Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1841-06-29

IGHr.-The Wheeling Camphne Comnonv
II A having received supply OF webb's Cam.
Phine oil and Lamps. is now ready 10 furnish the
citizens OF Wheeling with the best light i'm all re-
spec,s which has ever been offered TO the public
Annexed is the result Of the analysis of the Cum-
phine Oil and the opinion Of Professor Locke of
the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, US to the
superiority u the article for light
The S'or@oI the CamPhine Company is water |
street lew doors above the stage office. where |
the light may be seen nightly Sales are for cash |
only. Is. y. SANBoRNE. Principal Agent.
Mn. GAY, Agent for A. " H. VeJ6 of Neup York
Having called ON me for my opinion with regard
TO tho use ut Camphinc for tho purposes Of aric a
nhu"'na'on' ! nave alter examining the subject.
embodied the following information,
]. Nature If Camphiae Camphine is n prosima,e
vegetable principle, discovered some years since
by Dumas, of Paris. IL is mostly procured from
spirits ut TurPentinc, aud is in fact "a very pure
essence OF TnrPenilne." II is capable of combining
with Other substances aud of being separated again
from them without being changed in its qualities
IL has therefore. like pure Alcohol and Ether
permanent and distinct nature n chymical sub.
stance u Is coloress, limpid. moderately volatile
aud combusiIble. IN the same manner as spirits of
lurpen'ine, but u Is not explosive Camphor diff.
ers iroHCamrhine only ia containing oxygene. hence
tho name OF Canphinc. or basis of Camphor.
III Economical Hseof Camlhine for Me purposes
Of illumination. My opinion in favor Of tho use Of
Sampiine Tor lights, was fully expressed in my lee
= tures last winter, and no cause for changing
- that opinion The circumstances which recon-
mend II, are follows:
4 l. II can DO furnished in abundance md nj N
e moderate price.
g = IL affords light brilliant than any other
ID substance hitherto proposed for common use
ii s. u Is safe, IN no way explosive, drops no fire
10 from the wick, and leaves fire upon IT,
o A. IL IS cleanly. leaves no grease marks, and il
spilled on clothes furniture, cvapOraics entirely
a like Alcohol.
st ,. u end4res any natural degree Of cold withou
IT, becoming IN the least cungealed
mt .. The lamps once in order. racd no snufln:
nd or raising Of the wcl but merely require to b,
ng kept clean and 10 be filed often they burr
To themselves empty.
he Remark. The CamPhine by exposure 10 tho air
nj mays alter some months keeping, become n lttl
detorioraied, and begin TO form n black crust OF
the wick. The article under these circumstance
Is not SPOILED. but only requires Redistribution b.
the manufacturer To be asper:eci at first
Ill Experiments 10 determine hs comparable
economy II C0mPhine and Sperm Oh for ihsuin0
ton
August %. 1910. Haviag filled q Fountain Al
rand Lamp with measured quantity Of the bes
Sperm Oil and one of Webbs Patent Camphin
Lamps. with measured quantity of Webbs eau
phine; lighted them simultaneously. and measure
the quantity Of light afforded by each every invent
minutes. for two hours, and finally measuring IN
residual quantity Of Oil aud Cnmphinc, determine
The quantity of each consumed. From these data
calculated the proportion Of each substance nece,
Sary 10 afford an equal light. The result WAS ihs
= 10 paris OF Camphine equal ia illuminaIin
y, power TO 100 parts of OIL, by measure AlIowin
both substances 10 be OF equal pure by the gallon
-; there would be a saving vi more than one half q
"a using The Camphine. Some idea of the superio
~ brill'ancy of The light from the Camphine may b
~ formed from the fact that in the above expern.r
IN although The diameter Of the two flames was n,
m very Different, tho being en-ei ghths and a,
other t-eighhs Of inch; yet the light from m
~ Oil was 20 that from the Camphine only as 10 10
the Camphine giving than three times as muc
. lighI tie Oil
". Pecnh0rities IA Tie oos'Jusfion of Cauphint
- Vi WebCs Patent Burners, DC, DC
when Camphins Is burned ia lac unmodifed opci
~ an u consumes with much black smoke like spirit
OF Turpentine, bat with Thin flame and curren
OF ar ata certain velocity not particle of smok
- appears The construction of the Cauphine Linn
ID. Tor lis oil jcct the above condiiions.
" MIR. Gay has shown me one Of Mr. webb's Pal
-. ent CamphIne Burners, with a "ciTcuar wick" be
eel tween Two "concal' concenirick plutes which
nj elegant IN iorn and The purposes Of smoke
Of less combustion completely Mr. Gay has also show
es Tue sample Of the Camphne, manufactured by MI
eE Weoo OF New York, according 20 his patent me
'ho9. u seems To me 10 hnVo all of the propeuie
OF The CamPhine Of Dumas and Afforded a yery 81
Peror light, rs appears from the foregoing eIper
meut.
i. The use Of Camphne for the purposes Of lllun
nation u not n new proeci, but has the experience
rs oi some years 10 recommend a. and 80 far believe
a II has gives general satisfaction.
e JOHN LOCKE.
= Medical College Of Ohio. AEgust %. 1910.
o. The article rs prepared by NJ. Dupos wo
nndc in tho laboratory without reference 10 cost ab
sOluiely pure.-oci ST