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[page 712] Ques. Do you now think it would be any benefit to have a night engineer. Ans. I do. Ques. If there is ample heat now both by day and by night, why increase the force. Ans. I did not intend to answer that I thought there was enough by night. I think it should be warmer by night. Ques. Have you examined the night record to see in the oddest days this winter, how law at anytime in the night the mercury has fallen. Ans. I have not. Ques. You would not keep the temperature as warm by night as by day. Ans. I think the lodges and those cases where they will not keep on their clothing require more heat. Ques. Have you observed the fact that the thermometer has not registered lower than 62 at the extreme in the dead of the coldest night this winter. Ans. That is what we were told at the meeting. Ques. Is not that the actual record kept. Ans. I suppose it is. Ques. It runs from 62 up to 69 and 70. Ans. I could not say. I have not examined myself, but I was told by the officers that it did. Ques. Whether you desire the committee to understand that you regard a temperature by night, at the coldest time of the night averaging from 62 to 70 as a