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Show HEATING BY GAS NOW FACT The increase in gas-fired house heating systems has averaged more lhan 2,000 per cent since 1919, says a statisical report Just issued by the American Gus association, which points that the gas companies throughout the country, having passed through all the stages of development de-velopment from a lighting to a heating heat-ing business, are rapidly supplying a considerable portion of the heating heat-ing requirements in the home as well as in Industry. A summary of the per centage sales of the leading manufacturers of gas-fired house heating systems, according to the report, shows that the biggest increases have come since 1921, which was a rather poor year. One of the largest concerns in this field made nearly 50,000 house heating installations last year alone, which, for this company, was an increase of 6,000 per cent over 1919. At the present time there are only two practical methods whereby automatic heating is possible, namely, by means of oil and by means of gas. As long as oil prices remain low, the oil furnace presents pre-sents a certain economy of operation opera-tion not attained by gas sold under un-der existing rate schedules. But the tendency of gas rates for tills purpose is generally downward and there are so many features that render ren-der gas superior as a heating medium me-dium that the temporary difference in cost is more than equalized. Intensive In-tensive selling campaigns instituted by some of the leading gas companies com-panies in the country are making these facts known to hundreds of thousands of consumers. In compiling information on the use of gas for bouse heating, It was discovered that even in those cities where gas house heating is still, comparatively, in Its Infancy, gas users turn to their ranges or room heaters to supply them with heat on cold mornings and evenings In the fall and winter when their boiler is not supplying htem with warmth. This application Is really house heating by gas on a more or less primitive scale and is probably one of the largest contributing factors to the severe peak loads which oc-cure oc-cure at the gas plant on unseasonably unseason-ably cold days. |