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Show Sekemad;. General Sherman was tendered a serenade on Monday night by the Camp Douglas band, who executed exe-cuted several pieces of music in good style. After nine o'clock the choir from Parowan, which had arrived in the city to attend Conference, f-ere-naded the General with some exquisite singing. General Sherman, appreciating the tribute of respect, responded re-sponded in a few happy remarks, thunk-ing thunk-ing them warmly ior the gratification 1 they had afforded him, and ior their wect singing. If? had never been to Parowan, but he understood it was a beautiful place: and he hoped they might have peace and prosperity there, and make it lloom and blossom. -, V voice from the outside of the crowd, w iving called on him lor a ppcech hen the singing ceased, ho stated lit he would speak to the ladies who nnd come to hcrnnadu him; and he did to, speaking kiadb words to those ini-piodistely ini-piodistely befbio him, Gas Light. The time has come when Salt Luke City," like all other towns of her commercial importance and population, must consider the question of artificial light for city purposes pur-poses and the 'uorf economical and convenient niuiia of producing it. There is only one recognized method of lighting towns 'of any importance, in use. and that is by gas. Hithc: : this luxury has been out of the'qu V-tion V-tion for us, for" reasoua which" -have been set forth by us before. For tV:y years co:tl gab so far distanced all coi peling processus that they were hr heard of, except in scientific circle' In the last four or five years, however, more progress has been made in cas-lighting cas-lighting than during half a century before; but not by coal gas men, for the inventors of the new hydro-carbon, or pneumatic gas, claim, and with acknowledged ac-knowledged right, that the days of coal gas with oil its defects and inconveniences incon-veniences are numbered., . , j j Coal gas-works , are veiy cosily to erect, wiih their rctmK coolers, condensers,' con-densers,' hydraulic mains, tar wells, wet and dry purifiers, and other elaborate elab-orate and expensive ' contrivances for generating the gas and getting rid of the impurities with which, as it corner from the retort, it is inevitably mixed. Not only are the works costly, but the necessary fuel and ' the material, for making and purifying the as coal and lime run up the first cot of it to a high price, allowing nothing for interest- -on the works The bills' for Iabof.;i'alsb, ' are- large aud,' finally, when; you have obtained coal gas with all its brilliancy, it is,, for iia injurious, effect on the eye?, on the health, on furniture, pictures aud fine goods generally gen-erally the worst artificial light known. In California they are making a far superior gas, free from all the faults of coal gas, at about oue-third of what it can be made for, even on the larger scale, in the city of San Francisco, with its " advantages of cheap coal. This new gaa is made by charging common com-mon air with the light hydro-carbon vapors obtained by distillation from petroleum. pe-troleum. There are required to make this pneumatic gas no retorts, no purifiers, puri-fiers, no elaborate contrivances for getting get-ting rid of impurities, for none are present. There is no large outlay for labor, and no material is required but "gasolene." All that is necessary to be erected for supplying a towa burning burn-ing 20,000 cubic feet a night, is a small steam engine, a rotary air pump, a tank buried underground to hold the liquid and of course a gaa holder street mains r-.nd supply pipes. So simple are the works that scores of tiie best private houses and rur-.d institutions institu-tions in 1 California are lighted by domestic works, driven automatically, ! the propelling power being a weight, and the gas-holder being dispensed with. Only those who have seen the light can conceive the beauty of its mellow radiance, its steadiness and its regularity of flow. ,AU scientific men seem to unite in speaking well of it in a sanitary view. While for economy-nothing economy-nothing better could be said of it than the unanimous expression of the municipal muni-cipal authorities of San Francisco, in debating the subject ','that the city hos pital, outside the rouge of the coal-gaa company's mains, was better lighted and at less thau half the price it would cost to illuminate the building if it were inside the district supplied by coal gas from the old company's work.". A round dozen of the smaller towm of California are already preparing to erect works on the pneumatic, system, and several existing coal-gas companies compa-nies ; (ire . eonternplatinsr abandoning their old works and erecting others on the new principle. The United States navy department At Mare Island, California, Cali-fornia, has abolished its old works aud is using pneumatic gas and paving 75 per cent, by the process, though Marc Island is only a few miles by water from the extensive coal fit-Ids of Monte Diablo. The advertisement of tho Pacific Pa-cific Pneumatic Gas Company, 20G Sansome street, San Francisco, will be found in this morning's issue. |