Show Quits Sleuthing Invents New Gas Ga I Which Can Be Made I Easily at HomI HomeK Home Hom K s I f h J X k 4 ar r f i r rf n y rs M t Lr N. N i. i Walter E E. E Karnes at his liis new neVi gas generating apparatus and illustrating illustrating illus illus- one of tho advantages of or his new gas Cincinnati Ohio Wal Special Special Wal Walter ter ler E. E Karnes of Cincinnati was wasa a private detective ten years ears ago Today roda Today To To- da day he holds broad patents th that t cover the basic principles of or an nn Invention that seems likely to make mako him a richman rich richman richman man and amI rescue tho the public from the approaching failure of the natural gas as supply He Ho has Invented or discovered a a. anew anew i new kind of or gas which can be manufactured manufactured manu manu- safely in tho h home me at a cost I of less than that of natural gas as s at nt 25 5 5 cents a thousand cubic f feet et compared compared compared com com- pared on a basis of ot heating and illuminating IllumInating illuminating illum Illum- power That it is a new gas Is attested b by his p patent tent papers apers which anyone can J see sec That his Ills cost cost figures arc are correct ho will demonstrate b by making K gas from measured quantities of materials of or known prices The illuminating power of or the g gas gasIs gasis Is practically that of or but it Jt produces 2700 British thermal units of or heat against COO B B. B T. T U. U for average a natural gas bas Karnes will permit any doubter to examine his apparatus as a. thoroughly as he wishes and then will make the gas as from materials bought by anyone anyone any any- one ono is the open market consisting consisting- of calcium carbide common ordinary baking soda and wood alcohol He will demonstrate that his flame lame which looks exactly like me an ordinary acetylene flame will melt things thinG's that the latter can not The gas sas he explains Is la what ml might ht be popularly K described d n. n as acetylene gas as by the addition addition addition addi addi- tion of or a small proportion of ot wood alcohol and bl carbonate of oC soda diring during dir dur ing InS the process of or generation The rhe apparatus he uses In demonstrating could be bo carried b by two men and md ap apparently apparently ap- ap cost less than 50 to mako make including labor Karnes showed with three tumblers how his hi generating generating- process makes practically no heat and leaves none of oC the residue which is tho the bano bane of or most domestic producing gas plants now in use Karnes had no especial Interest In I x rr A w YA t tt t z iy c Y o r 3 V U b NA WIn X Xyr yr Al V chemistry or science ten years ago 1 when he ho was a private detective c but hut buta huta a statement in a New cw York paper that tho the government was offering for tho the invention or discovery discovery cr ery of or such a ga gas J as ho now has started him to thinking Ho lIo read I opportunity consulted chemists some consulted chemists some II of or whom laughed at him and some helped him Karnes Barnes has never had hadan hadan an nn explosion in his experiments Ills His final success was the result of oC his lack of or technical training he said sald chemists told him If It he ho had been trained in the tho usual way he ho would ha have ve followed th the e usual methods and J Ideas and probably made tho usual failure they explained |