Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-20
HOLD OUT HOPE
For MORE CAS-
TO OPERATE NEW GENERATOR
TODAY
Machine Will Add One Million Cubic
Feet to Present Capacity, Max
ing Twelve Millions .
in All

AL the big plant of the Los Angeles
Gas and Electric Light company during
thirty-six hours, beginning at 11:3O Fri
DAY night there has been in progress
the work of bringing to a white heat
the interior of the immense new gen.
orator, about which so much has been
SAID within the past six weeks and
upon which householders have b1Iilr
hopes of an adequate supply of gas.
Some time today, unless something
unforeseen occurs. this big generator
VIII nave been sufficiently heated to be-
gin the Transforming of oil into gas.
ana then 1t IS hoped by officials of the
gas company that the requirements Of
the consumers will be met
At present the capacity of the plant
Is ll,oOO'OOO cubic feet a day. The big
generator just installed and connectnd
with the purifying machines has a ca
pacity of 100000 cubic feet making
the combined production an even II 1000
900 cubic feet Of gas every tWenty-four
hours
Whether this supply will be sufficient
Is a question which officials of the GAS
company will not be able to answer
for several days or until an actual test
Is maze through regular consumption
lhey express the hope that the SUD
ply by reason of the addition of the
new generator will be sufficient, but
they are going right ahead on the sup
position that even if the amount of
production is ample for immediate pur-
poses 1t Will not be great enough WITHIN
very short time
"Never, Never Again"
I'VE don't intend to be caught in
such a predicament again" said AS
SiStant Secretary A. Is. Day last night.
and then Mr.. Day proceeded to dis .
close the plans of the company and
which viii insure a supply of gas suf-
ficient for city much greater than Los
Angeles.
Before the opening of the fail busi-
ness OF the present year machinery
Will have been installed which Will Just
double the capacity of the plant.
Ten generators of a capacity equal
to that which win begin business today
: have been arranged for, and during the
cold snaps of next winter the consum-
ers Wlll nave 22,OOO,0OO cubic feet of gas
to burn every tWenty-four hours.
The second of these big generators
VIII be added to the plant within the
next three or four weeks, Mr. Day said
last night, and a third and fourth are
/ nearing completion and will be added
at various times during the spring,
while the last of the seven others al.
ready planned viii be installed before
the first sign of Jack Frost next fall.
Supply Will Be Sufficient
With such a production as then will
be possible the officials Of the company
express themselves as confident that
they will have anticipated the maximum
consumption by several million cubic
feet day and render impossible an
other gas famine for years to come.
Although 1t is expected that the new
generator will begin business today, 1t
is not anticipated that there will be n
very noticeable increase in the pressure
until Monday, by which time the new
addition TO the plant win be in good
working order,
officials Of the company last night
denied a report that a defect had been
found I'm the new machinery and that
/ ii would be necessary to shut down tha
plant TO make repairs, and said that
all the machinery was in good condl-
tiOn.
Eight additional carloads of coal ar
rived yesterday, which materially add
ed TO the relief from the fuel famine.
and assurances were given by railroad
companies that further consiguments
of coal are nearing Los Angeles.
The streets have dried up materially
| during the past two days, making possl-
| bic aCCeleration i'm the delivery of coal
TO consumers.