Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-02-05

the business community In the Rev gas
process and apparatus calls attention
Ia the mttling letter which Mr.. Henry
e. Rev. the famous inventor. wrote
over month ago to Col. Milton J.
Payne. President Of the Kansas City
MOI Gas Company. We extract the
following from II as very pertinent at
this time. when investors. capitalists
and gas companies are giving the Rev
process such serious consideration.
In the course Of his letter Mr.. Rev
says:
when the consolidation was effected
between the old Kansas City Gas Com.
pany and the Missouri Gas Company
there was an understanding and
'genilemen's agreement that the Rev
process and apparatus which manu-
factured high candlc-powcr carburctcd
watcr.gas from cheap bituminOus coal.
crude oil and water In one apparatus
and operation should have II fair test.
80 as TO compare the cost Of gas made
by the Rev process with the cost Of gas
made at the old works Of the Kansas
City Gas Company, which plant first
cokcs coal in retorts by the cOal.bencli
process and then utilizes the resulting
coke In what Is known a. the Lowe i'm.
proved watcr.gas apparatus.
"'rhesc promises have been frequent.
~ made, but although the works were
ready to he operated on the first Of DC.
ioher. as shown by dispatch from
your superintendent. Mr.. George \.
Clarke. to the United Gas Improvement
Company of Philadelphia on the first
Of October. 1897. the promises then
made and reiterated several times since
have not been carried out. To be sure.
u couple of men were sent from the
East ,Mcssrs. Norris and DOnOhuc, tU
operate the new plant for a time before
Il was shut down. hut not belnsy famil.
inr with either the theory or the prylc.
,icc of the apparatus and departing en-
,ircly from the practice Of skilled o?er.
,,ors who had preceded them they soon
doubled the quantity of fuel used In
The manufacture Of gas. and then. am
ed to believe. Informed the general su-
perintcndcn, Of the works. Mr.. Walton
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AUS woW' not make gus "s 'ne"p us
the Lowe improved process II may
bc that you base your opinion upon the
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