The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-11-08
To make Cheap Gas-light for
Country Homes

out extra charge, which used any one Of these 70
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.
Now. the Insurance Companies ought to know
whether or not these 70 different makes of Acetylene
Generators were absolutely Safe to use. ..
Because, they have to pay the bills, II Fire or tx
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 1866 Fires from
Kerosene and Gasoline. g "a
1907 Fires from City Gas, and $40 Fires from Candies.
Besides these there have been rs Fires from the
Suns rays, But,-only four Fires from Acetylene.
That shows how careful the Insurance Board was
permitting only the 70 makes that were above sas-
bieion, out of the 600 experiments that were once on
the market.
Well,-the boom in A~cetylene Lighting made Lower
triees possible on the material it is derived from, viz,
Calcium Carbide, a material that looks like Granite
but acts like Magic.
Today, Acetylene Light is a full third cheaper than
Kerosene Light, or Gasoline Light, per Candle Power.
It is not more than holt the price of Electric Light,
nor th,ee-foa,ths that of City Gas.
faction my name is not "Acetylene Jones"
But Acetylene is more than the safest and cheapest
Light of the year 1905.
1t is also the Whitest Light-the nearest to natural!
OuIIIRH III GILL INK oioS ain VONNt
because of this, with its freedom from flicker, it is
the easiest Of all Artificial Light on the 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
twiee as fast as similar plants that had only the Sun-
light of daytime, viz, half the time. ... -,
That was proven by Cornell University In a three
months experiment made this very year.
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Now, I've saved up for the last a point more i'm
portant to you than all the others about Aeetylene
Light.
1T consumes only one-foarth as much of the vital
Driven from the Air of Living rooms or bedrooms,
as either Kerosene or City Gas-Iight consumes.
That's a tremendous difference in a lifetime, mark
you-three-fourth of a difference.
Because,-0xygen is Life.
And every bit Of Oxygen stolen from the lungs Of
Women, Children and Men, .d through sas;, Lighting Is q
A "a Candle-Power Acetylene Light costs you only
tyo-ffths of a cent per hour. 49,. 80.
That's about $s!85 per year, if burned every night
in the wear for four steady hours.
A Kerosene Lamp of equal capacity would cost you
a third more, viz. three-ffths of a cent per hour for
Kerosene alone, or $8E75 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 brove these figures to you, Reader, II you
are a HORSEPOWER or storekeeper.
Tell me how many rooms you've got and IH tell you
what il will cost to light them with brilliant, beautiful
Sanitary, eye-saving Acetylene. Ct,
Write me today for my Free Book about sunlight
MAP"
Just address me here as.
"Acetylcne Jones"
9 Adams St, -.
Chicago, Ills.