The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-10-15

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from the Phia. North American, Oct 81 9tf'
For some Zine past It has been Known III
experiments had been made ii the CITY G.
works to test the value Of Profes sor Sander
|. patented process Of making gas from water. b,
with what result il is impossible to ascertain.
no report vas made on the en isct Az nun
, Der OF Philadelphia capitalists had embarked
the undertaking. and felt interested in the r,
J suit. arrangements were made fos experiment
81 she Wilmington Gas Works. and the coaser
: OF snas corporation being obtained, n temporal
: structure was erected outside Of the Gas Work.
! ana There provided with apparatus requisite "a
Makln2 water gas The theory of the proce.
IL described in the subjoned statement. fur
: Rshed Us by the experimenters:
The light produced by the burning Of coal Q
fosin gas is derived from less than ten per cen
ot Its constituent parts-the other ninety De
cent, while burning, evolving the heat require
70 maintain the extra atoms of carbon In In
nret named ten per cefis., in an incande scent
light giving condition. But to produce thi
large per centage of nom illuminating, heatin,
gas. coal or resin must be 6estructively distilled
as u all the product of such distillation was /,
be made into light xsing matter. Now it fol
lows that 1t such cheap ma,eria; rs water cal
oe made to yield, inexpensiyely, this heatevoly
ing, non illuminating proportion of gas, the cos
proportonately reduced. Upon this theory
Sanders process is founded. water, as steam
's decomposed By being passed over red ho
charcoal, and the resulting gisses hydrogen
| caroohies0xide, and light carturretted BY droyer
are chemically combined with heavy carburret-
ted hydrogen, or lisht-giving gas, by the de.
composition OF r0sin or coal sapor, simuttsue-
ously with and in the presence of the dec .mpo
sit'on .! the vapor OF water. In these points oil
previous mixture aud Simultaneous decomposi.
ton OF water yapor, aud hydro carbon vapor,
IN the presence OF red-hot carbon. consist the
originality and the merit OF Sanders patent
The practical working of the process OF, a large
scale, jus'ities, approximately, the claim Of his
patent for an Improvement in the manufacture
of illuminating gas.
Al the Wilmington Coal Gas Works, three
small water gas retorts, aggregating but one
twenty seventh Of the cubical area of their coal
gas retorts. equal in productiveness the whole
OF their coal gas apparatus in present use, pro
cncing with ease front elye hundred to eight
cen hundred feet per hour. The gas lnanufac
tured is superior in color and strength Of fame
70 that produced from COAL ROsin is used as
the carbonizing element, requiring from twenty
hvs to forty poanas Tor every thousand feet of
gas, which is tree from sulphur or nitrogen, and
has an odor rather agreeable tnsn otherwise
When it is remembered that rosin, in the GUS
tonaiy modes OF gas making, produces from but
hve TO seven feet OF e.s per pound, il will be
seen how important must be the improvement
that will increase its economical value as light
giving elenent tour hundred per cent San
ders' process is not confined to the use of rosln.
bat also covers ths use OF bituminous COAL lig-
mite, or any Of tho Muititudnous forms Of hy-
dro carbonaceous material. Eo!u,
Arrangemen having beea made to have the
experiments repeated on saturday evening, a
party Of gentlemen from Philadelphia was in
vited to witness il. We noticed among them
several scientific men, one or two concerned in
contracts for erecting gas works, who, before
proceeding TO put up works to make coal gas,
had paused 10 see the result Of the new inven-
tion Mr.. Isaac D. Budd. Treasurer OF the North.
srn Liberties Gas Company, Nr. Marmadukc
Moore, one Of the officers oi the same corpora
ton, Mr.. James G. Clark, and the representa-
tives Of the city newspapers. These all wit.
messed the process of making gas, inspected the
apparatus, and came back to Philadelphia per
lectly satisfied OF it's complete success. The
coal gas ritorts in the main building were
empiied, aud saw them in that condition.
The apparatus for making water gas was then
set in motion, aud produced very superior
article OF gas, much more brilliant than that
made from coal. though requiring new and
different burner to give it free scope As the
gas lamps in Wilmington were all h;ted with Old
burners, the new gas burned but badly, through
them, SO hat the good people OF Whining
were in no very pleasant hunor over the ex
periments Ye; we saw the old burners taken
off in Number o! plact at hotels snd in offices,
aud the illuminating power obtained by the
change was much greater, in iact about double.
The Eew burner Is the invention OF Mr.. Cres
son, OF our city gas works 1t has a double.slit,
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derstand tina. although the flame thus Obtained
is so brilliant, there is no xpenditure Of
gas than by the old burner, the difference being
that by the new burner all the gas issuing forth
is consumed, whereas there is per centage of
waste in the old burner. II s q vari alton Of an
invention made by Mr. Creason to euil the wood
gas which he has patented. That, also, will not
burn well through the coal gas burner. Prof.
Sanders process OF making water gas also re
quires different retort from that used in max
iEg coal gas. 1t tis l. shaped. fa' 'v
We are informed that the Northern Liberties
Gas Company has determined to substitute this
new process for the one il has heretofore been
using, and the two officers OF that corporation,
who were present At the experiments on Satur-
day evening, expressed their entire satisfaction
with item. We have mentioned that the patent
has enlisted the capital OF number OF PhiIadel-
phians. They have organized several companies
tor the purchase Of the righ. and the intsodu.-
ton into various parts OF the United States, and
with their success Philadelphia .apst BECOME the
centre OF gas operations in the Union. The
Company OF the Western States s under the
Presidency Of Mr.. Abraham Hart, the retired
publisher; the company for New England, under
the Presidency of Mr.. Marmaduke Moore, a vel!
known merchant, Of the firm Of Moore, Henzy
& Co; the Washington Company, which is for
the District Of Columbia, Maryland and the rest
OF the Sou.h is under the Presidency of James
&. Clark, OF Arch street. A company for New
Jersey has been formed, and one s being Or
ganized for PENNSYLVANIA. 1t was under the
auspices OF the Washington Company that the
experiments at Wilmington were made. The
enterprise is one Of prime importance, as there
are four hundred Gas Companies in the United
States. tF Il
Con ma plated Fraud Ina New York.
Ii 10 evident from the action of the democrat
ic per ion of the Supervisors of the county of
New York, tha. frauds OF no ordinary character
are in contemplation at the November election
In that State. Taking advantage OF the absence
of two of the Republican members Of the board
who by the way should give very good rea-
son for their non-attendance in order to escape
the seversst censure at the hands OF their polit-
ical frieDds-these courteous and masnanimous
democrats appointed the Registrars under the
new Registry law, almost exclusively from
among their own political adherents Not a
single republican snd but very few Americans
we're selected, although the Board was originally
constituted by the trainers of the Law, 50 rs to
prevent any party from having . majority,
should every member be punetual in attending
its meetings. There is a powerful motive for