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1072 Q. Take this matter of heat, You have arranged it now with a great deal of trouble? A. Very little trouble, beg your pardon, cost about $15 a piece to make the change. That change has been in contemplation for years. Q. From the time you first went there until now you have been making improvements clear from the boiler through, more or less? A. Yes, sir: we have enlarged the main pipe that carries the steam and done some other things. Q. Now you judge that the heating apparatus of that hospital is all that is sufficient to keep it comfortably warm do you not? A. Yes, sir, an I wish to be distinctly understood to it is capable of forming a degree of heat that the superintendent would not submit to. We can drive them all out doors with heat they can not endure the heat we can form by those boilers, by any means. We are burning less coal this winter not withstanding the severity of the winter. Still the building is quite as warm as the superintendent is willing to allow it to be.