The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-05
WANT TOLUOL CONSERVED
University Chemists Urge That Arti-
fetal Gas Be Washed to Save
High Explosive Material.

Enough high explosive material to
fill 10000 3-inch shells a day is being
wasted in the United States in burning
artificial gas containing toluol, says w.
A. Whitaker, head of the state indus
trial research laboratory at the Uni
versity of Kansas. In an effort to
save this toluol, which is absolutely
unnecessary for the heating efficiency
of the gas, Mr.. Whitaker, Roy Cross
of Kansas City, and G.. W. Stratton,
professor of chemistry at the uniVer
| sity, have been appointed a commit
| tee to endeavor to induce artificial gas
plant owners in Kansas and Missouri
to install apparatus for washing toluol
from the gas. Similar efforts are being
made by chemists throughout the
| United States.
Toluol is the stuff from which T. n.
| T. is made and OF the several high ex-
| plosives now in use by the Entente
| Allies and the Central Powers. The
| United States War Department has
pronounced it the best Germany uses
T. n. T. almost exclusively in its ar
| tillery. 1t is the easiest high explo-
sive to make and the safest to trans
port.
In every one thousand feet of arti-
| fetal gas there is 05 of a gallon Of
toluol. The only purpose it serves is
| to give a yellow color to the flame
when used in an open burner or with
out a mantle Burned with a mantle
| or in a stove or heating ii adds abso-
lutely nothing to the gas, and gas
from which the to1uol has been ex-
tracted gives just as much heat as gas
with toluol, says Mr.. Whitaker.
THE difficulty in the way of saving
all this wasted toluoI," said Mr.. Whit
aker, lis in the old-fashioned municipal
requirements that gas must furnish so
much candle power. Toluol does add a
little to an open burner gas light, but
no one burns gas that way any more,
and so this antiquated requirement is
useless, except to prevent gas makers
from taking out the toluoI the Ameri-
can army needs so badly. Municipal
requirements for gas should be based
on heat units"
Bank Shows Its LoyaIty.-At a meet
ing of stockholders in Atchison it was
decided to change the name of the
German-American State Bank to the
American State Bank.
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OIL Operator Dead.-A Scott, super
intendent for the Foster Oil Company,
died at Eldorado recently after sew
eraI weeks illness. The body was
taken to his old home in Tulsa for
burial.
New Grain inspector-H. J. Schre1-
Der has resigned as state grain inspec-
tor in Atchison and has been succeed
ed by R. c. Cook of Kansas City.
Woman Killed IN Accident-Mrs.
W. J. Craig, 81 years old, died in a
hospital at Salina as a result of a
motor car accident near her home at
Natoma She had taken her husband
to their ranch and was returning to
Natoma when she lost control of the
car. 1t turned over, pinning her IN
derneath.
/ Killed by RIast-C. G. Clark, an en-
ployee of the Empire Company. was
killed in an explosion at Eldorado.
Clark was alone at the time and was
preparing a shot for a well.
$4,000 for Oil interests-G. S. Gil
wosky, n. H Fara and E. @. Gallant
of Wichita recently paid $4,000 cash
for a one-sixteenth interest in the oil
royalty on the A l. Woody sO-acre
farm, three miles northwest of Edo
RADIO The Empire Company is deTeI
oping the lease.
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A Mail Car Burns.-MaiI pouches
falling against the stove Of the mail
car in the Salina-Beloit branch train
OF the Union Pacific caught fire. The
car was destroyed and considerable
mail lost