Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Oil as a Fuel. [ARTICLE]

Oil as a Fuel.

The use of oil as fuel at the World's Fair demonstrated Its superiority to coal in many ways. The heat which it furnishes is absolutely uniform; there is no smoke and no asties. Fewer men are necessary about boilers fired with oil, and the services of firemen or stokers and men to handle ashes is unnecessary. The ratio between coal and oil was found at the Fair to be 1334 gallons of oil to the ton of coal; that is, 50,000 gallons of oil consumed daily in furnishing power and heat to the Fair was equivalent to 450 tons of good lump coal. Averaging coal at 15 tons to the car-load, the Exposition management would have had to handle 30 carloads of coal per day. There would have been, besides, about 10 car-loads of ashes to handle. The first arktic expedition on reoord was Noah’s.