| Show GAS AND WATER 18 ONE AS NECESSARY AS THE OTHER citizens of large cities say it ie new york june 13 in the recent agitation here about the price of gas the demand for lower rates was supported by the argument that every resident Is as dependent upon ply of gas as upon a supply of good water it has come to pass that the day laborer uses gas as his only fuel tor cooking because of economy and the rich man uses gas on account of its convenience gas for lighting with modern improvements in burners is cheaper better and more satisfactory than any other kind of light gas sells at 1 00 per thousand cubic feet in large cities and from that to as high as in smaller towns the consumer of gas in the country uses acetylene pronounced a set a lene and each user makes his own gas and Is independent of gas and electric companies acetylene is a more perfect than the gas sold by the big gas companies in the cities and the cost to the smallest user is about the equivalent of city gas at 85 cents per thousand acetylene Is the modern artificial light the latest addition to the many inventions that have become dally necessities the light from an acetylene flame is soft steady and brilliant and in quality Is only rivaled by the suns rays it water and a solid material known as calcium carbide are brought into contact the immediate result is the making of this wonder tul gas the generation of acetylene Is so simple that experience or even apparatus is not necessary to make it if it is desired to make it for lighting and to keep it for am mediate use then a small machine called an acetylene generator Is employed there are many response res ble concerns caking acetylene gener acors in practice this gas Is dis tributes tri buted in small pipes throughout buildings grounds or entire cities and towns in the same manner as ordinary city gas acetylene is the only satisfactory means of lighting isolated buildings located in the coun try or suburbs at a distance from city gas or electric plants |
