Show 15V A NEW METHOD MAKINO GAS IS WONDERFULLY AIM PLIrut0 Kllirrmrnl Kiln troi rerun I Ttinr llrallt lh Tint Irernonr Can lneol H Their I 1ramlro t Mllle ll 1 lif The ootiHilthlnR nnoiincem nt wo ninth at I recent meeting of the Moiety of CbI1 Indimrr that a powerful Illuminating con could b manufactured manufac-tured br n newly illacovrred method at I reduction of nearly onethird of I the preevnt cost of gas Should the dlMortry prove na practical 00 claimed ll will retoltttlonlie the rnnntifaciiirft of got ractorlaa are being erected and It la JxpHteil that gas mode by the now pror M will bo on aalr 1 In Ibo nmr future Tim new illuminant Ii I celled acetylene I It line IWo known to tlio chI for year but Ihe itlfflcutty of Us manufacture prevented them from ulllliInK I I I the lowest gnu In the terkm 1 of hydrocarbon loud Is I uaually maniifartnreil bv imnelnc n klreiiu nf hrilronn through a globe In j which thn clpctrle air In I produced between totes twnearlion nolni Ilul by this method the RM is I mao In mlnulo qnanlltlM only all rotten merely fo ciiwrltnenUI purpnec In Ihe laboratory labora-tory nnd lecture room It remains to T I < Wilson to discover R mean by which the Ran could be produced In talent nuanlllle for practical pnrl ate Mr Wilton illtcovrred the methail by mtro nnldent lie was working In Ma laboratory I wllh an el I > Irlo furnace rnilcavorlng to form an alloy of calcium from mnio of 1ls com liouniliwlirn ho noticed that I nilsturn of powdered lltno and nnlhrncllc under the Inllucnro of the electrical current fined down lo peaty nemlmptnlllc nines TliIn ublanr wa found not to lio the ono nuiiRlil and It Mlhon Into n bucket of wnlrr Thn alrllnll mult which followed Iti contact with Iho water Immediately attracted Mr Wllfona attention A Ran was glnn off nho o chlif characterlitlca rcmcd to 10 Its penetrating and dlMKrrrnbla odor On applying n light Mr Wllnon found that tho gas burned freely with n urnoky but Hero 1 I blt lumlnoit flame Iro Mr Wllnon bcconio Interested mid Immediately Im-mediately began hit linotlgutloni He repeated the experiment and fuiind that tlio mixture he had rut Into tho bucket wa n iiibntinre called calcic carbide conUlnlne forty part by weight of carbon At thli point Irof Venablc of the Unhrrtlty of North Carolina look up Ibo matter end It wa there that experiment looking lo Iho utilization of nrrlylrno us au Illu mlnant were first carried I out Kipcrl tnenl soon proved that a pound of this calcic I carbide would lrld G3 cubic feet of acetylene gal whlth Immediately gave I commercial Tihie and a company com-pany was formed to manufacture the 00105 on n large trale lrom an economic econom-ic point of view tkla Ra f0 I of great value for II hu been found that It can ho generated la a homo 0 U II I needed by n cry simple nppnralu ibis would undoubtedly b a boon 10 tomb llca llvliiR In lho country Icrhapn tho mol remarkable quality of the RM la I Iho font that It can be liquified by pre sure nnd put In colon that can bo tapped when HID cm la I iieoded 1 A cry shell delro hu boon nrratiKcd by which Ihn pressure of Ibo Ran will be regulated 1 while clinnrlnK from Ito llquined condition con-dition and then pnioi Into 1 tbo Mirlous ollfa lr pliwi Acellono ha I a moil ol powerful I Illiimlnant I It I diiiilltiR In tho hrlghtneu and ateadfuitneM of lla flame and when compared with the ordinary or-dinary roil cola IU iiiperlorlly it I wonderful won-derful Ihe latter niipearhiR dim and flickering Thcro fs I no dark center to the flame as la I tho cute with the ordinary or-dinary RBI Tho Illumlnant t I tome what peculiar slowing I from I popular popu-lar point of view In that It KIn only onehalf the heating power of tho ordinary or-dinary gnu I In I also Impoxlblo to use I In Iho ordinary burner for they are 10 largo but this apparent fault hnt been eaully overcome by constructing burner which admit n tmallcr amount of Rat I bee been proponed by promoter pro-moter of the enterprise to do away with Rat piping through tho streets I for they lay that lanipt run b made contalnlnn tho necouary chomlcali by which tho gas can bo generated and coniumcd on the upot Thli method I may bo a toliiton lo thin carlighting problem to which Ibo elevated nod ear fnco railroad aiithorltlet ha > o demoted icnildornblo attention of late Tho root of tlio Rat It I dependent upon boo coil of the cnrblile I It I Raid by the company which It about to plaeo tho ctrbldo on tho market that I tho tub Unco 1a I mid at ISO a tan the a0 can be furnlthed at CD canto per 1000 feet which will ghee llRht equal In amount to that Rhen by tho ordinary Illiiml noting Ra Of courto this would not rrnrctont tho actual coat ot the acetylene acety-lene which hat not at yet been derided de-rided I but tho coat It I our to bo only n mal proportion of the cost of tho ordinary or-dinary RBI H hat been found that when tho gus la 1 pawed through a tiilio heated lo rednena Hint beniol the nub InnCfl which la I tho foundation of the nnlllne clor la I produced Even this future oboe would servo to make the discovery ouo of ret value |