The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-26
THE GAS RANGE VS..
THE COAL STOVE.
Anthracite 10 Large Cities Forced 10
Take a Back Seat.
THE SITUATION IN NEW YORK CITY
Advantages OF the New Gas Ranges
for Cooking and IN Convenience
Owe, Coal stoves--Increasc in Their
Use.-New Devices Added TO Them.
From the Sun.

From the Sun.
Gas is fast ousting coal for cooking
! purposes. The increase in the use of
gas ranges in both cheap and expensive
| apartments within the last few years is
amazing. Men who have substituted
the gas range for the coal say that 1t
! is one of the great moral agents of the
age and that it is the means of helping
them on to the promised land more
easily, the wives of such men smile at
this and say that II is merely balm to
mans conscience and that 1t has taken
the bread right out of the mouth of the
professional writer of jokes. BE this as
it may, the gas range is fine thing.
4 II has every advantage over coal IL
properly managed. 1t saves no end OF
labor and is cleaner, cheaper to run and
cooks all foods better than the old-fash-
ioned coal range.
Ten years ago the use of gas was
practically unknown in private famil-
les except for lighting Today there are
between 10000 and $4,000 gas ranges
In use in apartments which have been
put in by one concern alone. This does
not include those in the big hotels. Peo-
pie in moderate circumstances nave
taken more eagerly to the gas range
than those with large incomes. This Is
easily explained, for the gas range does
away with one servant, or, If woman
has to do her own cooking, saves her
no end of time and strength. Families
occupying houses are just beginning to
adopt the gas ranges. That is result
of the cooking school. Professional
\ teachers of cookery have from the very
tstart. even when gas ranges were ex-
detrimental and imperfect things, ad-
&ocated gas for cooking.
UP-TO-DATE RANGES.
THE gas range for 1898 is well nigh
perfect" said a representative OF one
of the best known makers or gas
stoves 1T has many advantages over
last years model, as bicycle men say,
both outside and in. First of ALL 1t is
made with a fish top, which is lose for
convenience in cleaning. If anything
slopsover it drops through into zinc
plate, and there Is no smell OF burning
food or grease. 1t doesn't take hair
minute to lift off the top and brush
off the zinc plate, and there you are
with a clean stove once more. There
are two double burners on all four
hole ranges for rapid work and when
in use things can be brought to a boil
pillar Again the gas can be turned
down so low that things can be left to
simmer all day and night without fear
of burning. For several years house
keepers complained that they could not
teach servants to be careful in the use
of gas, and that they found it just as
expensive as coal This difficulty has
been overcome by an adjustable screw
for regulating the gass flow Women,
as a rule, aren't much on handling a
, screw driver, but any woman can give
these little screws a turn and let the
cook do what she may she can't waste
any gas SO much for the outside.
The bottom of the oven is a concave
sheet cast plate, which makes the fire
hug the bottom of the oven and diff
fuses the heat equally at top, bottom
and on the sides. This oven is ready
to bake in six minutes after being
lighted, and biscuits, bread, cake, and
so on come out beautiful brown on
all sides. The broiler is below the
oven, for you cannot broil over gas
~Yfss oven slides right out and that
malSs it very easy to repair. When
an OVEN wore out in the old gas ranges
an expert had to take out a bolt here. a
bolt there, another yonder, and by the
time he got the oven repaired or new
one in the lady of the house and the
cook were both in a stew, but now the
repairing of gas ranges amounts to
nothing. An upright side broiler is one
of the newest attachments for the per-
feet range. The steak, birds, sweet
breads, or whatever one wishes to broil
is broiled on both sides at the same
time for 1t is suspended from the top
of the broiler and the flames leap up
on both sides. A pan below catches the
drippings.
GAS AND HOT WATER
"In apartments where the owner does
not supply hot water to his tenants"
continued the authority, "peope who
cooked on gas ranges used to make one
complaint. They said that they couldn't
afford to Eeep the gas burning con"
stantly and unless they did they had
no hot water for bathing purposes. IN
all apartment houses being built today
hot water is supplied by the owner.
Tenants have demanded this and now
get it in nine cases out Of ten. In many
old apartments tenants have to supply
their own hot water, and to meet this
need, which Is also a need in private
houses when the women go away for
the summer and the men are left to
live bachelor style. n boiler has been
brought out that fully solves the hot
: water problem. 1t can be connected
with a coal range or run independents