Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1920 — A NEW MOTOR GAS. [ARTICLE]

A NEW MOTOR GAS.

Motor gu at five cents a gallon if the promise of J. P. Chester of Bay Ridge, N. Y., who has in* vented 1 a kind of yeast, with whicht it is claimed, denatured alcohol can be produced to sell at profit at that price. The inventor does no# propose to manufacture alcohol, but to sell the yeast, to individuals or firms, to make fuel for their orww Mae or for commercial With this yeast, alcohol can be made from any vegetable matter contain-, ing starch, sugar or cellulose. Denatured alcohol by the new method is said to be superior to. gasoline in the following points: * It gives 75 per cent mom mile* than gasoline, when used in an au-4 tomobile. It does not carbonize* There is no smoke of poisoneruUl gas. ■v It burns no acid or corrosive. It burns with a white flame that can be extinguished wtta water. It ignitesinstantly, with ope turn of tho motor, in hot or eel# weather.! ft does not interfere with lubrica-i tion. It lengthens the life of a motor.! It is not dangerous, to handle, andi is non-explosive in the open air. ' The color of the flame, white, differs from that of alcohol produced in the ordinary way, and leads one to believe mat there is considerable organic matter present in the new lkraid. <H a . liquid fuel is produced at anywhere near five cents. a gallon, it will hare a much wider field of SlWrafK SSS ities of alcohol, wiH help to bring alcohol and gasoline prices hack at>». reasonable 1 figure.