New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-13
TO STUDY FUEL PROBLEM
Government Takes a Step That
Interests Motorists.
CONFERENCE NEXT MONTH
Pittsburgh Gathering May
Throw Light on Kerosene
Carburation.

/
New promise is injected into tho auto
mobile fuel problem by the projected or
eanization Of leading representatives OF
all industries that arc largely dependent
on petroleum and ms products. for the
purpose Of investigating an aspects Of
the petroleum situation. The movement
| has all the dignity and weight OF gov
eminent support being promulgated by
Irving C.. Allen, petroleum expert OF the
Bureau Of Mines Of the United States De
partment Of Agriculture. a call has been
issued Tor q preliminary gathering 10 be
| held in Pittsburgh on Friday. August 4.
/ % which delegates have been invited
. from twenty different societies concerned
wholly or On part with petroleum and as
products, az which time the plan and
| scope OF the project viii be gone into In
detail
In issuing the call. in which the So
| ciety Of Automobile Engineers was in
cludod. Allen. who s. considered the fore
most authority on the subject In this
I
the organization A. follows
a study % petroleum and its products
has never been thoroughly or compre-
hensively made within the United States
"Snce each year crude pctroleums and
gases arc produced iu the United states
having a value in excess Of 100000.
70 Is most important that thorough study
Of these materials be undertaken.
This study should iuclud. the orlRin.
geology statistics. drilling methods. trans
portation and uses o. crude petroleums
and critical and scientific description of
petroleum products NJ an kinds including
bitumens and gases"
The project IS in measure an out
growth % the work II the international
Petroleum Commission. which was or
gained az Paris Boz 1900. and which COM
/ prehnds national committees representing
the interests of Us members iu different
countries owing o. numerous compiled
/ lions the commission has made little head
way up 20 this time, while the Bureau ~
Mines. having had occasion % prepare
specifications for petroleum products pur.
chased Tor government use. has been
and Is kecnly aware OF ne needs 30 nll re-
spects Hence the projected organization.
which. I'm all probability will work DO DE-
rect conjunction with the international
/ body. 80 far as is practicable. according
10 automobile Topics"
| The establishment OF n technical body
| concerned solely with the petroleum qucs-
| ton In all likelihood Will relieve the auto
mobile industry Of tho burden ~ con-
Quoting as complete an investigation on
/ It's own behalf as had been contemplated.
AS a matter OF fact. Il IS the feeling OF
a large number Of automobile manufact-
urers that the immediate solution o. -hc
| fuel problem. as far as the automobile is
I concerned. rests with the employment ~
kerosene. This, II IS believed, VIII soon
become entirely feasible, tho belief being
based on the performance OF the several
kerosene carburetors that arc now on the
market and on confidential information
regarding experiments that have not yet
been publicly disclosed.
Because Of this feeling the committee
OF the Society OF Automobile Engineers
appointed some time ago 20 cooperate
with the National Association Of Automo-
bile Manufacturers now the Automobhe
Chamber OF Commerce, IN investigating
the subject has made comparatively 1T
tie headway. Contrary 10 recent news
paper reports. the Chamber Of Commerce
not only has not made a large approprl-
alton for the establishment OF research
laboratory 20 be operated by the commit
tee but thus far has evinced no dispose
ton 10 do 20. As a matter OF fact some
Of IT'S members are known 10 have been
directly opposed 20 such move on the
score that II would involve repetition
OF much work that already has been done
| IN the makers own Laboratories.
The broader investigation, under the
suspices Of the Bureau Of Mines, OF
course will supersede In importance and
breadth any undertaking on behalf OF
single industry. 20 that while no definite
action has been taken looking toward the
merging Of the S. a. L. fuel committee
in the larger undertaking. It IL probable
that It's individual activities viii hence
; forth be confined more closely TO the
work OF the society itself than TO the in
! dustry as a whole.