Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1912 — Smoke Abatement in Scotland. [ARTICLE]

Smoke Abatement in Scotland.

The gas and electrical departments of a corporation in Glasgow, Scotland, are competing keenly in the exhibition of appliances for the reduction of smoke from furnaces and kitchen ranges. The electricity department has a complete electrically fitted restaurant, , where all the cooking, the kitchen work, the cleaning, the heating and the lighting are-effected by electric current. The gas department has a “gas equipped house,” in which all the cooking and heating is done by gas fires, as well asvmany of the other operations in connection with housekeeping, and in which all the lighting is obtained from incandescent gas burners of different types. The corporation is encouraging the reduction of smoke, not only by holding these periodical exhibitions, but also by lending gas cookers free to all the citizens. It has loaned 37,000 of these cookers since March 1. It Is also supplying gas fires, and the demand for these has been so great that It cannot be met without considerable delay.