The sun., 1902-10-19
MORE AND MORE OIL FOR FUET.
GREAT PROGRENS ~ IT> Iy
~ THE LAST YEAR
substituted for Goat on Railroad. ,,a
steamships Used Also IN isctorle,
and Public Buildings 1t, Ad,artava,
--BriQlIetteS for UO,uc>tic -.

| coal supply San ranClSCD l. comma "a n ,..',.
at ease. The reason for the difference "a
that in San Francisco the use Of crude o,.
for fuel is general Other cities are al,
heavy users Of oil fuel. and IL Consequence
are suffering much less than New lgr.
because o' the coal strike.
The Use of crude oil as fuel is at this tirns
Of special interest. There arc a thousand
facts bearing upon the subject well knoOn
in the oil ,rade bu, little known 20 the ger.
eral public. During the past year railroad
and steamship lines. factories electric
plants. public buildings, schools and apsli.
ment houses which formerly burned c,al
changed TO the use of oil.
tias companies in the East and South aTs
| replacing coal with oil At the vater-
works in Buffalo. Providence and Ca
weston oil is being used. In New York the
Rapid Transit officials have begun 20 uou-
slider the use Of oil for generating cleo ricl,y
in their plants.
| Cities AZ far apart as London and Jersey
| City are using oil-burning fire engines
| In California briquettes of crude oil pressed
solid are used in hundreds of homes for
cooking purposes,
| The oil briquette is as vet chiefly French
| idea, but il il rapidly forcing It's wav INTO
don astic economy on the Pacific S'ole.
The briquettes are blocks which are said u
burn better than coal and without smoke
The following statements CLEANED from
copyrighted articles 10y Raymond L Bernier
| in the National OH Reporter aud used IN
| THE Sun by permission throw food =
| light on the increase in the use of fuel oil
In laO, more ;han 3lOOOOyOOO was az
pended in San francisco alone for coal
! Dr. G. r. Deane. secretary of the California
| Petroleum Miners Association. after =
| careful investi CATION. reports that at ths
present rate of consumption of fuel oil tts
| total cost Of coal TO San Francisco will hs
| only about 81. 900 OOO. a reduct ion in the USE
| Of coal Of one-half in one year. More than
2tO manufactures in san Francisco hav.
| discarded coal for oil
The Southern Pacific Railroad has 2lo
| locomotives converted TO oil burners, and
| il has let contract for eight oil tanks along
its lines. the tanks having q capacity ~
from ?O.OnO to 700 barrels. The COMPANY
| has decided to equip It's entire system foy
| fuel oil, including its railroads. steamship
| lines and ferryboats.
Last April, on the western division Of ths
Southern Pacific. thirty-nine engines trav.
| eled tai distance Of 10000 miles. using
oil for fuel II coal had been ued in these
engines, il would have required 1900 tons
| al cost of $20,OoO, The amount of oil used
was II 900 barrels, at a cost Of So, ,6oo. The
saving o the company was more than sic on
more than four -fifths.
The Dutch Steamship Company Uses
| oil for fuel. The Hamburg American Line
has recently built four steamships using
liquid fuel, The North Gre man LLOYD
Line has two steamers of the kind.
The Santa Fe road is using more than
twice as much oil as the Southern Pacific.
or about lls.OOO barrels a month, In al
the company has eeventy-three engines
using oil. and thirty others will shortly
discard coal.
An oil-burning locomotive IL being used
hy the Northern Pacific road with a view
TO burning oil on every locomotive on the
system. Instead Of the cab being in the
rear. it is in front, giving the engineer
an unobstr,icted vie W and reducing the
possibility of accident
The engineer controls the supply Of cil
and water by a twist Of the valves in his
cab, and so no fireman is needed. another
great economy in addition to the decrease
cost Of fuel. According 10 the Chicago
officials Of the road. the cost of fuel is abou'
one-haB that Of coal.
Fuel oil Ia coming into favor with steam
boat men and several Of the steamers now
plying the Mississippi and its tributaries
are burning II.
All the State institutions in Texas u>e
fuel oil. and the great smelling plant At
ii Paso and smaller ones throughout Texas
are doing likewise.
In the West and Southwest, where oil ,s
plenty and coal scarce. IL is natural that
oil fuel should make great progress. vet
what Is being done in California and Texas
and the Southwestern States IL reflected
all over the globe. In Russia the great
railroads are run by oil. burning locomo-
tives, while the Use Of oil fuel is genera
In Philadelphia the United Gas Tmprove-
ment Company. is using oil az the rate ~
,?OO,0OO barrels a year Many manu-
facturers have substituted oil for coal
| since he ant hracite strike began.
In Newark there are a brewery, an iron
foundry a stamping mill. a chemical works
and crucible steel plant using oil
In Baltimore oil heating apparatus IL
being installed in the l25 public school.
large number of manufacturers nj Spring.
field, Mass. are using petroleum In thei-
plants where formerly they used hard
coal
Oil has taken the place Of coal at the Morse
Iron Works in Brooklyn. and the president
OF the company saws it is better fuel
than coal because there is complete CON
sumption without either smell or smoke
The Government has been experimenting
with fuel oil Last August there was an
endurance trial of an oil-fuel engine AZ Wash
ington. boiler and engine room con-
| structed on the same plan and run under
the same conditions as ou cruisers Of the
Denver class was operated for ile hours
continuously.
The torpedo boats Talbot and Rodgers
have been fitted with oil-burning apparatus
and put into commission as an experiment
at Annapolis.
The use OF oil In the north Central ard
Eastern States is not so economical as IN
the Southwest because Of the distance from
the source OF supply. Thus the southern
Pacific Railroad shows a saving Of four
hfths by the use OF oil, while the Northern
Pacific reports a saving Of only one-haN
IL Is said Dy those who have Used IL fnv