Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — Important. [ARTICLE]

Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, expressage, and $3 carnage hire, and stopattho Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot (513 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, $1 aud upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best. Hors 3 cal's, stages, anu elevated railroad to a.l depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city. According to a statement in the Revue Indus'ri 11 j , a method has been devised for successfully treating bagasse, the residual canes in sugar making, by means of which, that is, through direct compression, the material produces a combustible containing not more than 40 to 50 per cent, of water, and in this state the waste can be burnt directly in the boiler furnaces or carbonized without previous drying. This result is obtained by a preliminary division of the pieces of cane in a special apparatus, whereby the after compressing of the Bubs ance by presses of any convenient kind may be usefully secured. The compressed mass is formed into bricks by the addition of powdered fuel ashes or lime; and it is remarked as a notable illustration or instance of the utilization of a waste product reacting upon the original value of the material, that this conversion of waste sugar-cane into a useful fuel will render possible a special treatment of the cane, which will result in simplifying processes, saving labor, etc.