The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-07
COMPANY MAKES EFFORTS
since Thursday Hearing Purifying Sta
tions Have Been Improved Radically
TO Send Man to ''Camp on Trail
Until Improvement is Permanent.

Bad gas may soon be out of smelling
distance" for the Kenosha patrons of
the Wisconsin Gas and Electric COM
pany as a result of the recent hearing
OF the Wisconsin Railroad commission,
according to the report of @. M. Lar
son, chief engineer of the commission,
who was in Kenosha on Tuesday to
show that the Commission was follow
ing up the hearing of last Thursday
Following the investigation Engineer
Larson was assigned to the case and his
investigations have shown that efforts
have been made and are being made
more strenuously each day by the COM
mission and by the company to better
the condition of the gas.
'The commission will leave no stone
unturned'', said the engineer, |Eto force
the gas company to come to time on
serving better gas to the people of Ke-
nosha. ] understand that the gas has
been little better since the hearing
but we are not going to let it drop
until permanent system has been es
tablished for purifying the gas that is
sent to this city. The Commission will
s3dd a main tU honOsll,, pref * -
latter part of this week who is to camp
on the trail until examination after
examination proves that first class gas
is coming to Kenosha. This new expert
may be in Kenosha a week and he may
be there two months but he will have
definite instructions not to leave until
he is convinced that the quality of the
gas has been cleared up permanently. "
MIR. Larson explained that the new
expert would be man who knew all
the Sins and outs' of gas analysis and
That he would be equipped with appar-
atus to test the gas for any impurities
but especially sulphur. Any patron of
Kenosha who wishes to have the gas
Iii his kitchen tested is urged to file
his complaint at the office of the "Ke-
nosha Evening News" and the expert
will call at his earliest convenience to
make the examination.
Some of the good news brought by
Engineer Larson and Engineer Stein
berg, both of whom were in Kenosha on
Tuesday, were the efforts which the
Wisconsin Gas and Electric company
have been making at the Racine power
house to better the quality Of the gas,
since the hearing ON last Thursday
morning. Two of the purifying boxes
have been housed in and equipped with
anTl &hn4 ao1I -
will no longer interfere with the pro-
cess of purifying. All other stations
have had salamanders in plenty placed
around them and the improvement of
the last few days has been the result.
On Tuesday a reversal to the bad Gas
was occasioned by the fact that the
company was placing entirely new
oxides in the purifying stations, which
was expected to be completed not later
than Thursday.
That the Commission was thoroughly
aroused to the necessity of immediate
action was one of the things made clear
by Engineer Larson He explained
that Immediately following the hearing
he was sent to Madison to confer with
the Professor of Chemical Engineering
at the state university on the methods
which could be used by the company in
this instance. Engineer Larson says
that the company is experimenting on
the same lines suggested by the univer-
sity expert and that one of the plans
will be in operation soon. With the re
turn of normal weather conditions, it
is the belief of the engineer that the
company will have placed its house
in ORDER so that the bad gas will be
thing of the past.
Engineer Larson had nothing to say
officially in regard to whether or not
the utility company would be allowed to
discontinue the heating plant as an
nounced through their attorney, James
ID Shaw, at the close of the hearing ON
Thursday but he said. that he felt GER
tain that the Railroad Commission
would not allow the company to Leave
the people of Kenosha in the lurch after
they had accepted the responsibility of
serving them with heat. He admitted
that an interesting session of the Com
mission was expected when the appli-
c4tion of the company would finally
come UP for action.