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 G42 The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [April, much more thorough, in ever}" spot, than, without experiment, could have been be- lieved possible. All attempts to ven- tilate, without using heat, and, of course, consuming fuel, of some kind, as the agent producing this heat, must be fail- ures. Ventilation in cold weather is necessarily loss of heat; but, at the same time, nothing is more certain, than that no expenditure, about a hospital, can be more wise, or more truly econ- omical, than that which secures, at all times, to every one within its walls, that, without which, perfect health cannot long be maintained, an abundance of pure air, at a proper temperature — one of the blessings which a beneficent Provi- dence intended every living being should have during his whole existence. Man3 r of the great difficulties, about warming and ventilating, of which so much is said, have arisen, in great meas- ure, from efforts to get more heat out of fuel than is in it, and to ventilate with- out losing any portion of the heat that is obtained — all of which efforts, as has been already said, are very certain to prove failures. The work on the " Fisher Ward " has been thoroughly done, in every part ; and the entire cost-'for building, furnish- ing, heating, and ventilation, including the steam-engine and fan, and for all other fixtures and arrangements, is $24,850, or $150 less than the first esti- mates concerning all these objects, those for the building being a little more, and for the furniture and other fixtures rather less, than originally estimated. In conclusion, we may state, that the results of ten years' experience of fan ventilation, as arranged at the Pennsyl- vania Hospital for the Insane, gives these conclusions : 1st. That the same amount of pure air, can be delivered by that means, at as little cost as hy any other, and with more certainty and uniformity. 2d. That there has been no practical difficulty in the arrangement of flues, or openings, for, as they were started in 1859, so have, they, almost without change, remained ever since. od. That there has been no difficulty from draughts or stoppage of flues, nor has there been any indication of unpleas- ant sensations, from the fan forcing more air into rooms, than could readily escape. 4th. That no more help is employed, than there would be, if there were no fans used. 5th. That it is perfectly independent of atmospheric conditions. In the preparation of the foregoing notice of this great institution, the re- sult, almost entirely, of the liberality and benevolence of the citizens of Penn- sjdvania, we have drawn largely from the valuable reports of Dr. Kirkbride, who has, from its opening in 1841, been its chief medical officer and Superin- tendent. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Armsmear, Hartford. Connecticut. A T Armsmear, near Hartford, Con- -£j- necticut, Mrs. Colt, widow op THE LATE COLONEL SAMUEL COLT, has erected to the memory of her husband and children, a church for the use of the armorers and their families, and others emploj-ed on the estate, a very neat lit- tle Gothic Church, called The Church of the Good Shepherd. The designs are by Mr. Edward T. Potter, Archi- tect ; and embrace a Nave and Aisles ; Chancel, with arrangements for a Cho- ral Service ; Sun.lay-School, opening out of the Church as a Transept ; Baptistry ; Organ-Room and Vestry ; and a Tower and Spire. The walls are of Portland brown- stone, relieved with dressings of Ohio stone. Around the semicircular Apse of the Sacrarium, which terminates the chancel, is carried an Arcade of thirteen lancet windows, filled with stained-glass,