Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1911 — USE GREAT IN HANDLING GASOLINE [ARTICLE]

USE GREAT IN HANDLING GASOLINE

Gasoline should only be used to* washing out of doors and away from buildings and smokers. When the washing is done the gasoline should be thrown on loose ground that will drink it up at once. Severe explosions have come from pouring the dirty gasoline down the hole in the sink. A large number have come from pouring it in the slop bucket where it floated and gave oil vapor. Putting gasoline in the water in a waßh boiler is always followed by ah explosion. Silk in dresses, ribbons or gloves may) if rubbed hard make a spark which will fire gasoline. Clothing can be cleaned by ammonia or benzine soap without danger. A safe substitute is gelatinized benzine in which 25 per cent benzine is added to a mass of soap, water and ammonia. It can be handled without spilling; the amount of vapor given off Is slight and the amount of inflammable material in it Is small.