The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-01
NEW GAS
Another Great Discovery Patented
and MOnOpOIized.


sRigolo" in N Y Sun
Considerable sensation is likely to be created
by new company incorporated under the law
OF the state of New York and under the name
of the Equitable Gas company of New York
The officers of the company are Edward Stern,
president, and J. r. Keene, ice-president
Messrs. Brewster, Archbold, and Rockefeller,
all of the Standard Oil company, E. n DECKER
son, the lawyer, and E. Jerzmanofsky. the
engineer, compose the board of directors The
company is a close corporation, and the whole
capital, s., coo, 900, has been subscribed for by
the promoters The object of the company is
to produce gas by the decomposition of steam
and liquid hydro-carbono on highly heated lime.
Almost pure hydrogen is thus obtained, the
lime, used over and over again, being constant
~ revlyltied by heat The hydrogen thus
produced is carburetted in the usual way,
and gives gas of between thirty and fifty
candles power. All former attempts at nro-
ducing hydrogen gas on large SCALE
for Illuminating, heating, and other
power-producing purposes have utterly
failed on account of the high cost of pro-
duction. The main feature of this process
is rapid production at very low cost and
with ve~y little labor. The process is the dis
covery of that old genius, Tessie du Motay.
who died some two and half years ago in a
lodging house in Twenty-siXth street-and
died poor, of course. In partnership with a
young Polish engineer of the name Of Jerz-
manofsky, the famous French chemist took
out patent for his process. Mr.. Jerzmanof-
sky has been working ever since the death of
Jessie du Motay TO perfect this process, and
obtained results which were brilliantly
illustrated at the exposition given at the
experimental works of the Municipal
Gas company on Tuesday last Officers Of
different gas companies were present
and expressed unqualified admiration of
the new process. All publicity in regard to
the scheme has been avoided, and it was with
considerable difficulty that this information
was obtained, the object of the promoters be-
ing TO keep the whole thing to themselves
Inc company has become the owner of an eX-
elusive license for the city and county of New
YORK, and as soon as the necessary buildings
are erected Will supply the city with the new
gas al considerably reduced cost to the con
sumers. The Municipal Gas company. OF
which Mr.. T. Stern is the originator, has Sc
cured free license for the cOnsumption of
the new gas. "Ihe brilliancy of our gas.
and aus low cost of production" said
an officer of the company, "will make it
the most formidable competitor Of electric
light, even should that light become an abso-
lutte practical success. Our gas will be so
cheap that it will be used for fuel, and in a
very few years you will see it substituted for
coal on steamboats, and railroad engines if
not in kitchens. We shall knock down the
price of coal, too, for we furnish a clean,
unsmOking substitute for it, and don't use a
ton of coal ourselves All the heating we
want is done with oil"
The process has been patented in every
country, and the great Paris banking house of
Baron Selliere is conducting the negotiations
for the Introduction of the new gas in Russia,
Germany, Austria, France and Italy. Eng
land and Belgium being the two great coal
producing and coal-consuming countries, the
patentees have as yet reserved to themselves
all negotiations for them