The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-13

How That city May Lose Its Distinguish.
ing Attraction.


Iron Age.
A company has been organized in Pitts
burgh and has applied for certain rights L
lay mains, ETC., which proposes to rid thai
city OF part oil its nmoke nuisance. Tht
following particulars are printed by the
DiIpatch;
A call was made yesterday on Mr.. Smith
aud he was questioned relative to this pro
ject. He stated the object to be to furnish
cheap gas, not for Illuminating, but for
heating purposes, q fuel that would always
be ready to convert into heat Ia an instant,
merely by the application oil match, one
that would save labor, dirt and ashes,
Messrs Smith & Markle have been granted
O patent on q Coke.butning oven by which
ali the biproduCts, sulphur, ammonia,
free carbon, tar and SCOT can DO converted
into gas, OF but eight candle power, but Of
excellent quality for heating purposes.
They have not yet decided where they
will make this gas. Many people know
that the East End Gas Company make
their gas from coke ovens, but the process
10 not on 50 complete scale as that 10.
tended to be used by Messrs. Smith & Mar
kle, as the bi.produCts are not converted
into gas. They have not yet decided
whether they will utilize the waste OF the
COnnellsville coke region, or establish a
plant OF from 1000 10 1000 coke ovens
near this city. The question OF the cost
will decide the choice, The cost OF laying
main to the COnnellsvile region would
be great, but there may be other compeh
sAtipg advantages. ..,....
A market for 80, 1000 900 cubic feet oil gas
per day is assured in this city In the fur.
nishing Ot fuel 10 over 500 pudding fur.
naCes, 1000 steam boilers, 5000 houses,
and large number oil glass factories, some
OF which are already using gas as fuel,
made by another process. The cost oil fuel
per day Tor pudding furnace will be IS,
Tor a battery Of boilers 81, and for al or.
binary dwelling house 10 cents.
The free gas, Mr.. Smith says, will be &C.
CompAnied by an odor that will discover
any leak, and thus prevent accidents
While the word 'steam" Is used In giving
the name Of the company, Mr.. Smith sayl
II has nothing to do with the gas further
than being used In the process OF making
II, 90 II viii not conflict with another com.
pany applying for q right Of way for steam
circulation for motive power and heating.
But lew people have ever taken the
troHble 10 compute the sinful waste OF
fuel going on for years In the Connellsvile
coke regions. Accurate calculation has
shown that every day 10000, 900 cubic
feet Of gas mingles with the atmosphere
This gas, at the apparently Insignificant
price o. len cents per 1000 cubic feet, is
worth $24, 600, 80 that much wealth Ia dis.
Bipated daily, ofS8, 760, 0OO per year. Thus.
while large portion Of Western pennsyl.
vania ls being rendered almost uninhSb.
itAble by clouds Of smoke, the Inhabitants
may n lice that what has heretofore BEEN
considered Q nuisance can be converted
into blessing.
by coklng the amount Of slack that is
daily thrown away by coal companies In
the Immediate vicinity many small towns
near, by applying the process above men.
toned, might be supplied with fuel, while
the cost Of making Il could be gotten ont
OF the coke, q product In demand almost
all over the civilized world to-day. Enough
gas is wasted al the Mt. Washington coke
ovens daily 10 heat half the honses In the
ward, but no one seems TO have ever
Thought Of utilizing II, although the Con.
solidaled Compahy's success might have
suggested the idea. II is said that the
new venture will receive the support Of
most rolling mill owners and households.
ets, and the time may again come when
the housewife can have her wash dried Ia
the back yard, aB In DAYS OF wore.