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1053.

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

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