Engineering Review Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...the entire expense to the exhibitor from the time of the arrival of the exhibit In New York until its return thereto, excepting he orders it shipped elsewhere. Minimum charge for any article exhibited will be $100, and for book, pamphlet or drawing, $25. It is not possible to conceive how any individual exhibitor can attain corresponding results by his personal efforts in careful canvassing, thorough interpretation, distribution of printed matter and constant attention to all visitors, ' with strong endeavors-to make sales without an increase in expenditure beyond all proportion. All exhibitors will be notified a mouth, or as much in advance as possible, of the visiting of the Juries of Award, so that each visitor can visit Paris at his own expert and explain his own exhibit to the juries, should he care so to do, and thus avoid waste of time. Exhibitors also have the privilege of placing their own representative in charge of their exhibit, the expense thereof being assured and paid by such exhibitor. This explanation, as I said before, gives Report of School-House Committee. UEPORT ON THE HEATING OP SCHOOLS IN PHILADELPHIA. PRESENTED AT ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY, 1899. OBDRttKD PRINTED FOR DISCUSSION AT SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING. KY J. GORMLY. Philadelphia heated and ventilated her first school in 1683. by means of openhearlh wood fires at each end of every room in a two-story building. The air was changed so frequently that a constant breeze traversed the rooms, mercifully tempered in its effect on the students by the leather clothing then in fashion. We have few schools to-day.-after a lapse of two centuries, in which the change of air is so complete, although we have many heating and ventilating systems in use. The magnitude of tne heating and..