Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-03-07

I'VE find that the very hardest coarse
| Lehigh coal is the best. and enough for
a days run is hauled in here at once
weighed. and dumped near the fire hole
Of the generator. There are about j,
| pounds of coal used to 1000 feet of gas
making about 1900 pounds used each day"
lie spoke about the fire hole but where
was it? Surely the only boiler in the
room was over near the door, no where
near the pile of hard coal. and there was
soft coal near the boiler. True those tail
cylinders that looked so like boilers, were
near the coal. but there We're no signs Of
a door through which to heave the coal
All doubts about the fire hole were dis
PEELED. when Mr.. EugleY approac hed
what was apparently a man hole in the
floor, that was firmly screwed down. and
with few turns of the crank over it, he
pulled the cover back displaying a warm
looking place where 1900 pounds of coal
are burning. with white heat. What
an ideal place it would be to have a
novelist where he could make his villain
push some victim. The fires of Hades
could not be more awe inspiring.
This place where the fire is seen is the
generators where according to the term
applied by chemists. the destructive dis
tiliation of coal is effected rs a founda-
ton of the process of the manufacture Of
the gas.
The generator is nothing more than a
huge fire box fed from the top, the whole
being located bereath the floor of the
room, ard it holds as has been stated
ii0o pounds of coal
The fire never goes out ana tho fire.
man has no trouble in keeping it, as
some OF the most Ingenious methods are
contrived to empty The ashes. after which
1t can be shut so that not a particle Of
air can pass through it. ii need be.
Near by j. a cylinder about z feet high
and fully five feet in diameter. This is
known rs the super heater, and is for the
purpose of mixing the gases as they pass
from the generator
The bottom is lined with fire bricks,
and above the lower three feet, is filled
with fire bricks placed in layers that al
| low a circuitous passage Of air UP he
tween them.
The gas from the burning coal passes
M into the super heater in the bottom
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naphtEa is injected under pressure of
| 5d0 pounds 10 the square nch. which Of
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through hot coal in the generator. This
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