| Show FIRST USE 01 anthracite at W Ikes barre pa was made D 9 covery tl at it would burn the old fell house at pa where anthracite coal was first burned in a grate and where its progress pro giess as a marketable commodity began Is to be destroyed and aled until all outward semblance to old fell house the famous tavern has disappeared in the heart ot the big new building which is to take its place there will be preserved the old fashioned low beav raftered raf terea room where the experiment took place and the identical grate and fireplace where an th coal first burned the experiment in the old grate specially built foi the purpose by judge jesse fell then one of the leading men in the community took place on 11 almost years go he had written in letters to relative de ng the achievements and for some time had contended that if prop ariy ignited the stone coal as it was then called would burn but his friends laughed at him nevertheless he studied the problem until he decad ed that it waa necessary to have a draught to make it keep going he then had the grate built of ten inch bars forming the front and bot torn of a box that he set in brick and in this he placed the stone coal light ing if from below by means of aplin of wood and keeping up such a draught with a bellows that the coal soon glowed red hot he found too that when red hot it quickly ignited coal placed upon it and proud of his success he told they would not believe him until trey had as he wrote ocular demon of the tact day after day the old room in the tavern was crowd ed with the people of the little village and the trave ers who passed through and soon to all parts of the region where outcroppings of coal had been discovered the news was borne |
