The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-05
THE LIMIT OF LIGHT.
THE WONDERFUL EFFECT OF THE
NEW burrows LAMP.

Nothing Except MONDAY SUN That Can
Compete with Yt-Scientists AstOund-
ed, Experts COMPOUNDED and the Pub
lie Dumf0undod.
1t Is the simple things in life which
set the wheels Of revolution in motion
Newton astounded the world, so did
Farraday, and Franklin flew kite one
day, and now electricity encircles the
world by wire The telephone came
into existence, and, by a most simple
contrivance aided by electricity, you
converse for a distance of q thousand
miles. 1t is so simple, don't you know
that the question Is asked time and
time again: "Why wasn't it thought
of before?" The effect Of electricity
upon carbon produces a brilliant light
and the busy city centers are illumlna-
ted as bright as day, Ever since cleo
tricity came into competition with gas
as a means Of lighting the field which
the latter once occupied almost supreme
and alone has been gradually en-
croached upon, and every means de-
vised to increase the number OF consul
mers of gas has been readily taken ad-
vantage Of To some extent this has
been accomplished, but it remained for
Mr., George II. Burrows, the inventor Of
the Burrows burner, or lamp, to perfect
O device for using gas which at once
places the regular old-line gas coinpa-
MES in the lead of its giant competitor,
the electric light.
When 1t Is an established fact proven
by indisputable and incontrovertible
demonstrations. so plain and convin-
cling that the most sceptical see and be-
lieve that the Burrows light is all and
more than Is claimed for It, 1t Is little
wonder that such sensation has been
made by its Introduction.
Here are some facts for the reader to
consider. The Burrows light Is OBJ
tanned by using the minimum of gas
and the maximum of air possible to use
as a combination, and, by said combi-
nation, produce a high degree of heat,
which, In turn, Is absorbed by the regu-
lar mantle, which makes an incandes-
cent light equal in power and brilliancy
to five hundred candle power for the
cost of the gas consumed, not more
than five feet per hour, which, with gas
at one dollar per thousand feet, figures
one-half cent for every sixty minutes.
By using a six-inch mantle, the first
one ever manufactured and used for
lighting, it was found last Thursday, at
the demonstration store of the compa-
,n coY Of t--iG nS
gas, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon COM
bined, gave 1,000-candle power. This
size mantle can only be used with the
Burrows lamp, or burner. No other
burner In existence Is capable of pro-
ducing such wonderful and highly sat
isfactory results. Five 1,000-candle
power lights burning FIVE hours, giving
5,O00-candle power of light, would cost
the consumer of Boston gas Just ten
rents
This system of lighting by gas Is alb
solutely different from anything that
has ever been employed and Infinitely
superior In efficiency and economy to
anything in the market to-day. BY the
use of the Burrows apparatus, a far
greater result can be obtained from a
less consumption of gas.
Critical and decisive tests have been
made to ascertain the comparative re-
suits of this system, and all others that
claim to have reached the acme Of
lighting effectively, and the following
data confirm the claim made by the
company:
According to report, an ordinary
Welsbach lamp consumes three cubic
feet of gas per hour, producing so c. p.
Of light. BY the Burrows system a
light exceeding 1000 c. p. can be pro-
duced with four feet of gas, actual
measurement, thus showing that TWEEN
ty times the light can be produced at
the same cost. For example: Ten
Welsbach lamps, producing 500 G. p. of
light combined and consuming thirty
feet Of gas per hour can be cut down
by the Burrows system to the cost of
running one lamp, consuming five feet
of gas, giving 1000 C. D., and at the
same time, save the consumer twenty
five feet of gas every hour reducing the
cost, at the same time, for breakages
of nantes, chirnneys, etc, twenty to
one. This tremendous reduction in cost
Is produced by using about 90 per cent
ar anu ~ per cent gas, producing d
concentrated heat, which Is instantane-
ously converted into corresponding
amount Of light.
Sub-companies for the use OF patent
ed devices of the Burrows system of
lighting will be formed throughout the
United States, Canada and Europe.
Already upward of sixteen states have
been disposed of, and the demand Is
brisk for territory, as the merit Of the
wonderful light is realized, and 1t will
be but a comparatively short time be-
fore this system will be universally
used throughout the world. Already,
orders have been received from some of
the largest consumers of gas and cleo
trio light Of Boston to Immediately in
stall the Burrows system of lighting in
their several places of business. What
ever system of Lighting Is now en-
ployed by the consumer of light, the
cost may be cut in half and much
more satisfactory light given. During
the past week the company placed in
position its Jumbo lamp for outside
lighting, and, with three Burrows burn
ers and the ordinary three-inch mantle,
1t gave q 2,0O0-candle power light,
which We'd In radiance and splendor
with the strongest electric light now In
use. With three six-lnch nantes, the
light would be increased to 3000-candle
power. There is no noise, no odor, no
Objectionable heat; in fact, it is the
ideal hight, soft ana radiant as the
monday sun. Bear in mind that the