The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-20

"These provisions being worked out
we are able to produce gas with this
material without more trouble or cost
than with prepared coal, and this we
have been doing for several months.
BY actual measurement we produce and
store from l1S.000 to 10000 cubic feet
of gas with one ton of the fine waste
from the washing. With culm from the
pile after taking out all sizes above
buckwheat we get about 100000 cubic
feet per ton. 80 cubic feet of gas in n
gas engine is a large allowance for one
horse power per hour, hence one ton
of culm will furnish $500 horse power
per hour, or go horsepower for ten
hours, and there is no waste of fuel
when the power is not in use. No
boilers to care for, insure and explode;
and but little expensive water required.
A CONVENIENT FUEL.
aside from cheap power we have a
cheap and convenient fuel. AS an in
stance, at Oxford, N. j.. gaseous fuel
from anthracite buckwheat was used
in all of the furnaces at the nail works,
and Mr. 1.ukins informed me that about
600 pounds of buckwheat coal converted
into gas, did the work of 1000 pounds
of egg coal used direct. Besides the
convenience of handling and certainty
of the heat, was freedom from dust
and sulphur.
For domestic purposes gaseous fuel
is in every way most desirable and is
being extensively used even where
more expensive than coal.
'"rhe gas made with anthracite coal
is not of itself Illuminating. but with the
Welsbach burner it gives IA bright
white incandescent light. | have car
Il hF. IEt.
and increasing its efficiency. This
would add hut little To its cost and
might be desirable for domestic pur-
poses.
II know of no device cna bling us to
use the waste from the washery under
boilers. and it is well known there is
great waste of fuel in burning the
average culm. The efficiency of boilers
are greatly increased by use of gas
and their life extended, and where culm
is used it would be economy to gener-
ate gas. and use it under the boilers
instead of using the culm direct.
AT our gas plant we are able to show
the gas being burned in Il furnace, un-
der Il boiler. in a cooking range, heat
ing stove and a Welsbach burner, and
| will be pleased to exhibit and explain
the process of producing the gas to any
interested in the subject
In the course \of the general talk
which followed the reading of the pa
per. Mr.. Sanderson said that pro-
ducer which would make enough of
gas to dun a 2S0-horse power engine
would cost about $500 complete.
On motion of j. a. Lansing vote
of thanks was extended to Mr.. Sander
son for his paper.
The matter of the resignation of j..
w. Browning was laid over until the
next meeting and the membership of
II. G.. Mckenzie was transferred to
7. II. Watts. a communication from
the Carpenters and Joiners' Union
was read. thanking the board for the
invitation 70 hold It's next convention
in this city.
FURNISHING NEW QUARTERS.
The following report of the committee
that has the furnishing of the new
board of trade rooms in charge was
read and adopted:
To the President and Members of the
Scranton Board of Trade.
Gentlemen: Your committee to whom
was referred the furnishing of our rooms
in the new board of trade building, beg to
report that we have made the following
contracts for furnishings with Hill &
Connell for furniture. s. G. Kerr & Co..
for carpet In secretary'S room, Williams
McAIuuy lOT III
smiths Bazaar for curtains, and with
Conrad Schroeder for polished hard wood
floor in the assembly room.
The furniture will he of quartered oak,
latest style and finish. The carpets are
of the best body Brussels. and the shades
of the best material.
When all is in place we will be very
comfortably and handsomely housed, as
we hope, for many years. This will re-
quire an expenditure of about $1,000. Your
committee Is very anXious-as we know
you all are-that we take possession of
our new quarters. furnished complete.
free from debt. This can be done If each
member will see to it that his due are paid
promptly.
1t is contemplated, we are Informed,
to open our rooms with a banquet, not
only because of our taking possession of
these elegant quarters, but In celebration
of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the In
corporation of this organization. 1t Is
therefore especially desired, that upon
this happy and auspicious occasion we can
be able to say-in the broadeSt sense Of the
term-what we have is ours.
1t Is to every members individual inter-
est to see to 1t that the credit of the
Scranton board of trade is always main
Therefore assist your committee in the
labor you have put upon them. Their in
terests are no greater than your own.
Respectfully submitted: A. W. Dickson,
chairman: j. a. Linen, Fl. NJ. Boies. Il.
Il. Sturges. c. p. Davidson. w. A. May,
ID. b. AthertOn.