The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-01-10
DECREASE OF FIRE LOSSES
Will Result from the Use Of Dena-
turcd Alcohol AZ . Fuel.

IN WudL las Dccn pIluteu, IdIV
stories and all, In regard to the ad-
vent of the industrial millennium from |
the use of denatured alcohol, no word |
IL said of the effect of it's introduction
upon the fire loss or death rate of |
the country, although It will reduce |
both.
The gre atest reduction of the FIRE |
loss from the use of denatured alcohol,
or "industrial' alcohol as It is now
named by the agricultural depart
ment, will be through Its displacing
coal and wood in the heating Of living |
rooms.
The value of property destroyed in
Ohio last year by sparks escaping
from cracks in chimneys and open
Joints In stovepipes was e377, ZIP.
Sparks from chimney mouths falling
upon roofs or rubbish was $74, III.
Fires from open CRATES igniting stuff
in the room cost s27l,S The COM
bustion of gasefied alcohol is so nearly
perfect that 1t produces no sparks,
30 these amounts will be saved from
the ash heap yearly.
ALCOHOL FIRE sMoKELEss AND sooT-
LESS.
Chimney SCOT burning started fires
which cost s10,45s. The carbon of
alcohol is completely converted into
heat, water and carbonic acid. That
the com bustion Is perfect is shown in
the fact that its blaze is not made
yellow bv escaping atoms of carbon in
the form of charcoal being made In.
candescent, as Is seen In the combus-
tion of wood or coal. The particles of
carbon which furnish light in the
flame from wsod or coal, lodge in the
chimney and constitute SCOT. This
SCOT may become igpited BY sparks,
or any considerable mass of It, If
damp, may ignite from internal heat,
lie, from spontaneous combustion.
An alcohol flame is sootless So, no
SCOT from 1t can gather in due to
become ignited.
Hot ashes in boxes and barrels, on
floors or against buildings or fences
burned e80,693 worth of buildings.
Alcohol leaves no ash to carry out.
Hot Goals falling from defective
stoves and open CRATES cost e105. 211
There is no coal stage in the combus.
tion of alcohol.
| HaoO1eua a<ova avrlcaior. .<a ~<aA
fires which burned up e56, ,489 worth.
The foregoing buildings while burn.
ing fred nearby buildings which
burned at cost of e94,7 772.
These sums added show the destruc-
tion of wealth by accidents in coal
and wood heaters to be S1,O7l, ,27S a
year.
If the loss on automobiles from
gasolene explosions be added, and 1t
surely should be for at double the
price 1t will be used instead of gaso-
lene for automobiles, the lessening of
the annual sacrifice to Moloch will
considerably exceed a million dollars.
WAY 1T IS BETTER FOR HEALTH.
In the interest of health, alcohol
for warming rooms Is preferable to
coal or wood, because no carbon mon.
oxid is formed by Its burning. Where
there is plenty of air for combustion
each carbon atom attaches itself tc
two atoms Of oxygen from the ali
for ming carbon dioxid, which is car
bonic acid gas, the gas used In soda
fountains. It destroys life only wher
1t is breathed instead of air-as in the
; latter damp" following the explo
, sion, which sufiocates miners. From
our chimeys 1t goes to furnish foot
, for plants.
: If the supply Of air is not ample
one atom of carbon joins one atom o
oxygen, forming carbon monoxi'
which is an exceedingly poisonous gas
Z In small quantities 1t kills by poison
ing the red blood corpuscles and 1t
: an ele ment In the so called smoke ez
= plosions. The alcohol stove produce
none of It unless heated red hot.
|. Another advantage of alcohol stove
over those burning wood or coal
p that the stoves being open, much o
r the water produced In burning
escapes into the room In the form Q
/. vapor. This vapor increases one
, feeling of warmth so that the actus
temperature OF the room does nc
y need to be kept SO high. Will fire
. alcohol be cheap enough to displac
coal, wood and gasolene for heaters
>. d. 8. CREAMER,
State Fire Marshal.