New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-29
GAS COMPANY EXPECTS TO BE
READY TO SERVE PUBLIC
OCTOBER 1.t.
OFFICE AND DISPLAY ROOMS
COMPLETE PLANT NOT
YET BEGUN.

tractlve business offices IN town is that
of the new gas company in the Burg
Building on Center Street. It has
evidently been planned with view
to making an appeal to the eye of the
housewife who is to be tempted with
one of the beautiful gas ranges and
every housewife who sees it is going
to give her husband more or less Of a
bad time until he tells her that she too
can have one of the outfits for her
kitchen.
Cool blue and white tints prevail
turnout the Office proper. The high
walls and ceilings are papered with
white in the upper half and with blue
for the lower portion. A blue and white
linoleum covers the floor and ranged
around the walls are the gas ranges,
some of them with white enamelled
parts and there is one there now that
is finished in blue enamel and nickel,
with steel top. Besides the stoves
are to be found a stand bowl for the
lavatory and with it are shown the
water heaters of various kinds put
out by the gas company. The front
two thirds of the Office is made into a
display room and the other third con-
tains the working space of the Office
force. They have floor space Of
/; 1900 feet, about half of which is par
titioned off from the office for fitting
room. The counters have bases painted
. white and cherry tops with bronze grill
work. The outside Of the. front of the
building is also painted a: glistening
white and the lighting system consists
of several very bright clusters of light
on the ceiling with crystal shades. In
the evening the whole room is as light
,, as day and the wares are most strikingly
displayed.
The Gas Company expects to begin
work on their engine house near the
railway tracks at once and say that
they will be ready to furnish gas within
sixty days. The gas building is to be
constructed without bit of wood in
the framework, which will be all of
steel. The walls will be of brick; it
will be 48 feet by 48 and will contain
a boiler, compression room and fuel
rooms. The building will have a height
of IL feet to the caves.
Plans showing the laying of the mains
provide for the piping in alleys to bring
the product up town from the plant.
There will be two crossings of Mime
sofa Street, one in the middle of the
block between Center and First North
and the other in the middle of the block
between Center and First South. The
pipes will be laid in the alleys passing
the Review Office in one block and the
American Theatre in the other block.
They will be placed about two feet and
a half in the ground. The largest
mains will not exceed three inches as
the gas is furnished under high pressure
until it enters a building where the
pressure is reduced by a governor
placed in the basement In this way
the small pipes carry the gas with
facility whereas if the pressure were
low larger main would be required.
There are to be four compression tanks.
In manufacturing the gas, coke,
steam and oil are employed. The
process consists Of heating the coke
to 14OO degrees and the steam is used
to give the hydrogen and the oil for
one of the Illuminating elements.