The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-03

use an inferior powder with the dan
ger OF excessive fouling and corroding,
or pay an excessive price for the best.
Inc government secures the best
powder forthe army and navy at the
lowest price by allowing the manufac-
iurers to use tax-free alcohol in man.
ufactu: ing powder for government &C.
count. For all other ps1 tax
paid alcohol must be used.
For Lighting and Heating.
Inc importance Of cheap alcohol Is
now SO we'll appreciated in Europe that
In all the leading countries exhibitions
to promote the Industrial uses are
held annually. In special report on
the exposition held in Berlin, United
State Consul General F. H. Mason
referred to the use of alcohol for
lighting and heating and other do
nestle purposes as follows:
The department of lighting and
heating apparatus includes vast and
varied display of lamps, chandeliers,
street and corridor lights in which
alcohol vapor burns with an incan-
descent flame which rivals arc lights
IN brllllancy and requires to, be shaded
to adapt it to the endurance of the
human eye. There has been a great
Improvement in the lamps and chand
ielers for alcohol lighting which are
up to the best standard of modern fix
lures for gas and electricity with
which alcohol lighting is now Compel
ing with increased success in this
country.
The ordinary shade lamp for every
day use is made of bronze with white
porcelain shade and costs from $3.50
to $3.50, according to the size and de-
sign, giving a light of 80 candles at
cost of one-third of one cent an hour.
Similarly attractive and interesting
is the large display of alcahol heating
stoves which for warming corridors,
sleeping rooms and certain other To-
cations are highly esteemed They are
made of Japaned iron plate in decora-
tive forms with concave copper re-
Electors, are portable and furnish
clean odorless and convenient heating
apparatus. Bookings stoves of al.
sizes, forms and capacities from the
complete range. with the baking and
roasting ovens. brothers, etc. to the
simple tea and coffee lamp were in
display
Alcohol burns readily under all COLI
ditions without smoking. and is free
from disagreed BILE odors.
Motor Fuel for Farm Engines.
The man who stands in line for the
greatest benefit of free alcohol is the
farmer. A., greater demand will be
created for the products: of the farm
! and IN Teturf1 he wifi be able to buy
a motor fuel at a cost so low that pow
er will be utilized very literally in
connection with work on the farm.
The rapid growth in the demand for
liquid fuel has more than doubled the
prices of gasoline during the past five
years, and the fuel bill for a five
horse power engine ten hours a day
has increased from 500 to $3.50 a year.
With gasoline as the only availa BILE
motor fuel its cost must advance with
the steady Increase in the number of
engines used, since the supply is linn
tied, and cannot be increased in pro-
portion to the growing demand for it,
1t has been estimated that making
alcohol available as fuel by removing
the tax would double the power uses
inthis country. This would mean an
ten million horsepower and if these
were employed one-third of the time
an addition to the working force of
the country of thousand million
horsepower hours. At one tenth of
gallon per horsepower this would re-
quire the annual consumption Of one
hundred million gallons of alcohol
Production of Alcohol.
The farmer has interest in alcohol
and the moveTe2! Cor the removal of
the tax for another reason: He is
the producer from the raw material
from which it is distilled. Corn is
the principal raw material in this
! country from which alcohol is made.
1t can also be made from other ma :
terials. such as pota toes, beets, un-
| markets BILE fruits, damag ed grain, etc.
A large industrial consumption of al
cchOl would guarantee a sure market
! for surplus and otherwise unstable
| crops. Furthermore the nature OF the
| fluid permits of its being kept for
years if necessary, hence when large
crop IS raise which tended to create
surplus and depress prices, the sur
plus could easily be converted into al
cohol and stored to prevent ANY
ma lked reduction in prices in case of
failure from short crops the follow
! ing year.
! E ffcc. 9: Insurance.
Another feature of the matter is in
surance. No insurance company will
permit farmer to have at one time
any considerable quantity of gasoline
on his farm. Since alcohol mixes with
water freely fire started with al
cohol is one of the easiest to disting-
uish. This is not true of gasolene OF
kerosene, both of which float on water
and continue burning.
The question has been raised as tc
whether extensive changes would be
necessary In the gasolene engine now
; in use on farms in case the owner
should want to use alcohol. This ques-
ton. has been given careful considera
ton by the manufa ctrrers Of these ell
gines and their reply that the changes
necessary would be very slight, If any
at all. In fact, gasoline ,engines have
been operated experimentally with wooo
alcohol, and the engine made to per.