Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-08-31
Giant Alcohol in New Form.


based upon the passage OF the alcohol
bill by Congress; and while the report
OF experts, employed by the trust, after
experimenting thoroughly to acquire
knowledge of the relative value of al
cohol and coal oil and its by-products
as public utilities, is very guarded and
does not entirely admit that it may
become a serious competitor with gas
oline, hut that it could be used sc
readily in its changed form in manu-
iactuIe OF mercerized cotton and other
/ fabrics, and it would become q valu
able product to control. This half
way admission, taken with the speedy
and decisive action OF the mighty re-
source it would supplant, shows very
conclu-ivcly that the danger is an inn
minent one that will employ, if neces'
sary, hundreds OF millions OF dollars
/ to circumvent and control.
! That the danger to the oil product
is minimized in its estimate OF effect
upon gasoline, which has passed to
such extraordinary demand. is appar.
ent from the opinion of DIR. Elihu
Thompson, in Reriew of RerieWs fol-
the current month, of the relative heat
units OF efficiency between alcohol
vapor and that of gasoline. He says
"This efficiency-that is the ratio oil
conversion of heat units contained in
the fuel into power-is probably higher
in the alcohol engine than those oper.
ated by any other power. Other ad-
vantages in use Of alcohol are, highe
pressure without premature explosion,
the absence OF heat radiation, which
from gasoline may set fire to combus.
tibles at great distance, and that it
does not float on water and fire from
it may be easily quenched by that
element. Besides, as q luminant, q
gallon Of alcohol gives q 25.candle
power light 1,471 hours, while gallon
OF kerosene will afford only 9.candle
power light for 1888 hours. Alcohol at
80 cents a gallon is therefore equal to
gasoline at 15 cents.
Now it will be seen how easily de.
natured alcohol may supplant kero.
sene in many of its most important
uses, if the internal revenue tax oil
$l.1O per proof gallon or $22 on 100
per cent. gallon, the pure product, ia
eliminated. When it is considered
that on denatured alcoholic. alcohol
that has been rendered unfit for con.
version into the active principle of q
beverage-the Internal Revenue tax
has been removed and the duty is abou,
one-fourth of a cent per pound; and
furthermore, that pure alcohol sells in
Germany for 20 cents, in Cuba for 10
or IL cents per gallon, and can be made
in this country at that cost, and sells
here from the bonded warehouses at
$40 to $3.50 per gallon, it will be
seen what a wide door is open for
bargain and sale of agencies that may
bar IS we'll as promote its use.
Alcohol is made by fermentation of
. number Of different substances,
mostly vegetable. principally potatoes
in Germany and corn in this country,
or any cereal, sweet potatoes, sorghum,
grapes, apples. pears, peaches, figs,
berries, melons, gourds, cactus, etc.
The alcohol is separated by distilla.
ton. Some residues are excellent
foods for cattle, and others are splen.
did fertilizers, all of which render the
cost of manufacture to be lessened.
Its uses enter into so many industries
that space will not admit of their
enumeration. Here are q few: The
making of acids, bicycles, blacking,
brasswork, bronzework, burial caskets,
cabinet.making, cars, wagons, car.
bodybuilding, cartridges, celluloid and
zylonite, chairs, chemicals, chemical
preparations, cigars. colors, dental
goods, desks, dyes, enameled ware,
fisvoring extracts, folding.beds, full
inmates, furniture, gas and electrical
fixtures, gliding, graniteware, guns
and pistols, hats. japanned ware, ma.
chinery, mcldings, organs, paints,
paper, pharmacenticals, Photographic
materials. pianos, picture.frames, rat.
tan goods, sbellac, silk, silver.plating,
smokeless powder, tobacco, toys, var.
nishes and whips. General az some of
these uses are. the whole alphabet
may be run several times over in
naming still other uses for the pro.
duct.
Denatured alcohol is simply made
by adding some substance that do.
stroys its use a. an admixture to
beverages. The most approved meth.
cd in foreign countries, of which Ger.
many is the leading exponent, 10 to
add wood alchohol or pyridine. This
process does not, interfere with any
other use made of the product, and
hence the struggle that is being made
by the greatest trust and unlimited
capital to defeat the wonderful agency
that is such . menace to enthroned
powe r-Denatured Alcohol.
AN EVANGELICAL FKEAK.-John B,
Mattley, OF Rathdrum, Idaho, stripped
Of every vestige of clothing has started
out to evangelize tho world. His at.
tempt to enter the city, clothed only
in innocence. received however a seri-
Gus protest from citizens and he was
compelled to don a horse blanket tenn.
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