The Colorado statesman., 1905-10-21
To make Cheap Gas-light for
Country Homes

extra charge, which used any one of these 20
Acetyene Generators had found safe. and effective
just it permitted houses 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
Because, they have to pay the bills, if Fire Ex-
posion occurs from any one OF the Acetylene Gener
they authorize.
And here's proof of their good Judgment
Though there Two Million people using
Acetyene Light in America, there have only been four
Fires from 1t in one year, against SS65 Fires from
Kerosene and Gasoline.
There have also been 46or Fires from Electricity,
1907 Fires from CITY Ias and $50 Fires from Candles
Suns rays, But,-only four Fires from Acetylene
That shows how careful the Insurance Board
in its examination of Aceylene Generators, and in
permitting only the 70 makes that were Gbo1'e
ticon. out of the GOO experiments that
the market
Wel,-the boom in Acetylene Lighting made lo.ccr
Prices possible the material it is derived from, viz,
Calcium Carbide, material that looks like Granite
but acts like Magic.
Today, Acetyiene Light is full third cheaper than
Kerosene Light, or Gasoline Light, Candle Power.
three fonrths that of City Gas.
II can't fro0c these statements to your full salts
faction my name is not "Aoetylene Jones"
But Aceylene is more than the safest and cheapest
Light of the year 1905.
It is also the TVhifcst Lght-tc nearest to natural
Sunlight in health giving Blue and Violet rays, and
because of this with its freedom from flicker, it is
the easiest s. of @ all Artificial M 3 Light on the he Eyes
plants grow "a hours day in dark cellars where
ray OF Sunlight could reach them. II made them grow
t7tice fast similar plants that had only the Sun
light of daytime, viz, half the time.
That proven by Cornell University in a three
months experiment made this very year.
Now, I've saved up for the last a point i'm
portant to you than all the others about Acctyer|
Light
it consumes only one-fonrth much of the vital
Oxygen from the Air of Living bedrooms
either Kerosene or City Gas-Light consumes.
That's tremendous difference i'll lifetime mark
you-three-fourths of difference.
Because-Orygen is Life
And every bit of Oxygen stolen from the lungs of
Women, Children and Men, through Lighting is a
loss that never be made good again.
A "a Candle Power Acetylene Light costs you only
tuO-ffths of Il cent per hour.
That's about $5S5 per year, if burned every night
in the year for four steady hours.
A Kerosene Lamp OF equal capacity would cost YOU
third more, viz. hres-fffhs of a per hour for
Kerosene alone, $S.75 per year.
That's exclusive of broken lamp chimneys
wicls, and the everlasting drudgery and danger of
cleaning, filling and trimming daily
want to prove these figures to you, Reader, il you
are house-owner storekeeper.
Tell me how many rooms you've got and I'll tell You
what it will cost light them with brilliant beautiful
Sanitary, eye-savng Acetylene.
Write me today for my Free Book about Sunlight
on Tap
Just address here as
"Acetylene Jones'
Adams St,
Chicago, Ills