Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
creased rates on iron and steel made by the
Central Traffic Association.
DOMESTIC GAS NO HIGHER.

Window House Men Protest Against the
Higher Cost of Fuel, But They VIII Prob.
ably Not Hurt Themselves About It-Cost
ofGas Elsewhere.
Domestic consumers of the Philadelphia
Gas Company gas may not be alarmed over
the report of additional cost of that useful
commodity. The present price of 121I cents
will remain unaltered. Pittsburgers are
well off in this respect compared with some
cents; in Dayton, O., 19 cents, and generally
in the West the price is higher than here.
There's disposition among some window
house men to protest against the increase of
$40 per pot per month, which the company
has notified them they will be charged from
the beginning of the next fire. The in
creased cost OF fuel for the blast figured up
in round numbers certainly looks formidable
enough. Owners of ten-pot furnace will
have an additional toll Of $1,000 year to
pay, and those with larger capacity will
have to pay accordingly. These figures
would seem to be sufficient to cause owners
to pause and reflect before starting up.
They paid $40 per pot last fire, and they will
receive bills for $50 for the ensuing blast.
When the cost of fuel is taken with regard
to the whole cost of production, the figures
are not so formidable, as this item of ex-
pense is but 10 per cent of the whole The
announced increase of 30 per cent would
bring the cost OF fuel up to Is per cent of
the whole. Whether the profit on the arti-
Gle will allow of this additional cost in the
manufacture is what owners are now fgur-
ing on.
A real estate dealer said yesterday that he
had instructions to look out for loca-
tions for three owners of glasshouse in
this city. He said that they would not be
able to stand the increased cost of fuel, and
should move out to cheaper quarter. 1t is
question # factory owners seriously con-
template any such step. The cost OF fuel,
even with the increase, will about equal
the cost of coal, and unless they can
locate on territory where gas is to be
had at low cost and steady flow for an in
definite period. they would not benefit by
change. They will hardly think of locat-
ing in the Ohio fields, as the reports from
thence declare the gas to be too sulphurous
in quality to make good window glass.
There, too, the price of gas has been in
creased; In Bowling Green from $50 to $50
per pot, and in Findlay and other towns in
similar proportion.
What glass manufacturers are most likely
to do, is to erect regenerative furnaces and
producers to make coal gas, rather than
.hove their houses. Wolfe, Howard s. Co.
have Nicholson furnace which is efectual
in reducing the fuel account, and notable
step in the direction of keeping down the
cost of fuel is that of the Pennsylvania Tap
Works, which is erecting a complete system
of generators.
The Pennsylvania Company is having
meters constructed of sufficient size to
check the consumption in mills. They will
be up to 100000 feet capacity. The COM
pany has now no contracts which it cannot
break at 80 DAYS notice, so that at any time
when it deems the exigenies of the gas mar
ket demand il, it can, on notice, raise or
lower the price at pleasure. The company
will close fewer contracts this season among
mills and factories than before. This is at
tributed to a cutting under by rival COM
panies.