Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-07-17
fRy Joseph Hays.D

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"A O', lain, and beheld, and, To- the
e !, ,be country went up as the
hs '" furnace. Genesis xix +,
t. No doubt that consider
\ :, q smudge resulted when fire
sr,mstone we're rained down up
.Sose wicked cities of the plain.
.oored writer cast about to ind
tStnr sufficiently smoky to set
oomparison, and he likened the
!, ~ tbe burning country to the
of furnace" Since
4 <,n,roduction of bituminous coal
. furnace fuel the increase of the
. nuisance has been steady and
i IDst in geometrical progression.
. smoke evil without question Is
4 greatest nuisance in the world
3braham could be reincarnated In
latter days, and, halting his
Bic at Evanston, should lift up
.ves toward tn modern Getty OF
splain." the words of the text, In
Sucoupled and reconnected FORM
\ would apply to the spectacle
Ia out before his patriarchal
N brand anything as 1.-THE Great
. Nuisance in the World" is a
Dus Indictment, and one that de-
<ds substantiatlon. Every one
4 admit that smoke is an evil. but
people realize the extent OF the
&aee done. There Is a great deal
bIconception concerning the real
Ire Of the evils that accompany
II smoke nuisance--some OF the
serious features of the question
4 being even contemplated in anti
ke ordinances.
Dyer one-third Of the fuel ele-
&ts Of soft coal, on the average,
Mist Of volatile matter, and may,
<pndltlons are extremely bad, be
Ia of through the stack. From
TO 700 pounds of the constituents
bne ton of coal, in aggravated
may be discharged into the
osphere. To this must be added
Combustible carbonic oxide from
escaping carbonic acid gas. The
ge figures are, of course, far
se the average; they are cited
as indicative OF the extent of
|evil OF which the chimney is cap
n What proportion of this tre-
fdous possible output concerns
anti-smoke ordinance. in other
'ds, what proportion OF the dis
Fge from the chimney Is invisi-
form as floating carbon. and Of
fiye TO the smoke inspector?
1er no circumstances more than
Pr cent OF the chimney output
average being far under this fig-
A small amo~ht of SCOT, by
PIT, is sufficient to give color to
Prge amount OF gas. What shall
paid OF the other 9S per cent of
chimney discharge? We know
the escaping combustible gases
poisonous and deleterious TO
ih' Has the public no concern
them because they are unseen?
fOuld seem so, from a reading of
-shoke ordinances. The microbe
uallpox does not enjoy immun-
because 1t is invisible, and the
VIII come when there will be a
ant policing OF the atmosphere
'ns' all the preventable poison
discharges Of the chimney,
''her accompanied by black smoke
'therwise.
Dol Is finely divided carbon. Car
Is Inert. and, in its free state,
poisonous and substantially in
ious' Coal mining, barring the
'l'al dangers attending it is a
'hlul occupation, and coal min
are usually long lived, notwith-
a'hg they spend a large portion
"s'r hVes in an atmosphere heav-
charged with finely powdered
''n' Post-mortem examinations
developed the fact that the
: OF the coal miner may be abso-
= oiaek with the carbonaceous
inhaled for years, and these or
o'neFwise be in a healthy and
uai condition. If the inhalation
.O1aeFed carbon, or SCOT, were
'e'ious TO health. it would regis
- eHeet by an increase of NOR
que TO pulmonary affections
ls 'hose classes of people most
.e' 10 it, The contrary effect
.aFs 10 be the result.
l,Oon 4, monoxide is one of the
''ss' gases known TO the chem