The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-21
MONTANADAK0TA
: COMPANY POSTAGE
HUGE CELEBRATION
Band Concert in Afternoon,
Street Dance at Night
will Be Features
WOMEN TO GET FLOWERS
Open House. Will Be Kept at
SaIesrooms and Demon.
STATIONS Will Be Given
WOMEN TO GET W

announcement that natural gas
will be available to Bismarck citizens
about September l and that q gas day
celebration has been tentatively fixed
for September 6 was made today by
John w. Lewis, sales manager for the
Montana-D Dakota Power company.
At the same time 1t was announced
that natural gas will be turned into
the mains at Mandan some time next
week.
The gas day celebration will be q
community affair, sponsored by the
gas company to commemorate the ar
rival of a new fuel available to Bis
marck residents.
Features Of the celebration will be
q band concert on the postoffice lawn
in the afternoon and q street dance
on Broadway, in front of the post
office, at night. For illumination the
dancers will have a large number Of
gas torches, which will be connected
with q main to be laid against the
street curb. The torches will be about
IL feet high and their flare Is x
pected to provide an unusual setting
for the dance.
Employees Of the gas company and
their families will parade at 2 p. m.
and there will be several floats, show
ing incidents connected with the de-
velopment Of gas as a fuel.
The sales offices of the Montana
Dakota company will be open to wis.,
tors all day and a large group Of sales
men will be on hand to demonstrate
gas appliances. Women visitors to the
Dalesrooms in the afternoon viii be
presented with roses.
VIII Light by Torch
Lighting Of q huge gas torch, about
10 feet high, to be erected in front Of
the postoffice building, will be one Of
the celebration high spots. A fuse
will be attached to q bunch Of fire.
crackers to be placed at the top of the
torch. This viii be ignited and will
cause the firecrackers to explode. The
fire crackers will ignite the gas.
A stunt tried in other cities In con-
nection with the introduction Of IA
tural gas has been discarded here. In
some places city officials have been
given roman candles. Their accuracy
in aiming the flaming pellets deter
mined the speed with which the big
torch was lighted.
Because Of the possibility Of fire or
Of causing injury to some N in the
crowd, however, the idea was aban-
doned.
win Award Prizes
An interesting event of the evening
performance will be the giving away
by the gas company Of four prizes,
all Of which will be gas equipment for
use in the home.
Brief talks by officials of the Mon
tana- Dakota company will be sand
wtched into the program. either In the
afternoon or evening.
Construction Of the gas pipe line
which will bring the fuel from the
producing fields in Montana, is near
ing completion and the distributing
lines, laid this summer in Bismarck
and Mandan. will be ready for use as
soon as the gas Is available
In the major lines supplying Bis
marck, the gas will be carried at a
pressure Of 40 pounds per square inch.
Valves will reduce this pressure to
six ounces in the mains which carry
the gas to meters In Bismarck resi-
dences. Because Of the increased ef-
ficiency Of natural gas as compared
with artificial gas, heretofore used in
Bismarck. a change will be made in
the gas equipment already in use to
mix more air with the natural gas
than now is mixed with the artificial
gas to support combustion.