New-York tribune., 1901-01-06
RAILROAD CAR LIGHTING.
AN ILLUMINANT RIvALLING ELECTRICITY IN
BRILLIANCY AND EXCEEDING ALL.
OTHERS IN SAFETY.

During the century Just closed steam, railroad
was invented carried into successful operation and
extended until it's importance has dwarfed almost
all other human enterprises. Beginning with a few
miles OF road a single engine. three freak
ish looking carriages the whole financed by a few
individuals. who looked upon themselves
thusiasts rather than investors, and who were re-
garded by an incredulous public more as lunatics
than either the mechanical difficulties melted away
one by one, the number OF passengers increased.
mile after mile OF new metal shOd roads were laid
capital took kindly 60 It's now convincing merits.
speed Increased 20 the extreme limits of safety
and perhaps a trife beyOnd-and. last hut not
least, the comfort OF passengers began 10 be more
considered.
Night travel was. of course. prime necessity in
this great, overgrOwn country of ours. and TO the
gently nurtured woman, even 10 the more hardy
man OF those times. a night spent in uncomforta-
Bile seats I'm stufy cars, alternately overheated or
freezing. joting i'll laid roadbeds perhaps with
the accompaniment of sick and fretful children.
was certainly no deleetabe experience either to
look forward to or to look back upon.
Not the least of the Inconvenience to which trav-
elers were subjected was the absence or extreme
insufficency OF the light afforded In those terrible
night journeys Lamps. fed with whale oil and
tended by a brakeman We're the first Illuminating
appliances adopted for cars and how any one lar,n
not not ne expialned. When they went out the brake
but under any and all circumstances they smeiIed
will fade from the memories of t6Ose ,vhase ese
evil fate took them upon the rail az night even so
Candles were occasionally Substituted for tbasa
malodorous mai lamps and az the prevailing rate OF
even TO make darkness visible. Kerosene Was
mnant for railways Il certainly had some meris ri
The chandeliers lifted with two Kerosene lamps
ed e m Iar t, better light than either oil candles:
down-when accidents happened when coIisions
occurred or cars were overturned. or a train len
did the awful rest, Every train carryin keroseps
amps @ tnat met with serious accident after dark
lamps and those OF It's passengers who could not
flames. "e'''~''s ue'''n ''on' 'he
After electricity had established its claim to emf
hehce as a means or illumination, il was duly as
signed 70 do duty In car Illumination but the eN
the b ~ ana its he heavy cost OF mant9ning
vie OK travel soon proved its unayailabiity
just at this time. about fifteen years ago. there
%ss Sr % into this Gounsry German method
T,sh The desired % end II was known as the Pintseh
Pintsch, of Berlin AS used in this country d +
shown TO even better advantage than in the Euro
read ma9asers N q the United States adopted ths
one thing the nherent merit Which p ahs ng ethg6
possesses Since its introduction. which~as before
lSo1o ears qnsludIns about 24oo Pullman eaTsl
EQUIPPED with the PintsGh System of Lshtng, and
plants In operation in the United States and CAM
States now use this system and the gas 'ns wr r
so o. distrinused ISL over the country that may be
supply of gas at all needed points.
The Ptntsch Light is also used by the United
states Government for lighted buoys and beacons
and II has also been adopted and put In service by
all the European Governments.
Throughout the world there l.o2s huoys
and beacons OF the Pintsch type I'm service ana
there are sos Pintsch gas manufacturing works
4.o2l locomotives equipped with the Pintsch light
system lmostly In European countries). and ioS.nN
railroad cars which are now equipped with this
system.
The Pntsch is an especially made gas. manufact-
ured from crude petroleum, instead coal or
water, as Is ordinary city gas 1T has very high
Illuminating power, about hve times that OF city
gas, and result II be compressed which
permits OF It's being carried in small space under
the coaches, and also furnishes excellent tllu-
mnaton with very small consumption. These
two salient features when taken In conjunction
with the safety. economy and satisfaction that re-
suit from It's use, are the reasons given for Its