| Show THE SMOKE MUST GO A proposition which at first would seem mom rather impracticable but la is so ao greatly leaked desired that it receives attention cornel from london it to la to abolish the toga fogs that have overhung that city like a heritage of from the early days we are advised that teat the city council of the woolda metropolis metro polia are not only considering the but earnestly ear neatly so BO find and seriously propose entering upon a scheme at once having that very object to la view it Is looks like they wore were undertaking a great deal and yet WO we all know that toga fog are but the effect of a cause if we can reach the cause and obliterate it the odiest will naturally enough digap ar at the same ame time or shortly after rt kar is 1 suggested by a that hat a proposition of this kind sou iou dm di very hsuch like interfering with the order of nature such as undertaking to top stop snow terms term or like general dyrenforth attempting to shake hake rain out of this ho sky ky butt but 4 11 add gheo it 14 i considered that the horrible togs fogs of london are of comparatively modern date that they did not exist two centuries ago and that they are due to human agency the undertaking though still a large one does not seem mom unfeasible the character of these fogs which obscure everything with an almost inky blackness and often make noonday as dark as midnight is due to the clouds cloud of unconsumed carbon poured out of thousands of chimneys into a humid misty atmosphere where the smoke mixes itself with the natural fog in such a way as to seem almost a solid here we have an element and perhaps the principal one going to make up the unhealthful and unseemly vapor and the thing to be done is to either destroy the smoke or devise a different plan of combustion the latter is what the city government of london proposes a to do in order to sh job this it to is announced that municipal gas works will be established and gas provided for the people in lieu of fuel this to be supplied at a r rite ite so low and the quantity being secured on such an am ample le scale that all can afford abord to have it aln in fact ie the plan comprises economy for the people among other considerations consideration elby by making gas gah cheaper to them for general purposes than coal now is if necessary the use of gas is in to be made compulsory pul sory but butchis this will scarcely be needed at feast but few will object to it for obvious reasons the saving of money convenience cleanliness health and above all the ability to see the glorious sun obscured from the rising to the going down thereof mr B H thwaite makes what is pronounced a daring suggestion lP in the contemporary review in this connection lection tion he would generate the gas in the coal fields of south yorkshire staffordshire and south wales and transmit it in pipes to london under high pressure as in the case of natural gas in this country he estimates that by this means an enormous saving over the transportation of coal by rail would be effected amounting to a total of 0 over which after providing for interest on cost maintenance etc would while giving oon con sumers burners the advantage of fuel at a price much less leas than that of coal leave a very large surplus available for bublie improvements including the establishment lish ment of the new system of public water supply that london so sadly needs those who live on the eastern or northern bench and look down upon our once b beautiful city almost any of these humid mornings can discern little but a great bank of inky clouds spread out like a pall over the landscape perhaps the suggestion to use gas may yet be acted upon by us when the natural supply makes such a course practicable or when a citizens railroad to the coal fiel bel s has brought the sup ply of that article up and the price down to a proper basis but while waiting for that to come around why not press for the consumption of the smoke awoke that it can be done and at a comparatively trifling expense is well understood and no things have hare arrived at such a stage that we fairly rival the english city at certain times in the matter of fog why i ot have the city itt council fillow in n the rain of their mellown ellowe across the atlantic it if those who produce most moat of the smoke will not take steps to have it consumed without compulsory action let us have such action and without further del beliy ay iy |
