The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

THB GAS QUE0141.,40%.

To the Editor of as
.Dorool Ooliooty Pori... fool

A griculhgral Gwen,
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SER,-414 attention has been directed Of yew observe.
time upon the inimuity of the gas at Dorchester. My
experiepoe as *hairline her some_pears of the gleam-
mittie ad this town, and feeling ranch interested Swale
imam of the work, I have been induced to take seem
than ordinary trouble in 'iodine oat the teamed *di-
ciency and impurity of the gas supply—prompt IVO tO
communicate to you the result of such experience.
Tire gas was impure, It was tested at the works, and
found to be satisfactory, but at the burners in the town
the smell was offensive, and the illuminating power
small. I found the.canse to be.. follows i—The mob's
are placed in the middle of the street. with branches
leading to the housm ; these bassielum are in mod In-
stances laid through or near •thoto wneswese,and ere seen
acted upon by the consequent oorroaion,and extensively
perforated, it follows that when the pressure at the
workti is on, the gas escapes in ruinous ,quantities and,
when off, the car buretted 'hydrogen escapes from tile pipes
and is replaced by the imPure 'lmlpburetted hydrogen
of the drains thus contausinating the next gas
supplied to the town. The drains are in these days
'trapped," end, therefore, the -sweeps Of gas into it.
sewers is not easily detected. The decay of tbe lessish
pipes require constant watchfulness, more pertirlaumZ
at the foot of the town lamps, where, being too
exposed to the action:of the air and rain, oxydetien
goes on with great rapidity, the escapes are less evident
to the senses, and the waste is continous night and day
where there is an eseape of gas with the pressure on,
or there Is an admission of atmospheric air when the
pressure is off.
Yours. &c.
-• • - WILLIAM BATTEN.

An, Ist.

(A) Tided class passengers iellVin Dorekeeter (LAO Lie
and Wormentlt 8.40 a.m.) mall London at 1.30
The 4.60 train from Wejmouth stop, at Woolen Saturdays
only.

On Week days a let and 2n4 clam train Immo WeynaMith at
for Dorchester only.
On Sundays a third clams train from Weymouth (10.66
..m.) and Dorchester (10.96 a.m.). imam to Malden Newton
,11.15), and Bridpert (11.66); and. corresponding thrcrn third
clams train runs en Sundays from Midden Wanton at (0.40
tam), Orimmtose (6.60 mm.). Doreheetor (10n.m.), and Wey-
mouth (1.0.10 am). (I) On Fridays olds.

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