Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-10-21

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In the field 1t occupies It Is without
competition, for there are no goods on
the market that make pretense of max
ing any change in the combustion of
fuel over conditions that have existed
for the past fifty years. All competent
engineers and chemists agree that in
burning fuel on the CRATE there has been
no substantial gain over the practice in
vogue fifty years ago. With the excep-
ton of the improvements by this COM
pany, the manufacturer of stoves and
furnaces is ION dead level of common
use" one manufacturing firm having no
advantages over another excepting in
petty details and in adding ornamental
ton and making the various designs
more attractive to the eye.
AT present the International Improved
Combustion company is located at Mid
dlebury, Vt, and in case the citizens of
this village and Addison county give it
the encouragement it deserves it will be-
come permanently located here. 1t is
confidently believed by those fully con-
versant with the present popular demand
for pure, cheap heat for house-heating
purposes that market for ten thousand
house-heating plants will be realized in
the near future within the territory
owned by the company; and certainly
within three years a market for one hun
dred thousand gas stoves annually can
be had by proper eXertion. Boston
alone, with its suburbs with their cheap
gas, should take that number.
This stove is truly the poor mans
! friend, as it has a capacity to heat a
compartment fifteen feet square and
twelve feet high, or an entire fat of
small capacity, by the use of from ten to
twelve cubic feet of gas per hour, and
retails for the small sum of six dollars.
Adding to these specialties the room
heating coal stove, that like the gas stove
Is now ready for the market, together
with the coal and gas cooking stoves and
ranges, all embodying the principal
requisite for the perfect combustion of
fuel, it will be readily seen that this COM
pany has a solid basis for a mammoth
manufacturing company that will make
it, under proper management, second in
magnitude to no manufacturing corpora
zion in New England. As is obvious. an
! immense number of workmen will be re-
! quired to meet the demand for labor.
The company is, l understand, now
ready to entertain proposals from agents
for the control of territory and the sale
of the three specialties mentioned, viz :
the gas stove, the coal heating stove and
the Sanitary Perfect-Combustion house
heating plant.
AS large proportion of the stock of
the company is in the hands of the
trustees for promotive purposes, no
difficulty will be experienced by the
company in obtaining necessary capital
to vigorously push its business affairs as
soon as the preliminary start is made.
1t is to be hoped that for their own in
terest the citizens OF Middlebury and Adj
Olson county will give this matter the
serious consideration that it deserves.
VIM JACKSON.
NoTE-Dr. Blanchard informs me that
critical scientific tests in New York city
establish the fact that one and One-half
pounds of coal to one thousand cubic
feet of space in a well-built house is
what is required daily on an average for
house heating purposes. So far as test
ed the Blanchard Sanitary Perfect-Com-
bustion House-Heating System promises
substantially similar results.