The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-01-10

Clara Aliens home on Chicago street. Mr.
James Kehlor carried off the gentlemen's
hrst piize, which consisted of very hand
some sword constructed of Chinese coins
Ills partner, Mrs c. c. Brown received an
elegant vase. Mr.. e. J. Lewis and Mrs
Jas. Cavanagh won the second prizes. which
were also very appropriate and pretty.
The Grant House banquet will very
likely be the event of the season. Prepare
tiens are going forward very satisfactorily
and everything looks toward a grand time
The entire entertainment will occur in the
Grant House, the dance included. The no.
| tion of transferring the dancing to Simmons
HAL has been abandoned. Every loyal cit
lien of kenosha should buy ticket, help
worthy enterprise and go and enjoy himself
The regular monthly meeting of the
w. G. I. e. will be held on Tuesday, Jan.
18th, at $50 p. M, in the Y. NJ. G. A. par
lors. Mrs Martha Durkee will read pa
per on "Social Purity" which was unavoid-
ably deferred from last month. Every lady
friend of temperance from the city or sur
rounding country is cordially invited to be
present. HELEN M. PERKINS,
Cor Secretary.
The citizens of Kenosha have observed
the laying of the iron gas mains on the
streets in Kenosha with considerable inter-
est and good many questions have been
asked about it. The company expect to be
ready to distribute the new Illuminating gas
about the LIST of February. The new gas
will cost dollar and half thousand and
will be of 20 candle power, whereas the gas
now in use is Of only II to Is candle power
and SO impure as to be almost unfit for USE
1t is stated that the new plant will have
purifying surface enough to do The work
efectually. The decreased cost and in
creased strength and purity of the gas will
probably cause a large increase in its con-
sumption. Between four and five miles of
gas mains will be laid and Illuminating gas
will be furnished as soon as the connections
are made. If a suitable incandescent lamp
can be found, only fuel gas will be distrib.
uted and the same gas will be used for both
heating and lighting. Mr.. Kimball saws he
is using every precaution and employing
every means to give the citizens of Kenosha
i1&e best service possible. The maximum
capacity Of the plant, as it is equipped
now, will be $780, 900 cubic feet in "a hours,
but the usual run will be about fifty to six
ty thousand cubic feet of fuel gas. If a
suitable lamp cannot be found a separate
system of mains will have to be laid for the
distribution of Illuminating gas. The cost
of fuel gas will be fifty cents per thousand
feet, which will make it much cheaper than
coal or any other fuel. The entire work of
putting the plan in operation is under con-
tract and will certainly be carried out as
soon as possible. Mr.. Loomis was in Keno
sha last Saturday and Sunday inspecting
the work and stated that he thought the
manufacture Of Illuminating gas under the
new system could be begun about Feb. LIST.
The future of Kenosha looks very bright.
If this fuel gas company give the citizens
the benefit of this new discovery in supe-
rior fuel at as low rates as are talked of
this town will beat our prediction of year
ago and will have over 10000 people in two
years. The policy of this company toward
the town will have much to do with its
growth. If the new gas bears the marks of
a narrow and selfish control and is proper
tionately of as little value as the gas made
by the same company now, it would be bet
ter for the town to be without gas at all.
The citizens will scrutinize very closely the
service of the new company and if, as it ap-
pears now, it is satisfactory, it will receive
a large and liberal patronage
AS promised in former issue the ed
itor visited the new gas plant here to elicit
information and gained the following men,
oranda: We were shown the new holder.
built in the best manner by the Stacey
Manufacturing Co., of Cincinnati, capacity
100000 cubic feet Of gas, in cistern 7Ox2l
teet. Inside the gas building is genera
tor constructed of steel shells, feet in di-
ameter, IA feet high, lined with fire brick
to thickness of Is inches, making the in
side A feet in diameter. 1t is operated on
the down draft principle, special feature
of the LOOMS system 1t is supplied with
a swinging plate on tho top to receive
charge of about two tons of coal to be fired
and converted into coke N an incandescent
state. Attached to the side of the genera
tor is vertical boiler as a cooler for the
producer gases. Attached to the boiler or
cooler is a rotary exhauster run by YER
tical engine. This exhauster produces the
downward draft on the generator, the air
being admitted through the open door on
the top of the generator creating partial
combustion In its passage downward
through the body Of coal, carrying with it
tar and other distilled products and con-
verting it all into producer gas. AS soon
as the lower body of coal in the generator