AT 325M Ab6M (TO^ CMid THE LIBRARIES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Avery Library CT milliGIlfrugffugnminSTinsgrrLn]! VP One Hundred Healthfully Heated Homes Abram Cox Stove Company ORIGINATORS OF THE Novelty System of Heating and Ventilating for Residences and Other Buildings ‘“Pure Jlir is the World's $est eXCedicine’’ American and Dauphin Streets, Philadelphia 19 West Lake Street, Chicago Copyright, 1909, by Abram Cox Stove Company AVERY LIBRARY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEATING AND HEALTH * I 'HERE is nothing else in the physical environment 1 of the human race so potent for promoting, preserving and restoring health as pure air. There exists no malady in which the intelligent medical practitioner does not to-day insist that the patient must be furnished with pure air. There are diseases for which the sole treatment applied, in many cases, under modern practice, is simply the continuous breathing of and living in pure, fresh air. It is not difficult to secure an adequate supply of pure air in a house in summer, but during the winter months few houses are properly ventilated. A house ipay be heated in such a manner as to absolutely prevent the possibility of having pure air in its various rooms in sufficient volume to maintain a healthful condition, and millions of houses are so heated, among these being all houses heated partly or wholly by “direct” radiators located in the rooms or apartments. The homes pictured in this little book as a few ex¬ amples, among many, of houses wherein the Novelty System of Heating and Ventilating has been installed, are all healthfully heated and ventilated, though not all of them are equipped with the formal scheme of venti¬ lation which is a part of the complete Novelty System. But it is impossible to properly heat a building by pouring pure warm air into it, as is done by a correctly installed Novelty Warm Air Plant, without frequently changing and renewing the air in every room. EXPLANATION OF THE NOVELTY SYSTEM I. With the Novelty System perfect heating and perfect venti¬ lation are accomplished at no greater cost than that of the unsani¬ tary, unsightly plan of heating without ventilation by the direct radiation steam or hot water method. 2. The Novelty System pro¬ vides definite, clear, absolutely cor¬ rect rules for determining the right capacity of Novelty Heater to use in any given building, the right size and location for every pipe, flue, register, ventilating shaft, ventilat¬ ing duct and cold air duct, and plain directions for carrying out every other detail of the installation of a perfect heating and ventilating plant-. These rules, while easily under¬ stood and easily applied, conform strictly to the scientific facts of heating and ventilating, and no case of failure has ever been registered against a plant installed in accordance with them. 3. The heating apparatus specified and installed in a given case under the Novelty System not only has sufficient capacity to easily furnish the heat required without forcing the heater in the slightest degree, but it is also absolutely gas tight and extremely durable. The joints of the Novelty Heater are few and every joint is a packed asbestos gasket joint, impervious to gas or smoke or dust. 4. Under the complete Novelty System, pure, warm air is poured into each room in large volume and at a comparatively low temperature, while the older, colder and impurer air is SPECIAL NOVELTY WARM AIR HEATER removed at the bottom of the room, conveyed to a ventilating shaft and thrown out of the building. The air in the house is constantly being renewed and its purity is assured. Under the Novelty System perfect cleanliness as well as perfect purity of the air is maintained. (The Novelty System must not be confounded with the ordinary “ furnace job,” which is frequently deficient in capacity, grossly faulty in installation and therefore unsatisfactory in results.) INSURING CORRECT INSTALLATION OF THE NOVELTY SYSTEM The Novelty Furnace Handbook is the text-book of the Novelty System and contains complete directions which enable architects and heating contractors to in¬ stall the Novelty System cor¬ rectly in any residence or other building. We assume full responsibility for the Novelty System and our un¬ qualified guarantee is back of every case in which it is in¬ stalled. We do not make specific plans for heating and venti¬ lating a given building under the Novelty System for the TWO IDEAL NOVELTY purpose of having such plans HEATERS IN BATTERY used by heating contractors FORM or salesmen in trying to secure contracts. But we do make plans, free of charge, for architects or for owners after the contracts have been awarded for the Novelty System or after the Novelty System has been definitely accepted and adopted. These plans, as we make them, are complete and explicit, and show exactly how the installation should be accomplished in every detail. We have many customers among heating contractors who are perfectly competent to install the Novelty System, in fact, the Novelty System can be installed by any mechanic of good ordinary ability who will follow the rules laid down in the Novelty Furnace Handbook, but no heating contractor who is not suffi¬ ciently enlightened to be an enthu¬ siastic believer in the System should be permitted to attempt to install it unless he is furnished with a heating and ventilating plan. While it is true that any archi¬ tect, by making plans in accordance with the rules and directions of the Novelty Furnace Handbook, can provide for the correct installation of the Novelty System, and any competent heating contractor or sheet metal worker can properly in¬ stall the plant in conformity with such plans, yet we are pleased (particularly for the first case of installation of the System by any architect or heating contractor) to make the heating and venti¬ lating plans, free of charge, upon the application of the owner, the architect or the heating contractor. ABRAM COX STOVE COMPANY ORIGINATORS OF THE NOVELTY SYSTEM OF HEATING AND VENTILATING IDEAL NOVELTY WARM AIR HEATER AMERICAN AND DAUPHIN STREETS, PHILADELPHIA 19 WEST LAKE STREET, CHICAGO Residence of Mr. William L. Peet, Cleveland Park, D. C. Mr. Frederick B. Pyle, Architect, Washington, D. C. * Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by the M. C. Mitchell Company, No. 3100 M Street, N. W. House contains 16 Rooms, including Reception Hall and 2 Baths, with total actual cu. ft. ..26,911 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft!.. 602 Exposed wall surface-net sq. ft.2,087 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 88,757 7 Residence of Mr. Philip Herrmann, Twenty-third Street and Wyoming Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Mr. Appleton P. Clark, Jr., Architect, Washington, D. C. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with two No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, installed in battery form by the M. C. Mitchell Company, No. 3100 M Street, N. W. House contains 17 Rooms, including Hall and 4 Baths, with toi actual cu. ft.. 58,450 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft.... . 974 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 6,123 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 180,559 Residence of Mr. Gloss K. Mohr, Seminole Avenue, Saint Martins, Pa. Messrs. Savery, Scheetz & Savery, Architects, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 60 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by the Hygiene Heating Company, No. 929 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia House contains 21 Rooms, including Reception Hall and 3 Baths, with total actual cu. ft. 32,448 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 720 Exposed wall surface—net— sq. ft. 2,885 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 115,007 9 io mmmsmm Residence of Mr. Norman W. Cramp, Seminole Avenue, Saint Martins, Pa. Messrs. Savery, Scheetz & Savery, Architects, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 72 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by the Hygiene Heating Company, No. 929 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia House contains 27 Rooms, including large Reception Hall and 5 Baths, with total actual cu. ft... 50,086 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft.. 884 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 5,369 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . 152,943 Residence of Mr. Abram C. Mott, Jr., Lansdale, Pa. Mr. Edgar V. Seeler, Architect, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 23-48 Hermetic Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by the Hygiene Heating Company, No. 929 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia House contains 12 Rooms, including Reception Hall and 2 Baths, with total actual cu. ft...17,711 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft.. 375 Exposed wall surface - net—sq. ft.. 1,887 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . 63,711 m 12 Residence of Mr. E. W. Manderson, No. 129 Valley Road, Ardmore, Pa. Messrs. Mclivain & Roberts, Architects, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated with a No. 60 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia House contains total actual cu. ft. 29,485 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 631 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 3,024 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 101,000 13 “ Tlie White House,” residence of Mrs. C. L. Childs, Lakewood, N. J. Heated and ventilated by Novelty Gravity Warm Air System with one No. 48 Ideal Novelty and one No. 40 Novelty A Furnaces, installed by Mr. J. Fred. Stephenson, Lakewood, N. J. This beautiful house has a very large amount of glass surface, the equivalent cubic feet in the building being somewhat in excess of the formal ratings of the two furnaces named above. Yet the house is thoroughly heated and healthfnllv ventilated. 14 Residence of Mr. Effingham B. Morris*. Ardmore, Pa. Messrs. Furness & Evans, Architects, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated with one No. 48 and one No. 60 Ideal Novelty Furnace, installed by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Actual cti. ft. of space in building.. 55,600 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 1,180 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. . 4,875 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 183,100 i5 Actual cu. ft. of space in house.. , . . 17,360 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 388 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,690 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 59,980 Residence of Mrs. Virginia Spong, Valley Road, Ardmore, Pa. Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated with a No. 44 Ideal Novelty Furnace, in¬ stalled by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia 16 Actual cu. ft. in house...19,200 Glass surface—sq. ft. . 450 Wall surface—net—sq. ft... 2.480 Measure of heating requirements, equivalent cubic feet . 72,790 Residence of Mr. Paul Millis, Byron, Illinois Mr. J. A. Leonard, Architect Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System Heating apparatus. No. 348 Novelty B Warm Air Furnace Installed by Messrs. Whitaker & Emery, Byron, Ill. Year of installation. 1905 17 Residence of Mrs. D. Walljbrun, North Washington Street Chillicothe, Mo. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 344 Novelty B Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1904 by Messrs. S. Palmer & Son, Chillicothe, Mo. House contains 7 rooms and hall and bath Actual cu. ft. of space heated.. 15,600 Glass surface exposed—sq. ft. 260 Wall surface exposed—net—sq. ft... 1,780 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 50,480 ; i I I Residence of Mr. George Dennis, Dickinson Street Chillicothe, Missouri Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 348 Novelty B Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1908 by Messrs. S- Palmer & Son, Chillicothe, Mo. 19 Residence of Mr. Alfred B. Brown, Oakland Avenue, Audubon, N. J. Architect and builder, Mr. Samuel T. Miller, Collingswood, N. J. Heated by a No. 236 Splendid Novelty Furnace, installed by Messrs F. L. Brown & Brother, Collingswood, N. J. House contains actual cu. ft...12,431 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft.. . 163 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. .. 698 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 30,266 i 20 Residence of Mr. Edwin T. Moore, 425 East Main Street Coatesville, Pennsylvania Mr. Albert W. Dilks, Architect, Philadelphia Mr. Charles H. Ash, Contractor, Coatesville Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 244 Ideal Novelty Warm Air System, installed by Mr. J. Ernest Speakman, Coatesville This is a good example of a charming, simple, dignified old type of house which is frequently found in eastern Pennsylvania villiages The exterior wall is invariably finished in gray plaster and the woodwork in white paint except the window shutters, which are green The heating requirements of this house are indicated by approxi¬ mately 50,000 equivalent cubic feet 21 Residence of Mr. Charles E. Plumley, Cynwyd, Pa. Mr. Spencer Roberts, Architect, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated with Warm Air Furnace Plant, including one No. 60 Ideal Novelty Furnace, installed in 1906 by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia House contains actual cu. ft. of space.27,108 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 437 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft.. 4,042 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 95,715 Actual cu. ft. of space heated in building.21,000 Glass surface—sq. ft.. 310 Wall surface—net—sq. ft. . . 2,260 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 61,330 Residence of Reverend H. Martyn Hart, D.D., Dean of Denver, 1324 Washington Avenue, Denver, Colorado Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace Heating and ventilating plant installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver 23 Residence of Mr. W. S. Iliff, University Park, Colorado Mr. Dwight B. Wilson, Architect Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 23-48 Hermetic Novelty Warm Air Furnace Heating and ventilating plant installed in 1908 by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver Heating requirements, approximately 65,000 equivalent cubic feet Heating and ventilating contractor—»Mr. George Freund, Denver Heating apparatus, No. 48 Ideal Novelty Combination (Heater installed in 1901 Heating requirements, approximately 65,000 equivalent cubic feet Residence qf Mr. William Berger, 765 Pennsylvania Avenue Denver, Colorado Mr. William Ellsworth'Fisher, Architect, Denver Heated and partially ventilated ,by the Novelty W^rm Air System. This house exhibits*a very ,pleasing .and rather .unusual scheme of .architecture. It is built „of buff brick with white woodjvork and red roof, and the interior.is«fxnished in,modew “Art Noveau” .style 2 5 Residence of Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, 747 Williams Street Denver, Colorado Mr. W. E. Fisher, Architect, Denver, Colorado Heated and ventilated with a No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, 1016 Eighteenth Street, Denver, Colorado Equivalent cu. ft. in building (measure of heating requirements) about .. 53,000 26 I Residence of William Wadley, Esquire, 2555 West Thirty- ninth Avenue, Denver, Colorado Mr. A. J. Ahlstrom, Architect Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System Messrs. George Freund & Company, Heating and Ventilating Contractors, Denver Heating apparatus, No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace Actual cu. ft. of space in house ..17,200 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 275 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,928 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 53,240 27 Residence of the Reverend Frederick W. Oakes, 3209 Eliot Street, Denver, Colorado Messrs. Varian & Sterner, Architects, Denver Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System Heating Contractors — Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver Heating apparatus installed, No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace Approximate heating requirements, 65,000 equivalent cubic feet (The term “Equivalent Cubic Feet ” is explained and its purpose defined in the Novelty Furnace Handbook which is in the libraries of all leading architects and in the hands of all heating contractors who practice the Novelty System of Heating and Ventilating) Residence of Mr. Theobald S. Smith, 2903 Thirty-second Avenue, Denver, Colorado Messrs. Varian & Sterner, Architects, Denver Messrs. George Freund & Company, Heating Contractors, Denver Building heated and partially ventilated by the Novely System Heating apparatus, No. 52 Ideal Novelty Combination Furnace Heating requirements, approximately 90,000 equivalent cubic feet 29 Residence of Mr. John W. O’Connor, 1050 Pennsylvania Avenue, Denver, Colorado Mr. William Ellsworth Fisher, Architect, Denver Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 44 Ideal Novelty.Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, 1016 Eighteenth Street, Denver This house contains about 17,000 actual cu. ft. of space and its heating requirements are indicated by approximately 50,000 equivalent cu. ft. i 3 o i ! Residence of Mr. J. E. Robinson, 1355 Elizabeth Street Denver, Colorado Mr. George W. Eldredge, Architect Heating apparatus, No. 244 Splendid Novelty Warm Air Furnace Installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver Actual cu. ft. of space in house.18,000 Glass surface—sq. ft. 288 Wall surface—net—sq. ft... 2,016 Equivalent cu, ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 55,728 3 i 1 Residence of Mr. Edward.G. Straub, 1725 Race Street Denver, Colorado Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System Heating apparatus. No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace Installed by Messrs. George Freund s Company, Denver Actual cu. ft. of space in house... 20,800 Glass surface—sq. ft. 270 Wall surface—net—sq. ft... 2,430 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 59,280 32 Residence at 122 Nineteenth Avenue, Denver, Colorado Owned by the Phineas W. Barnes Estate Heating apparatus, one No. 204 Novelty Furnace Plant installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver Actual cu. ft. of space in house . 20,400 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 320 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,240 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 62,320 33 i Residence of Mrs. Henry Hannington, 1080 Grant Avenue Denver, Colorado Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System, installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver Heating apparatus. No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace Actual cu. ft. in part of house heated. 22,000 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 352 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,464 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 68,112 34 r Actual cu. ft. of space.17,800 Glass surface-—sq. ft. 279 Wall surface—net—sq. ft... 1,960 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 54,405 Residence of Mr. Frederick C. Shaw, 1840 Gaylord Street Denver, Colorado Heating apparatus, No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace Installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver 35 Actual cu. ft. of space., 21,700 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. . 332 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,324 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 65,192 Residence of Honorable William G. Evans, 1310 Bannock Street, Denver, Colorado Mr. Dwight B. Wilson, Architect, Denver Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver This house has heating requirements approximating 50,000 equivalent cubic feet Residence of Edward P. Boynton, Esquire, 1224 York Street Denver, Colorado Mr. G. W. Huntington, Architect, Denver Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver Actual cu. ft. of space heated.17,400 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 276 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,932 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 53,600 Residence of John A- Hall, Esquire, 1316 Corona Street Denver, Colorado Mr. G. W. Huntington, Architect, Denver Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver Residence of Mr. Arthur W. Brinlcer, 1313 Acoma Street Denver, Colorado Mr. G. W. Huntington, Architect, Denver Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. George Freund & Company, Denver Actual cu. ft. of space.15,600 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. .. 248 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,764 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 50,500 39 Residence of Dr. Edward W. Finft, 5 Franklin Square Dedham, Massachusetts Mr. William H. Besarick, Architect, 15 School Street, Boston Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 60 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1904 by the Boston Furnace Company This house contains 15 rooms with actual cu. ft. of space, 19,356 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 390 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,140 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 67,000 40 I Residence of Mrs. M. E. Decrow, 78 Howland Street Dorchester, Massachusetts Heated and pentilated by the Novelty System with a No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1905 by the Boston Furnace Company, 6 Portland Street, Boston House contains 11 rooms with actual cu. ft. of space heated, 20,300 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. . 332 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. .......... 1,624 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 58,192 41 Residence of Mr. E. B. McCarthy, Devon, Pa. Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by Warm Air Plant, installed by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Warm Air Furnaces used, two No. 52 Ideal Novelty in battery form House contains actual cu. ft. of space ........ 60,684 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 970 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 4,860 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 172,314 42 Residence of Mr. Malcolm Lloyd, Devon, Pa. Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by Novelty Warm Air Furnace Plant, installed by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Furnaces used, two No. 52 Ideal Novelty Actual cu. ft. of space in house. 46,960 Equivalent cu. ft.(measure of heating requirements) about 172,000 43 Residence of Mr. J. Hampton Barnes, Devon. Pa. Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by Warm Air System with two No. 48 Novelty A Warm Air Furnaces, installed by Mr. J. H. Limerick, No. 1602 Kater Street, Philadelphia Actual cu. ft. of space in house . .. 32,000 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) about 120,000 44 . Actual cu. ft. of space in house.. . 48,078 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 714 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft.5,758 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 147,692 Residence of Mr. R. R. Benedict, Devon, Pa. Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by Novelty System with two No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, installed by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia 45 Residence of Mr. Charles B. Hart, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by Novelty Gravity Warm Air System with two No. 40 Novelty A Warm Air Furnaces, installed by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Actual cu. ft. of space in house.. 33,000 Glass exposure—sq. ft.... 480 Wall exposure—net—sq. ft.. 3,800 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 98,000 46 Residence of Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by Novelty Gravity Warm Air System with a No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Residence of Mr. J. Renton White, Elkins Park, Pa. House designed and built by Mr. W. T. B. Roberts, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by Novelty Gravity Warm Air System with a No. 340 Novelty B Furnace, installed by Messrs. W. C. Fleck & Bro., Jenkintown, Pa. This house is a typical example of a good, medium priced suburban "operation” house; that is, one of a number built at the same time, each embodying individual features of form and construction to avoid monotony of appearance, erected by a professional builder as a business enterprise and placed on the market after completion. Actual cu. ft. of space.12,600 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft.. 254 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. . . '. 2,286 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 44,874 / Residence of Mrs. E. DeB . Gill, Elkins Park, Pa. Heated and ventilated by Novelty Warm Air System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Furnace, installed by Messrs. Frederick Sabin & Company, No. 237 Bread Street, Philadelphia House contains about 86,000 equivalent cubic feet. “ Equivalent cubic feet” is a term used, under the Novelty System, to indicate the heating requirements. The meaning of this term and how to compute equivalent cubic feet in a room or in a building is fully explained in our text-book on the installation of the Novelty System, the “ Novelty Furnace Handbook ” 49 Residence of Mr. William T. B. Roberts, Elkins Park, Pa. Messrs. Keene & Mead, Architects, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by Novelty Warm Air System with one No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1900 by Messrs. Frederick Sabin & Company, 237 Bread Street, Phila¬ delphia House contains actual cu. ft.. 25,430 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 525 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 3,475 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 91,600 Suburban “Operation” Residence built in 1901 by Mr. William T. B. Roberts, at Elkins Park, Pa. This house is a good example of a suburban residence skilfully constructed so as to provide the maximum of desirable features and good style at a reasonable cost Heated and ventilated by Warm Air System with a No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. Frederich Sabin & Company, 237 Bread Street, Philadelphia Actual cu. ft. of space heated.18,300 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. . .. 360 Exposed wall surface. 1,840 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 60,020 Residence of Mr. Charles Singer, 4660 Penn Street Frankford, Pa. Heated and oentilgted by the.Novelty Gravity System with a No. 40 Novelty A Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1903 by Messrs. Kinkerter & Sheppard Company, Frankford, Pa. This typical old fashioned Frankford house contains 12 rooms with cu. ft. of space heated.. 33,000 Not all of the rooms can be thoroughly heated in zero weather at one and the same time, but the installation is so well proportioned that the owner is extremely well pleased with the plant and secures results that are most satis¬ factory to him by reducing the flow of warm air to some of the rooms and ncreasing it to others, as needed. To make a perfect plant, however, a larger furnace should have been installed in accordance with the rules of the Novelty Furnace Handbook. 52 Manse of Frankford Presbyterian Church, Frankford Avenue Frankford, Pa. S eat ,nl V f ntil ? t * d b y ‘be Novelty Warm Air System with a No 106 Novelty A Furnace, installed in 1893 by Messrs. Kinkerter & oheppard Company, Frankford This is an example of the simple, dignified old houses to be found m many eastern Pennsylvania towns Number of rooms heated. 9 Actual cu. ft. of space . 29 000 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 100,000 Residence of Mr. J. M. R. Harding, 4729 Leiper Street Frankford, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 40 Novelty A Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1897 by the Kinkerter & Sheppard Company, Frankford This is an example of the type of dwelling originally designed by the French architect, Francois Mansard, and quite popular in this country a few decades ago This house contains about 30,000 actual cu. ft. of space to be heated Glass exposure 400 sq. ft., wall exposure 3100 sq. ft. Measure of heating requirements, approximately 80,000 equiva¬ lent cu. ft. 54 Residence of Mrs. Thomas Stokes, Wissahickon Avenue at Carpenter Street, Germantown, Pennsylvania Heated and ventilated by the Novelty Gravity Warm Air System with two No. 240 Ideal Novelty Furnaces in battery, installed by Messrs. Frederick Sabin & Company Equivalent cu. ft. of space (measure of heating requirements) about. 80,000 55 Residence of Dr. W. H. Johnson, Germantown Avenue at Upsal Street, Germantown, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1897 by Mr. Thomas F. Hutchinson, 6206 Germantown Avenue, Germantown When this residence was built the owner and the builder were subjects of George II, King of Great Britain, and the world's greatest Republic did not exist even in the plans or thoughts of men. The old building has been twice remodeled, but the remodeling has been no improvement architecturally. The first attempt to partially heat this house was by means of wood stoves. Later, when anthracite coal was discovered, Franklin Stoves, invented by Benjamin Franklin, were used. About 1860 two Latrobe Stoves were installed. Since 1897 the house has been thoroughly and healthfully heated and venti¬ lated by the Novelty System. The building contains 14 rooms, 24,180 actual cu. ft. of space heated, 490 sq. ft. glass surface. 2010 sq. ft. wall surface and 77,010 equivalent cu. ft. 56 Parsonage of First Methodist Episcopal Church of German¬ town, Pennsylvania, Located on High Street Mr. Albert Kelley, Architect Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1906 by Mr. Thomas F. Hutchinson, 6206 Germantown Avenue, Germantown, Phila¬ delphia Number of rooms heated. 13 Actual cu. ft. of space ... 24,600 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 402 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft.. , 2,884 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 77,822 57 Residence of Mr. Bar tram Ashmead, 6201 Germantown Avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty Warm Air System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Heater, installed in 1903 by Mr. Thomas F. Hutchinson, 6206 Germantown Avenue, Germantown This is a fine example of the old Colonial residence. It was built in 1738, remodeled in 1844, but in exterior appearance is almost exactly the same as it was one hundred and seventy years ago. For many years previous to 1903 it was heated (or partially heated) by Latrobe Stoves. Since 1903 it has been thoroughly and healthfully heated and ventilated by the Novelty System. Number of rooms in house. 12 Actual cu. ft. of space heated.23,216 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 490 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,976 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 75,774 5^ IHHHhs f House contains 12 rooms and bath with actual cu. ft. of space . . . . ..19,600 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 384 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft.. 2,164 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 65,712 Parsonage of Ottawa Street Methodist Episcopal Church Ottawa Street, at Cass Street, Joliet, Ill. Mr. G. J. Barnes, Architect, Chicago, Ill. Heated and ventilated with a No. 348 Novelty B Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1906 by the Barrett Hardware Company, Joliet, Ill. 59 Residence of Mr. Abram Nesbit, North Maple .Avenue Kingston, Pa. Mr. M. B. Houpt, Architect and Builder, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 72 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. H. F. Johnson & Sons, Kingston, Pa. Actual cu. ft. in building... 49,860 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 944 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft.. 5,740 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 166,580 6o This cottage contains about 21,000 actual cubic feet of space ind about 82,000 equivalent cubic feet Residence of General Horace Porter, Lakewood, N. J. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 256 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Heater, installed by Mr. J. Fred. Stephenson, Lakewood, N. J. 6i Lakewood Residence of Mr. John E. Pye, Lakewood Ocean County, New Jersey Mr. Leon Cubberly, Architect, Long Branch, N. J. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty Warm Air System with one No- 52 and one No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, installed by Mr. J. Fred. Stephenson, Lakewood Actual cu. ft. in building. 47,860 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft.. 780 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. . . .. 5,460 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 151,400 This beautiful cottage contains actual cu. ft. 45,280 Exposed glass surface— sq- ft. 892 Exposed wall surface—net —sq. ft. 4,860 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 152,600 Residence of Mr. George D. Braman, Lakewood Ocean County, New Jersey Heated and ventilated by the Novelty Warm Air System with one No. 52 Ideal Novelty and one No. 40 Novelty A Warm Air Heaters, installed in 1902 by Mr. J. Fred. Stephenson, Lake- wood, N. J. Residence of Dr. George Fales Baker, Lakewood, N. J. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty Warm Air System with one No. 52 and one No. 40 Ideal Novelty and one No. 33 Novelty A Warm Air Heaters, installed in 1902 by Mr. J. Fred Stephenson, Lakewood, N. J. (Under the later practice and rules of installation, one No. 72 Ideal Novelty or two No. 752 Special Novelty in battery form would be used in this heating and ventilating plant) House contains 31 rooms with total actual cu. ft. 52,900 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 820 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 5,020 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 154,560 4 I I t I I ! r Priest’s Residence for Saint Mary’s Church, Fifth Street between G Street and H Street, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia Heated and Ventilated by a No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Heater, installed in 1908 by Messrs. A. Eberly’s Sons, 718 Seventh Street, Nothwest, Washington, D. C. This building contains about 30,000 actual cubic feet of space and about 73,000 equivalent cubic feet. We have been unable to ascertain the name of the architect but the style of architecture speaks for itself and indicates that the house was probably built between 1870 and 1880. 65 Residence of Charles F. Hager, Esq., Wheatland Avenue at President Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Mr. William C. Pritchett, Jr., Architect, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by Warm Air System with a No. 48 Ideal Novelty Furnace, installed by Messrs. Reilly Brothers & Raub, Lancaster, Pennsylvania House contains 13 rooms, including two baths, and has actual cu. ft. of space to be heated.. 23,000 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 483 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 3,381 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 86,000 66 Residence of Mrs. Otto Mulfekuhler, 507 North Esplanade Leavenworth, Kan. Mr. William P. Feth, Architect, Leavenworth Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 252 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Heater, installed in 1905 by Mr. P. W. Nicola, Leavenworth House contains 11 rooms with actual cu. ft. of space to be heated. . 28,450 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 450 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,475 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 82,000 According to the “capacity rule” of the Novelty System, the No. 252 Ideal Novelty heater is short 28 per cent, of the capacity required to properly heat this house. Yet there has been no complaint that the house is insuf¬ ficiently heated. It is never right, however, to install a smaller heater than the size prescribed by the rule of the Novelty System 6 7 Residence of Mr. James Stanton, Sixth Street at Kiowa Street Leavenworth, Kansas Mr. William P. Feth, Architect, Leavenworth Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 348 Novelty B All-cast Furnace, installed in 1904 by Mr. P. W. Nicola, Leavenworth House contains 8 rooms and bath with actual cu. ft. of space heated.18,879 Exposed glass surface— sq. ft. 308 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,140 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 59,099 Residence of Mr. Tams Bixby, Chairman of the Dawes Commission, 1226 Emporia Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma Mr. Thomas Rose, Architect, Evansville, Indiana Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 344 Novelty B Heater, installed in 1905 by the “Pioneer Tinshop,” Muskogee, Okla. Building contains 10 rooms including large reception hall and bath Actual cu. ft. of space.. 17,000 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 248 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,736 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 50,480 Residence of Mr. Thos. A. Sanson, No. 548 North Twelfth Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma Mr. R. H. King, Architect, Muskogee, Okla. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty V^arm Air System with a No. 248 Ideal Novelty All-cast Heater, installed in 1905 by the “Pioneer Tinshop,” Muskogee, Okla. This house contains 8 rooms and bath and measures about 48,000 equivalent cu. ft. “Equivalent cubic feet” is a term used to denote the true heating requirements of a building or apartment; the meaning of this term and its proper use and value are explained in the Novelty Furnace Handbook which is furnished to every heating contractor and architect who installs or plans for the installation of the Novelty System A larger size of furnace should have been installed for heating tnis house though Mr. Parfitt has been highly pleased with the results obtained from the plant described above Number of rooms heated 12, actual cu. ft. . 35,500 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 350 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 3,425 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 89,150 Residence of Mr. George Parfitt, Front Street Morgantown, W. Va. Mr. Elmer F. Jacobs, Architect, Wheeling, W. Va. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 352 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1903 by Messrs. Barbe & Davis, Morgantown, W. Va. 7i Number of rooms heated. II Actual cu. ft. of space. 25,500 Square feet of glass exposure. 250 Square feet of wall exposure .. 1,825 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 58,850 Residence of Mr. W. H. Whitam, Beverly Avenue Morgantown, West Virginia Mr. Elmer F. Jacobs, Architect Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 248 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1902 by Messrs. Barbe & Davis, Morgantown, W. Va. 72 Residence of Mr. W. S. Koontz, Spruce Street Morgantown, West Virginia Heated and 'ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 244 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1904 by Messrs. Barbe & Davis, Morgantown, W. Va. This house contains.8 rooms Actual cu. ft. of space heated.14,500 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 209 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,670 Equivalent cu, ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 43,535 ‘, AVifcr (.(BRAKY tOlUMBJA UNIVERSITY Residence of Mr. John W. Vaughn, 161 Freemason Street Norfolk, Virginia Mr. C. J. Calrow, Architect, Norfolk Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a battery of two No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, installed in 1907 by Messrs. Frank P. Smith & Company, Norfolk Actual cu. ft. of space to be heated .41,600 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 656 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 4,608 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 127,664 74 Residence of Mr. W. H. Grover, Clayborne Avenue Norfolk, Va. Mr. C. R. Parlette, Architect, Norfolk Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 252 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1908 by Messrs. Frank P. Smith & Company, Norfolk, Va. House contains nine rooms and bath, with total actualcu. ft., 17,300 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 244 Exposed wall surface—-net—sq. ft. .. 2,180 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 53,060 75 Residence of Mr. C. E. Clark, Graydon Avenue Norfolk, Virginia Architect, Mr. B. L. Nichols Heated and ventilated by the Novelty Warm Air System with a No. 348 Novelty B Furnace, installed in 1908 by Messrs. Frank P. Smith & Company, Norfolk This house contains 1 1 rooms, including large hall and 2 baths with actual cu. ft. of space heated.21,800 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 312 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,164 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 62,312 76 Residence of Mr. F. H. Galloney, Paoli, Pa. Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Ea. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with one No. 52 and one No. 60 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, installed in 1907 by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Actual cu. ft. of space . 43,072 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 656 Exposed wall surface net—sq. ft. .......... 5,632 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 142,576 Residence of Mr. H. W. Biddle, Paoli, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with one No. 40 Novelty A and one No. 60 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, installed by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, No. 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Actual cu. ft. of space.. 42,400 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 803 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. . 6,416 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 154,000 8 This is a good example of an old type of city house for which Philadelphia is noted. Severely simple and unpretentious in exterior design, many of these old houses are surprisingly successful in expressing a dignified and enduring beauty in their interior architecture This house contains 59,128 actual cu. ft. of space to be heated ; glass exposure 732 sq. ft.; wall exposure 6218 sq. ft.; measure of heating requirements 163,000 equivalent cubic feet -* c , , :: : -H Urban Residence of Mrs. Howard Roberts, 250 South Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with one No. 52 Ideal Novelty and one No. 40 Novelty A Warm Air Furnaces, installed in 1903 by Messrs, J. Kisterbock & Son, 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia 79 These two houses illustrate a characteristic Philadelphia type of substantially built, medium grade, urban style of dwelling. There are approximately 75,000 old houses of this type in Philadelphia Actual cu. ft. of space heated in each house.18,400 Exposed glass surface ~ sq. ft. 216 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. (counting party walls at one-half actual area). 1,290 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 44,920 Two Residences, 1632-1634 Latimer Street, Philadelphia Owned as an Investment by Mrs. Anne Weightman Penfield Each house heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 36 Novelty A Warm Air Furnace, installed by Mr. J. Hunter Limerick, 1602 Kater Street, Philadelphia Residence of the Superintendent of the Episcopal Hospital Front and Lehigh Ave., Kensington, Philadelphia, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a battery of two No- 244 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, installed by Messrs. Frederick Sabin & Company, No. 39 Bread Street, Philadelphia Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 86,000 Residence of Dr. C. F. Doran, 120 Gay Street Phoenixville, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 40 Novelty A Warm Air Furnace. This heating and ventilating plant was installed by Messrs. Caswell & Moore, Phoenixville, Pa., the day after Christmas, 1883, and is still doing good service and ful¬ filling its purpose perfectly after being in use for twenty-five years House contains 11 rooms, including large hall and bath, actual cu. ft. of space heated nearly 40,000; equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) approximately 100,000 This furnace is doing more work than should be placed upon any heating apparatus with its hrepot and grate capacity. Were it not for the facts that the house is unusually well built, and the installation accomplished under very favorable conditions, the plant would fall short of properly heating the house Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 91,000 Residence of Mr. Henry Averman, Baum Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. F. C. Sauer, Architect, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. J. Hehman, Contractor Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1894 by Mr. John P. Schaffer, Heating and Ventilating Engineer and Contractor, No. 209 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 83 Residence of Mr. C. A. Rook, Highland Avenue at Stanton Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. F. C. Sauer, Architect, Pittsburgh, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1892 by Mr. John P. Schaffer, Heating and Ventilating Engineer and Contractor, No. 209 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 84 Residence of Mr. J. L. Gloninger, McPherson Street East End, Pittsburgh, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System, with a No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1893 by Mr. John P. Schaffer, Heating and Ventilating Engineer and Contractor, No. 209 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 85 Residence of Dr. T. A. Rex, Ellsworth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. W. S. Fraser, Architect, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. D. Fritz, Builder Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a battery of two No. 36 Novelty A Warm Air Furnaces, installed by Mr. John P. Schaffer, Heating and Ventilating Engineer and Contractor, No. 209 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 86 Residence of Mr. John Fite, Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. F. C. Sauer, Architect, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. D. Hesson, Contractor Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Brickset Warm Air Furnace, installed by Mr. John P. Schaffer, Heating and Ventilating Engineer and Contractor, No. 209 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 87 Residence of Mr. Charles McKnight, Sewickley, Pa. Messrs. Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, Architects Mr. W. F. Trimble, Contractor Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1891 by Mr. John P. Schaffer, Heating Contractor, 209 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. - 88 Number of rooms in house. 9 Total actual cu. ft.. 13,346 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 269 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,638 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 46,625 Residence of Mr. Frank K. Black, 52 Bancroft Avenue Reading, Mass. Mr. F. K. Black, Architect Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 44 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1898 by the Boston Furnace Company, Boston 89 Residences of Mr. Harry A. Heckman and Mr. Cyrus Q. Guldin, Mineral Spring Road, at Sixteenth Street, Reading, Pa. Messrs. Scholl & Maurer, Architects, Reading Complete Novelty System of heating and ventilating , installed in 1907 by Messrs. Wagenhorst Brothers, Reading Heating Apparatus used for each house No. 248 Novelty B Warm Air Furnace c - Actual cu. ft. of space to be heated in each house ... 21,860 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft... 336 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 1,816 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 61,588 This large and beautiful residence contains about 84,000 actual cu. ft. of space to be heated, with a glass exposure of more than 1400 square feet and a wall exposure of over 10,000 sq. ft.; the equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) 260,000 Residence of Mrs. George Fletcher, Radnor, Pa. Mr. Addison Hutton, Architect, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty Warm Air System with one No. 60, one No. 52 and one No. 48 Ideal Novelty Heaters, installed in 1899 by Messrs. Baker, Smith & Company, New York and Philadelphia 9 i Residence of Mr. William B. Hart, Radnor, Pennsylvania Messrs. Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, Architects, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with one No. 52 and one No. 60 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, plant installed in 1907 by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Number of rooms in house . ... . 28 Actual cu. ft. of spaee heated. 67,056 Glass exposure — sq. ft. . 633 Wall exposure—net —sq. ft. 6,087 Measure of heating requirements, equivalent cu. ft. . . 163,226 92 Residence of Mr. H. A. Berwind, Radnor, Pennsylvania Heating and ventilating plant installed in accordance with the Novelty System by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Warm Air Furnaces used, one No. 48 and one No. 52 Ideal Novelty Actual cu. ft. of space heated. 50,600 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft.. . 740 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 5,160 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 147,380 93 The No. 36 ideal Novelty Furnace does most excellent work according to its capacity, but it is impossible to heat all of the rooms in the entire house at one time with it, as it has only about half the required capacity. There has never been anything but praise of this heating job from Mr. Grove, but it is always wise for a heating contractor to install a heater of ample capacity to heat at one time all of the rooms of the building. This house contains 15 rooms with about 28,000 actual cubic feet of space to be heated, the equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) being about 85,000 Residence of Mr. F. Stanley Grove, Senior, Lipp Avenue Riverton, New Jersey Mr. George W. Ash, Builder and Architect, Philadelphia Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System, partially applied, with a No. 36 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1900 by Mr. William B. Lynch, Riverton Residence of Mr. Radciyffe Roberts, Rosemont, Pennsylvania Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with one No. 40 Novelty A and one No. 60 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, plant installed in 1905 by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Actual cu. ft. of space heated ..41,505 Glass exposure—sq. ft.. 650 Wall exposure —net—sq. ft. 4.550 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 126,655 95 Residence of Mr. William Burr, 1246 National Avenue Rockford, Illinois Mr. William Burr, Architect Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 248 Novelty B Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1903 by the Snyder Heating Company, Rockford House contains 9 rooms and bath with actual cu. ft. of space heated.19,000 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 314 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,198 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 60,134 9 6 This house contains 10 rooms and bath with actual cu. ft. of space...18,760 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft.. ... 288 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft, .. 2,004 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 56,392 Residence of Mr. Charles Welty, 2604 East State Street Rockford, Illinois Heated and ventilated by the Novelty Warm Air System with a No. 248 Novelty B Heater, installed in 1904 by the Snyder Heating Company, Rockford 97 This house contains 9 rooms and bath with a total of 62,000 equivalent cubic feet (“Equivalent cubic feet” is a term used to ndicate the heating requirements of a building or apartment and must not be con¬ fused with actual cubic feet) Residence of Mr. Upton Swingly, 1006 North Church Street Rockford, Illinois Mr. James Bradley, Architect Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 248 Novelty B Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1903 by the Snyder Heating Company, Rockford 98 Residence of Mr. C. W. Prosser, St. Charles, Missouri Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Mr. O Link, St. Charles, Mo. Actual cu. ft. of space heated .. 34,000 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 540 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 3,760 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 105,580 99 100 Episcopalian Manse, Main Street, Swedesboro, N. J. Architect unknown Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 106 Novelty A Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1907 by Mr.. M. C. Sparks, Swedesboro, N. J. Building includes nine rooms, hall and bath, containing in actual cu. ft.21,800 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 235 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,440 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 60,120 Residence of Mr. Harry Black, Main Street, Swedesboro, N. J. Mr. J. M. Hunter, Architect Heated and ventilated with a No. 40 Novelty A Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1896 by Mr. M. C. Sparks, Swedesboro, N. J. House contains 9 rooms and bath with total actual cu. ft., 20,428 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 224 Exposed wall surface-‘-net~~sq. ft.. . 1,780 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 52,560 Actual cu. ft. of space heated. 29,596 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 305 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 3,727 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 82,287 Residence of Mr. C. A. Galloney, Wayne, Pennsylvania Mr. T. Mellon Rogers, Architect, Devon, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 60 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed in 1907 by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Actual cu. ft. of space heated.18,900 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 306 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,152 Equivalent cu. ft. (measure of heating requirements) . . 59,066 Residence of Mrs. R. E. Shapley, Villa Nova, Pennsylvania Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 252 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnace, installed by Messrs. J. Kisterbock & Son, 2002 Market Street, Philadelphia Number of rooms in bouse. 11 Actual cu. ft. of space heated.18,900 Exposed glass surface—sq. ft. 306 Exposed wall surface—net—sq. ft. 2,100 Measure of heating requirements, equivalent cu. ft. . . 58,650 Residence of Mrs. E. E. Boit, Wakefield, Massachusetts Heated and 'ventilated by the Novelty System with a No. 48 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Heater, installed in 1894 by the Boston Furnace Company, 6 Portland Street, Boston i This beautiful old country mansion contains 23 rooms, including large hall and two baths, with 67,500 actual cubic feet of space to be heated. Exposed glass surface 825 sq. ft.; exposed wall surface 4355 sq. ft. ; measure of heating requirements 165,215 equivalent cubic feet ft was built during the reign of King George f. in 1747 it was purchased as a part of the Pennypacker Mills property by Peter Pannebaker and it has been the dwelling place of succeeding generations of Pennypackers for more than one hundred and sixty years. It was remodeled and an additional wing con¬ structed in 1900, for the present owner, by Mr. Arthur W. Brockie, a Philadel¬ phia architect, but the simple, characteristic old colonial design was retained. Residence of Honorable Samuel W. Pennypacker, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1902 to 1907, Pennypacker’s Mills, Montgomery County, Pa. Heated and ventilated by the Novelty System with a battery of two No. 52 Ideal Novelty Warm Air Furnaces, installed in 1900 by Mr. Mortimer C. Anderson, 112 Walnut Street, Philadelphia Stone erected by the Historical Society of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, to mark the location of the camp occupied by Washington’s Army for a week during the autumn of 1777 The residence of Ex-Governor Pennypacker is seen to the right in the background 107 RADIATORS versus REGISTERS T HE STEAM or hot water radiator, however it may be designed or ornamented,. is an unsightly feature in any room. Always ugly, usually in the way, the radiator is the nightmare of the interior decorator. And the exposed radiator in sight is the visible sign of a lack of healthful ventilation Many of the warm'air and ventilating Registers now made by leading Register manufacturers are genuine works of art and they can be furnished in designs, metals and styles of finish that harmonize with any interior decoration or color scheme. A beautiful and appropriate register adorns instead of disfiguring a room. Registers are unobtrusive, and take up little or no valuable space in the rooms. One of the many points in favor of the Novelty Warm Air System is that it abolishes the radiator as a feature of interior maldecoration. DIRECT versus INDIRECT HEATING Every authority on ventilation, every competent heating engineer, every physician who has given the question the slightest study condemns direct steam or water heating as being in violation of nature’s laws. There is no division of opinion among tljose who spe^k with authority on this subject; they agree without a dissenting voice that the only proper way to heat an apartment is by pouring pure warm air into it. Let us quote one prominent physician among the thousands who have spoken to the same effect on this subject: Reading, Pa., March 15, 1907. I have noted that direct steam and hot water heating have an unfavor¬ able effect upon health, and this is particularly marked in diseases of the lungs, throat and respiratory passages. 1 attribute this unhealthful condition to the lack of proper ventilation in rooms thus heated. Living-rooms should be heated by pouring untainted warm air into them and in no other way. Few people appreciate the vital necessity of ventilation. We spend one-half of our lives indoors, and the quality of the air we b rea the in our houses is a preponderating factor in determining the state of our health and even the duration of life itself. ***** CHRISTOPHER H. SHEARER (M.D.)