Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-04-27
SUNLIGHT AT NIGHT.
what n Prominent Resident of xenin
Says About Acety1ene Gns-Lots
of LiGht-LittIe Expense.

From the xenia (o) Daily Gazette, April 1s.
Mr.. L. NJ. Garfield, well known in this
city as the superintendent of the Miami
Powder Works, was recently inter
viewed by Gazette representative, re-
garding his personal experience with
the new illuminant, known to the COM
mercial world as Acetylene Gas. Mr..
Garfield said:
II installed ten light acetylene
generator in the cellar Of my residence,
42S North Galloway street, about two
years ago, and l have used it for illu-
minating my home every night since
1 have certainly given it thorough
test during that length of time, and
know it's advantages. While the ma
chine is supposed to develop sufficient
gas for but ten lights, l have often
used as many as fifteen lights at once
with perfect success. The light it gives
is brilliant and white, and the nearest
approach TO sunlight of anything yet
produced for artificial lighting"
What about the expense, Mr.. Gar
field?"
~ have paid about four dollars q
pOunuS lOT luC CdI-
bide which is used in the generator to
make the gas, and use something less
than seven hundred pounds q year.
Approximately the total cost per year
has been about twenty-seven dollars,
as the carbide is the only expense. 1t
is the perfection of light at little cost
and trifling labor, free from odor or
anything Objectionable. / have moth
ing but praise for the generator and
the light it develops, and 1 am not
speaking theoretically, but from my
actual experience in my own resi-
dence."
In this connection, the 1899 report to
the Governor of the State, of Mr.. A. w
Stiles, secretary of the Girls Indus
trial Home, at Rathbone, o., regarding
the Acetylene Gas plant in use in that
institution, will be of interest to our
readers.
Mr.. Stiles says: "Our Acetylene Gas
plant has given very gratifying results
during the past year. the light from it
being n very steady, white light, with
out smoke, by far superior and more
satisfactory than that furnished by
the old system used here. We now have
about 600 burners, which can be in
creased, with but very small outlay,
to five times that number. We have
had no trouble in getting all the car
bidc we need. Including all expenses
incurred in remodeling and changing
the (gas) plant to the present system,
our lights have not cost us nearly so
much for the year as did the system
abandoned in July, 1898. There is no
more danger in using it than there is
in the use of any gas. We think it is
the best light known, and requires bat
little skill in its manufacture"
The popularity of this new illuminant
is attested by the fact that in the few
years since its development into n COM
mercial possibility, over fifty thousand
buildings have been successfully light
ed by it, and the annual ratio of in
crease is becoming greater yearly.
1t is the ideal light for dwellings.
stores, churches and every class of
building where artificial light is need
ed, and it is little wonder that the own
ers of indifferently lighted buildings
are looking earnestly into the subject
of lighting by Acetylene Gas.