Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-02-02
Natural Gas Consumers
Some Timely Suggestions Regarding
the Safe and Intelligent Use of
This Greatest of All Modern
Household COnOveniences


The attached. copy has been nre-
pared in an attempt to clarity the at
mosphere concerning the use of gas
burning appliances, and offers sug-
gestion intended to render their en-
ployments as safe as dependence up
on human elements in their operation
will permit.
The gas company has no interest
| directly or remote in the manufacture
, and sale of any gas consuming de-
vice, but it has concern in the we'll
being of it's patrons. 1t desires to
protect them against accident OF in
jury insofar as it is able, and for sew
eral years past has endeavored to
teach all consumers how to get the
utmost service from the minimum
amount of gas.
New and economical gas consuming
appliances for cooking and heeating
are a distinct advantage to the con-
sumer, and their use sensibly regula-
ted can not become menace to life
or health. The copy accompanying
has been prepared after a careful
consideration of all phases of the
subject and is impartially submitted
as matter of public interest, and in
behalf of public welfare generally.
THE LOGAN GAS COMPANY.
That death through easily avoidable
agencies should be materially les
sened by substituting carefulness for
| carelessness, can not be denied.
1t is indeed strange that so many
people totally disregard ordinary
caution in some phase of their daily
life and give more attention to the
non-essentials than they do to those
things that are the foundation of
their physical well-being and COM
fort.
History is continually repeating a
record of fatalities, many of which
might easily have been avoided had
not heedlessness on the one hand and
recklessness upon the other combined
to make death or injury inevitable.
The advent of each recurring win
ter season marks a toll of death by
asphyXiation, and the present one is
no exception to the rule. However,
there seems to be more widespread
publicity given occurrences of this
character now than in the past, at
tributable in measure probably to
greatly increased use of gas heat
ers and very active commercial riv-
airy in their sale.
A great hue and cry has gone up
about the flueless gas stove, and
while admitting that it is a source of
danger in careless hands, this does
not by anv process of reasoning prove
that gas stove connected by flue
pipe to a chimney is guarantee of
security to the occupants Of the home
in which it is in use. What could be
more ridiculous than gas stove con-
nected with flue pipe, and that pipe
closed with damper or clOgged
chimney?
That old saying, "there is nothing
new under the SUM-, considered in
connection with the speed and change
in our mode of living today, applies
to the open or clay mantle gas fire.
For many years the radiant type of
gas heeater has been in general use
in many, many thousands of homes
in England and continental Europe.
Several years ago the principle was
brought to this country and science,
| are anu InecIldHlcdl skill ucNelOpeu II
in some distinctive types to a super
excellent completeness. The demand
for these types of gas fires was SO
heavy that many limitations have
been put upon the market that only
resemble the better kinds in appear
ance, but so lacking in necessary es-
sentials that their purchase and use
should not be permitted. The busi-
ness done the present winter season
in the radiant and reflector types OF
gas heaters has only been limited
by the ability of the manufacturers
to produce them. For twenty-five OF
more years the reflector type OF
heaeter without flue connection has
been manufactured, sold and used
wherever gas has been available.
J Deaths by asphyxiation through
faulty operation of gas burning de-
vices are comparatively rare wher
contrasted with number of modern
agencies, the toll of fatalities OF