The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-03

Garage men, Beware! Artoists,
Attention There is death in the
ehamois strainer. Whenever you Ill
ter gasoline through chamois you are
playing hide and seek with one OF
the deadliest combinations known 70
uan-electricity and gasoline.
II your tank is under the seat, be
careful when you fill it. If you are
not. you will be as foolish as the
man who looks for gas leak with a
lighted candle.
Reard every word of this article.
Let it make an indelible impression
upon your memory.
Never strain gasoline through a
chamois. Now we'll tel; you why it
is dangerous.
Gasoline and channels do not get
along. They are ''incompatlbles.
Let us assume that you are about
to fill your tank. The funnel is IN
the nozzle. A channels strainer is in
the funnel. The gasoline is turned on
and it pours through the chamois it
generates static electricity. Statical
electricity may be defined as cleo
tricity that is at rest. It is an agent
neither of construction nor destruc-
ton, SO long as nothing is done to
unleash it. Unleash it, knowingly or
unknowingly, by brushing clumsy
finger against natural law, and
YOU have to deal with the most dia-
bolical physical agent known,
force that destroys with the quick
ness Of lightning.
Static electricity, as we have said,
Is now in the funnel. The funnel is
charged with it. So long as the fun
mel fits securely into the mouth of
the tank, thus creating a ground
you are safe.
You 60 about your journey not
yet knowing you have brushed Ell.
bows with the most deadly as well as
the most useful force known to sci
ence-electricity.
Now, for the sake Of excitment
let US assume that you DID NOT al
low the funnel to rest inside of The
nozzle Of your tank, as the gasoline
seeped through the channels skin
Either yourself or someone elst
held the funnel in midair, or it rest
"a free Of the sides Of the tanl
No ground" was formed.
We have seen that gasoline, {
volatile substance, passing through
chamois forms static electricity
which charges the funnel. When thu
amount Of electricity is sufficient tt
produce q jump spark, that spark
following the inevitable law Of cleo
41jcity attraction jumps to the near
ct ''g9ound' which is your tank In
doing 10 it must pass over the open.
Ing re:retn the end Of the funnel
ami the dye Of the tanx throcIl
~h,ch easo:;ye vapor is r:sing. Sud.
IDENTIFY there is violent discharge
like that Of tightening, which is, If
ter al . gigantic jump spark. All
those in close relation are, rs il
were, struck by lightning.
Many have been burned and
SCARED for life through ignorance
Of this fiend Of electricity. Many
more, it i said to relate. have beer
measured out on their Last cool bed
No one was able to tell just Why the,
died.
The moral to be derived from thil
srtiele il this: DO NOT PUT Case
LINE THROUGH CHAMOIs
SKIN. But If you will insist On tax
ing chances be sure that yon have ,
ground" on It, by seeing that th,
1nnnel touches the opening Of th,
tank. Be doubly sure that you taxi
this precaution.
Fire department statistics Of man,
cities show that IN overwhelmin,
per cent Of the auto fires are cause,
by using chamois with gasoline
fatal combination.
We ore indebted to Francis r. mi
Fred c. Henderson, truck manufac
turers of North Cambridge, Mass.
Who have furnished M with The IN
formation that prompts this article
ias%%>r exnevieneA has rAcenklv heel
theirs-an experience that nearly De
brived them Of ron and nephew
Bound to karn the reason Of tht
casualty, q wen @ Of four fatalitie
h the city Of Boston ths p9et yeazz
3tom IN identical cause. he tn
leeths1s searehed fer z cl1e t.
1likf I'D 70 IL ovsrtArow q hi
- ! 1saH e destruction. p @as