The San Francisco call., 1901-10-27
VENTURE MEETS
WITH SUCCESS
Coal Briquettes Rapidly
Winning Popular
Favor.
New Fuel Greatly Reduces
Domestic Heating Ex-
penSes.


its inventors to supersede the ordinary
forms of fuel for domestic use, is full
filling all the predictions that were made
in its favor. Interest in the new product
among all classes of people is very in
tense on account of the numerous ad-
vantages which it is said to offer.
Briquettes were not put upon the San
Francisco market until about a month
ago, but their sale has been very great
and the demand for them is constantly
increasing.
The brquette, as most people have
learned, is a compressed cake of coal
screenings bound together by chemically
treated oil. The finished product is clean
and easy to handle, which is primarily a
distinct advantage over coal. The cost OF
the fuel does lot exceed that of coal and
the heat efficiency is very much greater,
so that in the long run its expense is
materially less.
One important factor in the success OF
the brlQuette as that its use does away
with the clinkers and with sitting. The
chemists VINO spent years of labor in the
effort to secure a fuel which would meet
with the approval of the public succeedel
IN manufacturing a product which is al
most wholly combustible and, conse-
quently, there is but little ash left from
the burning of briQuetteS. With all these
advantages it seems only reasonable t.
conclude that the venture Will meet with
deserved success.
France, Germany, England and other
European countries have been using Ger
tam forms OF briquettes in their navies
Tor several years. American ingenuity
has been at work trying to improve on
these fuels. A factory tor the manufac-
ture of briquettes was established a.
Stockton is the second of its kind in the
United States. The people who are at the
head of the Tesla enterprise resolved to
surpass all predecessors, and accordingly
al
exhaustive experiments in briquette MAX
ing. An article much superior to any
thing hitherto manufactured was at last
secured and the factory at Stockton was
built.
The new fuel was first introduced into
the interior towns eXperimentally and its
reception was so cordial that the bay
cities were next given the opportunity to
make test of the invention. Ten car
loads of briquettes came to Oakland
about a month ago: They were speedily
once. Since that time a great quantity
OF the product has been brought to this
section sec and disposed Of. everywhere Civ
ing the greatest satisfaction. What its
future will be is, of course, decided by
its initial success.
California is ever ready to encourage
those ventures which are bound to put
pre-emlnence. When her people fully
realize the general advantages derived
from the manufacture of briQuettes their
adoption as fuel is assured everywhere
Briquettes are made from coal reduced
10 small particles and combined with oil
OF which there is such an abundance in
this State. The process of manufacture
field for sale is as wide as the continent.
The final and complete success of the
industry is, therefore, a matter of con-
siderable importance to the people of the
Pacific Coast.
The principle involved in the successful
manufacture of briquettes is to attain the
greatest caloric, power with the least
Coal ordinarily in burning sets free q
large proportionate quantity of gases
which do not give forth heat. In conse-
quence Of the imperfect chemical process,
cllnkers are formed and numberless bits
of coal are not consumed at ALL Scien-
lists estimate that about half of the heat
which might be utilized is thus lost.
This difficulty is to great extent obyf-
ated In the combustion of briquettes. II
is improbable that chemical research will
ever succeed in saving every particle of
heat in fuels for domestic use. but the
brlquette makers have done more toward
this end than has been previously ac.
complished. Careful combination of the
ingredients prevents any such alarming
waste as that experienced in the burning
of coal. The hydrocarbons or volatII,s
gases are made to perform their duties
and satisfactory results are secured.
1t is thus seen that the new product
which is RAPIDLY being introduced into our
homes establishes its success on solid
scientific principles. That the hundreds
who have alreadv been given the oppor
tunity to avail themselves of the use of
hriGuettns are agreeably surprised by
their advantages and have permanently
adopted them for fuel is surely criterion
for the future. Any kind of a stove 1,
suitable for the use of briduettes Withal.
the invention is a boon to the peopIe OF
the State and one destined for gratifying
success.
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building and of the great hotel to stand
at the northwest corner of Powell and
Geary streets are in evidence. the excava-
tions being conducted with vigor.
A three-story addition 70 the car-house
Of the Ferries and Cliff House line of the
Market Street Railway system is under
way The addition will cost about $50 OOO
@. H Umbsen & Co. will hold an auction
of probate and miscellaneous properties
at their rooms at IA Montgomery street to-
morrow.
The store at Kearney street has been