The Health Institute Windmill
We have been delighting our eyes for a few days past with the sight of the Windmill for the Health Institute, which is now up and in working order. It is an ornament to the neighborhood, and works in the most satisfactory manner. By means of a double-acting force-pump, it throws water from the well, with a very moderate breeze, through the hundred and twenty-four rods of pipe, elevating it some eighty feet, at the rate of a barrel in from three to five minutes. An inexhaustible supply of the purest water known is thus secured. This water is first received into a tank directly over the bath-room, of the capacity of three hundred barrels. From thence it is taken to the heating-tank, on the same floor, containing fifty barrels; and by means of pipes leading from both tanks to the bath-room below, water is easily tempered to any degree of heat required for the various baths to be given.