The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-26

Is by gas. This boiler is>desgned to
supply hot water in any quantity at
| the least possible expense. When gas
| is used hot water can be obtained in
| any part of the house i'm three or four
minutes after the gas is lighted. An
| automatic regular and thermostat con-
| trols the gas. absolutely preventing all
| waste. For instantaneous results the
consumption of gas is twenty-four feet
| an hour. Where q continuous supply
of hot water is required for the ordin-
! ary family use. the consumption of gas
need not exceed six feet an hour. AS
| soon as the water, when being turned
| off in quantities. gets below n certain
| temperature it begins to get hot again."
ADVANTAGES OVER COAL.
what are the advantages Of gas
| over coal?" asked the reporter.
I'm the first place, ii is far cheaper
| to cook with gas than with coal, and
nine hundred and ninety-nine families
! out of n thousand have to consider
| that. / have an eight-room apartment,
| and four in the family. Our gas bills
| for cooking and lighting run from $3.50
! to $3.50 a month. When / used coal for
| cooking. l never used less than one ton
month. and that was S.. OF course,
| we've taught our servants the proper
use of the gas range, and there is never
| foot of waste If a servant is going
| to use gas as the old negro nanny
down south did, I'd advise a house
Keeper to stick to the coal range, with
all its dirt, expense, and the labor 1t
| entails. A man in the gas range busi-
| ness told me he sold a range to a fami-
ly in country town in the south. At
| the end of the first month he got bet
ter from the man not couched in terms
| that he picked up when a Sunday
school pupil He said that his gas bill
was $50, and that he intended to expose
the company which had advertised that
the expense Of cooking by gas in an
average family was from $3.50 to So a.
month. The firm couldn't imagine
what was wrong, and the customer fol-
lowed his first letter with several 9TH
ers equally warm. Finally they decid-
ed to send man all the way south to
see what was wrong. When he en-
tered the kitchen he asked the old ne
gro cook how she liked cooking by
| gas, and she answered:
""Fo' de Lawd, honey, hit beats any
thing l ever seed. All you got tu do is
to light you stove an dar you got de
fire all de time. Dis fire amt gone out
since de day Marse John had dis stove
| act up here
rs it any wonder that the gas bill
was $50 or even $500?
SAVES TIME AND LABOR.
again, the use of gas for cooking
saves so much time and labor. We
often have breakfast on the table in
| twenty minutes after the stove is light
ed, When a coal range is lighted it
takes n long time for it to get hot
enough for water to boil. You put a
quart of water on gas range the mo-
ment it is lighted, and in seven min
utes the water bOils. Light the oven
and in five or six minutes it is hot
enough to bake mullins or biscuits. Gas
doesn't make ashes or SCOT, and many
women say that if it cost more than
coal they would prefer it. Mention has
already been made of the facility with
which gas ranges can be cleaned and
| repaired They are q great blessing to
| people who cannot get out of town in
summer, for the gas is turned off when
! not needed, and the houSe kept much
cooler. Then one can regulate heat by
means of gas to the smallest part of a
| degree, and that is impossible with
| coal. OF course, this makes it possible
to prepare all food more perfectly by
| gas, for some things are better cooked
on slow fire, some on a quick fire,
others require a hot fire, and still 9TH
ers a cool fire. if we can speak Of any
fire being cool. Think of the worry a
gas range saves servant and mistress.
As far as men go, it is an antidote for
swear words. 1t saves time, temper,
strength, patience, and makes home a
much more comfortable and CHEEKY
place"
But hasn't coal any advantage over
gas for cookin?" interrupted the re-
porter
"Of course you wouldn't expect me to
say so even if it were SO. / won't give
you my opinion, however, but the opn-
ion of the men who are building apart
ment houses in and around this CITY.
They are having gas ranges put into
flats because they claim that such flats
rent more easily. In the apartments
where there are conIhinatiO coal and
gas ranges the agents say that the ten
ants never use coal, but cook by gas
entirely. The combination coal and
gas range has never been much of a
success, anyway. 1t is neither one
thing nor the other. Only yesterday
we sold fifty gas ranges to a man who
is putting up apartments that he pro-
poses to rent at $1S a month. 1t is only
a matter of time until the gas range is
adopted by the very poor. 1t is one of
their needs, for the ranges are strong
ly built in all sizes and to meet all de-
mands. Where people have to live in
small, close, crowded quarters a COM
past gas range with baker and broiler
would make life much more livable to
them"
Trust in the Future.