Show great crest men lien hut but poor ioor prophets there is ia a madman proposing to light london with what do suppose why with smoke what sir walter scott wrote to a friend when it was first planned t to light london with gas napoleon said it was a great folly ons one hundred years ago people were afraid of gas and thought it ib to be work of the devil later whon when west minister bridge was lighted with gas people thought the pip pipes were filled with tiro fire and watched tho spectacle dumb founded when a lighting system was installed in tho house of commons the members of fearful of being burned would not touch the pipes with ung lovea lands hands 1 but that was a hundred yeara ago today there are 1200 uses use s for gas and it takes sixty thou thousand saad miles treet street mains to deliver the gas of country to its ita consumers forty alv million people in n honea bomes and ana faz on now served with gas gaa |