Show EM ENGLISH OPEN FIRE BLAMED BLAM 1300 Tons of Soot Float I In Air During Big I Fog LONDO LONDON LONDO rob Fob Lon Up U 14 A W Lon I-Lon- Lon Londoners doners hate haie tackled with Ith renew renew- renewed renewed ed cd energy this winter w Inter the problem problem problem lem of or reducing their tog fog bill which often orten causes a los loss to the community of or 5 a da hate haie e concluded that while hile It was as impo Impossible Impo elble altogether to abolish fog toes fogs as pro provided by nature It Is 1 to ha hae e eb clean ones by do- do doIng doing ine do-ine Ing away aay a ay with wills the tho soft sort coal smoke moke e et cill iI caused by some som 4 to Officials of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society estimated ted re- re rc that thit there were ere 00 in- in In hou houses es In London nearl e csery cry room of which Including the kitchen has Its its open fireplace fireplace fire fire- I place by which the th homes ate alO heated These 1 hese fires pour their I Quota oC of dirt and soot Into tile the theair theair air all day long lone and far Into the night O the soot Is car car- carded lied car lied ded oft off lI bi by the but when hen hena a y hea fog toe sets sels ses In the particles remain suspended In the atmo atmo- atmosphere atmosphere sphere phere shutting out the sun un en- en tirell and turn daylight Into dart ness neBS Clean fogs fosa could not d 1 this During a recent toe fog hete hee which lasted the better part of o three days s as most of or them then do tl ts estimated that there were cro flom to tons of or soot about In the all ali the London at atea ea Statistics I 11 1 hate ha e lIeen compiled sho showing Ing that thai Lon Lon- London Lon London don dOli s a annual soot fall amounts to something like tons Leer 1 I eri In the city Is affected more or less by the hean heat fogs foes and smoke waffle sometimes comes almost to a n standstill and sho shop dealus often orten close dose Ul up their stores because of oC lack of or business s During the foo fo season this white Inte alone It has been estimated that the tho loss to the community has bas been at least By a system of or e education pro pro- promoters promoters pro promoters of or the Idea or of o n a a cleaner fog hope eventually to do away away I with lIh the open smokey coal fire tiro fireplace place for tor heating These would be replaced by gas as I central heating healing or the use or of I stoves es burning anthracite Instead i o the th tu fuel rich itch has caused so much o of the trouble Ui Ur John S Owens who ho has a I I taken taen a leading pall pact In the smoke I abatement nt movement for tor more I than 30 ears cars saga sais s S that within 10 I or 16 1 1 years virtually all tho the open I firo places will Ill have been donean done dono away ay ay with Broadly speaking London Lundon will Ill then be bo dually n a smokeless ell cit and when hen tho llio fogs do come rome they will III at least leat be clean AA AAI I |