The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-10-18

stoves are smaller than the smallest
size coal stove and require no chimney.
They are so adjusted that the combus-
ton is perfect and they give of no odor.
a stove large enough to heat a room
sixteen by eighteen feet in size burns
one gallon Of oil in ten hours, making
the cost about one cent an hour. The
heaters have a white flame, showing
that equal parts of oxygen and fuel are
being burned. The cook stoves use
about the same amount of oil, but they
produce a blue flame. and the room in
which they are used should always be
ventilated, as they burn about seven
times as much axygen as the heaters.
Thousands of these stoves have gone
into the tenement houses. and into the
homes of the Weather classes as well,
during the last four weeks. If oil re-
mains at the present figure the expense
to the ordinary family would not be
greater than coal at normal prices, but
one dealer predicts that as soon as the
demand for oil increases the Standard
Oil company would put up the prices
beyond the poor mans reach They
increased the price one cent gallon
last Thursday" he said, and I have
been informed that the price will stead
lily go up as the demand grows"
Several alleged inventions have re-
Gently been announced for deducing the
price of gas for heating by using with it
some sort of heat-giving material like
asbestos or by mixing the gas with
compressed air. A stove dealer on
Sixth avenue has in his window a
mound of small hollow round bricks,
which he advertises to put into any
coal range and reduce the price of cook
ing by gas by at least one-fOurth, or to
minimum of two cents an hour.
These little bricks are patented, and
their composition is a secret. but it is
said they are composed Of asbestos and
a sandy substance. But with these
bricks there must go special gas bur-
ner, and the brick and the burner cost
from five to twenty-five dollars. One
supply of the small brick. the dealer
says, will last year or more. In using
this apparatus a very small amount of
gas is turned on, and when the bricks
become heated it requires very little
gas to keep them glowing. One thou
sand feet of gas, it is said. used in this
apparatus does the work of ton Of coal
at five dollars a ton. In Rector's res
taurant in Broadway new device has
been installed in the way of gas
heater. 1t has replaced the large coal
ranges in the kitchen, and is the inven-
ton of the engieer Compressed tir is
used with the gas, two burners being
employed, the gas burner above the
compressed air, so that an extra
amount of hydrogen is forced into the
flame and the heat greatly increased.
But this device could not we'll be used
in the ordinary home. 1t would be too
expensive and too difficult to obtain the
compressed air supply. The Schwaab
brick is used In this burner to increase
and hold the heat.
Almost any device that is now offered
for making heat without coal sells
quickly to desperate buyers. Several
so-called fuel cartridges and fuel blocks
have been placed on the market during
the last two months, but dealers hand
ling them say they have not proved sat
isfactory. All have been constructed on
the same DEMONSTRATING some sub
stance with oil, but the fault with these
devices has been that the substance it,
self soon burned or disintegrated, and
the fumes were so great that they could
not be used with comfort. Pure ashes
tos cannot be consumed. There appears
to be nothing tangible in the rumors
that large quantities of bog peat were
to be shipped to New York from Massa-
chm satts