The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-04-20

Test Of Woolley Furnace Surprises the
prise the Beholders-Stack Entirely
Free.

Free.
Conincident with the declaration OF
the board of trade favoring the devel-
opment of the industrial interests OF
Washington, appears the Woolley
Smokeless Furnace Company with a
smoke consuming furnace that prom
ises TO eliminate the smoke nuisance.
The advisability of inviting manu-
featuring enterprises to locate In Wash
ington, which has been under earnest
consideration by the beard OF trade
for the past three years. has hinged
largely on the resultant smoke nui-
sance.
The failures of various smoke-co1-
Stunning contrivances has been taken
by the board of trade to mean that the
solution of the smoke nuisance in
Washington reposed in electric energy
to be generated from the Potomac
river.
Conseqently the invitation extended
the OSTRICH commissioners and other
officials t visit the Columbia power
house, at Fifteenth and H streets
northeast, yesterday and witness a
demonstration of the capabilities OF
accepted without much hope of being
convinced that a solution Of the smoke
nuisance had actually been reached.
STACK SHOWED NO SMOKE.
The effect, therefore, of seeing a
huge stack, which has poured forth
black clouds of smoke for years, emit
ting not the least p~erceptible sign or
smoke, was most pronounced. Fire
men working in the engine DON were
shOveling quantities Of slack coal into
the mouths of two furnaces. Visitors
hurriedly stepped into the alley, where
a good view of the smOkestack could
be secured, and looked in vain for the
emission Of smoke, which could be
seen to arise in the furnace as the
coal fell upon the fire.
What became Of the smoker" in
| CURED one. "Have you got another
outlet for it,"
Yes. SIR replied Orestes Bean,
vice president of the Woolley Company
I'VE have got an outlet, but it is in
the combustion chambers Of the fur
mace"
And so it was, for the inventor, fol-
lowing the simple principle adopted
in the burner of an oil lamp, has de-
signed a furnace that will consume
both coal and smoke. Remove the
| bell-like cOntrivance from the burner
of an ordinary kerosene lamp" said
Mr.. Bean, land you will notice that
the lamp chimney will be smoked up.
Replace the device and the oil and
wick are susceptible of almost COM
plete combustion.
TESTS ARE MADE DAILY.
Not only does the claim of the Of
ficers Of the WoOlley Company, that
the smoke nuisance can be entirely
abated by the use of a furnace OF
their manufacture, seem to be borne
out, but tests which have been made
daily by stokers demonstrate that d
saving from II to % per cent in fuel
is effected. In fact, so positive Is the
company of the f~uel-saving properties
Of the furnance that offers are made
to install furnaces free, provided one
half of the saving in fuel is paid to
the company for the first year and
a slight percentage thereafter.
Commissioners West and Biddle and
General Dudley, who witnessed the
demonstration, commented most faV'
orably on the character of the smoke.
less furnance.
!. E. Powell, heating and lighting
expert of the supervising architects
office, after a thorough examination OF
the furnance remarked: Il have seeI
something pretty good. l guess YOU
have got it."
The interest taken by the govern
ment in the invention was attested
by the presence of DR.. c. w. Wardnel
and DR.. G. X. Burgess. of the bureau
of standards, who made several tests
Of the amount of heat generated IL
the combustion chambers and in the
fire boxes, and the variation that wa:
noted when the furnance was being
fed. By the use of an optical pyrme'
ter, they ascertained the heat of to-
first combustion to be about LOO de
grees Fahrenheit. This varied only
about $50 degrees when the fudnact
doors were opened. Because Of tn
slight variation in temperature. MI
Bean claims that an engine will las
much longer fired by a smOkeless fur
mace than by the ordinary kind.
WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE NAVY.
Not only do the owners of the Wool
lev claim great things for it il
manufactures, but they point to thu
fact that it will revolutiOnize tn
navy as much if not more b dit
the invention of smokeless powder.
IF Rojestvensky had had Woolle.
smokeless furnances in all his battle
| ships he would have slipped pas
Admiral Togo and landed safely a
V~ladivostok.'' said Mr.. Bean. If GU
f%urnances had been in use in tn
United States navy during the maneuV
ers off Fort Monroe, the vessels Of IN
attacking fleet would not have beer
sighted twenty to thirty miles away
1t is, however. in abating smok'
~nuisances for the comfort Of the PEG
~, +bo+ tho Wo0lIpy COmpany base