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believe entirely, and it is there admitted by registers with valves into these halls out of which the lodge rooms open, and by these registers you can exclude the heat entirely if you wish to or nearly so, and admit as much as you choose. Then of course the amount of heat can be regulated by the amount of steam that passes into this coil. How I wish to be understood so say that there has been no change excepting the renewal of old parts that wear out, in the condition of those lodges, since I have known them, which began early in 1874. There has been one change and that is to this effect; Up to some time about the beginning of this cold weather this winter the lodges had been heated in this way I have described, and the fires under the boilers had been run to a late hour in such nights as seemed to require it, being under the control of the superintendent. And he would give his olders as to the time the fires should be run