Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-28

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WORKS PUT IN OPERATION,
The Causes Of the Breakdown and Ho"
1T was Repatred-sOme OF the Annoy
qnces it Caused Families who Use
Ciss stoves Eat Lipht sunday Dinners
-Beer Bottles in Demand as candle
sricISs-some Amusing Occurrences.
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tetahy peiote the gas "orhs were running
successfully. All through the day cit-
zens We're wondering Il There was TO be a
raDetition of tne dartnass of saturday
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n'4"' iHo
The improvl7ed candlesucAs-inh Dol
ties. beer BOTTLES and the like-were kept
ornupd in e8sa of Mood. for further use,
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~ ,...,i .'.,ll ,j,aday iiIst to
- ~ r,.,,r +,,orshars have neigh3ors
-,,l,, ,b.a,g @,,rtv bpar hotties into the
,s,,1,tl..o,,.s ,,trds
s-,i.,s-,i1 maj ba ala a fair trade
,,I,-i,,-,' ,,,,.tit.s who SAINT around ia the
I,at 3,@r far hahn dozen bottles of beer
.ecn Tho servant always explafued that
s.Wis-t,s wants teu, for cnndlesticks after
III h.ar ID ,,5tlrpd ollfs
ma st.b4na worked admirably. and the
a.yroyvle}'' was lail1l temporarily.
The families that do an their cooking with
cas- suffered the Greatest inconvenience.
They went TO he'd with scapt suppers ON
saturday night ana got nm hungry only
10 fnd that There was no mel Servants
were dispatched through the rain to the
restaurants and coffee houses. The res
taurants had all they could do 10 feed
the hungry.
Dinners had to be obtained from the
restaurants too. aud MANY heads Of tami-
lies were concentrating moving into the
hotels. The old mouIdv. wOrn-eatep
chestnut .SWbera vas Noses when the
gas went outs5 was repeated over and
over again. until the cvnic cursed the law
that makes the taking Of lite a capital
oifense.
Down at the gas works the men worked
All night. The valves between the gener-
ator and the "scrubher' showed a back
pressure. Some trouble was experienced
Friday night. but the reserve stock OF gas
supplied the city until Saturday. The
works had NOT been running long. how
ever. before they had to stop again, and
the sscrubber'' was taken apart a second
time. The auxiliary works on East Broad
street were starred mn but the fan used
TO blow up the necessary heat was broken
before any gas was made. Had il not
been for the accident to the East Broad
street works the city could have been
supplied with gas.
Al the Old works on Bay street Presi-
dent Blum. Supt. Lille. Foremen Jones
AM MCGUIRE, and the entire force of en-
ploves were kent at work all day repair
ing the machinery and getting everything
Ia running order. At the auxiliary
works Mir. John Rourkp. with a force of
workmeu. began replacing the broken fan
early in the morning and Dv noon every
thing was ready for operation there.
The .sscrubber." the clogging of which
was the cause of the trouble. is a large
iron cylinder several feet high and three
feet il diameter. This cylinder is filed
with circular frames ON which ara nailed
halt inch strips OF wood. These frames
are placed in So that the etrips lie trans
versegv. The gas masses from the vener-
ato- 10 the superbeater and through the
scrubber. Id passing between the strins
of wood the iropurities are IN a graat AZ.
tent deposited on the frames and i'm time