Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-27
GAS GIVES OUT AGAIN.
Freezing Was Again the Fashion All
Over the Two Cities.
MORE CONSUMERS RETURN TO COAL
An Expert Says the Natural Fuel Will Play
Out This Year.
COLONEL SELLERS TALL0w DIP BEATEN

TT is like leaving the "@arm precincts Of
Che cheerful day" and going out into gloom
and damp fog TO most people TO think OF
giving up natural gas fires, but yesterday
seemed TO convince the most skeptical that
by another winter they must go back to
coal, and some thought it as well to get
there at once, stating that they would shut
of the stuff at furthest at next settlement
dav. After the first shiver is over most
people come to the conclusion that after all
bituminous coal isn't such bad fuel-much
better than corncobs and buffalo chips
Those who had taken the precaution to
put in asbestos fronts in their CRATES or sheet
iron stoves in their rooms were in Iolerable
shape, but gas fire in an open CRATE yester-
dav was 'barren ideality" worth no more
than Colonel Sellers tallow dip behind a
mica plate in the stove. Yesterday was the
worst one vet, but fortunately the weather
wasn't verv cold. At the Central Stock
Yards the gss fixtures were taken out for
good Mr.. Korte, restaurant keeper, COM
plained that he had gone TO the Office of
the Philadelphia Company to pay his gas
bill and ask why, as in the world of chance,
water when put over gas fire was as like
TO freeze as boil, and the Superintendent re-
piled that he ought to be thankful that he
had any gas at all
In most of the restaurants about the
Diamond Market the cooks were using
store boxes to roast meat and bake bread,
in addition to what little gas they could
get. In some law offices coal and natural
gas combined kept Blackstonians from
freezing. The Court House boilers were
mainly heated with coke. The Citizens
Insurance people and Arbuckles & Co. had
added coal stoves and were using both
kinds of fuel in separate stoves.
Attorney c. X Yeager stated that there
vas gas in the morning, but at noon the
Allegheny Heating Company's supply had
become so short that on Stockton avenue if
a woman turned suddenly the disturbance
of the air by her skirts would extinguish all
the fires in a house, and these instances were
samples of what could be heard in ali di-
rections.
The trouble seems to be, as George I.
Whitney SAYS, that while the Philadelphia
Company has considerable gas, it hasn't
enough to make much pressure on 700 or 800
miles ofpipe. He exhibited the daily records
of pressure on the Bridgewater Gas Com
panv's pipes where there is sufficient for all
PURPOSES. The pressure varies there from so
to pounds, and as five ounces makes
q strong pressure for domestic use the d;f-
ference of supply between that company
ard the Philadelphia Company is very
strongly marked. The latter hadn't dram
pressure in some houses. Mr.. Whitney
said the company could wiggle through
this winter and will have sufficient sum-
uer supply, but the jig will be up by next
winter He also stated that it was the set
tied policy of the Bridgewater Company to
have fresh well come in every 60 DAYS
during the winter, as it not only contri-
buted to keep up the pressure, but the
demonstration made by letting new roarer
old wells