The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1866, Page 5

,.NEW YORK asRALD, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1866~TRIPLE SHRET. Rector street church drunk- with bodies of greater density than iteelf, requires some | remote from the works to be reached by main, showin, as spotber house of wor, eamall ‘usual. Hi ALL ABOUT GAS. Jentebente wenounaneuee do the gua which | that there ls yet s large eld fer the fertlan imirodaction - ene, of Skipper | Cha street. hey among i8 an apparatus or pump on of the Archime- | of Pe ARS BS, ‘atthe corner of Fran! father dean screw, or a circular drum, with curved p! pro. this vast quantity of gas, requiring a space to hold it and Williem b sul sold joing to his v9 ceeding from the centre to the cireumference. o Ox- ual to the surface of 640 acres, and a cle 330 foot the. ‘Matthew's, in Walker and rms hauster is generally placed between the bydraulic main high, the four companice in the city of New York manu- t, Was at auction, the being 1B HOW if Is MADE AND DISTRIBUTED. and condenser. facture Carat reeng Eocene Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Boatoa . and the Lutherans who had ipped in it re- U " Now that the gas is made it must be stored in proper | and its vicinity, Baltimore, Cincins and Chicago, ag- moved to St street, This receptacles. These are called gasholders, and being al- gregating & population of nearly two million persons, was school ‘ways exposed to view, our lers will not require any | manul La pret being the half of the whole Steal | Minteoh sek taision Dinette io tgil beightysenteh ees oer poop lee lnale ieheriog raarone: ey | ewer. ieaeh. be ented’ tn tania ie aa Te} older ‘a largo cylinder, open worl w ained in soven cities. The Broome, St, } with firmness and ‘dignity, “Wesley, fon not.” The ITs BARLY HISTORY. iba dips into the water in the pri Tap over which nn other is produced in 428 works, aud is pn it | determ’ tone convinced the child. He ded. The gas passes from the purifiers h | in 428 cities and vil whose populations range but ined tone of the father Pp iy pe therans was sa) imself into his what jg called an inlebp:pe into the cistern and up above | from 2,000 to Ii persons—tin the aggregate about of that he: hh bi 000 if the water I } tts outlet is effected igh another pipe in the same way. The orifices of the two pipes above the surface of the water thus hermetically seals up the gas within the holder, and its escape is elected 4,200,000, The price of gas per one thousand cubic feet in twenty. five of the largest cities, including the government tax, is an follows :>— GAS COMPANIE! STATISTICS OF erected on Sixth avenue, corner of Fifteenth streot; enly through the outlet pt Now York, av: +83 16 $375 ‘Shene are in the city other Lutheran congregations.” Ta leseswucks hesing ere then énbganistben sere [FRc enn Ie 315 pousuadeiner a is rod what is termed a valve room, with an appara- 3 60 230 : “The Christion Charc! conmampticn, wh . COAL GAS VERSUS PETROLEUM GAS, | tus by which the engineer or superintendent can see at 3 60 FH fm 1887 a sect calling themselves “Christians” had a jealey arms father. ®@ glance what gas goes into each holder, The pressure 330 s REGTATIONS, SINGING AND MEDALS. Tequisite to raise one of these holders is equivalent to 3 33 400 eeagregation in Greene street, from which they removed Radon gee CSET recited pa? well. aes were wane five cag water in a tube. roa 3 80 3 | teenth than | distri n were informed ready for distrib: thas ii 5 60 tu street, and leas) thane your ago num: | 340 Broadway all chilgren who did. bot, have medals and Superior Brill large chien to travel teores 3f miles batore it reaches the ret 5 00 -bered two hundred and Sfty members, who'now worship ‘the Tem : japerior Brilliamey | quict apartmonts of consumers, end whose the pipes aro 135 3% fm a new church on Twenty-eighth street, near Broad- f the Latt fia in undulating streets a regulator of ure be- 3 60 425 They take the Redeemer as the ‘foundation of @ ere comes necessary, 80 that those on elevated ground would 333 3 church, believe only in the Bible ag an article of not get a plethora of gas, and those in low spots scarcely 10 or reject all ceremonies Ge oS immersion at } The annive: exercises of the American Baptist ue ae. ae. any. To remedy this and serve all customers alike it is $3 70 por 1,000 cubic foot, In the re- for thels donomtuasion ibe term “Christians” and | alety, American’ Splat Historia! some. eet Inture saaholder, with balenco ‘weight, and witha 1,000 cubic feats the lowest price being $3 60 ¥ 4 re older, w it Ms ; of their churches the “Christian Church.” When | Forelgn Bible Society, and American Bapust ‘Union, will | The complaints against gas companies, owing to the | inlet end'en outlet eae the aaa navn suspended - pes rr origlbogeterag ¥ ‘we were describing the of the cornerstone of | be held in Boston thi ran eave a te the only Ch _— poy commencing on May 17, and | miserable light they furnish, with the bad fecling Feng ay a iy Pt pain nee Sostmision:9¢ CAPITAL INVESTED IN GAS COMPANIRS. — ‘@bureh in the city, New York is in # bad way.” ‘Th reises of the American Bible Union | *é*inst them manifested all over the country, seem 0 | complished by the pision, which is 60 constructed that it | The capital employed in gas making in the United | = call forth an investigation of the subject of gas making. Mrorks on the principle of a bellows valve, shutting the fo hie a ° m Churches, ‘There is, perhaps, less knowledge upon this subject, | inlet pipe partially when the pressure ts tho strongest, hat Eaegaty tore te ead a ‘The Moravians, who are termed “United Brethren,” ‘among the great mass of people that use gas, than upon hago BY admitted a _ pone pepe 236,000 Missinwippl arrived in this city in November, 1741, with Count Zin- any branch of the useful aris; consequently but few are | uniform pressure. fo keep up this pressure pore sendorf, and the first Moravian sermon preached here ry really aware of the art of making gas, or how gradual a ma cue oom, gnome, i 2 103,250 wee delivered in that year. In 176) shey purchased two ter, New York tn Hav gow. 5 | has been ite progress into socioty. It is not our purpose | To now vork dealiche Catoneny, ing {2 784,900 Jota on Fulton street, then called Fair street, and erected | D. D., Of the Madison’ Unversity; the Hon’ | to refer to the opposition #t had to encounter, but to | part ot” cur own sits, Koen? an? ‘all day at pressure of 921,630 ‘@ frame church, which was opened in. the month of tone te LL.D., Worcester, Masa ; and the Rev. B.T. | mark its progress, especially in our own country. seven-tenths to meet the large day consumption, while ease. ‘Jane, 1762. They had been before thie subjected to per. | Welch, D. ‘Tho machinery for ite manufacture, now used in our | ye? en companies weldom Lave Drei OTee | Maryland s....+ 810,000 Secution. One of their ministers was brought before the Religious Intelligence. largest works, bear about the same comparison to that ‘and maintained to meet the largest demands for | District Columbia 600,000 mayor. Noother but that of preaching the Gos- SERVICES TO-DAY. constructed for Mr, Murdock, who was the first to prac- which is {rom eight to twelve o'clock im the winter, mem ts <8 prope’ ‘Belte bie own way could be advanced against the Mors- | At the Chapel of the Holy ‘Trinity, in Eighty-fourth | tioally apply gaa to the purposes of illumination, as a | Ane, “pr yOur ita reduced ag the consumption dine | oath Carolina ., 787,800 “because he was a Vi Happy and enlightened | eet, near Fourth avenue, there will be services mora- | steam engine made in Fulton’s time compares with one | day and night, to rogulate tho flow of gas into tho 560,150 ys Sia | we are Meek ‘not enjoy them now, | ing and evening, Rev. Wm. Dymond officiating. Duilt at the present day. mains. To guard ocatust any ‘derelietion the waish- > through the State of | The first servieo of the Park Presbyterian church will | All animal and vegetable substances, when subjected | MCD, ® register is placed im the offloo, recording cor- 540'000 R ith ° te of the Srrrire rere Tyee gid minatr ‘Lf | be at Miller's Hall, corner of Third avenue and Kighty- | to host, will yield an wriform fluid that may be con- re eter ionaees peppy Rs Seeareg. with oper nie ‘ impression at the time was. these - | sixth street, this morning. There will be preaching at | verted into illuminating gas. Chemical experiments | 82d revolves by clockwork, Against it rests the point PROFITS. were French spies, but it does pot that Mr. | half-past ten by Rev. T, Ralston Smith, have shown that gas can be made from water by sepa- | °F pa) bear glean gn bi Bel et The dividends on the nominal capital of th 0 gts in ns, 4 or fall companies are the only means Rev. @. L. Demarest will lecture this evening at the ae Gon pier acquaintance with the coat of Universalist church in Second avenue, corner of Eleventh street, Subject—‘The Garden of Eden; the Judgment ‘and the Promise.” rating the hydrogen, but without any practical results, ‘The only article extensively used for the production of gas ts bitaminous coal, although rosin and petroleum oil make a beautiful gas; the former having been used to ing line, the rate at which the gas has been passing into the street pipes during the twenty-four hours. ‘The largost street main used is about thirty inches in diameter and run down to three inches. Where the = have been laid a long time and imperfectly cast the by leakage in distribution often reaches fifteen fits of Ras companies. f companies und divi- prea ng gas, to arrive at tl “ fe submit the following tal Number of Churches in Now York. 2m 1844 the number of churches in this city was:— “The Right of Sufrage from God, and the Guilt and | some extent, while the latter is just being introduced. bd bs Peril of Withholding it,”’w tho subject of a sermon to bo | A great difference exists in the quality of coals neces- | fontcr she fae Hored, 1a our owm city the seotage, Wf | New Hampshire ei preached at the Church of the Puritans, Union square, | sary to produce economically a good gas. The soft, 7 Massachusetts . 4.00 by Rev. George B. Cheever, this evening. fatty, caking coals contain a larger per centage of vola- | lesser number of miles of street pipes. There are about | Rhode Island 7.20 ‘he Right Rov. Chariee P. Mclvane, D. D., Dihop of| wie matter ‘and laa coke than tho eplint and canne, | fu hundred wien of teat mane, id op, Maahatinn ie the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ohio, will preach this | while the latter possesses richer lighting matter, An- | and sev nty-five, which takes in Germantown, the city 102 morning at the usual hour of service in the Church of | other kind, the Newcastle, and some of the better de- | Owning the gas works supplying that city = a 1 the Messian, Brooklyn, scriptions of Western, seems to combine the beat quall- | 4,7" Kinds of valves are used in gas works the by- +2 , located witl ks, acting p 738 There will be Divine service in the Swedish language | ties tor gas stock. The difference in weight and bulk | plo of interposing such a column of water iu position and 10.00 at the Lutheran Church of Gustavus Adolphus, 91 East | between a ton of coal and its equivalent in petroleum is een Sint ane gas is insapeblons ms ape 10.00 Twenty-second street, this morning, the Rev. J.-F. | an important item to gat works that are remote from | $04 ‘he slide or spring valve, which shuts off the sup , 4 . he mains while undergoing repairs or in case te i 3 O’Duvell officiating. - ' coal fields—thus: 400 pounds of petroleum (about sixty | of accident. kia Fouth, Carolan: moo Our readora may have noticed on the curb stone a cast 11.60 At the South Baptist church in West Twenty-fifth street, near Eighth avenue, Rev. Samuel J.: Knapp, the gallons) will make as many cubic feet of gas ax 2,240 Georgia. . pounds of the best coal, of iron plate, letta “Gas Drip.’ The explanation is, that all the impurities are not out of the gas when it leaves | New Orleans. etce 228s pastor, will preach morning and evening. Owing to impurities in coai gas, such as sulphur and | the purifier, and it is liable to some slight condensation. | Tennessee . Rev. Dr. Gallaudet will preach at half-past seven | ammonia, great caro is required in tho selection and | Thia provision is mado to allow the drippings to , oft | Kentucky. . o'clock and haif-past ten o'slock in tho morping, ‘and | mixture of coals for the retorts, The mean average re- | OY ney would bo clogged im time. ee ee ee lean O00 ‘will hold a service for deaf mutes at three o’clock in the | gults of the English gas works show that the yield of con! PTION OF @ Indiana... 7KO afternoon in St. Ann's Free Church in Eighteenth street, | gas per ton of 2,240 pounds of various kinds of coal bid ump need supposed yl ged — Cae eyed ioe ay s to or lane, and only awaits the service pipe to the ichigan 10 00 aca da open + D, Eagan will preach at the | mixed to be from 6,600 to 9,800 cubic feet, although ex- | ‘wetting or business place of every consumer, Wisconsin , 6.65 ‘i periments with some of the better descriptions of coal | humble cottage of five lights, using but Att; lowa 475 Lag’ ights, using y Rev. Edward A. Washburne, D. D., will proaeh this It is not pro. | por night, to the magnificent hatel of two St 600 show a yield as high as 14,400 cubic fect. bable that our own companies, using several varieties of American, Nova Scotia and English coals, the lattor transported long distances at a high cost, are as 4 415 doubtlem will be found ‘ the whole number that pay If we take off ten per cent of the gas HetiHe Hb s pest Batten nteltcs evening before the St. James Association, at Christ Church, corner of Firth avenue and Thirty-fifth street. At the Freewill Baptist church in Seventoenth stroet Rev. C. C. Goss will preach morning and evening. urners, consuming twenty-four thousand enbi To measure out in required quantities to so numerous a class of customs tall inay be satisled, and at the same time to arrive at tho correct amount of gus of each within a given time, would scom almost impossible; as below the acy regular dividends produced by the 434 separate companies in 462 gas Tt will be seen from the above return that in the year There will be preaching at half-past ten in the morn- | fastidious as the English companies, consequently , 7 be fora storekeeper, having a mo- | works aa th © los in distribution, they will pet ere wars on Bundrog ana sony couchony a | tg udm hls ees ho eon iw Mara | Nout aerge ruin ih print op mcd | Riya gus nets swt tne” "Eats | Ratt tli aaa a » than provements introduced done by a simple coutrivance called the meter, of which | per one thousand cuble feet ax the average for two-thirds, ington avenue, by Rev. &. A. Corey, D. D. pes agar ne aia mpphaeespsaa my Einds, the wet and dry. The former wen- | and 96 72 pov one thounand cable fast as the average for ‘and seventy-four—being an indrease in twenty- ‘Owe years of no less than eighty-four churches, late years for carbonizing it, By this means some com- panies, like the Jersey City, are enabled to obtain full twenty per cemt more gas from aton of the same coal ‘Iwo sermons to the young will be preached by Rev. Dr. W im his church on Forty-second be- tween Seventh and Eighth avenues, Services will com- closed in a emall case made of rheet iron, It acta by & val werned by a ball float, When the water is kept up im the tmeter the valve continuon to be rained; the gua one third, we bave the enormous sum in grom je from ~ alone of $36,360,000. In addition to -this eum there eannot Nk received, for surplus co Churches tn Brooklyn. ‘The number of churches now in Brooklyn is‘one hun. | Mence at hali-past ten A. M., and half-past seven P. M. then passes through from the service pipe intoachamber, | gold and the refuse material from — purifica red and soventy-cight, divided as clan seeytitl Rev. Halsey W. Knapp will this morning at | 4D others. From % careful estimate we find the | wherein a wheel or screw is turned by its passage, tho | tion, Jens than $1,340,000 more, making tho grom e the Pligrim Baptist church, on third street, west | &verago yield at tho works in most of our large cities to | turning of which acta upon the brass works of the meter | receipts, exclusive of the rental of meters, ctly the | $37,000,000. The dividends of two handred and twenty @ighteen; Congregational, fifteen; Hebrew, three; Luthe- vam, six, Mothodist Episcopal, twenty-eight; do. colored, clock on the top of the case, and registers of Righth avenue. quantity of gas consumed or henking out of the be eight thousand eight hundred cubic fect of gas from pipes on | four companies just enumerated amounted last yen In the Memortal church, in Hammond stroei, corner of | the ton (2,240 pounds) of coal. x; Methodist Primitive, one; Methodist Protestant, four; | Waverley place, Rev. W. T. Tracy ae at eo oomee oa pein OA NTN ey spp og be rece tan estbabe of the § CO BtT, oat ing: waered wy fer " Presbyterian, twenty-one; Protestant Episcopal, twenty- | 100 A.M., and at half-past three P.M., and Rev. E. ¥. ° ne, the gas Working Un alieroals vatves, and | from whieh'we bare wo tecrns, IC these two bonsred After the coal is broken up to a uniform size, mixed and dried, it is ready for the retorts. These are now usually of clay, but were formerly made of iron, shaped like the letter D, and from four to wixteen feet Remington in the evening. Alecturo for the Jews will be delivered by Rev. Dr. Beach, at a quarter before eight this evening, in the large hall, corner of Thirty-fourth street and Eighth avenue. There will be servicos this morning al ening in tho $1,500,000 in dividends, equal twenty-four, the total amount of ed and thirty-four gas companies wingle your. the same way; and by knowin nder, the clockwork arrangem: and eight companies to the two hundred dividends of tour hy would be $4,540,000 The cost of making gas varier snaterially in different moving # piston i eapacity of the attached and th pasted through the n is moat used, The station five; Reformed Dutch, fifteen; Catholic, twenty-one; Gaiversalist, four; miscellaneous, eleven, Brooklyn has mot been inaptly*called the “City of Churches.” The ‘visor may from a street corner get a view of no ter is Joss than three or four ecclesiastical structures withina | Pee Church of the Redemption, in Fourteenth street, | 1ong and twelve to twenty inches wide. In large work® | wheels the Ka foregoing, but in other respects | rections of the Union, depending upon the distance from fow minutes’ walk of each other. Several of the denom- | between Third and Fourth avenues, Sermon this even- | the number will vary from two hundred to one thousand | {# much r, Belng merely provided at the back with | such coal elds in this country a# are xuitable for m: {mations have not churches enough; and this remark is | ing by Kev. J, Cotton Smith, rector of the Chureh of an Jot pipe for the gas, both of which opens | ing gas and the seaboard for foreign coala The in each retort house, and are set in line in the omntre of the house, back to back, the framework and divisions extending from ono end to the other, The “ovens” are of brick, constructed one above another and divided off into ‘benches,’ each bench or division accommo. dating from five to fifteen retorts, which can be set in and drawn out at pleasure, The charging or filling these retorts has to be done rapidly and ekilfally by shifte of men on duty eight hours each daring the twenty-four. A peculiar shovel or keoop, holding from 100 to 110 pounds of oval, # used, #0 that when the end of the retort i opened and the coke drawn out, they may be ran into the retort and emptied and tho door tightly closed up, occupying for the bench from 8 to 16 minutes, according to the number it hax Large gas works will employ a# many a# 2,000 revorte in the shortest days, and from one to two hundred men in each of the retort houses, The volatile matter being extracted from the coal in passed up from the retorts through tubes or pipes, called stand pipes, Into the hydraulic main, generally of a tuba lar form, running the whole length of the retort houye cont of gas coals in the yards of keveral of our largest works in twolve cities for the past reason was $11 30 per ton of 2,240 pounds. One ton of good coal will ytold from 8,000 to 9,000 cubic feet of gax from the purifiers Taking 8,600 cubic feet ax tho basis of production, and adding $4 70 as the cost of labor and the lime used {n its purification, we have aa a Xitate roault $16 aa the cont of the’ materials fe ing 8,500 cuble fowt of gas, or $1 88 per 1,000. would amount to $15,825,753 for the whole production of the 452 works, leavin: net profita $18,176,517; from which deduct dividends declared and estimated $4,690,000, and we urplas of $13,616,317, half of which ‘would be by repairs Wo stroet mains and services, alaries id el incidental expenses, government , gf about $4,900,000 of profits held in ro. serve, equal 10 about thirteen per cent of the capital invest Specially applicable to the Catholics of New York, and of Brooklyn. We hi iton the best authority one-half of the Catholics of New York do not go to was, simply for the reason that they have not anything Mike adequate church accommodation, THE ANNIVERSARIES. Second Annual Mee of the American Temperance Alliance at Cooper Insti- tute—Betwe: Four id Five Thou- sand Children Present. ‘The second annual meeting of the American Temper- @nce Alliance took place at Cooper Institute yesterday afternoon. Between four and five thousand children ‘Weve present. The hour having arrived, the children Began to be restless; the boys commencing to whistle and stamp. .Upon this the Managing Secretary, Mr. J. Reveil, advanced to the front of the platform and called attention to the programme, in which was a re- at once into the meter case, Iti pro gauges, by which the height ot the water can always be adjusted to a proper level. The shaftof the meter wheel carries w pion which forms the first of the train of giving motion to the hand diaix The ins Works in this city will meay re 60,000 oF 1,600,000 in twenty four mer of eubic test of the Ascension. At the Christian church in Twenty eighth street, near Broadway, Rev. Urban C, Brewer will preach morning and evening. Subject of the evening discourke—" Tho World on Fire.” Rev. Edward 0. Flagg, the rector, will preach in the morning, and Rev. Wm. H. Milburn, the blind preacher, an the evening, at the Church of the Resurrection, in Thir- ty-Gfth street, near Sixth ayenui The annual Baccalaureate sermon, before the graduating class of Columbia College Law School, will be preached by Rey. Morgan Dix, D. D., in Trinity chapol, 15 West Twenty-fifth street, this evening, at half-past seven o'clock. At the John street Methodist Episcopal church there will be preaching to-day at half-past ten A. M. by Rev T. H. Hildreth, and at a quarter to eight P.M. by Rev. Mr. Du Puy. Beats free, Strangers are cordially invited to attend. Bishop Snow wili preach in University Building, Wash- ington square, at three o'cloek this afternoon, on ‘The Coming Couflagration of the World.” “ManlyC ourage”” is the subject of @ discourse to be delivered by Rev. Peter Stryker, in the Thirty-fourth street Dutch chureh this evening. Rev. Tresham D. Grogg, D. D., will preach before the cube feet of gas per hours, The diife cas, an shown by t minute doseription, th and boliauey of comparison with another. The nla ning the apparatus is painted ome light it measure rlor of the room black, in order to shut out the ‘outside ‘The apparate ne hundred ine! ured of 1, and @ Kperim © ty grains of tion, sinee Jose than petite, It becom: a and twen| hundred per hour, is at the way upon the top whieh is {the population enjoy a tant question with con whether the pric 488 throughout try will not bear a consi e reduction, and for the capital invested quite as profitable resulta as could be obtained by its employment in other branch of businens, It may be true that way between gas and cal ea easily ween 0 i Bolemaines W. a one ‘The hydraulic main is made in sections of eas or | this clear # appears, until, at acertan point, both | shown, while, on the other hand, others fa Dade. Fenians. Grandeur of Solemnized Worshi", and the Importance of ” y mdes of the yaper will look alike, the light being | enabling mort of the large companies to aecow 4 peg ite National Development.” AU eight o'clock in the | wrought iron, and Joined gether at tho flanges with | 100 Ot,tHe maker will Jook tlw, the proce Ravenna oy athe gy > Radha ~ Thee evening Rev. Charles B. Smyth will preach at the same | holy and nute, and mado Light by cement, and * par twa few has been the means of conc the slide rents, which we will arsume to be nev the power of the light from the five f sperm candles This i# London several of the in keeping the ituminating ximum stand: of such corporatous into the bands of favored Indiv uale. PRTKOLEUM GAS AND COAL. GA® CONTRASTED. In referring to any article of which peyeine wa component part, the first inquiry that will waggoat itaelf eaten thy barner is equal to reven called the candle test. I vompanies pride themael tially filled with water, through which the gas passes, receiving ite first washing, That which remains in the retort in the form of casbon is called coke, and is highly erteemed an an article of fuel In ite transformation A sermon will be preached on “The Relation of the Irish Race to the Future and Fall Development of the ‘Obristian: at 100 Went Pwenty-fourth rtreet, near Sixth avenue, thie evening, by the Rev. Tresham D. Gregg, D. D., of Dublin. uch pride does wm th ie from coal to coke the bulk is increased and weight di h | to the masses Of the peuple 'e, Is there anything exph Rev. Stephen BL Jr., will preach a sermon Be- vis country, of we should bave | in the gas? Io reply to thin we are unable lo disewver fore the Young Fay Testy Association of this city | Mmished; for instance, the average weight of one the gas from the | a: differeuee from coal gas, All gases Will explode when ined and brought in contart with fire. The large Amount of carbon present in petroloom was prevents the absorption of oxygen as fast as in com! x whieh wof « Presbyteran church thie even- | bushel of coal is sixty-two pounds; after carbonization ite Dulk will be one to one and half bushels, while the ing. of inating wilt bo held at Dodworth Halt, | weight of the coke will not be more than ‘hirty-tive or ainly a great difference in the power of light from | jightor density, cousaquently it is really less dangerous favorite will lecture at past 6 Coke to all gas Companies constitutes x q mother uncertainty with t ie im, oe gan ie The cok all there in a differences in | Amott ih the publi if th ing are ten A, M. and balf-past seven P. M. Conference at one of the great attractions coal has for the manufacture | MOUther Way. which the public generaily do pot under. | made in the hense, there are any offeasive te, entire absence from all intoxicating drinks | o'clock. The public are stand. Assuming the #pecitir gravity of the seven can- | odors arising from it. From our investivations we shonid been brought before the religious public in various Of uminating gar, and it may be said '# the great ob- | die gue to be 4 Will past out of the jot imtoeon | think i might be generated in a parlor without being ob- end echoola, New societies have besa ftacle pretroleum har to contend with in its efforts to | *umption 68.33 per cent faster than the fourteen candie tionable, The purifying process in coal gas requiri tracts distributed and hundreds signed the supplant coal, it not only supplies them with fuel for | 4 "hor? gravity 7.97. The gas of @ light | hydrate of lime, ix mainly to remove the sulphur, ‘which Fn lg bave ben pe te the juveniles as an density which our coal companies are making in- | does not exist in any quantities in pecroieum. Petro to thelr Keeping the pledge. Situations for heating their retorts, but the surplus if @ source of in- | creases the amount of the gas bille of consumers, from | jeam works, owing @ thelr simplicity, require lens @everal young men have secured and successful come to large companies, our four city companies selling | ‘bi# cause, from 40 to 60 per cont, without giving them | rk iil than coal gas works, both in their construction and caitdres, smperancs, misterares ‘have, ebeeed sa may on three and half milion of bushols of coke i | {Yaqg™ Muh Compared Wi Weis IS from 180 | apres ag works not only room now oceapied forthe with results among the seamen. The new law & mingle year, FROGREAS OF Gas INTO ROCIRTY. ftorage Of coal and line, and with purifiers, Ae, can be ing the sale of strong drinks, expecially on Su n- We here suppose that the gaa i made and raved. But It is only necessary to £9 back to the days of William | dpensed with, but only about one-quarter of the men at and the concentration of temperance infiuence, it ie by no meann fit to be used in its t av Mardoch, @ resident of Cornwall, Kngland, who imen- | the furnaces and in the yard will Be required—all tending lished in the formation of the new society, aro 7 Prewent condition. | titied to the merit of being the fest to introduce in a | tw cheapen the gas ‘the right direction, and ‘we pray that peace Having yet to be cleansed from tar and ammonia, |t \* | practical manner artificial gax to the purposes of illumi What is claimed for petroleum gan te — First, superior 2 may atiend ai) efforts to remove a ae Jed off through pipes into the wash vessel, which is an ya — yyy at a a oneae sd — of ~~ S ond <a © consniners ; openi: v1 jing belin, oulton ‘att, in Cornwall, apom the occasion of the | third, mee Ah tol odors; hi, te adaptation ass raseack ng the chareh: ron tanks connecting with the hydrautic main and con- | foperal iliumination for the Peace of Amiens, in 1902, | fuel to ealinary purposer denser, and is completely surrounded with water; that i, | although be actually In order that our readers may know the ghtod his own house at Redrath Brncipal anti with gas as far back ae 1 rom 1802 1806 the only | cles that supply illuminating gas, we give below several Hi! i uf H) <p for their kindness in eoing, im its passage through the wash vornel it i# constant gentlemen of the press for notices of meetings, and for, he in contact with water until Mt teaches the can, | Progress made was iniiebting upall the shopeof obo and | that have been used as gas Hock, with their relative pro- @o ministers and who have kindly given loo- tw. introducing Mt inte some of the cotton mille at Map- | duct of gas fares free of all our attention partice. | shell Geprer. This apparatus consinte of aserien of upright | chester In 1808 all England became aroused in the | (ne pound of coal will yield 42 cable font of gas, one davly to the young we intend ly to labor on, | *e Piper, connected with each other at the top and bottom | Pew Me and Mr. Murdoch found « host of competitors. | poand of reain will yield 10 cuble feet of gas, one pound ——— our success in the work is sure.’’ The opera. A . by somi-cire ular ede the to flow free In 1807 Se pte ee ha of tar will yield 12 cubic feet of gas, one pound of piteh one of the society will be given in detail in the general | %. Thomas’ Free chapel, y Pipes, admitéing the gas to flow freely | became engaged in the construction f gas works in Gif | will yield 10 cubic fert of gar, one pound of tallow will veport ana through them to increase the cooling effect. In thin way | ferent parte of Engiaud, with some improvementa upon | yield 15 cubic feet o (fs) one pound of word, 6 cab r Sauuecem’ the ammonia is disengaged from the gas, and, having an Mr Murdoch's plan, 49 that ia 1808 the maznes connected Feet of gas: ne pea of patroloam, 21 cubic Poet of gus @ated iaccene Gn: pam your. With qar entorprines became #7 numerous, and inventions | Ag we said before, coal ie really the only artirle which — sah afBnity for water, the process is by no means dificult, | Muiupiied so fast, shap it ie kinpessible to follow them ia | \e row exteunvely werd im the snamute care of iiiaos producing what is called ammoniacal liquor sh one | detail. nating gar, tod this te Wenere it furniehee the In 1800 the chartered Gaslight Company of London was formed, for the poi ‘ot | @hting | anton sod Westminster. In 1515 Wentuinster bridge was lighted for the first time. St. James" Park was the scone 2 beantiful exhibition of Nighting in 1816, when the allied Sovereigns visited Prodan. ands rab atle. mination took place ia commemoration of peate of Europe. In 1816 the Gatidhall was lighted with gaa, In the following year it was introduced \nto Baltimowe , in 1817 into Philadelphia: in 1822 into Boston, and in 1826 into New York, when the New York Ganlight Company ®ax This company for many yeare fuel necemary for ite distillation Mxberto gus companion have selel on thie prigciple to atopt uch articles above @numerntod as can nently supplied for gas At al! times will (nware a Balance on hand in the treasury... .............. THE ADDRERSES. Major J. B. Manwin remarked that of alithe anniver- @ary meetings this taking hold of the children was the most important Educate the boys and girls in aad recitation, in moral and religious teachings, and this great country will take care of iwelf, How we can re- ‘construct the South is an important thousand cubic feet of gan washed produces about @ Jon of thie material, which, with the tar, finds « market At the chemical and fertilizing factories ‘The gas at this stage is only washed and cleansed. The next probess is to pass it through the porifiers, princ pally for the purpose of reméving the sulphur still re mainining in it. The purifier i# an iron box or tank, con taining several ters of trays, with mere bottoms, separate! from each other by @ projection om the inside of the b ation of works can be relied upow. Prior We the prodee on of petroleum im euch vast quanlitier, coal wae the only article that Would inset theet requirements in fart, At Trinity chapel the sew choir of men and boys surplices now occupy the choir seats, which tpesatly arranged i= Proper order on either wid chancel—the boys being in front, the mn singers in the and we Ce the canopies, next to the a platform. The cho! painter painted a picture of a beautiful child Years used rorin extensive io on of ewe = Io rar be ouw the counterpart. of thie innocent, ladghing | Mzwne boa end four men, who have been Sean, Se tleh ct Gine aye to canons peweerea tes | ial Gay Memteatin’ Wat Compuny whe elaneved. | Sebccek teas saaate eb ecaes eberub clothed in rags and filth, with every semblance slightly dampened. The gas is introd; at the bottom | At that Ging there were but four gas works in the United 1t i only within « brief peret that a @red gas from Rumanity dietgured by rum. The painter thought of the of the tank, and is forced upward through the lime, | Staves, From 1890 to 1840 the number was only io- | crude ‘oll has teen traught before the public chtid and wi to paint the coun! whieh seizes the particles of saipher, and turning oot | creased ten. At the present time there are ia— Ite powers of light seem to i> requiated by the supe be permission of the ragged, drunken the as pure an the ication of chemistry to the | Maipe....... u or rior gravity of the gas, beine more (nan double the den. ereature to be allowed a Permiasion | arte ban been able to do it, The Fone aod of gas | New Hampebire sity of ordinary con) gas--one to eand feet which is of the unfortunate it In large cities: one of the chief otjections w | Vermont....... not osly ‘a lominowit Wat in sine of Same, ual (9 three theanheube feet of gee from coal ot more, with ti? ehperimente made by ir. esl atten thet be SeandS¥ec-o th Btw feet Broth Up Wormer at the rate of two eatie an of 0.1% and at the burner of 0.2, ot ol candies, alt. borne, re per tear, 1 fats prespure of 09 burner, Sa | the mame he same » 2 | burner, meter and 06 at « 1 | the borne, cantion, showing thet the in. en @ | tenetty 12 uenee greeter anether at war , the 2 | made by panting Vm lost pas but save Slicnee and be | the reewlt wand candion ae s jhe baw the plegen reat of the habitants of three wateh ham o> thas he may eep it preserve her fee | cathe competed we ot Siete ts = |i or Rome they oe canee, tod ia mode bis , ww two | three tees ao Wwe 5 ton was increased in the ratio of three to five, so that with five feet consumption the petroleum gas must estimated as equivalent to thirty-six candies, These important facts to gas consumers; since, for ordi burning, two cubic fect of petroleum gas give a light 1. times greater than five cubic feet of coal gas, it follows that at the same price per one thousand cubic feet the expense of the new light will be ouly one-fourth of that of the gas in common use. In point of economy the contrast is easily made by taking the minimum yiold of gas from one gallon of crude wo be oul is would ro- quire six and two-thirds g: 8 for 1,000 cubic feet, coat- ing, for ofl (at twenty-six conta per gallon), labor and fuel, and nehing sale of tho barrel, not exceeding $1.90 per 1,000 cubic feet, which is about the average cost of Producing coal gas in large citios in 1865, But when we consider that the petroleum pos, folly canal to 3,000 cubic feet of that produced coal in ordinary con- sumption, we camnot fail 40 be impreswed that to con. sumers tho new light presents eonsiderations of the high eet importance, Taking the other Not see how the be are ido of the question into view, we can- material for making gus moot wath favor with the coal gas compantes, for in every city or fown the business is a monopoly; that is, there is no competition. Thus, a city or town with 6,000 inhabi fants (and there are 100 in our list of gas works) will gonerally have upon an 200 consumers, requir. Ing about 10,000 cable ‘as per aight, or 3,650,000 foot per annum, and o 4 that the ‘gas company 's pay for ‘3,000,000 cutne f four dollars por 1,000, Brom receipts from wales of gas will be $12,000, Now unles# the company can raise its price to $13 per 1,000 cuble feet—which im just as ol for the consumer, being, a4 we said be in the ratio of one to three—it must mect with general opposition, This tea aubject, however, on which gax consumers will hy much to say when the light is more generally imtro- duced. The following list shows some of tho large Woe have taken the averag: of gas as used through burners displaying flame in order to show the saving por auuuin in money by using petroleum gas: — >| Goal Prim) 2 ga) Gaus Gar | = a BMA weeay “2 000 965} 1,000] $3 00/810, * 400) 3 50, Fartories: 900) 400) Saloons... 400 Morning papers) 9 50) Stores, w'sal, 350) Stores, retail 350 3 5a 360) 400 360 3 60) | 4 | 104 “| « dire Street lamps . .'3,800!15,000'50 00:750,000' 525 000! 225000 beence of offe The al dors it joption would uiminer months to that In the shortest days of winter. SUPPLY OF PErROLEUM, Professor Hayes, Chair of thé Committee of the United States Revenue Commission, states in his report that there are 197 ft in Venango county, Vonnnyl- Vania, having on ther 3,069 wells, of this number 741 were producing and if worked would yie per day. Of the 197 farms there are #ix wells on Pithole Crock that averige 140 barrels per day. The othor fifty five farme have 671 producing wells upom them that yield an average of 16 2-3 barrels per day to oneh well Those estimates, admitting Ubat 405 wells with the cape city of tive bagrels each day, would ageregate a daily sup. ply of 12,6%2 barrels, would Mtl leave 186% wellm, & portion of which ‘could be worked if suMcient inducements were offered. On the subject of m mull ciency of sapply for gas making we will lake the cities of New York and Portlant to show the relative con sumption of gas between large and small cities One, with a tion of 1,000,000, come about 1,600,000,000 cuble feet of gas annually, while the other, With 28,000 inhabitants, © 04 25,000,000, enbte foet The former has about 60,090 « pers aud the latter about 2,000, both exclusive of street tanya The ave rage shows on@ gas consumer WH every sixtern of the Palation; in Portlandof one copsnmer in every neven, he average would be one in every eleven and a half of the population. As we have befure mentioned, the an nual production of coal gas for 1863 ty estitnated at 10,090,000,000 enbic feet, by 492 cong and by am. timating the valuo of the gat from petroleum with that from coal as three to one, It follows Uhat If all the works Wore to ignore coal and adopt petroleum 4,850,509, 309 cubic feet would suffice to produce the ame a nt of light, This would absort 650,000 barrels of crude oil Now, estimating the population of the United states to be 34,000,000 at the preeent tim, the qavatity of petro loum gas necewary to sapply this nam ver of Innalyitante would be 14,280,000,000 cubic feet, requiring 2.950.000 barreis—in the former case using 1,800. barrel® por a and in the latter 6,600. Of the permanent supply of oll there can be no doubt, since (he estimated prod iction of the wells in Venango county, I’ no—with w reduction in the prices of labor, barrelw mud freights, and an abate ment of the government tax of $1 per barre! give auiictont encouragement to insure at least 4 perina nent eipply of 10,000 barre ¥ It should be borne in mind that 750,000 barrels of re Yworbing about 1,000,000 barrels of crude in ion, is now consumed ae an article af ai light io the United States in a single year, there gay should be universally used instead of | the fluid state for this purpose, we do not wee that tly Ket price for crude oll, by | ram {avery beawy de mand from gan companies, © mach affecied, as they would be the large parchasera inatoad of the re finers, Brooklyn City News, Fowenat oF ax Ono Paniow —The member the RW. G. Lodge of 1 0. of 0. F of Bouthorn New York will meet ina body in Brooklyn today to attend the funefal of their Inte Grand Master, Jobn J Davies The members of the order wil! eppoar in cilirens’ Grom, with the anda! badge of mourning on the loft arm, also ro nottes and evergronma The Graud Lotge will meet at Odd Foliows' Hall, No , at noon The line of march will be formed at one o'clock PM, when the organization will proceed through Grand street ty Mra way, down Broadway t Fulton street wo Fulton ferry, crus to Brooklyn and them proces to “ Jotn's chureb, in Johnson street, where religions services will take place, thea from the church to Greenwood Comctery, where the solemn funeral services of the order wil) axe none? Acaiset 4 Kavinoan Company. In the wait of Albert Hiryson against the Brooklyn Cay Kailread Com pany (the facte re rday's Henacw), which was tried in Hrookiyn, ino pialotiff suet te being ran over by « Jury rendered a verdict in favor 6 Joe fut porecnal it f the dat ned als on the ety oxgpesive Kamael BD. Digirict and Anwintant 1 #, were © ounsel for the plaintiff, phy for the ae feudane Rudge Keynoids reserved his denmon oo the tmtion abowe reterred Wo Tae Ciaastee Paocem The night scavenger reguiae wookly report exhibits the following sebedule of work performed in removal of n.ghteol, dead animals, offal, ae Nightsoll, loads WA Senalier animals us Dead horeee 44 Marvel of offal wo Dead come — This is no doubt Much “ork, bowe nap —The be-ly of & female, apparently forty yours of age, eae found in the river foot of Sewth Kleveuth street, RD, yortertay morning, The body war in an aivanced wate of decomporition. Adhering to ution of & ‘On one of the fugers eft hand wae 6 £014 Ping, Od each er tom tained a gold ring. Nelson, lately residing at No. o98 avenue, Brooklyn, wae fvand @oacing in the Fast rover yemarday morning The deceumd was sirty nods lghiermen by oapetion A lew fl of & latter on board @ vows! aud was lenven a wife aud family Daste ov 28 OLe Pimwren —#ylvester Ro Parker. ene of the (Adem printers in thie part of the Mtate, died at hie reeidemee, @ Hirth mreet, ED on Prday leet of par ayia He entered the Methetiet Nook Mouse fifty oe) 6 Mr Parker nes been « comtribeter te many 4 he literary periodicals of the day Base or C mponetion Paoreary —The olf entile pond ta North Rubth street, ED, was avid at poblic eet ion yeetortay, under Ue direction of Comptraiier Varun, for 64) AH Wheeler was the purchaser AnnErT OF Lx ALunon® Fomown — sbel Warne five years of age, an Kagiintiman by birth before Juntion Coruwall, of the City Ha Feweriay morning, om the eh imett of Frederick Seholer to an order 4 biey seit; alan to «cheek for one hwetret and Bfiy doliers, fo have been drawn ty “Pred Abotee Fir tirged notes were tenaht vy Mr Joho ® Mackay, broker, in Cogrt street, believing them to be worth ee face The (oegery occurred in Awhost lnat, the woner tran omen at large voul cow, Me pleoted guing Poon interr guted by the covert Cano Yoworte Oo lat Freq sfernonn @ inte dirt, the danghier of Mr Devan, remiting ot the corner A Conover sod Wigshath memes, parot of the om. ante of & Whtle Containing poewt, from the eects of which she dnt ios few bowre Monement. The Geutyeberg Mone Tae 1h, 1000 The Cnerent thie morning smenmcee thet mounment hee