Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-27
GAS-LIGHTED CARS.
The New System Adopted by the Con
 solfdated Road.

The New System Adopted by the Con.
 solidated Road.
 Scarcely day passes that some of the train hands on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad are not asked foI an explanation of the apparatus employed for lighting the coaches with the gas, which is now being burned in place of the old fashioned oil lamps.
 The apparatus proper consists of steel cylinder for holding gas, which is sus- pended beneath the car and which has a filling valve attached, and is connected with the various gas lamps by a small gas pipe ascending through the saloon and along the roof of the car.
 To person unfamiliar with the nature of Illuminating gas, it would seem 8 very simple matter to fill the tank with ordi- nary coal gas and burn it as in ordinary use. But as a matter of fact, the largest factor in ordinary Illuminating gas is water and as the gas contained in the receiver has to undergo compression to reduce its volume sufficiently to permit it's being conveniently carried beneath the car, gas containing water cannot be used as the compression would so greatly reduce its Illuminating quality ss to leave the light but little if any brighter than oil, hence a special high candle power gas has to be used for the purpose.
 It was found upon inquiry that the com pany controlling the "PIntsch" system (for such this system is called) have gas works at New York and other cities where the pretoleum. retaining all the lighting prop critics without moisture. The ordinary city gas is about eighteen-candle power, whereas Pintsch gas is before compression eighty-candle power and it's candle power after compression is about sixty, or six times that of coal gas at ten atmos, pheres pressure. The secret of the steady burning of the flame within the glass bowl, is the automatic regulator con cesled in steel shell beneath the car, which keeps back the pressure of the com pressed gas in the tank, and by means of a most ingenious mechanism delivers the same at all times at uniform pressure to the burners, whether there is pressure of 150 pounds to the square inch on the tank, or ten pounds, and it is this little regu lator that governs the entire system and makes it practical They are all manu- factured at the factory of Julius Pintsch, in Berlin, Germany.
 Julius Piutsch, in ddition to being the inventor of the system of car illumination which bears his name and which has al ready been introduced in Europe in more cars than are now owned and controlled by all the railways in the United States, is also the Imperial government engineer in charge of all the German government rail ways, and has been a most prolific inven- tor in other directions, having among oth- CT inventions to his credit the floating gas buoys that now mark many of our dan gerous shoals and wrecks along the coasts and the beacons along the Suez canal. His factories employ over 5000 workmen and are second in size only to those of Krupp
 The introduction of gas lighting on large scale for car lighting in this country marks new era in the history of railway transportation and follows close upon the adoption of palace cars by all the leading railroads for affording luxurious mode of travel. When one stops to think that all business men who can afford to do so, make their long journeys at night, we can not wonder that this light which provides a means whereby the long evening hours may be utilized and made cheerful is hailed with grateful appreciation by them. That the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad officials are found among those who are helping on this improve ment, both for it's safety and popularity, we are not surprised, and believe they will be amply repaid for their outlay by increased patronage.