Show their gas sant off oct 24 special A sensation was created in iron and steel circles by an announcement that the philadelphia gas company had decided to discontinue supplying natural gas to furnaces for fuel there are a thousand pudding furnaces in the city and ovey half of them will be shut off as a result of the order this will necessitate an enormous expense in changing the construction hack for coal in addition there will be a heavy added cost owing to the higher price of coal as most of the companies had contracts with the gas people at a very low rate the gas people claim that the move is not made on account of any scarcity in gas but because it can be used to much greater advantage in private houses and at much higher rates the estimated daily consumption of natural gas in the city now is five hundred million cubic feet a day equal to twenty five thousand tons of coal the shutting off of gas from the furnaces will an almost incredible impetus to the coal mining industry |