Show GAS vs ELECTRIO electricity IT Y the warfare between the tile hydrogen hydroelectric illuminator and the electric CI light continues continue s to he lie I waged on nil all 11 sides with the tile hallit determination that the tile collel old age resists the inroads of tit the ri radical cical youth in ill all branches bron che of or human pursuit and knowledge the millions and I nd i millions invested in the manufacture and use oflas arc i bans ba ns of resist ancen V piat the vIc electric etrie innovation ly in the tile present undeveloped aind tit hrotic I slate odthe latter As imi ui the conservative side ide displays a good deal inore tenacity city in slow going albion than in ti alio progressive america which eagerly grasps after everything new often reaping disappointment appointment ILs but more inore I often crowned with success zue cesi As the pocket ts about the most accessible opening for argument and elid conviction with a majority of people the defenders of the gas interests have gone to work and arranged some figures calculated to intimidate those who might lend a willing ear to the advocates of electricity some correspondence has been b ee it published in england on the relative cot coit of gas and tho the electric light to fit up a house with fifteen incandescent lamps would in volve outlay but fifteen gas lights would cost only xa to xa annually at as high per 1000 cubic feet thus the interest A alone on oil the electric lamps at per cent would amount to more wore than yearly but the lamps require renewal four times a year at lamp this would bring up the cost to 31 per year or four times as much as is gas electricity is thus so largely handicapped as to prohibit its gen cral use it is also stated that the telephone is similarly over weighted in england on oil the continent of europe drope a telephone can call bo be pur j ch chased m ed for half a guinea in ili eng land the original ori a inal price was 25 guini cas em now reduced to 15 it is claim i ed by those advocating a reform that the legislature legs lature never contemplated that such enormous profits would be e exacted and they abo als hope that in any illy alteration of the I patent laws provision may be made I i tor the prevention of such extortion |