Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-03-16
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'''i'' warpath against that modern form of the black pla sue' the soft-coa smoke evil. One of Uncle Sam's eN- ports, II. VI. Wilson, chietengineer of the experiment station Of the United States Bureau of Mines in Pittsburgh. thinks the smoke nHsianee costs the year. Here is a part of what he has to say oil the subject.
 The damage done annually in the large towns of the United States by smoke would build in every city of hundred thousand inhabitants in this country a structure equal to the Con SreSsional library. considered the most beautiful building in the world There would be left over enough to maintain the army and navy for the current year-and then plenty left to build the Capitol at Washington.
 This financial damage, after years of careful computation and compari- son with the reports of scores of eX- perts, l figure at six hundred million dollars annually
 If Ne feel inclined to doubt Mir Wilson's conclusions, there are other sources of informatons to which we may refer. In a recent addition of that high-class and conservative trade paper known as the Iron Age we find the following table:
 Annual loss in Cleveland from smoke. six million dollars"
 Annual loss in Cincinnati from smoke. eight million dllars.'
 Annual loss in Pttsburg from smoke, ten million dollars
 Annual loss in Chicago from smoke seventeen million dollars.
 Estimated annual financial loss in the United States. wive hundred dollars or seventeen dollars for every an woman and child, living in large cities"
 Those figures, it is stated. were ob- iained from the smoke experts and ,llege professors delegated by those ci, es to estimate the damage, and were only recently published after many months of careful expert work More than that. it is also ated. the damages goes far beyond the fin aneial losses set forth in the foregoing table Here are some other items charged to the smoke nuisance: Untold damage done to clothns furniture. buildings, trees. streets and parks.
 Additional expense of lighting houses and offices in the day time due to the clouds of smoke shutting out the sunlight.
 Large increase in the death rate from lung disease. caused by breath ing sulphurc acid and other poisons in the smoke-laden air
 Free as air" should be changed to Dear as air" says Dr. Goler. health officer of Rochester, N Y. Smoke Holluted air. he ontinued. attacks all the organs but chiefly the lungs The poor man and for a large part of his time the business man. must breathe this poisonous stuff. and when he suffers the doctors prescribe for him what it is Impossible for him to get in any large town--pure air.
 Uncle Sans experts declare there is no good excuse for the failure Of the country to rid itself of the smoke evil. Bad firing, more than soft coal. it appears is to blame for the black clouds that pour forth from so many smokestacks, The Government eN- perts had demonstrated numerous times in Pittsburgh, it is recorded, that they can fire any chimney with the softest coal and Yet not raise a single cloud of black smmoke
 Forty-three percent of Chicago $ smoke it is said, comes from the en- zines of railroads passing through the city To prove that there is 10 great difference between factory chimney and q locomotive smokestack-so far as the firing principle is concerned the following is quoted from report of Mr. Angus Sinclair. president of Locomotive engineers:
 "A locomotive fireman in a run of two hours used eight thousand pounds of coal. making steam with difficulty and filling the air with smoke The next day. another fireman, with the same engine and making the same run in the same time. used four thousand. five hundred rounds of coal making plenty of steam and no smoke Result of intelligent firing. a saving of forty-two per cent of fuel and nc smoke
 Smokeless fires are not only the best in every way. but they are also oha h., will hc