Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-01-10

Brevitics.
A copy of the special holiday edition
of the Marble Falls (Texas) Gagette has
been received by the JOURNAL from
w. G. Wright. The Falls is enjoy
ing boom, and Will evidently thinks
it has come to stay.
A study of the corrected time table
of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
railroad, elsewhere printed, will show
the convenience of the public has
been promoted by Improved connec-
tons with the B. q 0. at Cumberland
and Piedmont.
All the members of the Frostburg
Lecture Association are expected to
rea toe call of the president elsewhere
printed, and act accordingly.
By u coincidence this week a shoe
and hat man and clothes man have
their advertisements renewed. One is
invited to get his suit from Joe Bear
and his hat and shoes from NJ. Rodda
4 Co. He will then be in shape for
presentation to Queen Victoria.
The talking of starting still another
paper in Frostbrrg has no terrors for
the JoURNAL-unlesS it is to be called
the CaShb00k. On this score. however,
since it comes to think of it. the
great pape, S mind is easy, for it
learns it is to be named The Morning
Voice, meaning, probably, that it will
be a matitutnal organ and not a hep
domadal weekly. But why not save
time and type by calling it the Rooster ?
An Undoubtedly Valuable Invention.
For several months L. G.. Parker,
of Kansas City, Mo-, inventor, has
been at work with 7. H. Paul d Son,
of this place perfecting his discoveries
in the development of illuminating and
heating gas. A plant has been erect
ed in portion of the iron works con-
sisting of ten oil-chambers and cor
responding stand-pipes, an air-pump,
washer, converter, etc. The mechan-
ism of manufacture, as we understand
it, comprises the propulsion of hot
air directly through the chambers of
crude petroleum, thus creating oil
vapor, or mechanical gas. The latter
is then forced through the converter,
when it becomes fixed gas.
The process was shown the JOURNAL
Thursday evening by Messrs. Paul and
Parker, and the result was more than
satisfactory. The gas furnishes fame
of the purest white light and of not
less than 2O-candle power. With two
small jets burning in a very smoky
room, the JOURNAL, 80 feet distant,
read aloud an article in solid BREWER
"a print slightly smaller and more
compact than that in which this article
appears.
But another and equal value of the
product consists in its utility as a heat
ing gas. Besides being purer than
any gas that can be made from coal,
it is much stronger. 1t can also be
made in larger quantities and furnish
ed much cheaper than coal gas. In
plant and materials used the expense
of adjustment and manufacture is
considerably less than those of the old
system.
The exhibition Messrs. Paul and
Parker are able to furnish remind one
of natural gas displays in northern
Ohio and Indiana. The pipes emit
great torches of flame, and, combustion
being complete, there is no smell
whatever thrown off from vent or
blaze.
With the plant already built, the
first ever constructed under the Parker
process, it is possible to light and heat
every house in Frostburg at Il cost
that almost anyone who has to buy
coal can stand. TO housekeepers es
pecially, who have to wage perpetual
war against coal dust and ashes, it is
a boon whose value is beyond COM
putation.
The JOURNAL congratulates Messrs.
Paul and Parker upon their achieve
ment, and it hopes they will win the
rich reward merited by long research,
experiment, labor and expense.