Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-03
THE FUEL or the euruRe.



Coal oreand In Cyclone Pulveyissr-Bis
Farssce Men Pronounce II suscess.
The steel and iron men Of the country,
and all the rolling mill and furnace men
also, are Interested In the newest rival TO
natural gas ms a saver Of fuel II was .
modest little exhibition that was given In
Chester, Pa, the other day, but ft proved
pretty conclusiyely that where natural
gas is not, pulvcrized coal is sure TO be
ere long J. q. McCauley, Of California,
for that Is the discoverer's name, claims
20 have found n process by which 80 per
cent Of the coal now used In furnaces
and rolling mills Will be saved, and steel
and iron greatly improved in the pudding
process.
McCauley is one Of the latest additions
TO the array Of genius collected by Erastus
Wiman, the Staten Island millionaire.
The Californian hunted around good
while In search of o man OF means who
would appreciate his invention. He could
have had all the capital he wanted several
years ago, but he wasn't able to get coal
pulverized fine enough to spray into the
furnace, and McCauley's process consists
in spraying coal that is pulverized into an
impalpable powder into o cumbustion
chamber attached to the furnace. The
COfllDuSllOu tudb tdht5 RlHCc
and II is instantaneous, and all the gases
are absorbed, 80 that none OF the sulphur
gets into the iron and lessons its value, as
is now the case. That's all there Is to the
new process, but It does the work, pro
vided the coal Is powdered SO flnc that
you can blow It around as you can the
smallest particles Of dust.
1t was at this stage Of the proceedings
that McCauley met Wiman The man
from tl,c Pacific coast explained his pro-
cess to the Staten Islander. Tho latter
said he would test it, because he had a
machine he got from two Wisconsin
farmers that would grind the coal out Of
sight II necessary. Two young Wisconsin
farmers were plowing when they saw a
cyclone come along safely out Of their
way, and tear a town up. They noticed
how the two currents OF air, moving in
opposite directions, knocked houses, barns
and paving stones into smithereens. The
thought struck one OF them that IL that
principle could be applied In machinery,
1t would make tho biggest grind in the
world. So the young men, whose name
was Raymond, and who were brothers,
went to Chicago and invented machine
that they called the cyclone pulverizer.
Wiman met the Raymonds and they were
his, and so was their machine. The Staten
Islander has fortune in the pulverizer,
which has yet to meet material 1t can
not reduce TO powder, am told, and the
Raymonds were paid fortune by Wimau
for their discovery.
So McCauley md Wiman formed a
combination. Wiman's machine pull
verized the coal and McCauley tested his
process at the big Chester works. It was
success beyond doubt, and had 1t been
put into operation before natural gas was
discovered, 1t would have had q clear
monopoly Of the field. It isn't free pun
to say that pnlverized coal sprayed into .
furnace unquestionably saves the manu-
facturer hundreds Of dollars day. Tho
big furnace men at Chester and out In
Ohio say so, and 80 do all the big guns in
the manufacturing realm who were
present at the Chester exhibition. Out
side Of the natural gas localities pulver.
lied coal is going to be the fuel Of the
future. McCauley and Wiman are even
bold enough to say that they will confront
natural gas right in Pittsburg with
sprayed coal The conflict ought to be an
interesting one. Certain IL is that to the
industrial world the new process Of Nc
Cauley Is the biggest item Of news it has
received for years.-Cor. Boston Globe.