The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-02-14
NATURAL GAS.
Let's Have Cheap Gas For the
City Of Paris.

Dear Sir-I see from the columns OF
your valuable paper the Paris City
Council has pending before it the
granting of franchise to the Central
Kentucky Natural Gas Company, to
nstll it's mains and supply the citizens
of Paris with natures best product
for heat and light. No one who has
not used natural gas for heating and
lighting a home cannot estimate its
cheapness or appreciate its advantage
as to cleanliness. The introduction of
natural gas in Paris means the saving
annually of thousands of dollars, in
! fact, in every home where it NAV be
| installed, the saving annually between
/ it and the cost of coal for heat and
| electricity for light. will he sufficient
| to pay city. county and state taxes on
that home. This is no gdess work.
J The first year the saving will meet
the cost incurred in eQuipping the
home with natural gas heaters and a
| gas cooking range. The small heaters
cost from SO to Sc each and a good six
cap gas range with bake oven and hot
water attachment for bath service can
be installed for from S. to 500.
In order to show exactly the cost of
! natural gas for heating and lighting
purposes am herewith appending the
| gas bills of a neighbor for the seven
months beginning July /, 1912, and
ending January 81. 1913.
| take this illustration for the reason
that during LIST July and August the
amount of gas used was for the fam
lily only. Commencing with Septem-
Der. the family took six students from
Kentucky State University for room
and board and eight additional students
for table board. This made an in
crease of three rooms for heat and
light, and students generally engage in
stuny until near midnight. 1t in
creased the number for table board
from seven to tWenty-one besides the
cook and waitress, making family of
twenty three to cook for. Thirteen
persons used the bath service from
twice to three times per week, which
required an almost constant supply of
hot water.
Some light washing and ironing was
also done twice each week.
The gas bills for the entire house
hold. seven rooms equipped with gas
heaters and which were used more or
less throughout each day and night for
heat and light, and as | nave above
stated, cooking, washing, ironing and
bath service and here is what it cost:
July and August for private family
the bills were, July. S2.10, and Aug
ust, So, Is. For September S420, Oc-
tober, Sd. so, November, $50, Deem
Der, go, and January. 1913, $3.50.
1t will be seen that the January bill.
notwithstanding for that month the
rate per 1000 cubic feet of gas IN
creased from 80 to So cents. due to the
company connecting its mains with the
West Virginia gas fields, was less
than for December. January was a
very mild month, hence the reduction
under those circumstances. The entire
cost for heat and light for the seven
months is therefore seen to be SAL.
Had the family not taken i'm the six
roOmerS and the fourteen boarders. it
might be reasonably expected that
the entireEcost for the seven months
would have been greatly reduced.
But the cheapness of gas is not the
only thing that recommends it to
the favorable consideration of the
great majority of households. By
using natural gas you do away with
coal and kindling, ashes, SCOT and
smoke. With natural gas Ial that is
needed to make fire is match and
the gas can be turned ION and lighted
in less than a minute. The use of
natural gas appeals strongly both to
husband and wife, in that the former
who usually defrays the bills has less
money to pay out and she who is
charged with the care aud comfort of
the home is always delighted by rea-
son of it's cleanliness. No coal to
carry in and no ashes to carry out.
No stove pipes to take down and no
walls blackenet with SCOT and smoke
Those who will oppose the introduc-
tiun Of natural gas will use the old ex-
ploded arguments, that it emitS fumes
which are dangerous to health. is Ii
able to explode and tear up everything
including limb, body and life and that
by reason of it being moisture alb
sorbent will greatly damage the furni- |
ture of the house.
| moved to Lexington in August, |
1910, and at once installed natural |
gas. We we're told the same dire story |
and had all of the gas heaters connect
ed with two iCch pipes as a conduc- /
tor the fumes to escape. This caused |
an additional expense of about $35. |
Since then we have dismantled the |
pipes and have experienced no bad !
effects. in fact the change was never
We have noticed no dam
age to furniture, because the heat is
steady and.regular, like tthat from a
radiator connected with a furnace.
and gas heater can be placed within
a foot of any piece of furniture with
out doing il damage.
During cold weather the windows in
the house will sweat and frost more
freely than from a coal fire and this
is practically the only objection that
cansbe argued against the use of nat
ural gas. Of course every one here
who uses natural gas keeps at least
nne CRATE or stove connection in the
house for the use of coal in the event
of an accident to the gas mains, like
that which happened during the cold
month of January of last year. The
damage was repaired in less than
forty eight hours and nothing has &C.
Cured since to diminish the pressure
Or flow of gas.
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