings). •,l!;xahilP0e 1 eminthufiity heat. 'rig in ('atnnrlaa, aro to be aeon eririoip'ai- Roiinance of the Bank Book. An English writer recommends a bank book as good reading and adds: "The general reader will find therein a demonstration of the weakess of human resolves and the vanity of hu- man wishes." That, however, is only one side of the story. There are bet- ter things to be found in most bank books. For example, you can find in thein' evidences of love and self -sacra flee and heroic thrift—a sum with- drawn to keep a boy in college, en- other,to help a friend in distress; fre- quent deposits. perhaps of a few dol- lars, hard-earned, hard -saved, made In an effort to .lay' up something against. old age. To get the real significance of a bank book you frust read it with sympathetic imagination. The Oldest Animtals. Efforts are to be made to prevent extermination of the great tortoises on the Galapagos Islands, believed to be the oldest living animals, by finding a refuge for thein on some desert is- land near the 'United •States. Dr. William Beebe, the naturalist, told the National Geographical Society at Washington that the tortoises, some of which were in existence before Columbus came to America in 1492, are rapidly being killed off for oil, and will disappear• unless an isle of refuge is found. Accounted for it, Uo Doubt. Grocer ---"Eggs hit rook bottom, madam, 1 ,st Week." 7rady 'Tlien.that accounts for -why nialee of those Fats sent rooted Were *slaked," life o a The average'goats is about 12 years. "I TIRE WORSEr T TO (ANT VERANDA AND WINDOW BOXES V��,y 1NF�RK The t'me is close at hand for the planting of this season's porch and window -boxes, Make your window, box of pne-inch boards, at least one fpot wide and one foot deep; The length will depend on the width of the window,. Fill the eo;t to within one inoh of the toy with ordinary gar, den learn. To this •you will need to • add a little fertilizer from time to time for the planta will exbaust the nous ishment of the. soil. Bone -meal, liquid manure; fertilizer tablets, etc, are ex- eellent stimillants fort, this purpose; but you must bear in mind that liquid manure should never come in contact • with begonias, , t Study the location of your window - box; and •don't make the mistake of planting in a shaded place, the flow- ers which love sunlight—devote such. positions to ferns and palms. Reserve your porch and window -boxes for the choice varieties; choose the flowers. that are long blooming, and be sure that their size and color will harnson- ize when' grouped. Of the general plants, a great num- ber are suitable for box culture. The following are among the most popu- lar: Ageratum, antirrliinum, begonia, caladium, candytuft, coleus, crotop, fuchsia, geralitistx, heliotrope, lantana, moneywort, pansy, petunia, phlox, nas- turtium, .mignonette, salvia, sweet ails - sum, verbena, and ferns and palms. Young potted plants should not be transferred to the window -box im- mediately mmediately after they are received from the ovist; give ,their roots a cbonce to % i1l1l(11Illil111II I1NI1t rt, R/\\ GARDEN By David Churchill a d the mu'eh-debated question of when to develop before you transplant ,help• .And don't set them out until a` den+ ger from frost iii passed; a slztld e re' turn of cold weather might amara them permanently, Although plants are grouped more closely in a window -bob, than would be in a garden -bed, they Meet not be overcrowded, or the 'effect of the whole will be lost and the progress of each plant handicapped. If they are inclinedeto be spindly, cut them back to induce atockinese. The pinch- ing off of the first buds which appear will strengthen the plant; and the fre- quent culling of subsequent blooms ' will produce a greater profusion of flowers. A very charming effect may be had by planting vines at the back and front of the box. Manettia, for in- stance, along the outer edge wt11 soon droop gracefully over the box very ef- fectively. Climbing vines planted at the back may be trained up each Bede of the window; and they may even be made to serve as an awning if.a frame is placed at the top of the window tor therm to climb upon. Climbing vines from porch -boxes should always be furnished with supports, String sup- ports are no doubt the easiest and most available; but it is far more ef- fective to build a light trellis • of laths. Pleasing results may be obtained by arranging the strips to extend from the back pf the box^to the top of the porch, like the ribs 'of an open fan. Lobedia, usanettia, inaurandya, morn- ing-glory, saxifrage, and wild cucuin ber are popular vines for box culture. Too much stress can not be laid up- on the importance of proper watering when flower --boxes are concerned. For The winds of January howled round the house and slapped together the limbs of the bi;g maple. Sleet -beat tattoo on the window panes Mary had gone to ber, so .I drew my"chair to the fire and sat down with my garden notebook. It was too early in the year for new catalogues with their gay covers and their inflammatory Iiterature. It was too early in all conscience to plan a garden, but I couldn't wait a 'day long- er, 1 simply could not keep out ofmy garden. Before I opened my notebook I heard boots on the scrapper outside the door and Neighbor drifted in with. a gust wind and..sieet. He blew on. his hands and asked if I were busy.: 1 drew him a chair. "Making straw garden," I answered hire; "you're just in time," "Straw garden.? How do you get that—straw garden?" he asked. "Straw vote—straw .garden: Great est of indoor sports." Neiglibor'sat down and suet had hi feet to the• blaze, "Go on with your plantin','.' he said, "your ground ain't -frozen more'n a foot deep:' The wilder the night end the colder it is, the better for streak gardening,' Neighbor took up my notebook, open on• the table. He read aloud: "Go back to first garden plan, 70- by. 70 feet, fenced., A little more work but considering time spent chasing out neighbor hens and dogs, no loss" "My hens?" he gnerried. "No;" I told him. "Pacific Coast hens." He studied my diagram,. A lot of work, he agreed. "But," I explained, "it means a vege- table garden pretty as a posy. bed-- laid out like one, with paths where I can take my friends when I want to show off." "Remember you've got an asparagus bed title year as well ,as young trees to take care of," he suggested after I, had finished, "1 am remembering -1 never forget. It makes me warns on cold nights and happy on dull days; It makes ingay and young, just to think of those trees out there, clipped and collared with tar paper, their buds all set for the. first spring clay." "Mary feel like that?" "Only more so." 1 ed; me; "it will cut off most of the run- ner,s for you. And if you keep the a, hills fourteen inches apart you can use them for markers top and bottom i of the bed. It makes a good distance for carrot rows and most of the' little ! stuff. An a multiple of fourteen would be good for anything else—corn, tali ipeas, tomatoes." "About resetting strawberries the 'third year--" "'Let them set a runner between and grub out the old plant in the fall. You " say you don't mind the work." a "`I don't mind. There is more satis- faction ina garden that is beautiful, complete, inclosed and laid out with paths bordered with bloom and fruit. Even in the fall when most things I were brown, that border was bright as a sugar tree. We really had more out of that square garden 70 by 70 than we everhad before or since." Becauseyou had to plan close and r. -� keep sueceaslon going; and""be cause you pile i .ouS taae.- iaiu „aPlix.�f'=e"ept turning it over and ever," Neighbor said. Then he picked - \up my plan. "Now this -diagram—with the space off" for bushes and rhubarb and for the 1 path all round leaves 62 by 62. ` Is 1 that a path across the middle?" . "Yes, two feet wide. "Sixty-two by sixty-two divided by 1 a two -foot path that crosses in the •' middle, leaves four beds thirty feet 1 square;" "Go to it," said my neighbor;. • "Go. right to it. Anything to make the girls happy." "That garden 70 by 70 was the near est available ground to the house. There was just a lane between it and the kitchen, a green lane down to th•e, lake. Mary's sweet peas had the fence outside. She says she got out into the gardori a hundred times as often be- cause it was so toar---that have no idea how 11 r; sic her to run out a min- ute and pick a dish of berries, choose.'' her -yegelablee, a sprig of parsley, She says it helps -her feed us better•." Neighbor nodded, • "That ground near the house ain't much but'. clay; Have to fatten it up," he suggested. 'Better make your gate big enough to let the wagon go through with au iuure if you are going to plant berry bushes" all round next the fence as you show here, You can have a small gate, too,,, a light one for the womenfolks. Neigh- bor lost his wifo. Now there isn't much flavor to bis success. "I've got•dead chestnut you could use for that seat 1 see," he said, "and for a couple of uprighl,s to held a cross• piece for the .grapevine." I was wondering if the path round the garden, inside the, berry bashes,; ought to be four and a half feet in- -Stead of roar feet, as I had it. Also 'libout; the hill system I treed with the strawberry borders along the sides of my lnl.ths—it was .a nu eedeo .because. Of the bother of keening r•unuers down, "You've got ogre' of those trew-fang- led cultivators now," Neighbor remind., "What's to go in those thirty-foot I beds to satisfy hill appetites?" , L read: "First plot, ten rows of seed onions, fourteen inches apart They.1 could be a foot, but I will keep them • to the strawberry markers this year. 1 Next cone five rows of early carrots, ' five ,of early beets, two rows of early cabbage plants set alternating with head lettuce plants between the rows and between the plants in th row, i '•'The• onions will be ripened in time I to plant winter spinach in September; F the 'early carrots will give place to 1 top -set onions for winter and the early beets to the last planting of lettuce in' August, • "The whole Plot will be'under culti- vation at the same time and be leaf mulched to last for our tabe as late as possible." "Across the centre path; the next plot reads: Early radish followed by cauliflower ---the same spacing as the cabbage and lettuce in the first plot; then five rows of late beets; five rows of late carrots; six rows of early and three of medium peas, planted at the 1 same time and followed by bush beans and, at the far side, by tomatoes. All these harvest together after the frost, so the bed can be spadded and en-' ricked for the next Year.The lower plot reads, beginning water, noother guide than one's own again nearest the house; Two double judgment can be given. The earth in rows of tall peas, planted with the a box is exposed, so to speak, on all i earlies; one more double row as soon sides, and evaporation is much more as the first ones appear, and then one rapid than it would be in the garden - !more a little later, and so on in sue- bed. In most instances we find only a cession. The last two rows in this quart of water given when a gallon is plot are for early beans. The space in 1 required. The eon should be thorough- this plot, as soon as vacated, is to re ly saturated once a day, and in ex- ceive late culiflower, cabbage, possibly trenrely hot weather, twice each day, sprouts, kohl-rabi and kale, with and the surface should at all times be celery near the centre path. kept broken up to conserve the mole - "Across that path there are three tore. It frequently happens that in rows of early turnips, which are to drying out the earth recedes from the be -followed by late beans; then three sides of the box, Ieaving an aperture rows of bush Limas, to be followed by into which the water runs without pass, ing through the earth. If the earth is graded a little higher at the sides than in the centre the water will be eon- centrated and forced to soak -through it, If you find it difficult to grow plants in certain unfavorable locations, sub- stitute a . shallow window -box for the tomato cans, waiting for those early deep one and place potted plants` with - peas to get out, •' Sixty plant; for a in it"' They can then be removed to u i 1 = u"•:g „....ate them eighteen inches between rows—" 1t, they show signs of weakening. "What, you mean sixty plants— spinach: Also there are three rows of early potatoes, to be followed by spinach. The. rest of the space was left vacant for sprouted sweet corn. "Where are your •cucumbers? And tomatoes?. , he demanded. "My tomatoes? Ah, there they are, sitting about among the bushes in eighteen inches?" Neighbor. •demand- Fish Catch of the World. ed, military style," T said. "I once saw According to the most authoritative an officer's garden—a war garden, two .estimate the total fish catch of the by twice. They were supported on a 1 world is valued at over $1,000,000,000 frame. Two slender poles were stuck (a year, in the ground a few feet apart and 1 That represents the price the eon— connected at the top with a slender 1 sumer pays, and includes charges for crosspiece. Below this crosspiece at cold storage, dealers' profits, and so regular intervals were attached three on. rectangular frames. The tomatoes, Japan leads the world as a fish - naked of a single leaf, starting direct- 1 eating nation, her catch totalling for ly below the lowest rail—or frame-- the year about $90,000,000. The United were trained out and round the second,States comes next, with just over $85,- inward again over the third and cross- 000,000; France third, with rather less ed from both sides at the top where I than $8a";000,000; and Spain fourth, they were cut off. Each tomato plant with $70,000,000., Britain comes next, set three to four bunches—all they with about the same value, can ripen • before frost—and when I) The value of fish per hundredweight first saw them the whple frame was a l has Fallen greatly in recent years. A mass of fruit, green and ripening," year or two ago Britain's catch was My neighbor stood up and stretched valued at $90,000,000. himself, ! During recent years there has been "Do you. grow your cucumbers on I a big increase in the amount of cepa poles," he asked, "or on the fence?" it invested in the industry, the United "Neither. T need the fence for pole i States alone having added nearly $25,- beans and Italian squash. I grow_the 000,000 to the value of her fishing - cucumbers on a slat frame, raised to boats, nets, and so on. let them hang through," Most of the world's fish stipple He shook hishead,�•optned the door. I C,OInes from the shallow banks neat I closed him out and the warmth in, t the shores of the continents. It is Half an hour yet before Mary would 'here that the fish live; and it is well call me to bed. Trine to take every- that they do so, for fishing on a large thing out of my garden as I would a I scale is much easier in such places trunk that must be repacked. Time to plow, lsarrow, drag and plant it all over again . and yet again for two months to come, No Baby Carriages, Pusdiing baby carriages on the side- walk is an offense against the law in London, although prosecution seldom occurs. 1)1,' 1). :11 fsoi can, de'ruly medic it officer of a Municipality in Tngland, 1 t eal es sure that the r„hi dret ie h.is clistriirt have no teeth troublos. 'Ile • ra.Vela with a motet van giving illustrated lectures, than it would be in the deep seas. Notes About Noses. One of the purposes of the nose is to raise the temperature and humidity of inhaled air before it enters the lungs. The colder and drier the air, the great- er reater the need for this function, so that in a race which has lived long in a cold, dry environment the nasal pass- ages become long, and the nose high and narrow. After migration from one type of en- vironment to the other the adjustment is not immediate, but takes many geeranttons. Thus, the high, narrow noses of the dominant Castes in India indicate that the latter are compara- tively reset immigrants from the north. Fossil skulis found in Europe indi- cate very high, narrow noses during the Ice Age, gradually becoming short - or 'and broader as the climate im- p.roved, Hatters Had Union, Journeyman hatters in lsngktnd furl a trade union as early as 1667. What Orange Pecoe Means. Tile label "Orange Pecos" means the sire of the cored' leaf and not the pate ticelar kind or quality of tea. On only twwe estates in a3uglitrii• Daierisain,. in:Cumberland, lard Dun - combo, un -combo' P ti'k, in Yorkshire -tan deer. stalking, Mealier to the sport of the Scottish Highlands, be enjoyed. 4 4