The Washington times., 1909-01-30

cent are today supplying gas contain
/ ing more than 10 per cent OF carb0nic
oxide.
Mr.. SIAIS-Do YOU know what the av-
erage OF carbOuic oxide is IN the gas
You refer to?
Average Of Carbonic Oxide.
/ Mr., LOVE-Where they are making
/ a straight water gas, the carbonic
oxide would be from 20 TO 80 per
/ cent; where they are making a TX
/ ture of coal gas and water, the per
/ centage of carbonic oxide would vary
/ from. perhaps, 10 to 20 per cent de-
| pending upon the proportion of water
/ gas and coal gas in a mixture.
/ Mr.. SIMS-A gas that contains, 20,
/ 25s or so per cent of carbon monoNide,
/ then, has no coal gas i'm it2
/ Mr.. LONE-lt may be a very NIUE
/ if it is as low as 20 per cent. IL Is
/ very difficult to draw the line. be
/ cause the percentage OF caTbonlc
/ oxide in any straight water gas IS
/ very great. The conditions would
! Mr.. SIMS-HOW low does the per
/ cent of CaTbOniC oxide rum
Mr.. LOVE- have seen II is low as
20 per cent. have never seen lt
Mr.. SnIs-How high is carbon mo
noXide in a mixed gas like this used
Mr.. LCvE-The quantities OF mo-
nOxide I'm the two constituent gases
/ are known. It would be Impossible
/ TO predict what is going 20 be III the
} mixture, but II YOU have a coal gas
/ with per cent carbon mOnONlde, and
/ YOU have a straight water gas OF from
/ % TO so per cent. and YOU mixed those,
/ il is going TO depend altogether upon
/ what proportion of each you nave IN
/ your mixture in order TO determine
/ the percentage of carbonic oxide IN
Mr.. SIAISEA mixed gas averaging
/ % per cent of carbon monoNde, then,
/ would have very little coal gas IN It!
/ Mr., LONE-Oh, yes, 20 per cent car
/ bon mOnOXide would be practically
I straight water gas.
! Mr.. SIAIS-And If it runs as high as
/ water gas?
What Thirty-nine Cities Use.
/ Mir. LOVE-Exactly. I have a few
/ figures here. Taking the cities OF the
/ United States which have a popula-
/ tion of 100000 or more, the following
/ have gas supplies which contain more
| than 10 per cent of carbonic oxide.
/ There are 80 of such cities, and the
/ following have gas which contains
+ more than 10 per cent OF carbOnic
/ oxide. Allegheny, Atlanta, Baltimore
/ Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
1 Dayton. Denver, Detroit fau River
I Indianapolis. Jersey City, Louisville,
/ Memphis. Milwaukee, Newark, New
/ Haven, New Orleans, New York, Oma-
{ ha. Paterson. Philadelphia, PIttsbur8t
| Portland, Greg Providence RocRes-
/ ter, st. Louis, 81. Paul, Scranton,
/ Seattle, Syracuse. Toledo, Washington,
/ and Worcester, Mass. That makes 80
/ cities.
/ from official sources
/ Mr.. LOVE- get them from Browns
+ last directory for 1905, which IS the only
( publication in this country that gives
a-- a fa rf II
/ this same class having d gas supply OF
+ less than 10 per cent ere two In mum
! Der. One IS Buffalo, and one Column
/ bus, Ohio. One Is supplied by natural
| Mr.. TAYLOR Columbus has a natu-
/ raj gas supply
/ Mr.. LOVF.-AnC then there are two
/ cities with q supply OF natural gas, 81
/ Joseph. No. end Kansas City. Mo. -
! that, using these two together. You
T have thirty-nine cities supplied with gas
/ containing less than 10 per cent or car
; bonic oxide, and YOU have thlTJF-lVe
/ cities, or about 50 per cent of all these
cities, supplied with gas containing
/ more than that.
Mr.. SIAIS-Nhat is tne candle power
/ of pure water gas, uncarDufeJed.
/ Mr. LOVF-It Of Itself has no candle
power at all: il burns with blue name
/ Mr.. SIAIS-S0 the candle power. then,
comes from using naphthdt
Candlepower IN Naphtha.
Nh. L.OvE-Naphtha, and, perhaps, in
answer also to that question, ] viii say
the attempt has been made 10 distri-
butte this blue gas for heating purposes.
IL has about half the heating power
( Of the carbureted water gas, but II mas
no OdOr
Danger When UnCarbuTetted-
Now. there is no one nowadays who
would advocate the distribution under
any conditions of an uucaTburetted wa
/ fer gas. 1t is done II was tried in
/ Troy. They had a great many Ialal
. cases there because n was Impossible
+ 10 tell f. There might be little leak
and YOU could not detect IL, because the
/ gas has no odor bat when you car
/ buret it you give it Just as much ocor
/ as any coal gas ever maze so Ildt
/ that objection would NOT uClu lheIs-
+ There is Just one point more gentle
men / was interested TO know what
the members Of this committee were
burning when they were home, and II
/ YOU viii pardon me / would nke 10
/ sgT mar taking your home cities ]
/ thiuk there are nineteen members OF
/ this committee, IN a Few cases can
not ind that you have any gas AT az
/ / think i'm four cases, but IN three OF
I vour home cities you are burning
{ straight water gas.
! Mr. SIAIS-What 90 yOu mean by
/ straight water gas 5000
Mr.. LOVE- mean a water gas IlaL Is
not mixed with coal gas.
+ Eir. TAYLOR-A carbureted. water gas
J Mr. SIMS-NO coal gas I'm u at ailt
Mr. IOVE-Noue at all. There are
/ three cities supplied in that way. Ihere
I arc nine cities supplied with this mix
I f1lre There are two cities supplied with
/ this coal gas. one supplied with natural
/ gas. and. as I say, I have no. been able
/ to find out about four. whether they
+ had any gas supply or not
Did Not Know Gas Used Here.
/ Mr.. SIMs-Some Of as have been here
/ Tor twelve years. and did not know what
+ kind of gas was used here until this
agitation came up. II seems that the
/ Commissioners of the District of Co
/ Iumsia did not even know IT,
/ Mr.. TAYLOR-Did 1 understand you 10
I saw that three Of the cities did not use
/ gas. or the members did not use gas
/ Mr.. LOVE- did not say that / said
/ / did not know what the gas was
/ Mr.. MOORE-HaVe you the names or
/ the cities I'm which no gas is used
/ Mr. LONE-Yes, sir, Lake MahOracs
/ n. Y I cannot find out whether they
/ have any at an.
/ Mr.. MERPHY-There is no gas sup
/ piled iu my town; they are just putting
/ tL lu.
Mr.. MOORE-Have you the schedule
/ tleTGt
Mr. LOVE- have.