Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — The Valuable Products of Tar. [ARTICLE]

The Valuable Products of Tar.

The president of the Albany Municipal Gas Company, Anthony N. Brady, who is prominently identified with financial interests in this city, told me reoently that a few gas companies were still using the old coking process for the manufacture of gas from coal, notwithstanding that the use of naptha adds largely to the economy of our gas companies. I remarked that it wasTstrange that all the companies did not utilize the cheapest methods, and he said that the discontinuance of the coking process has caused a rise in the of its waste products, and especially of coal tar, which is used largely in the manufacture of aniline dyes, saccharine, etc. This has made it profitable for a few of the gas companies to continue to use coal. Mr. Brady added that the gas made from naptha is generally considered to be superior to that manufactured from coal. In this connection I am reminded of the good fortune of a junk dealer in Troy, who at the close of the war, finding that old rags could be utilized for the manufacture of shoddy cloth, [nvented a process for turning cotton rags into cotton waste which could be woven into cloth that would sell at a very remunerative figure. Out of this little discovery the enterprising junkman developed a very large aDd profitable business, and to-day his possessions are valued well up toward a million dollars. It was this longheaded man who remarked to a friend that any one who would find a way to utilize a waste product could find thequickest path to wealth. —[New York Mail and Express.