The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-16
NEW YORK TOPICS.
VIEWS AND UNDERGRADUATES OF
THE METROPOLIS.

Manufacturers Are Turning Coal
Operators in Order to Insure Fuel
Supplies to Their Industries--Hov
the SOIf Coal Nuisance Could be
OvercOme-AdmiraI Dewey's Great
Physical Strength-Bass, the Inter-
esting Little Man Who Is Fighting
for Cuban ReciprOcity-GOvern
Island for n Park for the Poor.
Col. AstOr's Love for His Work.
shop.
New York, Nov. ia news dispatch
from Richmond. Ind, early in the
week, stated that the manufacturers
in the natural gas belt of Indiana had
formed a cooperative coal mining
company, and had leased several
thousand acres of coal land. This plan
of the manufacturers to insure to their
various industries a practically un-
limited fuel supply calls attention to a
not generally known fact that scores
of big Industrial concerns in this coun-
try own and control numerous coal
fields. In this way they are guarding
their factories against any possible ex-
haustion of the worlds coal supply.
Speaking about this feature of the
industrial world, J. D. Laying of the
West Shore Railroad said yesterday:
Il know of one great manufacturing
concern that is secure, so far as its
coal supply is concerned, for a hun
dred years, at least. This concern has
bought about a thousand acres Of coal
land on which there are three great
veins, and assuming that it's consump-
ton OF coal continues at the same rate
as at present, there is enough in these
veins to keep the work going more
than century,. even assuming that
the consumption is increased grad
ually"
In regard to the soft coal smoke
nuisance, Mr.. Laying, who is an au-
thority on fuels, says:
This concern of which / speak, al
Though it's coal is softer than any of
the soft coal that has made New York
so smoky of late, produces no smoke
IL Its works; in fact, it burns no coal
IN its shelters. It's method is to dis
I'll the coal and make gas from it and
turh the gas in the smelters. Its
chimneys produce as little smoke as
those leading from furnaces which
ourn the hardest anthracite.
a ~ WOuAu llOl NC HOSSlDle, perhaps,
Tor each manufacturing conceyn in
& New York to make its coal into gas,
because room is required for gas con-
a Vefters, but 1t is quite possible for
large proportion of the manufacturers
IN this country, who waste their fuel
81 by half consuming it and pollute the
ar with the resulting smoke, to adopt
the Oscillation process and burn gas
IN thtir furnaces without producing
any smoke at all.
81 There is no reason whatever why
Ire sCft coal in use recently in New
York and continually in the Middle.
western cities should not be so han
uicd as TO leave the atmosphere as I'M
polluted as the atmosphere of Berlin
or Paris. There is practically no hard
coal burned in either of these cities.
and yet their atmosphere averages as
Tree OF smoke as the atmosphere Of
New York when not a pound of soft
ccal is being burned within its bound
aries.
Furthermore, such things as smoke
consumers are uNheard of and I'M
thought of in these European cities.
Inc name smoke consumer is an alb
snrdity, anyway. 1t is impossible to
consume smoke after it has once been
produced. You must make your fire so
not that the coal is all consumed i'm
Inedlately after II becomes ignitec.
That is entirely easy, once you know
now ana it, is not at all difficult to
learn.
think am quite safe in saying
that thick. black smoke could be BAN
lshed Throughout the United States in
very few months If the proprietors
OF manufactures and other establish
mons burning soft coal were to insist
upon their stokers learning how TO
tehd their fires. All that is needed is
properly built and large enough fur
mace, and the extra size required is
hot sufficient to make that an incon-
Nsnlence even, except In very restricts
ca areas. Even then the difficulty
could be overcome without much
trouble"
~ is not generally known that Gen.
.ales' who before long will retire from
~ mead of the army into private life,
WIS ever wounded in battle.
MS writer knows a man who was
snot IN the Spanish-American war, and
c~ho' after partial recovery, called on
NJ vi Miles at the War Department in
rashlngton. It was raining heavily
Snl so a messenger was first sent I'm
t.O.n the cab to see II the general was
~ uls offices. With characteristic kind
, ne the general replied IN person. and.
.lolnS into the cab, began 20 ask
srr Questions about the Cuban cam
SNeu. The conversation then turned