Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1931, Page 108

maoom OF AFGHANISTAN, i ICTURES A MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY LOCATED : L 3 ( ’ g IN THE HEART OF AsIA , BOUNDED IN B! BY INDIA (E), BALUCHISTAN (S), PERSIA (W), RUSSIA AND BOKHARA (N). AREA - 245,000 SQUARE MILES. POPULATION - 6,330,500 CAPITAL - KABUL (PoP. 150,000) CHIEF PRODULCTS -SNEEP,GRA\N,FRUHS.NUYfi ~AFGHANISTAN HAS NO RAILROADS AND NO BANKS . ALL TRANSPORTATION IS BY CAMELS AND PONIES ¢ o s 00 0.0 ¢ 7V / AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 19 ™CENTURY AL B — BALTIMORE WAS THE FIRST CITY STREETS AT NIGHT WERE ONLY DIMLY LIGNTED HERE AND THERE BY FLICKERING WHALE OIL LAMPS AND CANDLE LANTERNS . . . . STREET LIGHTING IN 1807. PARIS FOLLOWED> SUIT IN 1820.THE FIRST GAS STREET LIGHTS CREATED A SENSATION. CITY IN THE UNITED STATES TO LIGHT ITS STREETS WITH GAS LAMPS,-1816. -STRANGE TO 5AY, THERE WAS MUCH OPPOSITION TO THE ADOPTION OF GAS STREET LAMPS. SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT BRIGHTLY- LIGHTED> STREETS WOULP> ENCOURAGE CRIME-. THE OIL LAMP IN ALL LARGE COM\?\fiUHlTlES-/ 2 OTHERS PROTESTED THAT THE NEW ILLUMINATION WAS CONTRARY To THE DIWINE SCHEME OF THINGS WHICH HAD INTENDED NIGHT To BE ATIME OF DARKNESS. THE TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN THE LISE OF GAS FOR COOKING AND> LIGHTING WAS LARGELY DUE TO THE INVENTION OF THE BUNSEN BLUE FLAME BURNER (1859 Aup THE WELSBACH INCANDESCENT MANTLE (189 BeForE 1865 THE ONLY HOUSES ILLUMINATED WITH GAS WERE PUBLIC BUILDINGS, CHURCHES, THEATRES HOTELS STORES AND THE HOMES OF THE RICH . FoR MANY YEARS THE LAMP LIGHTER ,WITH LADDER AND TAPER, MAKING HIS ROUNDS AT THE CLOSE OF DAY, WAS A FAMILIAR .As'l.oas" AND BURNERS HAVE LONG BEEN USED TO HEAT i ROOMS AND MANY MODERN HOMES ARE EQUIPPED WITH GAS FURNACES. THE TOTAL ANNUAL GAS CONSUMPTION INTHE UNITED STATES 1S MORE THAN 2,000,000,000,000 CUBIC FEET. THERE ARE ALSO MORE THAN 5,000,000 CONSUMERS OF NATURAL GAS,WHICH IS CARRIED TO MANY CITIES THROUGH PIPE LINES FROM THE WELLS, SOMETIMES HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY. FOR MANY YEARS VAST QUANTI~ TIES OF NATURAL GAS WERE- WASTEP, BUT TODAY THE SUPPLY: 1S CAREFULLY CONSERVED. \ == To 8- CONTINUED>: ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OFALL THE GAS PRODUCED 1S USED FOR. COOKRING . THE OTHER THIRD IS USED FOR INDUSTRIAL ANP MISCELLANEOUS PURPOSES .ONLY ONE PERCENT IS USED FOR ILLUMINATION , « . o » Gi1As STOVES FOR COOKING FIRST APPEARED> AS EARLY AS 1835, BUT WERE NOT WIDELY USEP> UNTIL THE LATTER PART OF THE J9THCENTURY ', ' i s o0 s sid= DURING THE LAST TWENTY-EINE YEARS ELECTRICITY HAS TAKEN THE PLACE OF GAS FOR LIGHTING ,BUT GAS STILL HOLDS I'TS OWN FOR COORINGr, (Copyright, 1931, by J. Carroll Mansfield)