Show PUT LONDONERS IN A PANIC excitement attended first use of illuminating mina ting gas in tit hi early cany days of the last century 0 i n illuminating gis pas was is as first used I 1 Ti tildon T idon timorous talked of alif lif ati of suffocation and of cx c lc dc i to which tho the gas which W artt i I 1 imperfectly purified exposed the iho et cl 11 scientists confirmed these assenti and the first gaso meters 1 in ia bondon by samuel clegg so BO terri aed the people that no work aik oik man would venturo venture to light tho the gas jots jets hall had been placed on west r oradge but clegg soon overcame i 1 is ia difficulty by lighting a torch iid tip applying plying it to tho the burners with li I own hands on another occasion sion 1 it committee of the royal soc i 1 I 1 ho hii bored a hole bole in flip th ider idar i id put a lighted can cle e f T to tit grea great alarm talarm of tho the 1 P pe r 4 k about causing the alt cider gradually the eyes c vc n 0 oj i lie ni in r prejudiced ere opened to the tr li it |