The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-06
Public Service Corporation
Thinks Ten O'clock a
Good Bed Time.
GAS PRESSURE THEN REDUCED
GENERAL MANAGER H. D. WHIT
COMB EXPLAINS THE COM
TANYs SYSTEM IN REPLY TO
COMPLAINTS.
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NEWARK. Oct. 6. 1905.--In reply to
complaints regarding the poor quality and
small quantity of gas furnished sonsum-
ers the Public Service officials have some
suggestions to offer by way of explana-
tio1. As for the pressure it develops
that the corporation has sort of curfew
arrangement, whereby the volume is re-
duced at 10 o'clock every night except
Saturday
Cienerad Manager H. D. Whitcomb, of
the gas department of the Public Service
Corporation, said that there was always
more or less trouble with gas in thesfall.
though the product of his company is of
| the best Daily tests. he added, were
made at the Gas houses in cities,
which showed that the quality was just
about the same every day. and that any
| variation was hardly noticeable. One
cause for complaint in the fall, Mr.. Whit
conab added. was theAfact that many
families were away for the summer and
that the burners in their. houses became
more or less clogged with dust, which
few thought Of removing.
sit is most remarkable" added Mr..
Wllitocmb, ITO see how careful the
hollsekeeper is about removing the dust
from furniture and other household
articles that have been kept in tightly
closed rooms all summer. but she never
/! thinks of the gas burner, which has been
+ left exposed, and which becomes clogged
| up By the dust. When they are lighted
/ in the fall the gas flares and fickers,
and it does not s We a good light. If the
dust is removed the burner works all
| right. 1t often happens that people do
not remove a burner for several years
| until they become so corroded with dust
that they cannot burn.
l. AL
complained recently of the quality of the
| gan in his home. When the burners were
| inspected we FOUND that they had been
/ in use about thirty years. They were
| fastened in so tightly to the chandelier
| that we could not remove them, but we
succeeded in placing a new burner on
| wall bracket in the room. and it gave
an excellent light.
4.Now, as regards to the pressure: 1t
| often happens that the service pipe from
/ the street main to the meter says or gets
| out Of alignment, and the result is that
| as soon the cold weather comes along
| the yapor in the gas is condensed and
| thsit lodges in the depressed part of the
| pipe and prevents the easy flow. That
1 can easily be remedied by notifying us,
and we will send man to pump the
liquid out. 1t often happens, however,
! that the condensed yapor is in the pipes
! in the house which we do not like to
take any chances pumping out, as we
prefer to have the people employ a plum
Der to do the work.
| We shut off the pressure In the pipes
every night except Saturday about 10
o'clock, as the great majority Of people.
we reckon on. retire about that time and
therefore we do not need as much pres
sure as earlier in the evening. When a
number Of the stores are open we re-
reduce the pressure little more at one
o'clock in the morning. for it would not
do to leave the same pressure on all
night as it would burst the pipes