Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1905-10-26
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Country Homes

out extra charge; which used am. one 81 these -
Acetylene Generators it had found safe, and effective.
just as It permitted houses to be piped for City Gas.
or wired for Electricity, under proper conditions.
Il Now, the Insurance Companies ought to know
whether or not these 7ogdiferent makes Of Acetylene
Generators were absolutely Safe to use.
Because, they have to pay the bills, If Fire or Ex-
plosion occurs. from any one of the Acetylene Gener-
ators they authorize.
And, here's a proof of their good judgment.
Though there are now Two Million people using
Acetylene Light in America, there have only been -four
Fires from it IN one year, against 1906 Fires from
There have also been 46oI Fires from Electricity
1907 Fires from City Gas, and $40 Fires from Candles
Besides these there have been 26 Fires from the
Suns rays, But,-only four Fires from Acetylene.
That shows how careful the Insurance Board was
in its examination of Acetylene Generators, and in
permitting only the 70 makes that were abovc sus-
tieion, out Of the Goo experiments that were once on
the market.
Well,-the boom in A~cetylene Lighting made louer
prices possible on the material it is derived from, viz,
Calcium Carbide, a material that looks like Granite
Today, Acetylene Light is a full third cheaper than
Kerosene Light, or Gasoline Light. per Candle Power.
It is not more than halt the price of Electric Light,
nor thyee-fomrths that of City Gas.
If l can't prove these statements to your full salts
faction my name is not "Acetylene Jones"
But Acetylenc is more than the safest and cheapest
It is also the Wh;iest Light-the nearest to natural
Sunlight in health-giving Blue and Violet rays, and
VI luis, Will JS ~ INK IL IS
the easiest of all Artificial Light on tho Eyes.
It is so much like real Sunlight that it has made
plants grow ~ hours per day in dark cellars where no
ray of Sunlight could reach them. 1t made them grow
tzviee as fast as similar plants that had only the Sin-
light of daytime, viz, half the time.
That was proven by Cornell University il a three
months experiment made this very year.
Now, I've saved up for The last a point more i'm
portant to you than all the others about hceiylene
Light.
1t consumes only. one-fomH as much OF the vital
Oxygen from the Air of Living rooms or bedrooms,
as either Kerosene or City Gas-Light CONSUMES.
That's a tremendous difference i'll a lifetime, mark
you-three -fourths of a difference.
Because,-Oxygen is Life.
And every bit of Oxygen stolen from the lungs OF
Women, Children and Men, through Lighting, is a
loss that can never be made good again.
A "a Candle-Power Acetylene Light costs you only
.tzoo-ffths of a cent per hour.
That's about $5.85 per year, if burned every night
in the year for four steady hours.
A Kerosene Lamp Of equal capacity would cost you
a third more, viz: fhree-fftAs of a cent per hour for
Kerosene alone, or $S75 per year.
That's exclusive of broken lamp chimneys, new
wicks, and the everlasting drudgery and danger OF
cleaning, filling and trimming daily.
[ want to prove these figures to you, Reader, II you
are a HORSEPOWER or storekeeper.
Tell me how many rooms YOU We got and LII tell you
what it will cost to light them with brilliant, beautiful,
Sanitary, eye-saving Acetylene.
Write me today for my Tree Book about Sunlight
on Tap"
Just address me here sA ssa Jones"
9 Adams St,
Chicago, Ills.