Show I SMOKE CONSUMERS AT WORK There is a good prospect of having the smoke nuisance abated That will be good news to tho people of this city On these bright and beautiful days with a cloudless sky clear live air and that peculiar atmospheric rarity that gives such a charm to our mountain home it looks like sacrilege when volumes of black smoke come belching forth from a number of tall chimneys spread clouds and drop smuts There is no need for the nuisance as THE HERALD has several times explained ex-plained Wednesday two of the smoke consumers con-sumers which have been alluded to in this paper were placed in the Electric Light Works and with proper attention the smoke which has caused so much complaint will trouble our citizens from that source no more The proper attention at-tention needed is to keep the fires going when started and not permit them to subside sub-side when in use If the fireman 13 careless or desirous of preventing the success of the consumer he can keep up the smoke nuisance by letting the fire go down Tho consumer is built under the boiler The flames from the furnace pass into it and through a draft similar to that made by tho perforated part of an oil lamp the fire bricks in the consumer are heated to a high degree causing the consumption of the portions of the coal flame that form the smoke By the increase of heat thus obtained the boilers are kept at a given temperature with less fuel than ordinarily or-dinarily Thus while the smoke is consumed con-sumed a considerable part of the coal is saved and the apparatus soon more than pays for itself Since our first notice of the consumer the invention of Mr JOHN FEEEDAY of Logan Cache county it has been patented paten-ted the patent being issued to him for the United States February 14 1893 He has appointed as his agent for this city Mr H P DYER and will probably put in several consumers when the efficacy of his method has been demonstrated at the Electric Light works I The consumer has been put in at the Wasatch building the McCornick building build-ing andthe Morgan botel and the written writ-ten testimony from J S SMITHA engineer engi-neer at the Wasatch CHARLES PACE engineer at the McOornick and GREGORY and CLARK managers of the Morgan is that it saves about 20 per cent of fuel It is for the benefit of the public that we refeato this subject again The smoke that comes from ordinary house chimneys is soon dissipated in our rarified atmosphere atmos-phere Bat the dense volumes that are emitted from large smokestacks have become an intolerable nuisance and it is gratifying to thinK that itwill soon be eatirely abated For when it is known how simply the smoke can be consumed there will be good reason to enforce the P ordinance relating to the matter und I there will be no excuse for continuing to I blacken buildings and darken the sky |