New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-22
The New Hydro Carbon Gas.

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The New Hydro Carbon Gas.
The tact that there are MANY dangers
attending the use of the products of pctro-
leum tor the illumination OF places of busi-
ness and private houses, the great cost
and the insuificiency o. candles, and
the iupossibilty of obtaining coal in
many localities, at such a price as
would admit of the manufacture of
gas by the Old process, made ii a matter
OF very great Importance to ali to discover
some means of illumination at once safe
satisfactory and cheap; and which should
he us well applicable for home use as for
hotels and stores. That this great need has
been generally realized may be witnessed
by the numerous efforts which chemists and
Hundreds of patents have been issued bv
the authorities AT Washington, and hundreds
of enthusiastic inventors have seen their
tondeSt hopes decay" after budding and
blooming their brief day That the thing
was possible all chemists admitted: but that
II va Pltodpf tputtt't
Hydrogen gas early attracted tie atten
tlon OF the eXperimenters and it was found
that if mixed with :: certain amount of car
hon. as ia the gas used IL our street lamps
it would be just the thing: but this required
expensive machinery and hence a large
outlay of capital to establish the works
And 80 the desired po,ut was not vet
reached.
1t has beer SAID 10y some writer tha. Pro
vldence appears to pave the way to all
great inventions, and it really appears as if
such was the case with Sluper's hydro ear
bon gas apparatus. This great invention
may be said to owe its existence TO the
distillation of petroleum and the pro
duction of an almost valueless fluid
carbon OF tnt DIra-; G,....lt-- vgf so c.
ceedlLgly volatile tlat IL ,ouiI NOT lie
used for ordinary purposes. This was pre-
ci>ely what VS. wanted. and Mr.. Sloper 1T
once contrived his apparatus by which hv-
dro9en gas could be carbonated as it WAS
and an illuminating gas pro
duced which would give Il bright, clear
light, and cost much less than anything
else found. The hydro carbon gas produced
by this process is entirely free from those
odorS aud impurities of the gas
produced from coal, while it gives "a more
brilliant and purer light, and what is very
important. requires no expensive chemicals
apparatus is neither large or cumbersome
difficult to understand or to manage In a
word, Mr.. Sloper has invented machine.
which. while ii occupies only the space of
III ordinary barrel, will produce gas of five
lines the ordinary illuminating power at
ibout halt IL" cost of coal gas
This Is important. Hereafter each store.
'cSidencc and farmhouse in town VILLAGE
md country will be furnished with its own
Ias apparatus, and al Il cost less than now
DalG for those dangerous coal OILS will be
brilliantly illuminated. AID there will he
40 difficulty nor danger attending their ust;
l child can run them and insurance compa-
lles lower their rates upon al! houses
v here they are used.
1t Is interesting, III connection with the !
Introduction OF this gas and apparatus into !
his city by the New Orleans Hydro Carbon
taslght Company, to note the fact that !
t was only preceded Il short time hv the |
establishment, by Mcssrs Louis Stern Il
Bros, OF Il lnanutactory of sulphuric acld |
1t their fertilizer works down town This /
: interesting from the fact that sulphuric
,cid is used in the manufacture Of hydro !
zen gas. and the making of it here gives ii
o consumers at far less rates than If it had |
o be imported. 1t really appears as if the |
Nessrs. Stern were providentially directed
md we rejoice that they are now sure 10
ind 50 steady demand for their product
Since the organization of the New Orleans
lydro Carbon Gas Company, two other
companies have been formed under our
state laws--the Texas and Alabama com
published, and We understand tha, the
took Of both are being taken promptly.
II fact no person who has witnessed the
.reat success attending the machines
ct up at Hugo Redwitz'. No. 1872 Common
trcet, NJ. Pesant's cigar store, No I42
ilizer factory, and at the Teutonia Ma
lonA Bank, can doubt for moment that it
! one Of the most important discoveries of
he day, and that henceforth coal oil lamps
'ill no more carry death and destruction.
nd city gas companies poverty and filth
lto Innocent households. Nav hydro
arbou gas prosper.
One of the candidates in Concord, New
lam npshirc, believing lie was elected, told
II ale dealer to treat every body who caIue
! during the evening at his expense. and I
;ent home. The announcement OF the re
alt showed UNEXPECTEDLY that he was
eaten by seven votes. His successful op |
opent generously offered to foot the bill.
1t is estimated that America, when her
power .s fully developed, Will Oe
BILE to fesd four times Us many persons as