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Alb. stations: ere required to “— a supply of oil and cotton | patting. te » 8 >” or THE SurRGEonS of the Philadgy white, ane vi take charge of any cases of injury, from burning or explosion, for which the Company may be responsible, and should be sent for in case of accident to employes or others. Their addresses and districts are given below: Dr. C. F. Brncaman, No. 922 Penn Avenue, is in charge of that portion of the city lying between the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, from the Point to Eleventh Street, on Penn and Liberty Avenues, extending to Minersville in the Hill District, and to Soho on Second Avenue. Dr. J. S. Waters, No. 6360 Penn Avenue, East Liberty ; for the East End District, extending to Gilmore Station; in Penn Avenue to Forty-fifth Street, and in Fifth Avenue to Soho Street. Dr. R. M. Sanps, Forty-third and Butler Streets; from Eleventh Street on Penn Avenue, to Haights Run and Sandy Creek. Dr. W. T. Enauisu, No. 75 Carson Street; for the South Side District, and extending to Homestead. Dr. D. F. McIntosy, 1318 Middle Street, Sharpsburg; from Willow Grove to Hoboken. Dr. Gro. M. Grrzn, Tarentum, Pa.; from Hoboken to Tarentum. Dr. E. W. DEAn, Braddock, Pa.; for Braddock and vicinity. 6 ‘ LIST OF OFFICES AND STATIONS. Tees C ero e?¢ ¢e 6 Guie.” G CECE Eee: Ce < ao ¢ Station Asst slicer soils Sen te c Cc ece ‘ 53 ; Verner. — aa Teliopde < Soo ae py « Sandy Creek, << « ee Be Bye “oBobaken. acim ts F: “ Qarentum: Rt: Sid “ _ G, “ Springdale. a) Figeieietna. “I, “ Willow Grove. “J, “ Corner A. V.'R. R. and Thirty-sixth Street. “ ~~ K, * Gilmore. “« —L, “ Corner Fifth and Frankstown Avenues. «“ —M, “ Keystone Mill, Second Avenue. “ _N, “ Dick Farm, Lyons Run. “ —O, “ Bessemer. “« P, “ 6248 Penn Avenue, East End. “« —Q, “ Thirty-fourth Street, South Side. « R&R, “ First Street, South Side. City Office, 935 Penn Avenue. TELEPHONE NUMBERS. General Office, 935 Penn Avenue, - No. 744 General Superintendent’s Office,- - No. 603 East End Office, -° - - -E.E., No. 108 South Side Office, - - - - 8.8. No. 87 At all of these Stations representatives of the Company are in constant attendance, who will give immediate attention to applica- tions for gas or to complaints. The Philadelphia Company will be much obliged by immediate notice to any of these offices, of any leaks discovered in the streets or else where. Telephone from any part of the city. LiBe A Y UMIVERSI? € OF ILLINNS, Hi HTARENTUM GILMORE Fane Stee C TE ty See worn ” ee 70 70 70 / 2470" 6 NiBLock A Avenue. 25 Ig" 5 IG” 2 SVS" S5R” ba f, LYONS Run sue TCa 0 Of GeHionses 4piladelpbia Companys Sain Pipe ines: r} / b “Distance fomNMurraysville ta Piltsburgh 22Miles AP RILIS SO. Vole: Dolted lines represent ] me) ae ee i cast tron pipes. i I} oie ; 7 Beat y C The Armor Lith Ln Lined Pitebaryh, Pp Rail Isies represent Larentiin Du wrought tron pipes. ws ABOUT NATURAL CAS. How long natural gas has been used cannot be told; the Chinese have been using it for centuries, getting their supplies from wells said to be 3,000 feet deep, piping it through bamboo and burning it ‘with clay burners. In Persia its fires have for ages been symbols of worship. The “ Fontaine Ardente”’ of the Gauls, near Grenoble, in France, was burning in the time of Julius Cesar and has been flaming ever since. In this country, reference to springs yielding gas are found in the: records of early travels, especially in those of the Jesuit fathers. The gas well at Fredonia, N. Y., is believed to be the first whose product was employed commercially. This was about 1821, and before gas was found in the oil country. It was used at Olean about fifteen years ago, and shortly afterwards in Tidioute and other oil towns. Spang, Chalfant & Co. were the first manufacturers to pipe gas to their works and use it as a ftiel, in this county. Their use of it began in 1875, the well being at Lardentown, Butler county, and they still use the product of that well. Its first use in iron-working was at the Leechburg, Pa., works of Messrs. Rogers & Burchfield, about 1873. In glass-making, the Rochester Tumbler Works, at Rochester, Pa., were probably the pioneers, and in plate glass Mr. J. B. Ford, at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Works, at Creighton, Pa., in 1883. Salt was boiled with it at East Liverpool, Ohio, in 1860, and it was tried later in burning pot- tery in the same village. In 1874, or earlier, Mr. Peter Neff began the manufacture of lamp-black from gas at Gambier, Ohio. The well struck near Homewood, by Mr. George Westinghouse, Jr., was the first within the limits of Pittsburgh. The gas as taken from the mains is absolutely dry, containing no water. Its specific gravity is a little more than half that of air. The explosive force of natural gas is less than that of-coal gas, volume for volume. Natural gas explodes only when mixed with nine volumes of air, while coal gas explodes with but six volumes. Consumed by an Argand burner, at the rate of five cubic feet per hour, the illuminating power of natural gas is that of 8.52 sperm candles, 8 Careful experiments show that the heating capacity of 1,000 feet of gas is equal to 82 pounds of Pittsburgh coal, under a good boiler: The entire value of gas can be availed of, because it can be used from the moment it is lighted, and extinguished the instant the work is done ; whereas, with coal, we must burn a large quantity before it is ready to be of service, and we have a large quantity left at the end of the job, which must be burned uselessly ; so that in practice 1,000 feet of gas is equal to much more than a hundred weight of coal. In the vicinity of Pittsburgh natural gas is found at a depth cor- responding with 1,400 feet below the Union Station, and 650 below the level of the sea. It stands at about 500 pounds pressure to the square inch at the wells, when they are closed against any escape. Mr. C. A. Ashburner, of the State Geological Survey, describes the position of the strata as follows: “ Although the horizontal structure of the oil and gas regions is comparatively simple, the columnar structure as revealed both by the study of the outcropping rocks and the records and drillings of oil wells, is not so easily understood, and in special areas is more or less complex. The rocks which have so far been found to produce natural gas are found in a vertical range of about 3,000 feet of Car- boniferous and Devonian strata, extending from the Mahoning sand- stone at the base of the Lower Barren coal measures, which is on an average about 500 feet below the Pittsburgh coal bed, down to the Smethport oil sand in McKean county, which is 360 feet below the great Bradford oil sand of that region. The principal gas-horizons are (a), the probable representative of the Venango first-oil sand at Pittsburgh, which is from 1,800 to 1,850 feet below the Pittsburgh coal bed, and contained, as I believe, in the Catskill formation No. IX.; (b), the Sheffield gas sand, which appears to be the lowest oil and gas sand in Warren county—the horizon of this sand is about 800 feet above the bottom of the interval of 3,000 feet— and (c), the Bradford oil sand, which occurs 1,775 feet below the base of the Pottsville conglomerate, which is the lowest member of the Lower productive coal measures. The Sheffield and Bradford sands are undoubtedly of Chemung age. While most of the largest gas wells which have been drilled in Pennsylvania haye obtained gas from these three horizons, yet gas is 9 in commercial quantities is not exclusively confined to them. Be- tween the Mahoning sandstone as the top limit and the Smethport oil sand as the bottom limit, about 10 (more or less) prominent sand beds have been found which produce petroleum, and each one of these sand beds has been found to contain gas in greater or less quantity, nor is it possible to say that the gas is confined exclusively to these definite sand-horizons, for sand beds having only a local oe- currence, but included within the rock interval of 3,000 feet may contain gas.” The average composition of Pittsburgh natural gas is as follows, according to Mr. 8. A. Ford, the chemist : Per Cent. eT DOMIC HA CIC, .. cateeeaccesis cass s-Secescereutenmnees Pe vtn seaceeantae nt: 6 PAL DOMLCHO XIAG {Tameetet cst: ane acestacens asatemeneee Gaye easedcc + saveste 6 PPXV POM cee sesceccesiss MPR ee er eae cnicls Jee ante teenie \aciensiseeetsisas ce siecensncotes 8 TSIM AS. «<.. oc. ndeeercrancbice rcsdssGawoceense sesesze Tedeaaawdbdevaeoe tae 1.0 Ethylic Hydride............ © a sancaet tu astedeneveswes acs eames ies Steeuee 5. DAES AAS os. s5sscneeeaes We ees hace ok oak Gace eed cape cpaepen ies Magee see 67. REMY AT OO CIN sss. casesezenezoeees <= Baca ct eameaee Coane eee ence Sasenoe ee eine stnss a. DAES O I as wecesee=-sdaeetn, conse soon aac ne Bat ih it tae Beate Se 100. 10 THE PHILADELPHIA COMPANY. The Philadelphia Company was organized under a special act of incorporation, May 24, 1884. Its growth since has perhaps been unequaled by any similar corporation in the world. It now owns 54,000 acres of gas-producing territory, 49 producing wells, and it is now supplying gas to 5,000 dwellings in the two cities and vicinity; and with the wells that can be drilled on its territory, can insure an ample supply of gas for years to come. Having twelve independent lines of pipe from the wells to the city, the use of any one of which can be discontinued without inter- fering with the others, insures a constant supply of gas; an invalua- ble security for consumers, when a failure of supply on one day per month may occasion a loss in workmen’s wages, profits, &e., equal to the monthly sum paid for gas. The large pipes form an immense reservoir of great value in main- taining a constant pressure. The large pipes laid this year will admit of a further reduction of the pressure within the city limits, and a consequent increase of the capacity of the lines from the wells. All main lines are provided with escape pipes, and safety devices of the most approved form. Every precaution that can be suggested for safety is taken advantage of, with a consequent freedom from ac- cidents and interruptions. There are twenty stations with a force of forty men, who keep constant watch over the lines and pressures. These twenty stations are in telephonic communication with the main office, where a Gen- eral Superintendent directs all operations. The Philadelphia Company will negotiate for and procure suitable sites for manufacturing purposes, advantageously located with refer- ence to a permanent supply of gas, and shipping facilities. . The supply of gas for residences will be made a specialty, and the necessary mains and connections for the streets not yet supplied will be laid as speedily as possible, consistent with safety. 11 Automatic regulators, which maintain a constant safe pressure in the service pipes, are put in by the Philadelphia Company at each dwelling. These are so contrived, that» 2p this oats *s shiat off in the main pipe they will instantly shut, off ait : communication with the dwelling and will not open again until ’ every stop cock ‘in the house 3 3° has been closed. gayenee ele 3 ee $3583? It is the intention of the Camp: Ae shat no ‘Accidents shall occur which can be prevented, and that n9 ery tigns of. service shall result which prudence can avert, or which gan he avoided by the utmost vigilance, or by the use of the most approved applhances, however costly. 12 SOME ADVANTACES. OF CAS. CLEANLINESS « cof. person and of the house is one of the blessings secured by the wabitittition of: @ gas for coal; no dust attends upon a gas fires the curtains, carpels, ceilings, paper hangings and_ other decor ations are whally unsoiled, Ww here gas is properly used ; result- OC ing in an ‘enormous ‘saving | i ve shi ng, in wear and tear and in renewals.on gaye eas mame oaten i} | me. Keferred t0...2.....:.-. j | ! OES (OWT 1208 bal O BSc, SARA Oe ' Price quoted by........ss-sseee00 seas 1 | 4 1 i J i i ! i i \ Jahn RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE SUPPLY OF NATURAL GAS BY THE PHILADELPHIA COMPANY. 1. This Company will make the necessary connections with its gas main and carry same to the curb of pavement, but all other con- nections and appliances for the purpose of utilizing the gas from _ that point, shall be at the cost of the consumer, and shall be, as to character and arrangement, subject to the approval of the Com- pany’s inspector. 2. For controlling the pressure of gas admitted to the pipes from the main, this Company will provide, and keep in good repair, a Gas Regulator with automatic shut-off (that will be approved by the Board of Underwriters), upon the terms fixed in the contract, which shall, together with any pipe, services or fittings the Com- | pany may place on the premises of the consumer, be known as, and remain the property of, this Company, and any interference there- with, on the part of the consumer, or any gas fitter, is strictly pro- hibited. 3. The consumer shall use all due care to prevent any waste of gas. And that this Company may properly guard its interests, it shall at all reasonable times, by its authorized agent, (who will be provided with a certificate, signed by the Secretary of this Company,) have free access to the premises in which the gas is used, to determine if it is being carried, distributed and burned in a proper manner, and in accordance with these Rules and Regulations ; and the Company reserves the right to measure the gas used, and to shut off the supply for any of the following reasons: Ist, for repairs; 2d, for want of supply; 3d, for non-payment of bill when due; 4th, for fraudulent representations in relation to consumption of gas. 4. Incase the supply of gas should fail, whether from natural causes, bursting of pipes, or accident in any way, this Company shall not be liable for damage by reason of such failure, nor shall it be liable in any event for damage to person or property arising, accru- ing or resulting from the use of gas, 23 5. Consumers are not permitted to use the gas for illuminating purposes, or for any purpose, or in any place, other than is provided for in the contract, without having first obtained the written consent of this Company, and arranged to pay additional compensation therefor. | 6. In case of deficiency of gas, or detection of leaks, notice of the fact should be given forthwith at the nearest office of the - Company, that the defect may be remedied without delay. 7. Bills must be settled at the office of the Company, within the time specified in the contract, or the gas may be turned off without further notice. 8. Inspectors, agents, or any employe of this Company, are expressly forbidden to demand or accept any compensation for services rendered. 9. Contracts are not transferable. New occupants are required to make application in person at the office of the Company at the time they commence the use of gas, to avoid being liable for back dues for all gas supplied until such notice was given. 10. Any failure on the part of the consumer to comply with these Rules and Regulations shall annul this contract, and the Phila- delphia Company may thereupon, without further notice, shut off the supply of gas and remove its property from the premises. 11. All words herein referring to the consumer, shall be taken to be of such number and gender as the character of the consumer may require. { 12 072 ; Oy Ma | Am 4 - / 24 1 30 CAS AND THE INSURANCE COMPANIES. The Board of Fire Underwriters, after inspection of premises, issues the following permit : THis 1s To Certiry, That the Natural Gas Pipes | On premises Of....05) 52:00 Geka... eee have been tested toa pressure of.:....... Ae tare name Parties receiving this Certifi- cate are required to have a printed endorsement on their & | pounds, and are in accordance with regulations adopted oC = | by the Board of Fire Underwriters. a S BING 2d nerens ee A a occa. eee S . Secretary mM SOE eS DUT ONS dk) teehee bhccee te 188 The Insurance World of this city, which is the mouthpiece of the Insurance interests, in speaking of gas, says: 7 “Natural gas per se is not more dangerous from a fire under- writer’s point of view than artificial gas; it is wholly a question of | pressure. When first introduced in the streets of this city the gas was brcught in under high pressure—in some instance over 100 pounds—and the result was leakages and explosions ; but these dan- gers have since been averted by appliances for reducing the pressure and guarding against leaks, and it may be safely said. that the fire hazard of the manufacturing risks of this city have been reduced MM MI by the introduction of this new fuel. * *