New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-12

Ie ,nsnusach red from any other material than that
now in use b, re; and, if go, whether il can bs
manufactured at cheaper rate, producing greater
degree of light. ann what would be The estimated
cost Of altering the ap,paratus TO produce such light
The President of tbs Keystone Company inme-
Giately addressed letter to the Chairman OF that
Committee, Offering to meet them aud furnish all
the information required for ascTtaiDiDg the actual
cost Of the Sanders Water Gas. This letter was
never replied to- but in April two o. the COMMITTEES
agreed to unite with the Company in appointing
two persons to be charged with experimenting tho
hgL!"g Of the Girard House with the winter gas,
ana reporting on ia quality and cost. But, though
IL Was promised that Councils should be asked for q
small appropriation to bear the expense yet il was
never made, ard the origal resolution was recon-
sldered and rejected. The Company then offered
the Committee to alter the City Gas Works 10
Sanderss method for O sum not larger than the cost
of repairs for 1855 to keep them in an equally Elf
cent condition for only baf the cost of repairs for
1859; TO supply oil The gas, labor Of manufacture.
materials and fuel, and to deliver the gas Of quail
ty equal TO that made from coal into the holders Of
tie city, at IS cents per CO0feet. Not word was
beard from the Gas Committee in reply; but on the
9th Of April that Committee published report Of
their having made experiments in producing three
differt Mt kinds Of gas. They say that gas made
from wood costs The least and that from rosin and
steam the most, and that 10 change from the pres
ent mode can be advantageously made in The City
Gas Works at present.
Such report as this greatly surprised Mr.. Carey
and his friends of the Keystone Company, who had
also learned that the city had actually refused
to allow the water gas to be introduced into the
Grard House. Mr.. Carey says the offer made to
the city would have saved it 100000 per annum
without cncountering any risk. He then refers to
the extraordinary efforts evidently made TO defeat
the Introduction Of the water gas. He acquits tho
city officials Of completely, but alleges that many
persons are heavily interested in the present and
prospective supply of bituminous coal to be used in
the various gas-works Of the country; that others
have patents valued almost at millions Of dollars,
for machinery TO be used in the manufacture Of gas
from wood or coal; and that Others, az is generally
understood, have been actively engaged in arrange
ments for obtaining permanent control Of the city
gas works with view to the maintenance, for their
own profit, of the present enormous tax on light
These being vast interests, all of which must be in
some measure affected by the introduction OF
water gas, we need not be surprised that each and
all of them should gladly hail any and every state
ment having for its object the delay if not even tho
absolute prevention, of its accomplishment. Tho
propriet0rs Of the Girard House have made large
outlay Of money to fit it for the water gas yet the
city refuses to permit its introduction except on
terms that they could not safely accept. After this
thorough ventilation by br. Carey. think you may
rest assured that the water gas is a certainty and
that under his perseyerng administration, the
great boon Of cheap light is not to be unreasonaby
DELAYED.