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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-14
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with one burner very quickly and so
perfectly that il will require no
further attention; but if a number
of burners are used, 1t will certainly
take him longer to regulate them,
and will require almost constant at
tention, in order to keep the heat
evenly distributed IN the furnace,
and the result is unsatisfactory in
both the quantity and quality of the
output. In an oil furnace equipped
with hydrocarbon burner which
thoroughly atomizes the fuel, com
bustion is so perfect that smoke
stack is not needed, and should
never be used, for it allows a guam
tity of heat to pass away.
The superiority of oil over coal as
fuel is as great as that of coal over
wood, and each succeeding year
will note great advancement in the
use of liquid fuel, for test always
convinces the most skeptical of its
real merit The increasing demand
for this fuel is compliment to its
value, and will stimulate the devel-
opment of new oil fields until the
supply equals the demand.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-14
THE NEW PIPE LINE

A very important meeting was
held in Chanute, one day last week.
1t was a meeting of number of the
large oil producers in the Kansas
field and some capitalists from Kan
sas City.
There had been preliminary
meeting in Kansas City before. The
object of the meeting was to perfect
plans for piping the low grade oil of
this field to Kansas City where re-
! 6nery will be built for the purpose
of converting the crude into fuel oil.
The plan of the company is to
take off 20 per cent of the most val
atile principle of the crude, known
as distlates, which will be sold to
gas companies, for use in gas en-
gines to refiners or other purchasers
of high grade material and the other
80 per cent will be sold to large
concern for generating steam, etc.
This first product will fnd ready
sale even to the Standard itself OF
for export.
The 80 per cent product will find
ready sale because 1t will be of a
very high grade for fuel oil. The
plan T6Jffhe Standard s to take off 50
per cent and sell the remaining 20
per cent as fuel oil.
We are informed that this com
pany has now progressed so far
that there IS now no doubt about
the line being laid.
This will Immediately establish a
market for 10, 900 barrels of oil per
day at price much better than has
been paid in the field for same
grades and will soon put lot of
drillers with their helpers at work
again. This will surely be a great
thing for the field and will, doubt
less, be a very profitable Investment
for the promoters.
The company proposes to have
the full capacity of the line in hand
and owned by the stockholders be-
fore work is begun and not have to
depend on the uncertainty of out
side market for its supply.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-14
THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLE

For some time it has been the
opinion among the wise ones in mil.
itafy affairs that Russia would never
risk battle between her feet and
that of Japan.
Now, however, opinion seems to
be changing and it looks very much
like the two great fleets are destined
10 meet 10 what will be one of the
greatest naval battles of the world
Numerically the Russian fleet is
considerably stronger than that OF
the japanese.
She has two more battleships and
more armored cruisers. Japan is
stronger in the smaller vessels of the
torpedo type. But with the dlspar
ity in numbers must be considered
the equipment of the vessels and the
personnel of the men and com
manders.
The Japs are seamen by birth and
life training. Their fleet has been
in training and constant service the
past year. They have met the Rus
sian fleet OF Port Arthur and shown
their superiority in action. 1t is
universally conceded that their lack
in numbers is more than made W
in equipment and quality. However,
should these great fleets come to
gether, some storm or accidental
circumstance may throw the victory
to the Russians.
1t is on that one chance in q
thousand that Russia is basing heI
hopes. She knows her weakness!
but has become desperate. Having
lost all on land, she seems determ
ined to stake all on the last throw o
the dice. With the brutality of hs
nature, she does not figure the de
struction in life among her brav'
seamen but will sacrifice them al
for the merest glimmer of hope.
II seems to be the settled plan o
Togo to allow the Russians to get il
the clear in deep water where tn
maneuvers will not be hampere'
and then give battle. That it vii
not be Dewey victory at Manila ba
is qaite apparent. Yet, there seem
but little doubt in the mind of an
one that the Russians will meet
crushing defeat and have the bulk o
their obsolete old navy blown out o
the water.
The hostile forces are constant,
drawing nearer together and /
Rojestvensky continues his advance
il will not be many days till th'
great conflict is on.
The world is fairly holding it
breath with expectation.
Three-fourths of 1t is in sympathy
with the Japs and nearly all expect
ing them to win in the conflict.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-14
STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY
(From the Wall Street Journall

Every generation of men is in
volved in some contest for liberty.
This contest takes one form in one
generation and another form in the
next, but the history of the world is
practically history of series OF
struggles for freedom. In this coun-
try, and in the past generation, the
contest took the form of a revolt
against slavery. AT this time, and
confronting this generation, is the
struggle against monopoly in capi-
tai and labor.
1t is the old fight for liberty over
again in another shape. On the
one side we are confronted with
combinations of capital, which un-
consciously, or with deliberate in
tent, are working for the abridge-
ment of competition, and the mar
rowing of the field of opportunity.
On the other side, we are confront
ed with organizations of labor which
are working fer the same end, a
monopoly of the labor market, an
abridgement of competition, and a
narrowing of the field of opportun-
ity.
There is danger that these two
menopolies may after long years OF
fighting each other, join their forces
by means of trade agreements or
other bonds of union. II that comes
to pass, the condition of the con-
sumer will be deplorable indeed.
The aim of this age should be more
for liberty, for freer conditions OF
commerce, for larger competition.
for wider opportunity for the "open
shop"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-14
LIQUID FUEL FOR FURNACE
EQUIPMENT
By W. N. Best, in Scientific American.


For many years liquid fuel has
been successfully used in the heat
ing of iron, especially in forges for
the heating of rivets in boiler shops
and structural work. These furnaces
are of proportions adapted for the
sizes of rivets to be heated, and
many are portable. In boiler shops
liquid fuel has been found to be far
superior to coal for fuel, not only in
furnace, for heating rivets, but also
in large furnaces for sheet and an
neallng purposes, because large fur.
naces can be heated SO quickly and
evenly that there is no comparison
between this and other fuels. For
the past five years on the Paclhc
coast, where liquid fuel is abundant,
extensive experiments have peen
made to use>crude oil as fuel in
blacksmith shops in place of the or
dinary blacksmith coal or coke.
The tests have been highly satisfac
tory, and this fuel has proven to be
superior to every other fuel because,
first, the Yields are perfect, as there
is no co.roslon of the metal, as is
the case with coal or coke fuel; sec
ond, the iron is made mole homo.
geneous; and third, the output of the
shop is greatly increased. A small
oil furnace can be constructed at a
very small cost without skilled labor,
in which a blacksmith can heat sew
eral pieces of iron or steel at the
same time and can turn out the sa me
amount of work with one oil furnace
as can be turned out by five ordi-
nary coal forges, because the iron is
always waiting on him instead of his
being compelled TO lose SO much
time making the fires and waiting on
the iron to neat, as is the case when
coal is used in forge work.
1t is because of this increased
output, and because of the super
ior quality of metal produced, that
liquid fuel is fast becoming potent
factor in the manufacturing world
and when we look upon the variou:
fuels from the thermo-chemica
standpoint. 1t is surprising that the
world has been SO slow to recognize
the value of the new fuel. Califor
MIA crude oil contains 20, $50 Brit.
ish thermal units (B. T. U.) pei
pound; Texas crude oil contains
10000 B. T. U. per pound; Will,
gasoline contains I4,2oo B. T. U.
per pound; and coke contains IL,
500 B. T. U. per pound. Bitumi-
nous coal averages 1880 B. T. U.
per pound, but there is two fold
loss with this fuel: First, because
heat is required to liberate the gases,
and second, many OF the volatile
gases it contains are wasted by
their passing away 10 the form OF
smoke. Combustion is the ener-
getic unity of the oxygen of the ali
with some combustlble. The air
necessary for cumbustlon gives out
its oxygen to the hydrocarbons,
changing them from carbonic oxide
carbon monoxlde) to carbonic acid
carbon dioxide), which is the pro-
duct of complete combustion.
Liquid fuel when thoroughly atom
ized delivers its hydrocarbons free
ly, thus allowing the volatile gases
to mingle with the oxygen of the ad-
mitted air, and this fuel has de-
cided advantage over coal, in that
coal requires heat and time for the
decomposition necessary to free the
hydrocarbons.
While at present there are sec
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-14

handled. In the blacksmith shop
of the Bureau of Construction and
Repair of the Norfolk navy yard
not one pound of coal or coke is
used, for here liquid fuel has
proven its superiority over all
other fuels for all classes of work;
aud certainly in marine service the
requirements as to the quality of
metal are as severe and the forgings
are as intricate to heat as in any
other branch of service. In furnace
practice compressed air should al
ways be used to atomic the crude
oil, distilate, or tar used as fuel, as
it assists combustion, effects a saw
ing in fuel, increases the output,
and also increases the life of the re
fractory lining of the furnace. When
compressed air is not convenient,
steam may be used to atomize the
oil, and volume blast of air pro
duced by fan blower or a rotary
blower should be admitted into the
furnace to furnish the oxygen neces.
sary to effect combustion.
A hydrocarbon burner of such
construction that it will thoroughly
atomic the liquid fuel by dashing
every drop of it into ten thousand
molecules, and which will produce a
flame that will spread the full width
of the modern oil furnace, and thus
give the necessary reverberation,
should always be used. Some peo-
pie attempt to economic by max
ing burner out of gas pipe, but af.
ter sixteen years experience with
liquid fuel in marine, locomotive,
and stationary boilers and In var
ious kinds of furnaces, l am COM
PEELED to term such burners dismal
failures, because such contrivances
do not and can not atomic the fuel.
The quantity of fuel used through
the burners should be carefully reg
ulated, for a superfluous amount of
hydrocarbons in the furnace means
a waste in fuel and is detrimental to
the materials being heated, while
not enough of the hydrocarbons
means a superluous amount of air
and oxidation of iron. All oil forges
and furnaces used in blacksmith
shops should be of such construct
ion that only one burner will be re-
quired, for a blacksmith can regu-
late a modern oil furnace equipped
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-14

crude oil is expensive and difhcuit
to obtain, yet developments are rap
idly advancing, and oil is being
found in many parts of our country
and in Canada and Mexico in local
tiles where few years ago the in
habitants would have laughed at the
mere suggestion of there being any
oil in their neighborhood. When
we consider that forty gallons OF
crude oil are equal to one ton OF
coal in blacksmith practice, and
the increased output or iron or steel
effected by its use, as we'll as the
economy in time and labor, be-
cause this fuel does not have to be
handled and there are no ashes to
be disposed of, the price of fuel is
scarcely worthy of consideration.
In manufacturing centers coal tar
and oil water-gas tar are cbtainable
at small cost, and may be used
where oil is scarce. They are val
liable fuels in that they contain
greater heating properties than
either coal or coke. Tar from coke
ovens contains I6, 263 B. T. U. per
pound, and tar from oilwatergas
contains 16, go B. t. U. per pound.
Although crude oil contains more
heat units per pound than any other
fuel, yet the results obtained de-
pends largely upon the method OF
equipment. Properly-constructed j
furnaces and perfect atomization OF
the fuel are essential features fol
success. Thousands of furnaces
are daily being operated at ser
ious loss to their owners, who are
wholly ignorant of their great loss
in both output and fuel. Of all the
poor constructions in tho shop
equipment in large or small plants
for marine, railroad, and contract
work, furnaces are the most promi
nent; and strange to say, often the
officer In charge of the department,
thinks his furnaces are ideal in con
s ruction. Often liquid fuel is tried
in furnaces and condemned, wheL
the fault lies not in the fuel itself,
but In its application. have me-
many competent officers who stated
that welding heat can not be OBJ
tanned with this fuel, because they
hAu not considered the heat value:
OF the several fuels; but after they
ave once seen it properly applied,
they are delighted with it, and be-
come staunch admirers of the new
fuel.
A furnace constructed for the
burning of coal as fuel requires var
ious changes to meet the require
ments of liquid fuel, but these
changes can be made at a slight ex
pense, as the body of the furnace
need not be altered. With the re-
quisite changes made, any degree OF
heat desired, from cherry red to a
welding heat, can be attained in
much less time than with coal, and
an almost incredibly even distribu-
ton of heat maintained, because
radiation is perfect, and hence the
metal is evenly heated. An oil fur
mace should be of such design that
the oxygen can SO unite with the
atomized fuel that an incandescent
heat and not flame is seen in the
charging space of the furnace. A
box shaped oil furnace means a
waste in fuel, decreased output,
and disappointment to the owner
and operator.
Oil furnaces and FORCES can be
constructed to meet the require.
ments of the class of work without
regard to the shape of forging to be
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-04-14

Garfield is now in Topeka getting
ready to investigate the Standard
oil trust.
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-10-05
SPORTING...
...BREEITIES

The Minnesota eleven has been
strengthened by the return of Oech
ana Sanborn, two of the heavy men
OF last years team. Oech won his
M at tackle last year. Sanhorn is
a guard; he weighs 230 pounds and is
8 feet 4 inches tall.
Joe Corbett the pitcher, is talking
of returning to the game He threat.
ems to sue Manager Hanlon and the
national commission, which ruled that
he must respect his contract with
Brooklyn.
Billy Clymer is under inspection by
several major league club owners, who
have realized that the Columbus man
is one of the successful handlers of
base ball talent. Clymer knows a
promising player when he sees one
and he has a faculty of developing
new material that puts him in a class
almost by himself.
Amos Rusie, who once drew $4,000
season for pitching for New York. is
getting $3.50 a day working in a lum-
ber yard at Vincennes, Ind. His throw
ing arm has lost its strength. He
says he can throw one ball and then
his arm feels as though it were par
alyzed.
If pennant were given for exhibit
tion games the Cincinnati Reds would
in all probability carry off the bunt-
ing.
There were too many letters in
Hoelsketter's name to suit st. Louis
fans and so they shortened it to
"Holey."
That's an inspiring race for National
League batting honors between Cy
Seymour. Cincinnati, and Hans Wag-
ner, Pitttsburg. At the last tabula-
ton Seymour was leading Wagner by
l point, his average being 81. In
5O2 times at bat Seymour has laced
out 1877 safe hits.
Practice at Northwestern has been
very unsatisfactory thus far. The line
lacks strength and the backs are slow.
James, the much touted guard could
not make good. Coach Mccormack is
discouraged.
VIM. NJ. Armstrong, 1907, Oakmont,
Pa, has been elected track captain for
the coming year at Princeton.
Effort is being made 10 bring Mar
win Hart and George Gardner together
in bout for heavyweight honors
within an hours ride of Louisville.
Hart and Gardner have fought twice.
Gardner won the first battle in 12I
rounds and the second was a draw af-
ter 10 rounds of hard fighting.
Enterprising but inscriptions peo-
pie have gotten out a set of fake pic
lures Of the Britt-Nelson go. It is
probable the Britts will ask for an in
junction to prevent the fraud from be-
ing perpetrated upon the unsuspecting
public.
Jack Mccormick, former heavy
weight pugilist, has quit the ring. and
is presiding over damp emporium in
Chicago.
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-10-05
"RAM0NA" PLEASED FAIR
I AUDlENLE AT ELKS THEATRE

The second appearance of Ramona"
at the Elks' theater last night was
greeted by fair audience. Miss
Calhoun and her excellent company
gave a good performance, which de-
served a much better house, but the
second appearance of the show in this
city within a week was probably the
cause of the small audience last night.
The biggest hit of the performance
was the Spanish fandango at the end
of the third act. The company was
forced to respond to two curtain calls,
before the audience would desist from
its applause.
The new plan adopted at the Elks'
theater this season of having the
ushers appear in uniforms is in keep
ing with the rules of all well regu-
lated metropolitan theaters, but it
has been suggested that it would
look great deal better were the man
agement to have the ushers remove
their caps In none of the larger
theaters do the ushers wear caps while
attending to their duties in the thea
ter.
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-10-05

Hudson, S. D., Oct. amanda
Clement, the only girl umpire in the
northwest, and probably the only
woman who has ever hell an irdica.
tor in a professional base hall game,
has just completed her first season,
and will apply for a position in the
Western League next year. Her home
is in this city.
Sne has attracted much attention in
base ball circles this summer. She is
IL years old, good looking, strong end
healthy, and at Yankton college,
where she is a student, she is the
captain of the champion basket ball
team. At tennis she is admitted to be
the best woman player in South Da-
kota.
From girlhood this young woman
has been an ardent admirer of out
door sports, and has played base ball
with her brother, who is a profes-
sional ball player with the Hawrden,
Ia, team.
Dressed in natty blue suit, short
skirt and blue blouse, with her hair
tucked beneath a cap, she is a novel
sight on the diamond. She under
stands the fine points of the game,
knows INSIDE play" and being the
possessor of an eagle eye, seldom
makes a mistake. She is so superior
to the ave age run Of umpires that for
over two months she has been con-
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-10-05
FAILURE OF THE
MODERN CIRCUS

People try to lay the blame of the
modern circus failure to interest them
on the three rings. They say so many
things to watch at once keeps them
from being interested in any one act,
says Eugene Wood, in McClure's.
They can't give it the attention it de-
serves. But III tell you what's wrong:
There isn't any Funny Old Clown, a
particular one, to give it human inter-
est. 1t is all too splendid, too magnif-
icent, too far beyond us. We want to
hear somebody talk foolish and human
once in a while
They pretended that the tent was
too big for the clowns to be heard
hut | take notice it wasn't too big for
the fellow to get up and declaim:
THE puffawmance is not yait hawf
ovah. The jaintlemanly agents will
now pawss around the ring with tick
cts faw the concert" | used to hate
that man. When he said the perform
ance was not yet half over, he lied
like a dog, consarn his picture! He
knew it, and we knew that there was
only few more acts to come. We
wanted the show to go on and on, and
always be just as exciting as at the
very first, and it wouldn't! We had
got to the point where we couldn't be
interested in anything any more. We
were as little ones unable to prop
their eyelids open and yet quarreling
with bed. We were surfeited, but not
satisfied We sat there and pouted
because there wasn't any more, and
yet we conldn't but yawn at the act |
before us. We were mad at ourselves |
and mad at everybody else. We clam
bered down the rafting bed slat seats, |
sour and sulen. We didn't want to |
look at the animals; we didn't want |
to do this. and We didn't want to do |
that. We whined and snarled, and |
wriggled and shook ourselves with |
temper, and we got a good, hard SLAP |
side of the head, right before every
body, and then we yelled as If we we're
being killed alive.
Nov, mister, if I ever take you
any place again, you'll know it. I'd
be ashamed of myself, if | was you.
Hush up! Hush up, | tell you. Now
you mark. You're never going to the
show again. Do you hear me? Never.
mean it. You're never going again"
Albuquerque evening citizen., 1905-10-05

visit, when an entirely new program
will be presented. Since the policy
OF Mr.. George Samues was first her
aided in these columns, considerable
interest and expectation has been ar
oused among the many theater goers
and amusement seekers of this city.
Unless all signs fail. of which there
us small possibility, We are to be the
recipients of a. very meritorious and
enjoyable dramatic treat in this visit
of Mr.. Samuels and his excellent coI
terie of dramatic and vaudeville ar
lists.
The company has it's own sixty foot
baggage car, which is used solely for
the purpose of transporting the spec
tally constructed scenery and para
phernalia used in the two big produc-
tlons that are to be produced during
this engagement. This scenery, etc,
is peculiarly adapted for use upon the
stage of the theaters in this as well
as the other cities in this territory, in
asmuch as it has been made with that
special purpose in view. The result
will be that each scene and act will
be presented exactly the same in ev-
cry particular as if given upon large
metropolitan stage.
The first night of the engagement
viii witness the production of one of
the best melodramas ever seen in this
or any other part of the country. 1t
is entitled "A Deserted Bride" and
from start to finish is replete with
sensational, comedy and scenic feat
ures that are far beyond the average
usually included in plays of this class.
On the second night of the engage
ment, the very laughable and natural
comedy, "The Man from Mexico" will
be the bill.
Clever vaudeville features will be
introduced during the progress of
each of these plays.