Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-30
GAS MEN Of j. 8.
GATHERING FOR
CONVENTION
Feature of Big Meeting viii Be
Exhibition of Appliances
at Auditorium.

The men who have done more, per-
haps, to throw light on various sub
jects throughout the United States,
Canada and Mexico than any other
group Of Americans, are arriving in
Atlanta today for their national CON
vention. which opens at the Auditorium
next Monday and lasts all the week
They are the gas makers Of the coun-
try, the men who put ball bearings in
the meters. the folk to whom living is a
pipe. They are coming from as far
West as San Francisco and as far East
as Boston to discuss ways and means
for inducing consumers to cook with
gas. warm by gas, read by it, sleep by
it, have teeth pulled by it,
They are bitter rivals of the electric
companies, it may be said. notwith-
standing the fact that 80 per cent Of
them also are the main works in their
home electric plants. They expect to
get together on a campaign which will
make them rich as gas producers and
break them AS electricity makers,
thereby preserving the balance and re-
naming in comfortable circumstances.
To Show Appliances.
The convention is that Of the Ma
tional Association Of Commercial Gas
Companies. Almost every city where
there is gas plant and meter reader
has a member. They come armed with
papers on chemistry. metallurgy ans
engineering, besides several reports ON
the psychology Of knowing how long 10
wait before cutting off the gas Of de-
linquent consumer
But it won't be all convention. The
biggest thing Of the week to the aver
age man or woman is the exposition Of
gas appliances which hundreds of man
ufacturers will have at the Auditorium
The exhibits have been coming in by
the carload for the past week ana are
being installed in the Auditorium and
connected to the miles of gas pipe which
the local company put in to furnish the
juice for the show.
There are gas stoves just the size for
one egg breakfast and on through the
ordinary small family size up to range
which would furnish food for the con-
NtHllOH. / mere are gas iiolS, ItdiN To
press hubby's trousers while he waits
in the bath room. There are gas heat
ers for the bath, warranted to produce
a tubful of boiling water while you dis
robe. There are gas heaters which stay
down in the basement and send up hot
water through pipes when you turn the
spigot and wait awhile.
Also Some Lan1ns
There are gas lamps with $50 kinds of
incandescent nantes, each better than
the other There are gas lamps which
stand straight up. upside down and
sidewise, And-these are for manufac-
turers' interest only-there are gas me-
ters of a hundred types, all high -geared
and well oiled, guaranteed to work day
and night whether in a union house
hold or the home of a plutocrat There
are quarter-in- the slot meters ingenl-
ously devised to shut off the gas just
when the visitor in the household has
drawn his fourth ace and is ready to
see catalogue.
Officials of the Atlanta Gas Light
Company are hosts to the convention,
and this company alone is spending
thousands of its hard earned dollars on
entertainment and other expenses. Big
pipes have been run above ground from
the mains to the Auditorium, which
formerly was lighted by electricity
alone, and smaller pipes lead to every
square yard in the great building,
ready to be tapped for various appa-
ratus. The amount of gas used next
week will keep the company hustling,
for the exposition will use as much as
all the hotels restaurants and public
buildings combined. The local COM
Npany and its officials plan a dozen din
ners and theater party at the Grand
when the whole house will be reserved
for the visitors. More than 500 dele
gates are expected to be present by
Monday
The exposition will not be open TO
the public every day. There will be
days when only the manufacturers and
dealers in gas fixtures and appliances
will be admitted. For it is to them.
rather than to the public, that the man
ufacturers of appliances appeal. Nearly
every gas company in the country sells
fittings and appliances in order to en-
courage heavier consumption of gas