The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-06-18
CANNED GAS.
A Remarkable New Illuminant
the Latest Thing A Gas
Which Reaches Consumer in
Liquid Form.

Which Reaches Consumer IT.
Liquid Form.
Charlotte Observer
Harper's Weekly comes to us
with an article describing at
some length a remarkable new
known as blaugas
from the name Of its discoverer. /
Hermann Blau, a German chem
ist. Here is a gas but one which, !
unlike any other gas, reaches
the consumer in liquid form.
This means, of course, that an
extreme degree of condensation
has been attained, the illuminant
going about under pressure and
becoming available for use when
relieved Made from coal, crude
petroleum or any Of the other
materials employed in ordinary
gas manufacture, it is carried in
cylinders, which though heavily
charged, cannot explode, need no
protection from heat or cold, and
can be instantly brought into use
at any time. These cylinders
range in weight from one pound
to fifty, and SO potent are their
contents that one of twenty-five
pounds will furnish fifty candle
power for four hours a day for
four months. The householder
obtains a simple outfit which
may be placed in the cellar or
back yard and given almost no
attention. By opening a stop
cock the days charge is drawn
from the storage cylinder into
an intermediate tank, thence
passing through an automatic
valve into the pipes of the house.
The burner is Of the mantle type
and gives a brilliant white incan-
descent glow from a stream of gas
so tiny that it may readily be
driven through flexible tubing no
thicker than ordinary telegraph
wire. In consequence Of this
tenuity the gas can be used for
swinging lamps, and it has the
great advantage Of containing
neither waste nor water with
which to foul pipes. No other
illuminant can compare with it,
we are told by the writer, fol
simplicity, safety, brilliance, re-
, liability and, for many purposes
cheapness. The owner of a coun-
try house can have the fines
possible illumination at tvery little
grc,.t1' cost than if he wer,
, supplied with inferior gas from ;
large city plant. while for open
air speakings at night and al
such uses it excells other portabl,
I illuminants as much in econom,
as in power. So very compac
are some of the portable outfit
. that they are we'll adapted fo
- - use by campers, one Weighin!
: only a few pounds furnishing
l light and heat in large quantities
Blaugas has already proved itsel
a commercial success in Germany
where it is rapidly displacin
: other illuminants in all building
or groups of buildings whic
" maintain lighting plants Of thei
own. The Harper's writer be
= licves that it can be used to DIX
O cided advantage by many cit
householders and will before lon
L. come into such use both III Gef
many and the United States
He pictures the housewife of III
. near future phoning her groce
T. fer five-pound cylinder of blal
W gas along with an order for eggs
And these interesting possibilitie
have been brought about by tn
Id ingenuity Of a laboratory worke
who hit upon a method Of carry
y ing on his distillation from f;
miliar gas materials at low ten
y peratures instead Of high.
What on earth will we hay
next?
Odell Young, IA years old, {
Lexington, was killed Sunda
morning by lightning, and fol
ds other boys who were with hi
were injured. The boys toe
to shelter from a rainstorm in
b,1ildinor Iyboro n v,-i,.o for q tel