Show Smoto Over London Professor Chandler Roberts estimates the weight of the smoke cloud which daily hangs over London at about fifty tons of solid carbon car-bon and 250 tons of carbon In the form of hydrocarbon and carbonic oxido gases Calculated Cal-culated from the average result tests made by the smoke abatement committee the value of coal wasted in smoke from domestic grates amounts upon the annual consumption of 5000000 of people to 2257500 Tho cost of cartcgo on this wasted coal is calculated to be 263750 while the unnecessary passage of about 1500000 horses through tho streets in drawing adds seriously to tile cost of street cleaning and repairing Then there is the cost of taking away the extra ashes 43000 per year Slimming it all up the direct and indirect cost of waste coal may be set down at 2000000 plus tho additional loss from tho damage done to property caused by the smoky atmosphere estimated by Mr Chad wick at 2000000 the whole aggregating at a reasonable estimate 4600000 or 23000 000 |