The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-15
BIRQUETTES
or GERMANY
Ono Way TO Make Easy the
Use Of Soft Coal.
WILL GIVE GREAT HEAT
InHntars St'ylng Up Nights 10 Devise a
Way 10 Save Coal and Yet Give
Sufficient Heat

New York. Oct I5.-"Dissolve one
half teasponful in a glass OF water and
apply the fluid by sprinkling."
II reads like physicians prescription,
but IL isn't. II is the directions" for
using patent preparation which. its
manufacturers say. VIII greatly relieve the
coal situation. II IL does not solve IL al
together
II Is a patent preparation. II was first
prepared and patented by a plumber in
Amsterdam avenue last February. and
is now being used in several large fur
naces in New York and by many small
consumers. Those who have tested n
say II does practically all that its manu-
facturer says II will do
This preparation resembles black. oily
sand. II is dissolved In water and sprin-
kied on soft or hard coal before IL is
placed In the furnace. IL Is said TO con
tain certain elements which are required
TO make perfect combustion. and thereby
prevents smoke. cinders and dust and
consumes all the vitality in the coal. II
the statements Of the manufactures and
those who have tested Il be true. n
does away with the smoke nui.anc.,
from soft coal
PREVENTS "CAKING" OF SOFT COAL,
But what interests the people most
particularly just now is the declaya ton
OF the manufacturer that II prevents cak-
Ing OF soft coal In the furnace and ran
ders II available for apartment houses.
ho All over .he city large apartment
houses are damp and chilly and The hot
water supply has been cut of, not be-
cause there is no coal IN the boiler room
In the basement. but because small sixe
sort coal cannot be burned In the hard
coal furnace.
II cakes" and the fire shoulders and
goes out. There is no forced drausht
and other appliances such as are at
tached TO the large furnaces In manufac-
turing establishments and the soft coal
Is well nigh useless
with this preparation. IL is said, that
pea, buckwheat or any size or condition
OF soft coal will burn evenly without
caklng; that II lasts longer and produces
no oiack smoke. II Is now being used
In the st. Paul building by the Colwell
Lead company. in the John j. Radlev
FOUNDRY and In several large apartment
houses. where II is said 10 work success
fully. IL Is sold by grocers. and is being
placed on the market IN large quantities.
Several persons were called upon yester-
day who have used IL in their cook stoves
ana all said II had given great satisfac-
tion One woman said:
SAVES THREE TONS IN TEN.
When small package of the stun was
nrst given to me by one of my neighbors
my coal thought IL was a joke but I
tried IL and IT made one pail of coal go as
far as two ordinarily. and 1t produced far
m M
Az the st. Paul building three tons OF
coal are said TO be saved out OF ten tons
each day by the proper use of the prep
A package sufficient for a quarter Of a
ton OF coal is sold for ten cents. A pack
age containing enough for a ton costs
hard coal as soft. but manufacturers say
II Is especially serviceable Just now In
using with soft coal. as IL makes II pos
or bad. in large furnaces. and prevents
further.
II the coal strike continues and there Is
no. coal OF any description to be had the
patent preparation will be OF no use I'm
relieving the distress Of the people.
MANUFACTURES OF BRIQUETTE.
Within the last week the attention Of a
group OF retail coal dealers and capitalists
has been turned toward the establishment
Of plant In this country for the manu-
facture Of briquette. a fuel made in Ger
many both from peat and from the slack
Or waste OF soft coal mines.
For ten years or more the manufacture |
pr briquette fuel has been an important |
In Europe There are at least !
len plants -t}eFmaHy,-whfch- turn out I
upward of one hundred thousand tons OF |
oriquette annually. Briquette IS In real |
ty artificial coal. In Germany Ignite. |
Or carbonized peet, Is found In large |
quantities.
This substance. which is a vegetable
'oal OF more recent formation than an |
-hracite or bituminous. Is crushed and |
noistened with water until IL is OF the |
consistency OF mortar, then passed |
through the machine. which by compres-
'ton under heat develops the bitumen In
he material and renders the mass so
plastic that II moulds easily into smooth,
bricks OF a brownish color. The
Material burns readily, gives out
trong heat and IL smokeless
While deposits OF peat are not plentiful
n this part of the United States. IL Is con-
ended that there are mountains OF slack
n the coal regions OF Pennsylvania which
night be converted into good fuel by the
ierman method and at a cost 10 the con-
umer not exceeding that OF the best
trades OF bituminous coal.
There is talk OF taking several carloads
II slack from the Pennsylvania mines to
Germany TO test IL in the plants estab-
ished there.