Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Minutes of the Council of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: Held at Mount Vernon, Va., May, 1900
You will find, ladies, some changes at Mount Vernon, but so carefully concealed that they do not offend the eye. As a safeguard against the danger of fire, the Association determined to minimize the danger by the introduction of a hot-water plant, not liable to explosions; no overheating or charring of woodwork; it is a pronounced success, and an unspeakable comfort to all the cabins on the Estate. The feature of intrinsic value in this hot-water plant is its drying power. No amount of furnace heat or of fires, hitherto, has conquered the humidity of the cellar and foun dation walls, and this humidity was gradually destroying the brick walls and rotting the beams; this danger is now overcome.
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