The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-02
IIelltell
BACKUS PORTA BEE STEAM RADI-
 ATORS,

Scores of Prominent Citizens Viewing
 the Exhibition of This Fine Inven-
 ton.
 Attracting much attention in this city
 is the exhibition of the great merits of
 by Colonel Backus himself the inventor
 and patentee of this beautiful heating
 apparatus. Colonel Backus, who Is an
 educated man of fine presence, polish
 and highly esteemed gentleman, is
 kept very busy during his hours of
 business, a. m. to 9 D. n., in showing
 the merits of the heater of which he
 has variety of specimens in his beau-
 tifully equipped railroad car in the
 open lot on Meadow street, across the
 way from the Consolidated roads big
 office building. The Backus heater is
 coming into use in all parts of the
 country, and hundreds of testimonials of it's usefulness, healthfulness, it's value as money saver and as orna- mental in the house, it's freedom from
 dust, ashes. smoke etc., and it's sim plicity have been sent to Colonel Back us by delighted patrons. No expensive steam heating apparatus, no dust pro- yoking furnace, is required. You touch the lighted match to the gas and there you lave the heat at once, and 1t is clean heat, not burning up the needed
 moisture of the air, as the beautiful mantel is a steam radiator and the steam comes from the water in the re- ceptacles which the fire heats. The Backus heaters produce constant cir culation of air in the room, can be put in any room or office purify the air from microbes and dust, save all the bother and dirt of caring for hot air furnaces and steam furnaces and save immensely in the cost of heating be- sides being instantly available They insure uniformity of temperature, and give a moist. healthful heat that con- sumes the grip and catarrh breeding elements in the air. Where people have hot air, hot water or steam furnaces they find the heat uncomfortable in the fall and spring. By putting in few of these money savers in the house they will furnish all the heat necessary and the heat can be turned on or off in a | minute, as desired. These heaters can | be put in houses already built, or when | building, and at small cost. The money l saving in using the Backus Is that ev- cry unit of heat Is utilized for heating purposes. No chimneys nor fiues are required with consequent loss of heat | and danger of fire. There is also all the | advantage and beauty of an open grate fire.
 The reason that by using gas with the Backus heater one can compete with coal when the coal contains five times as many heat units as the gas con- tains made from he coal is: To use coal requires a chimney connection and the combustion is made from a central locality and the heat conveyed Is dissipated up the chimney through the air to the walls and ceiling before 1t reaches the space to be heated, and the loss in heat units when so used be- fore it reaches the space to be heated more than counter balances the difference in the heat value of the coal over the gas made from the coal. In the Backus the fuel is conveyed to the space to be heat ed, and the combustion takes plnce NAeiiiAA 'ii"t 9PeieC Wlliout loSS dnu the entire energy of the fuel is utilized by steam from small quantity of water, and the expansion of the wa ter from liquid to vapor, spreads out the heat contained in the gas as 1 is to 1700, and distributes this heat to the radiating surface above without one single heat unit being lost. There are 30,000 of these heaters in operation. Colonel Q. S. Backus is of the firm of O.. s. Backus & Co.,, of Will l Transport, Pa. Scores of our prominent people are visiting the car to see these portable steam heaters and radiators, and have their workings explained by Colonel Backus l