Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-08
Electricity Seems to Be
DisplaCing Use Of
Coal Here.
CITY SETS PACE FOR
MANUFACTURING CITIES
Companies Find There Is Saving
in Use of Invisible
Power.

Newark bids fair to approximate a
smokeless city.
Electric motors are taking the place
of the old-fashioned power plants in
many Newark factories and loft
buildings, as the natural development
of new Industrial methods.
The principal interest to the public
in this is the abatement of the smoke
nuisance.
In place of the steam plants, with the
accompanying large boilers. volumes of
smoke and gas, ard the continual
danger arising from weakened plates
or an overplus of steam pressure. the
present Age of Electricity is sub
stituting the economical and safe cleo
trio motor, running on current sup
piled from an outside plant.
This means a great reduction of the
smoke nuisance" said Smoke Inspector
aniel ]. Maloney to an Evening STAR
reporter today. 'In Newark IL has
meant that many of the smaller smoke
producers have ceased entirely. Fac
tories and loft buildings are using the
electric system.
"Often the smaller plants are the
most troublesome in contributing to
the smoke nuisance The large power
plants carry the fumes and gas in
tremendous smokestacks to a great
height.
Means Much to City.
IN short, the substitution of elec-
trinity for steam means the concentra-
ton Of smoke production in a small
area where It can be controlled and
made 1noffensive to the city,
Every time steam plant is done
away with one more source of smoke is
eliminated. Within the last few years
many such changes have been made
in Newark and vicinity.
One Of the largest plants affected is
that Of the H. w. Johns -Manville Com
pany In Emmett street, where a 300
horsepower steam outfit WAS given up
for an electric moor of equal ca
pacity.
Another big change of similar char
acter was made by the Striby- Foote
Company Ia Ogden street. This con-
Germ needs about 200 horsepower TO- its
business. and 1t abandoned steam for
electrical energy some time ago.
Trexier Company Sets Example.
When the Trexier Lumber Company
located its yard and mills on the shores
of the Passaic river along the Penn
sylvania railroad in Kearny it instt lied
an electric plant of 650-horsepower in
stead of putting In steam engines ana
boilers, and thus helped to l-eep down
the smoke nuisance, although, Of
course. that was not the controlling
reason for the firms action.
Spanger Bros, foot of Centre street,
also gave up steam for electricity. The
Newark Spring Mattress Company di6
likewise, sas did the leather firm of
Kelly & Mclaughlin in Golden street.
These concerns are specified not as a
list of electrical users who have ban
ished steam and @moke, but rather as
merely typical of the varying charac-
ters of establishments that have found
It advisable to use current instead of
steam for the operation of machinery.
Saving in Electricity.
Other installations of from five to
fifty horsepower each could be men
toned by the dozens and every time
motors take the place of steam in a
SnOP OulIdlu6s lti0 bilOh6 6Nll Is re-
duced, for instead of a multitude of
coal consuming plants emitting smoke
and SCOT. the power comes from a
single source by means of trans
mission cables and wires.
1t follows that the individual manu-
facturer, If he is not burning coal and
making smoke Is likewise being saved
the cost of the labor of handling coal
and the expense and trouble of having
ashes removed. Space formerly given
over to steam plants can be utilized
for other purposes, as motors take up
less room and, if necessary. can be
fastened to the side walls and yet do
their work. Most operators, however,
prefer to have the motor directly at
tached to the machine 1t is intended
to run, as this eliminates loss of power
transmission and minimizes the dan
gers to employees of shafting. belts
and pulleys.