The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-02-17
DAILY CLARION.
NATrRALGAs.
Hilis and PiaIn. Lighted 10y wasted Pa
and Merchants adw 20 ing With IL.

Il herf in manner quite picturesque,
but Indicating al the same time that
they either don know iust what 10 do
with il or have rot q great deal more
than thcy can make useful. II you take
the g;l5 o'clock q. ~. train from New
York ior PitisLurg on any day sou will
find tld darknr., after .indown relieved
by frequent purr- alongside u long
rows OF flaming things dat look Ike
boiler furnaces, with holes IN the top in
place Of chimnoy-. 30 that you see the
white hot fire whore the doors ought 20
be- agd gra, leap!ng rcd and white
flames where the snlokostack belongs.
These are coke ovens. or furnaces ia
which bitumin0us coal il reduced Ia
coke. and Wry beautiful and surprising
things they nie when seen by the hun
drcd, N long limos and Indian Gle. on a
pitch black night md IN region where,
in some cates, no Villages OF houses OF
buildings ol any sort appear.
In tie heart Of this luminous cDke.
oven country you suddenly shoot past n
great cloud u flamo III the sky a fame
a. big as q house. and shaped now like
q ham. and neSt Ike a huge conicnl
sonshell. For hall milr norn around
q the country Is brilliantly Lighted. and
men and fences and sheds and lying
birds east iet black shadows on the
grass, ~ second ehlnca the vast
cloud OF flame Is seen 10 be- poised on a
slender black pole twenty feet high. It
takes moments study TO bring q rcali.
cation that the pole Il M ordinary
hous~seryioo gas pipe. and that the
swaying. rolling cloud Of liro l. flame
Of natural gas, If the cars would stop
past there for a moment you would hear
that burning gas roar and rumble and
hiss with almost exactly the noisa OF
good-sizrd cataract.
A great yolowish whilr spcck. low
down IN the distant horizon ahead, Is
the trot sign oueD Of Piusburg That
speck isA humh forty or iity feet long
and half us wide, Il IL the advertise.
mont of u gentlomanA furnishing goods
store on Snhthlicld street, the Broadway
Of Pitbhurg. The entcrprising brothers
who Keep the store had figure Of
Liberty Enlighlcniug the World" in
the corner of their great new building,
and when natural gas invaded tho city
they took the cumbersome Barthuldian
imitation of irchraud out Of her hand,
substituted twenty feet OF gus-ppc for
IT, tapped the main in the middle OF the
street. and now they send man up
ladder every night. and he lights n
match and raises IL 10 the pipe and,
bang' q section of the city Is lighted ~
no electric light ever began TO light any
part OF outdoors. And there over the
city this great baloon.shapcd blaze
swayz aud pulsatcs in the wind all night,
roaring like giants furnace
just 30 the river sldc N illuminated by
.wo great llnmrs that jct from ordinary
little tnbns sticking ont d fhe sidn 81
Du Qucsnc Heights. II Is wonderful to
sce the wind catch ono II ihpss masset
Of flame and wrestsp with il and bear Il
down and ron Il over end hiia great
yellow and white piceca from 1t and
Hing them away patches OF Gro thai
look as u they were going 10 float along
and keep their shape awhile, as whins
OF steam do, but instantly they art
gone.
This natural gas carries no odor with
IT, You cannot drtCct It's presence even
whch the MIR Is laden with it, It leaks
from the mains IN tho Plusburg streets,
and finding d vein Of sand ppnelrates
a. the collars Of near houses. Several
times il has happened that resident
has gone down IN the cellar OF his house
TO look tor something, has lighted
match there. and has seemed TO become
the center Of 4 cou,ulsion Of nature that
lue wrecked all We windows cracked
allfhoNalls. and blown the doors on
their hno,,.. In .pne of tbe mills and
In the loi mora tbr NOV, t,il is coino
~ tho ouA is,s hurn foroySr There {
nj h, + onr t,,yn ar IN, IN mis- rny,o,
"a barsin IN, str.r, t,,ht. or, MAJOR M
ont hr.,u., il vonl5 h, w,sto
money 10 hlrc hmpl'gh'rr after tin
orig'na iighunE
Inns new iucl Is valued by manuiac--
mrers because OF the intensity nnd
oNenness OF It's heating properties. onr
manufacturer said that IN his opinion II |
will presently double tic wcalth-pro-
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