The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1906-06-29
ALCOHOL ACT LEADS FAR.
Looping Off of Tax Will Have Widespread EffeCt-Cheaper
Light and heat---Great Array of Manufactures That
Fluid Enters Into Should Drop in Price,

ter of heat and light. Many house.
wife who does her own interior decorat-
ing and renovating will never know,
perhaps, that the lessened cost of paint
and varnish stain-removers is due to the
removal of this tax; nor will she realize
that the increased safety of those ma
terials and the diminished danger of
fire or of injury to health are due to
the same cause, but when she comes
to buy alcohol instead of gasoline for
her lamps and stoves she will then have
placed before her, in practical way, one
of the striking effects of the new law.
Alcohol lamps for lighting purposes
have been in use in Europe with great
success, and may now be used here
(after next january at cost no great
er than that of kerosene, but with much
better results. This lamp has no wick.
The alcohol, heated to vaper after
coming from the lamp, rises into man.
tie, where it burns, producing white
heat. 1t is lighted by match like any
wick lamp and in 80 seconds is giving
its full illumination. In test recently
made in this country one gallon of alco-
hol burned SO hours and So minutes,
giving a light of Is candle-power, while
one gallon of kerosene burned 81 hours,
giving light of nine candle-power. For
the same amount of light the alcohol
lasted nearly twice as long as the kero-
sene, the candle-power hours being 1471
and 783 respectively. In Belgium alco-
hol at 81 cents gallon is cheaper for
lighting than kerosene, which sells at
Is cents. All that is needed, it appears,
to use alcohol in this way is an alcohol
burner. This costs about 81 at present
and is interchangeable with any ordinary
kerosene burner. The use of alcohol
does away with all the smell and dirt
so Objectionable in kerosene.
MUST CHANGE STOVES AND MOTORS.
Alcohol is equally good for heating IS
lighting, and this opens the way for
many changes in cooking stoves and in
small motors. Germany and other Eu-
ropean countries have had free and
cheap alcohol for some time, and the
alcohol motor is not an experiment.
Leonard B. Goebels, Of this city, an
expert in all that pertains TO- nac:.+s:s
driven by the explosion of gas, went to
Germany recently to investigate this
new fuel and brought back a favo, able
report. It is conceded that for small
motors up to rs horsepower in which
gasoline is now used in this country
alcohol is much superior. It contains
a less number of heat units, but has a
greater heat efficiency, while it's range
of explosibility is about double that of
gasoline. 1t is also more homogeneous
and can be used to the last drop, not
leaving much, if any, residue and none
of the sooty deposit which clogs the
sparker in gasoline engine and makes
the cleaning of such machine dirty
and laborous job. In number of shop
tests made by Mr.. Goebels an average
of 20 per cent more power was gotten
from using alcohol than from using
gasoline in the same sized engine.
Even if the cost of alcohol exceeded
gasoline the cleanliness and safety of
it would still make it desirable. Think
of an automobile without an odor! AL
cohol, when it catches on fire, may be
put out with water, but not gasoline
fire. Exhaustive tests have shown that
whereas gasoline, at an ordinary tenn
perature, gives off yapor which, when
mixed with air, is highly explosive and
the cause of frequent dangerous acci-
dents, no such vapor comes from al
cohol until it is heated above the ordi-
nary temperature.
Alcohol has been used, and with good
results in engines constructed for gaso-
line, but to get the best results spe-
cial construction is needed. This, how
ever, differs but slightly from the ordi-
nary gasoline engine. The carburetter
and spraying devise would have to be
modified, and the compression would
have to be increased. These alterations
are such that they can be made in q
gasoline engine at slight expense. Or
dinarily an alcohol engine can be manu-
featured and sold at the same price as
a gasoline engine of similar power.
It might be supposed that this cheap
denaturized alcohol will entirely drive
out the wood alcohol industry, but the
latter is the principal substance used in
denaturizing, and experts are unani-
nous in declaring that SO much dena-
turized alcohol will be thus used that
the demand for it will increase.
Notice..
1t is known that hydrophobia exists
among dogs of this (RoselandD town.
ship and considerable loss has already
been sustained by the citizens of the
township, their horses and cattle being
bitten by these dogs. It is considered
q great nuisance and danger to the