The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-10
now GAS is MADE IN PARIS.
..,.uu,ptIon of Gas In Paris-ManaEe-
ment OF n Company.

that ia 10 say, in the year VII OF the French ne |
Dnblic. one Philippe lie Bon, an engineer OF |
Puty5c,s and roads announced to the Institute |
supnt he had discovered mode of ightng streets |
ooS bouses by gas made from coal. His hrst ex |
pertinent was tired IN tn9 ~ th Rne saint
gehV,ono geh % and resulted in great crowd many |
DoaIannations. very little light, and prooleloG'
quantity Of smoke and ae GGG mSG in 1902
anu nM, nG iSoo eut yved him, and between the year
lis death and 1929 at least hali-a-oozen com
Uanes started with the 9GJegs 1900 90 5ogyeyer
enIDeilo1pe attained permission to lght Dy gas |
be nubiIc lamps in the Place Venuome' pi nn1
his success assured that OF the inVenIlon, r np@
co,mnanies forthwith began to form IN Sy every
Siroaation and to dispute about the area WhlC1
tbev should be severally allowed 10 IgnVi anu
finally limits we're assigned by the FIe.ecV vi tnS
Seine to the existing companies III 1902 "hi'h
at that time were FIVE in NUMBER o,,
On the lst of January, 1856, these hve com
ronies were amalgamated, under the ttle OF tne
Fpartsian Company for Lighting ana hedti1s
~ Cos y and received a concession for htty
Years. This Company lights the whole OF Parls,
fhe great part OF the communes or townships VI
the Department OF the seine, anu sole on
of the seine-et-0se. Its capital exceeds 9le
hundred and ten millions OF francs, lssIeu III
five hundred franc shares the preseuV Value W
which is somewhere about sixteen hundred
The Company, as we have said, possesses, a
monopoly, aud as no people IN the WoTlu l
REQUIRE more gas than Parisiaus, IL t nignC 4I 1c
fhOuplt
ebares stand is owing to the advantage WI Gu
tbe monopolists have taken of their customers.
That this is not the fact IN the present. case tue
following considerations will shoW:-
The gas is sold to the town at the rate oil htJeen
Centmes the cubic metre and at the rate oil
thirty centmes to private persons Inls gas
must be of a certain brilliancy, and one INJURED
and i've lltres of it must give as much ight as
that W hich IS given by a carcel lamp burning
fOrty.tWo grammes of oil in an hour. Trials OF
the gas are made every evening at the time that
The streets are lighted up by officers appointed
by the town, who, by means OF peculiarly sensl-
tive apparatus, test ii in each one OF the eleven
offices dispersed throughout the metropolitan
district, and secure to the public gas OF the
purity and Illuminating power contracted lor'
II the conditions above-namel are compiled
with, the cubic metre OF gas, at the price OF 81
centimes, equals 400 grammes OF oil, whch cost
65 centimes, and 700 gramnes OF candle, whlCn
cost IT, 96c. NJ. b. SERVER the Company's en-
gineer has drawn up table, sho wing the ag-
gTegate annual consumption, and the annual
consumption, per head, OF gas in Paris and the
great towns OF Europe in 1865. London hgure5
first, with a consumption of over 226,OOO 600 OF
cubic metres, being at the rate of so metres per
head of the whole population. Then comes
Berlin, with a consumption of 3500000O OF
cubic metres, which gives IS per head. Paris,
with consumption of 1l6 000,00 of cubic
metres, or 63 per head, follows, and Brussels, a
long way behind, with Florence and Madril,
darker than ever, bring up the rear.
The length of piping III Paris is ll0O kilo-
metres-greater than the distance from Paris to
Vienna. The number of fpublc burners exceeds
10000, and OF private ores 650,000.
CONSUMPTION OF GAS IN PARIS.
Gas in Paris is in fact used not only as a
necessary commodity, but as luxury, and for
the enhancement OF display in public places, iu
cafes, shops, and theatres. These latter places
of amusement would seem to burn an enormous
and the Lyrique du Chatelet and La Gaite, whicI
are lighted from the root through colored an
ornameuted glass, have over 5000. The circuse
burn more than 1000 lights apiece, and tn
Opera Comique and 0deOn about the same.
To supply this enormous consumption Il
company possesses ten manufactures, and II
land on which they are situated, in varlol
points of Paris is over two hundred acres
area. There are fifty gasometers, contaln1
three hundred and fifty thousand cubic metr
of gas; the largest those which have been !
Gently built, have a capacity OF twenty thou5Gl
metres.
Both the process by means of retorts, al
that known as cooking" are made use Of L
retorts produce coke which is tit for domest
purposes, and the cooking" process CIV
excellent fuel for locomotives and for the u
of foundres. The French have always be
frstrate chemists, Their gas manufacture
probably the best conducted in the world, a
they employ pressure largely as means OF c
HOW GAS IS MADE.
In the great gas works at Vlllette is an exI
rimental mandatory and laboratory, whe
take place analyses OF coal and the proceeds
the manufacture. Elsewhere the compony p
sesses auxiliary factories, in which the sub-p
ducts of its various processes, such as tar a
ammoniacal liquids, are dealt with; brickyal
whence are furnished its retorts and reTacto
heaters; yard for building the numerous C
riages which carry about the coke TO its C
toners in the winter time; workshop
the repair OF machinery, and forges for the p
pose of renoVating tools; and lastly, cent
warehouse, for the storage of gaspipes, a
whatever is used in the outdoor management
the concern.
Fourteen offices are scattered over the W
district within the company's limits, where
requests and complaints of consumers are de
with eXpeditiousy and fairly enough. Tn
Offices serve as posts also for the lamplighter
Besides the immense extent OF piping we ht
spoken OF, the company viii always undertf
TO put up what is called a cOiOnne nontdnte,
prolongaton of the street pipe, which ascei
the interior OF house to the highest floor. Nj
than fifteen hundred of these COLONIES nlOntdn
have already been furnished by the company
In Paris the use OF gas is by no means c.
fined TO lighting; a ve1y large quantity is C
sumed Tor heating, and especially for culIni
purposes.
GOOD ORGANIZATION.
We must not omit, IN our description of
objects and organization of this very impOrt,
undertaking, TO give short account of
admirable system under which Its servants
worked. The hTemen or WOrkmen employ
on the furnaces get five francs a day, and
further sum of fifteen francs a mouth is alIo q
to all those who have been punctual and ba
not been off work on Monday (qu, mont pas T
le hndO.
A savings bank and a regular medical st
are ready to afford help TO the Workmen VIII
sick; and, in consideration OF a payment of n
per cent. on their salary or wages thev receI
for their time OF i'll health half Day. with me,
cal advice and drugs free. The Company.