| Show ACl GAS OAS i i A it U News Makes O Per Uncut Concerning It DI News 11 I learn from Crom the columns of ot your our val valued al tied one of oC our City elty Council committees Is maturing the passage of ot nn an ordinance to tc tax the use of or gas ess from carbide etc Now Nov anything that aids Allis to safety lAtelY train from accidents and anti fires fill etc elc IH is to be commended I J am personally Interested In III the tho proposed ordinance or After n II thorough I have hav adopted arid and have used for two WI years pa or more mole an acetylene gins Kan machine nt at my residence I r nm ant convinced that It IH Is a n safer Rufer and better lIghting I medium than I either coni gasoline ur ut The query Is In why tax acetylene when gasoline goes 1011 fr N well vell In Informed Informed Informed formed person knows known that gasoline Ia Is la laa Isa isit a it very vory article The Th follow tollow lag Int paragraph clipped dIluted from your Issue of oC the tho lust IlI t Is 19 corroborative of this fact The Chicago Underwriters association thin lion hils n a proposition before them contemplating n a charge chAr e of ot lOc for tor the of ot gasoline devices lI statistics gath gathered nth ered red covering eleven oleen years are startling from front 1800 1810 to 1900 mo flies fires were lIl canned caused by h 2526 by hy KIIS gaaS dIne stoves Oby gasoline lamps bUnis SIC by hy the Ihl careless use U l of ot the fluid Losses during title this period amounted to from front this tItle source alone alono The casualties for tor the same annie period wore were ere Ruled killed d seriously maimed and 13 slightly hurt An 11 these thelle figures are arc taken from corn the thc reports of f the Fire Pa Ia Patrol 1101 or of Chicago they lucy the iiri arl authentic and certainly demonstrate tI that thieve there Is 18 too loa much carelessness In III tile the wo USO u e of this dangerous do fluid It Js Is true trite that transitory dangers r are lire the Ihl dalh of ot humanity In instance stance the w with th h n B rAt ear load bail of ot powder nt at the tM H n 0 O 1 Hallway depot a n atel tel few days ngo a go 10 providentially humanity dill did not suffer stiffer by h It Dots the general public and anel more particularly do fit the thil westside residents of t r the Ihl vicinIty of the th Jackson Jakson on public and neighborhood of ot the Hlo lb 1 ramie the dally nail hourly menace that exists towards their hIrst und lint property I refer to 10 tho the tact fact lIel that the Oil warehouse u it 1 tank that con eon talus not IP lees H than hiatt tour four thousand If gal al AI lime Ions In hulk bulk of ot the th deadly gasoline Under tInder ordinary suit and more particularly during the Ih present term that tank Is 18 constantly evaporating an quantity of or Its lis highly C lily g gas s MA as dall dangerous rous anti ns as n It 11 pimply awaIt the till fork folk of ot lightning n a train from a ft locomotive or Ire fire to explode f this gasoline vapor aPor antI hurl Into Inlo eternity numerous lives antI destroy properly It would nearly annihilate everything In the tho vicinity Where Wh does the element fir ut f safety arlt of ot I the proposed ordinance as U compared with acetylene come rm in Issoline Is la lamore mote more mm dnn dRI tl I OLD |
