Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-13
BOTTLED GAS COMING SOON.
Householder May Be Able to To
 Away With His Meter.


 If the claims of the incorporators are made good, recently organized gas company is about to revolution ize the Illuminating business in America. Consumers are promised gas in bottles over the grocery store counter, or they may have it. peddled to them from door to door like milk. Each house or apartment for that matter may have it's own gas plant, and the dweller may ran his own lines from retort to lamps, burn as much or as little gas as he cares to, and when his supply runs out, he may get another bottle ct the near est store. Moreover, the new gas is said to be economical It spro- motors also claim that it is non- asphyxiating.
 The properties of the new chemi- cal permit it to be compressed to about 1-400 of it's original volume. It's successful introduction may be the means of eliminating the un- slightly gas tanks which stud the city from the Bronx to Coney Island, usu- ally occupying the most commanding sites.
 Blaugas is the name of the gas. It is the discovery of Bavarian chemist, and has been successfully developed in Germany. It's rapid ad- vance there attracted the attention of American capitalists, who secured the exclusive rights for Canada and the United States. Ground has been purchased and plans drawn for the erection of factory near Newark
 In explaining the new product one of the promoters said:
 The company was formed for the purpose of taking over ard operating the patents of Herman Blau of Augs- berg. Germany, covering the produc- tion and liquefaction of gas, derived from crude oil. This gas liqueties under compression to about 1-400 of its original volume, and issthen in- troduced into steel fiasks, in which shape it Is distributed to consumers. A committee of experts recently re- turned from Germany where they made close investigation of the gas and Its uses, and their report is com mandatory.
 "Blaugas is coming into general use abroad for all purposes for which ordinary gas is utilized. Be- sides It's value for technical purposes, for which Blaugas comments itself on account of its high caloric prop critics, which make 1t valuable for welding, soldering and the like. i: Is available for many uses out of reach of ordinary gas. In this di- reetion Blaugas encroaches to a con- siderable exent on the field now ex- clusiyely enjoyed by electricity, prin- cipally in the matter of decorative eff. fects.
 Owing to the high pressure un- der which Blaugas is used, and it's absolute purity. thus doing away with the corrosion of fixtures and pipes. so common with ordinary gas. the gas can be fed through tubes no larger than an ordinary telegraph wire and quite as pliahle, thus mak- ing 1t available for swinging lamps and for installation ia the san,s manner as electricity.
 If farm houses in Bavaria. Ave miles from town. having from ten to fifteen rooms. and using Blaueas plentifully for lighting and cooking. are being supplied with the gas at d net cost of not over t2.25 per month. some interesting conclusions may be drawn when 1t is considered that gss companies in some smaller cities in this country charge from @ to s4 per 1000 feet for ;heir product Blaugas. in steel dasks of varioYf siEes, compressed to I-400 of its original volume. can be as easily handled. The purchaser is assured of the quality he gets. Gas meters. which sometimes present some won. derful indications of s9eed in fun. hing up gas bills. are net required" -Nev York Evening Post.